Articles tagged with: Test Systems
Ixia Offers to Buy Catapult Communications
Wireless testing systems vendor, Catapult Communications has agreed to a buy-out by fellow test systems vendor, Ixia for around US$105 million. The purchase price represents a 39% premium to the average share price over the past three months. more
Related Tags: catapult-communications, ixia, siemens, nokia-siemens, testing, USA
Catapult Secures Additional LTE Test Contracts
Test systems vendor, Catapult Communications has announced three additional Long Term Evolution (LTE) contract wins. Catapult says that it recently received an LTE test system purchase order from one new LTE customer and verbal commitments from two additional new LTE customers. more
Related Tags: lte, catapult-communications
Comfone Launches Remote Wi-Fi Test Service
Comfone says that it has launched a Wi-Fi remote test service to facilitate the testing and rollout of Wi-Fi roaming services. The service enables operators and software suppliers to remotely test the inter-operability between WISPr client software and over 30 test hotspots located in a single location in Bern, Switzerland. more
Related Tags: orange, wi-fi, roaming, kpn, softbank, bt, hotspots, laptop, Switzerland
Bypassing Intelligent Battery Detection in Network Testing Rigs
SwissQual, the independent Swiss network quality measurement company, has announced the release of patented new technologies that allow the most modern handsets to be used for unattended network field testing. more
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3G Places Huge Demands on the Test and Measurement Equipment Market
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan finds that the market earned revenues of $370.4 million in 2006 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.8 percent from 2006 to 2013. more
Related Tags: asia-pacific, hsupa, cdma2000, interoperability
Testing iDEN and CDMA Networks Simultaneously
The test systems provider, ZK Celltest says that it has added iDEN capability to the full range of ZK-SAM cellular field measurement and network optimization products. more
Related Tags: iden, sprint-nextel, push-to-talk
New Test System Release Advances GGSN and 3GPP Testing
Mobile Metrics has announced the availability of Release 2.0 of its Torrent 5100 GGSN Test System (GTS). The Torrent 5100 is a mobile traffic simulation system capable of exercising not only GGSNs, but other parts of a wireless data network as well, such as IMS platforms and application servers. Key features in the 2.0 release include simulation of Blackberry Always-On behavior, sophisticated virus injection capabilities, built-in comprehensive traffic test cases, and the ability to turn a PC into a mobile station. more
Nokia Handset Gets CDMA Certification
The CDMA Development Group (CDG) and Nokia have jointly announced that the CDMA Certification Forum (CCF) has certified the Nokia 2355 CDMA2000 1X phone for commercial availability. Nokia is the first tier-one handset manufacturer to utilize the CCF's streamlined test and global certification process. The Nokia 2355 mobile phone was tested by Wireless Test Systems (WTS) in San Diego using the standard CCF Lab (CCF-L) test plan, which increases the number of test cases conducted by 40% over other test processes. more
Related Tags: cdma2000-1x, cdma-development-group
The test systems developer, Catapult Communications has announced support for TD-SCDMA technology. TD-SCDMA has gained significant support in China where the Ministry of Information Industry has made it mandatory for all six of the major Chinese telecommunications operators to test TD-SCDMA in 2004. more
Related Tags: td-scdma, catapult-communications
The USA based, Cingular Wireless has ordered test systems from Racal Instruments Wireless Solutions (RIWS) to enable rapid identification of network and terminal interoperability issues related to the EDGE network so that they can be resolved before they impact the quality of service provided to their customers. The Two-Way Air Interface Monitor is the only commercially available platform of its kind that provides complete access to all levels of the air interface protocol that controls the communications between a Base Station and a cellular device. more
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