Stand D06, Hall 1, 3GSM World Congress, Barcelona, 13 – 16 February 2006
Anritsu Corporation, a global provider of operational support solutions for advanced and converged networks, will be showcasing a range of products designed for testing next-generation technologies, such as HSUPA and HSDPA at 3GSM 2006; in addition to a broader offering of test and measurement and its award-winning Service Assurance solutions.
Following the recent acquisition of NetTest, the Danish network monitoring solutions company, Anritsu is now one of the few global companies to offer a complete spectrum of wireless communications test and measurement and service assurance solutions that cover the entire network life cycle.
HSUPA now available on the MD8480C Signalling Tester
Anritsu’s MD8480C Signalling Tester – the industry’s only commercialised platform covering all HSDPA categories, and with full testing capability at speeds up to 14.4Mbps – will debut it’s HSUPA testing capability. The market-leading 3G Base Station Simulator will offer customers the ability to test UEs from Release99 through to R5 and R6, in one platform. The new HSUPA capability has been achieved based on reuse of software scenarios already deployed on the MD8480 platform, thereby protecting the existing customer investments.
MasterQuest IP Service KPI for GPRS and UMTS networks
Anritsu will be showcasing its award-winning MasterQuest IP Service KPI, a data warehouse-based application that allows wireless operators to monitor, analyse and troubleshoot network and service performance in GPRS and UMTS networks. As high revenues in GPRS and UMTS networks are driven by the large range of services, such as MMS, WAP, HTTP and email, it becomes crucial to quickly detect network issues and make preventive actions before they impact end user services. MasterQuest IP Service KPI is the cost-efficient tool to help operators investigate service quality and optimize the availability of network resources across wireless packet switched networks with historical and real-time visibility while reducing operational expenses as a result of simplified monitoring of complex converged networks.
MD8391A Compact RNC Simulator for HSDPA implementations
Anritsu will be previewing its new MD8391A Compact RNC simulator, weighing in at <10Kg. The product will bring further cost and efficiency benefits to infrastructure developers, manufacturers, and network operators who are implementing HSDPA and other features of 3GPP Rel 5 through automated measurement software. Thanks to Anritsu’s extended simulator portfolio, end-to-end network testing, monitoring and loading can now be fully implemented at a fraction of the cost of a live network. This means that customers can dramatically reduce time to market and increase Return on Investment.
SGSN Load Generator for HSDPA and HSUPA
Anritsu will also be pre-launching its latest solution for cost effective testing of the SGSN portion of the network. The solution utilises the MD1230B Data Quality Analyser Ethernet platform with additional load generation software. With the introduction of HSDPA and HSUPA technologies and the requirement for mobile IP, data traffic is expected to increase tremendously in the next few years. Load testing of this traffic has historically been carried out using the live traffic in the network. Now, with Anritsu’s SGSN load generator, network infrastructure vendors and operators achieve time and money savings, by load testing at the development stage, rather than on a live network.