New 3G Wireless Channel Emulator

Spirent Communications announces its SR5500 Wireless Channel Emulator, with the world's highest channel modelling performance.

This new instrument enables accurate performance qualification of current and next-generation air interface technologies, including CDMA2000, 1xEV-DV, W-CDMA, and WLAN. With the SR5500, customers can create dynamic real-world wireless network environments for accurate, thorough qualification of wireless devices, equipment and services before they are deployed. The SR5500 will be demonstrated at the CTIA Wireless 2003 Exhibition in New Orleans.

Building on Spirent's industry-leading position in wireless channel emulation, the SR5500 brings to market many new powerful features on an all-new high performance platform. SR5500 can evaluate next-generation receiver architectures by providing more complex channel models that include up to 48 independent paths. In addition, the SR5500 provides low-level control over time-varying power delay profiles for the thorough evaluation of the adaptive modulation schemes found in emerging high-throughput wireless access technologies. SR5500's unprecedented channel fidelity is critical when testing complex modulation schemes, such as those incorporated by WLAN 802.11a/g and W-CDMA High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA), which require low residual Error Vector Magnitude (EVM) distortion for proper test results.
"The performance and feature set of the SR5500 puts it head and shoulders ahead of any other product in the multi-path emulation market today," states Rob VanBrunt, director of product marketing for Spirent Communications. "The SR5500 will be critical in evaluating the performance of new user services, such as high-speed data access, simultaneous voice/data and multimedia services that network operators plan to roll out on top of extremely complex wireless transmission schemes."
Customers need the distinctive features and performance provided by Spirent's SR5500 to effectively test increasingly complex, emerging wireless transmission schemes such as 1xEV-DO, 1xEV-DV, W-CDMA HSDPA. All these technologies dynamically adapt transmission rates based on estimated channel conditions. By addressing performance requirements for current technologies that include CDMA2000, W-CDMA and WLAN, the SR5500 helps improve customer satisfaction through development and deployment of more reliable products and services.

Along with enhanced performance and features, the SR5500 also features an all-new user interface. Spirent's powerful new TestKIT GUI is simple to configure and provides users with clear, real-time feedback of the emulated channel conditions. Spirent Communications' wireless test solutions aid in all phases of mobile handset development and deployment for the world's leading chipset, handset and infrastructure manufacturers and mobile service providers. Spirent is considered by the industry the "one-stop-shop" for CDMA handset performance and certification testing. Among its accomplishments, Spirent has introduced the first and only integrated solution available to test location-capable CDMA phones, a critical element of assisting manufacturers in meeting the US FCC E911 requirements. Spirent has leveraged its success in mobile performance and certification testing to also bring comprehensive performance analysis to the WCDMA market.

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