Test set chosen for WiMAX performance analysis

Radiated performance test system includes the ETS AMS-8500 antenna measurement system, the Agilent EXA signal analyser and Agilent's E6651A Mobile WiMAX test set

AT4 wireless labs has chosen Agilent Technologies and ETS-Lindgren to provide WiMAX test equipment for use in radiated performance test (RPT). AT4 wireless is one of the first test labs to provide radiated performance testing for WiMAX. As the WiMAX Forum Lead Lab and first worldwide WiMAX Forum Designated Certification Laboratory, AT4 wireless is developing RPT capability in its US-based branch by adding the ETS-Lindgren RPT system.
This test system includes the ETS AMS-8500 antenna measurement system, the Agilent EXA signal analyser and Agilent's E6651A Mobile WiMAX test set.

This RPT solution will augment AT4's other test systems, which include its own wireless Mobile WiMAX test set.

'Given that RPT will be introduced as part of certification testing for Mobile WiMAX in 2008, AT4 wireless has been working hard with our partners to provide the WiMAX industry with the test facilities and test sets they need', says Fernando E Hardasmal, CEO of AT4 wireless in Herndon, Virginia.
We are thrilled to be creating the first WiMAX RPT facility in the world'.

The RPT testing solution, hosted at AT4 wireless laboratories in Spain and in the USA, can perform both 2D (polar) and 3D (spherical) antenna pattern measurement on transmit power and receiver sensitivity for notebooks, PCMCIA cards and other terminals employing WiMAX technology.

'Being chosen by AT4 wireless to provide the antenna measurement system for the first WiMAX Forum Designated Certification Laboratory in the USA is a significant endorsement of our RPT solution', says Bryan Sayler, ETS-Lindgren's Senior Vice President.

This RPT test set addresses the needs of WiMAX equipment manufacturers who must pass RPT requirements to attain WiMAX Forum certification.

The certification process is designed to assure that products using WiMAX specifications perform as expected and provide the end user with a reliable communication experience.

'We are delighted that AT4 wireless has selected the Agilent E6651A Mobile WiMAX test set for this landmark WiMAX RPT installation', said Niels Fache, Vice President and General Manager of Agilent's Mobile Broadband Division.

'RPT testing is another excellent example of how the E6651A's combined RF, protocol and functional test capabilities make it an indispensable tool which can be used across the entire R and D lifecycle'.