Test & Measurement

Spirent enhances leadership in location services testing

Spirent's ULTS system enables comprehensive interoperability testing of A-GPS GSM handsets

Spirent Communications has announced a significant enhancement to its UMTS Location Test System (ULTS) for the testing of GSM and WCDMA mobiles incorporating Assisted GPS (A-GPS).

Testing for inter-generation handover

Racal Instruments Wireless Solutions (RIWS) has launched the 6401 AIME/CT ISHO, a system that tests the intersystem handover (ISHO) capability of mobile handsets. 

Racal Instruments Wireless Solutions Launches Intersystem Handover Test Platform

Racal Instruments Wireless Solutions (RIWS), an Aeroflex company, today announced the launch of its latest test platform the 6401 AIME/CT ISHO, the first system able to rigorously test the intersystem handover (ISHO) capability of mobile handsets. 

UMTS optimisation tool

Aircom has expanded its Enterprise suite of network measurement tools to include the tool RANOPT, which has been specifically designed for the optimisation of 3G networks.

Test realities of 3G rollout

When the first GSM base stations were installed vehicle-mounted mobile phones routinely failed at cell boundaries. Now, 12 years on, a new technology is being introduced and we are forced to ask, are dropped calls a necessary part

Beyond test drives

Operators are being driven to reduce costs while at the same time rolling out complex new services to grow average revenue per user (ARPU) -- they are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Jeff Atkins of

Can test equipment match the 3G pace?

Representatives from all the groups involved in the development and deployment of next generation infrastructure met for a roundtable discussion, sponsored by Tektronix. The debate was lively and revealed common areas of concern and a requirement for changes