Anritsu adds test upgrade for high speed LTE-Advanced mobiles

Anritsu is supporting the testing of RF transceiver characteristics for 6CC CA with new software options for its MT8821C test system for LTE-Advanced/LTE-Advanced Pro terminals.

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MT8821C LTE-A tester

The new software upgrade will support the implementation of faster LTE-Advanced/LTE-Advanced Pro network speeds: Carrier Aggregation (CA), which aggregates multiple component carriers (CCs).

With support for RF and PHY layer measurements the test instrument’s capabilities are extended from DL CA 4CCs 4×4 MIMO and DL CA 5CCs 2x2MIMO to 6CA SISO and 6CA 2×2 MIMO.

The new software also supports 6CA linked with Licensed Assisted Access *3 (LAA*3).

It is anticipated that the LTE-Advanced/LTE-Advanced Pro standard will be deployed to speed-up original LTE technology to cope with the explosive growth in services using large data volumes, such as mobile video streaming.

It will also play a role in the transition to next-generation 5G communications systems targeted for service deployment in 2019. There are plans to introduce LTE-Advanced/LTE-Advanced Pro offering gigabit-class speeds by using even more CCs.

With the new software, the MT8821C supports all cellular technologies compliant with 3GPP/3GPP2 UE RF TRX tests including LTE/LTE-Advanced, Cat-M1/NB-IoT, W-CDMA/HSPA, GSM/EGPRS, TD-SCDMA/HSPA and CDMA2000 1X/1xEV-DO.

The MT8821C also supports LTE-Advanced/LTE-Advanced Pro Downlink Carrier Aggregation, LTE-U/LAA and VoLTE voice/video echoback tests, at frequencies up to 6GHz with a bandwidth of 160MHz (both Tx and Rx).