All-in-One Support for RF Measurements and Protocol Tests in FR1 (to 7.125 GHz) and FR2 (Millimeter-Wave) Bands

With a 5G base station emulation function, a single MT8000A test platform supports both the FR1 (to 7.125 GHz), including band n41, and the FR2 (millimeter-wave) bands used by 5G. Combining it with the OTA Chamber enables both millimeter-wave band RF measurements and beamforming tests using call connections specified by 3GPP. With the SmartStudio NR MX800070A, various functional tests by GUI operation only without requiring difficult scenario development are supported, also combining it with the Shield Box MA8161A supports functional tests in FR2 bands.

Flexible Platform using Modular Architecture

The leading-edge design with flexibility and scalability uses a modular architecture. As well as supporting 4x4 MIMO and 8CA implemented by eMBB (Enhanced Mobile Broadband), it provides a flexible environment for future 5G test requirements, including URLLC (Ultra-Reliable and Low Latency Communications) and mMTC (massive Machine Type Communications)

Supports Existing LTE Test Environment

A comprehensive test environment is provided by making use of Anritsu's LTE test platform offering leading-edge functions based on the company's long experience in this market. Easy configuration of a linked environment for simulating 5G and LTE NSA (non-standalone) makes best use of measurement assets, such as the customer's test environment, test scenarios, etc.

Supports Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) Condition

In DSS, the spectrum is allocated to both 4G and 5G by the scheduler intelligently, depending on the requirements. This is a much more efficient use of spectrum.

Key Features

• All-in-One Support for RF Measurements and Protocol Tests in FR1 (to 7.125 GHz) and FR2 (Millimeter Wave) Bands
• Supports mm-wave band RF measurements and beam forming tests combined use with the RF chamber.
• Flexible Platform using Modular Architecture
• Supports Existing LTE Test Environment
• Supports various functional tests by GUI operation only without requiring difficult scenario development (SmartStudio NR MX800070A)

Description

Fixing problems early is a business goal for any wireless product development organization and correctly implementing protocols the first time round will reduce cost and improve product quality. In order to meet these goals you will need to hire world-class engineers and equip them with the most effective development tools and test solutions.

The Rapid Test Designer (RTD), coupled with Anritsu's preeminent range of mobile system simulators has been adopted by the world's leading device makers and network operators as the unsurpassed solution for rapidly testing and debugging wireless mobile device signaling.

RTD software provides 3 core functions:

1. Custom Test Design - Quickly and easily create your own bespoke tests in a flowchart-based test design environment.
2. Mobile Network Simulation - Configure one or more base station simulators and control the messages exchanged with the Device Under Test (DUT).
3. Protocol Analysis - Best-in-class protocol analysis capabilities allow you to easily analyze test procedures and messages to pinpoint and fix complex protocol issues.

Key Features

Integrated Development Environment

• Graphical flowchart
• Layer 3 parameterization
• Multiple windows
• Example tests

Test Executive

• Campaign Manager
• Remote Control
• Device Automation

Protocol Analysis

• Message sequence chart
• Measurement, monitor, trace
• Protocol Analyzer
• Log export

User Support

• On-screen help
• Technical support
• Software updates
• Training and consultancy

Description

The Signalling Tester MD8475B is an all-in-one base station simulator supporting LTE, LTE-Advanced, W-CDMA/HSPA/HSPA Evolution/DC-HSDPA, GSM/GPRS/EGPRS and TD-SCDMA/TD-HSPA. It supports service, VoLTE and call-processing tests for multimode LTE smartphones and mobiles with excellent cost-performance.

In addition, 1-Gbps IP performance evaluation tests are made easy by the built-in traffic generator with all-in-one support for LTE-Advanced 3CA/4CA technologies.

Key Features

• All-in-one support for LTE-Advanced 3CA/4CA/5CA using up to eight TX and four RX RF ports (6 GHz max.)
• Efficient performance test environment using built-in traffic generator for 2 Gbps IP data transfers (Requires two MD8475B units)
• Integrated RF front end for easy connection setup
• Supports multimode terminals
• LTE (2x2 MIMO, 4x4 MIMO), LTE-Advanced (2CA, 3CA, 4CA, 5CA), W-CDMA/HSPA/HSPA Evolution/DC-HSDPA, GSM/GPRS/EGPRS, TD-SCDMA/TD-HSPA
• SmartStudio GUI supports easy setup of test environments and functional tests
• Built-in CSCF server function supports GUI-based IMS service tests, such as VoLTE
  • Simple test mode using built-in CSCF server
  • Script mode supporting complex test environments by creating SIP sequences for irregular tests, etc.
• LTE data throughput evaluation environment (DL: 2 Gbps/UL: 150 Mbps)
• All-in-one DC-HSDPA 43.2 Mbps support
• All-in-one support for multi-cell test environment, including Inter-RAT Cell Reselection, Redirection, Cell Change, CS Fallback
• Supports offload tests from LTE/W-CDMA to WLAN
• Automated continuous 24/7 testing using SmartStudio Manager
  • Automatically controls both Android smartphone and MD8475B
  • More than 180 sample sequences available for immediate testing after setup
• Supports eCall (ETSI and CEN standards), Korean eCall (ITSK-WD-19003), NG-eCall (CEN/TS 17240:2018), and ERA-GLONASS (GOST33467)

Description

Wireless devices are evolving quickly into multimedia smartphones with fast data connections due to widespread deployment of high-speed standards, such as LTE/LTE-Advanced/LTE-Advanced Pro. The Signalling Tester MD8430A is a key LTE-Advanced Pro base station simulator for developing LTE-Advanced Pro-compliant chipsets and wireless devices. In addition to verifying normal communications procedures, it supports fault operation tests, which are difficult to perform at connection with live base stations. It also supports LTE/LTE-Advanced/LTE-Advanced Pro terminal R&D and verification tests under various conditions. Moreover, LTE Cat-M/NB-IoT tests are supported. Based on extensive experience in 3G markets, Anritsu has developed the MD8430A as a powerful LTE-Advanced Pro protocol/R&D test solution to help developers bring LTE-Advanced Pro wireless devices to market as fast as possible.

A choice of MD8430A models designed for early chipset and UE development, function tests, and performance tests ranging from carrier acceptance to protocol conformance tests, plus retrofit upgrades between models, allows developers to customize their hardware investment to current needs while assuring flexible future upgrade options.

• Basic Test Model (BTM)
• M2M Test Model (MTM)
• LTE Enhanced Test Model (ETM)

Key Features

• Supports LTE-Advanced Pro testing with 6CCs Carrier Aggregation (CA) and less
  • Supports Dual Connectivity test
  • Supports Licensed-Assisted Access (LAA) test
• Supports LTE-Advanced FDD/TDD Release 12
• Supports up to DL 6CCs and UL 3CCs for Carrier Aggregation (CA)
• One MD8430A supports CA handover, 4x4 MIMO and 8x4 MIMO, etc
• Supports full-digital fading test
• Supports DL 2 Gbps, UL 300 Mbps throughput test
• Inter-RAT tests making effective use of previous MD8480C (UTRAN/GERAN), and MD8475A (CDMA2000) hardware investments
• Optimized investment from first R&D to protocol conformance testing
• Full development and analysis toolset cuts L1, L2 and L3 scenario development time and costs
• Supports LTE Cat-M/NB-IoT

Description

MX848600A SUPL Simulation Server is the only Windows PC software that tests SUPL protocols and applications by emulating a software terminal emulator without hardware. It is aimed at low-cost development and verification of mobile terminal OS, middleware, and Location Based Service (LBS) applications. Running the SUPL Server on the same PC as the terminal emulator supports continuous 24/7 testing to shorten development times. Test scenarios created in the terminal emulation environment can be also used in post-processing with Anritsu base station simulator to clarify evaluation responsibilities and shorten the development cycle.

Key Features

• Allows Earlier Terminal Software Evaluation
• OMA SUPL v1.0 Compliance
• Flexible Fault Simulation
• Cost Reduction by 24/7 Testing
• More Efficient Testing with a Single PC
• Ability to Reuse Same SUPL Server Test Scenarios in Terminal Hardware Testing

All-in-One Full Digital Fading Simulator Supporting LTE 2x2 MIMO 2-cell and 4x2 MIMO

The introduction of the LTE next-generation communication standard makes MIMO evaluation in a fading environment much more complex. Connecting the MF6900A Fading Simulator to the MD8430A Signalling Tester via dedicated digital interface to simulate a BTS greatly simplifies 3GPP LTE 2x2 MIMO and 4x2 MIMO fading tests

High Reproducibility and Maintainability due to Full Digital Baseband Processing

The MF6900A simulates fading using full digital baseband processing. As a result, high-reproducibility results are obtained using the same settings and complex MIMO power control settings are extremely easy and accurate. Moreover, complete elimination of all analog circuits supports easy maintenance and calibration-free stability.

All-in-One Unit Supports LTE 4x2 MIMO or LTE 2x2 MIMO↔W-CDMA/HSPA Dual Environment

One unit supports LTE 2x2 MIMO 2-cell or 4x2 MIMO tests and combination with the MD8430A Signalling Tester offers a simple test setup for intra-system LTE 2x2 MIMO handover or 4x2 MIMO tests

The MD8480C Signalling Tester for W-CDMA supports all-in-one LTE/W-CDMA inter-system handover tests (with MF6900A-001 option installed)

Easy Fading Setting using Dedicated Interface with MD8430A/MD8480C

The MF6900A Fading Simulator uses a dedicated digital connection with the MD8430A/MD8480C. Elimination of internal RF circuits eliminates power control settings, and the simple display supports intuitive use

In addition, fading setting is made easy just by calling preset fading profiles from MD8430A and MD8480C test scenarios, allowing chipset and UE protocol developers to run tests transparently without a deep understanding of fading settings.

Moreover, auto-synchronization at MD8430A and MD8480C slow clock operation eliminates repeated fading setting.

The current worldwide proliferation of 3G mobile services is promoting increasingly high-speed data packet access in the mobile communications environment. W-CDMA-based systems are starting to use HSPA Evolution*1 to achieve high data transfer speeds while GSM-based systems are using EGPRS*2. Demand for high-speed data services by mobile users worldwide is driving development of mobile terminals (UE) that can secure optimum data throughput under any conditions.

The MD8480C W-CDMA Signalling Tester is a base station simulator with ideal protocol development and test functions for developing 3.5G W-CDMA UE supporting HSPA Evolution. It has an air interface conforming to 3GPP specifications as standard and supports a full range of applications and protocol tests, coding/decoding processing, protocol sequence testing (registration, origination, termination, handover), voice and data communications testing (circuit switch, packet switch), and UE end-to-end testing*3 for chipsets and UE.

Moreover, adding options for GSM/GPRS/EGPRS base stations supports Inter-RAT handover tests between 3G/3.5G and 2G systems. The MD8480C is the ideal instrument for developing increasingly popular UMTS UE and high-performance chipsets and UE for HSPA/ EGPRS*4.

*1: High Speed Packet Access Evolution
*2: Enhanced GPRS
*3: Requires two MD8480C units
*4: Handover Testing between W-CDMA/HSPA and GSM/EGPRS at Voice/ Data Communications

One Unit Supports Latest 2/3/3.5G Mobile Technology including HSPA Evolution

• Small footprint with expanded functions for testing up to four HSPA/WCDMA base stations including HSPA Evolution
• One unit supports up to two GSM/GPRS base stations including EGPRS for Inter-RAT and IntraRAT handover tests

Supports DL 42 Mbps*1 Data Throughput (with MCHSDPA) Specified by 3GPP Rel-10

• Throughout tests using external FTP server
• Layer 1, Layer 2 Trace Log and Throughput Monitor
• TCP/IP Traffic Analysis using general analysis software

*1: 63 Mbps for L1 testing
*2: 23 Mbps for L1 testing

Supports 3GPP Rel-7 and Rel-8 UE Categories

• New hardware supporting DL 64 QAM, and UL 16 QAM modulation schemes as well as 2x2 MIMO
• Supports 64QAM and MIMO (Category 20) , DC-HSDPA (Category 24), DB-DC-HSDPA (Category 24)
• Supports DC-HSDPA with MIMO (Cat. 26*1)
• Supports DC-HSUPA (UL Cat. 8)
• Supports MC-HSDPA (Cat. 29*1)

*1: Limitation Max Throughput

3GPP TS.25.306 V10.10.0 (Release 10) Table 5.1a: FDD HS-DSCH physical layer categories

HS-DSCH category	Max. number of HSDSCH codes received	Min. inter-TTI interva	Max. number of bits of an HS-DSCH transport block received within an HS-DSCH TTI	Total number of soft channel bits	Supported modulations without MIMO operation or aggregated cell operation	Supported modulations with MIMO operation and without aggregated cell operation	Supported modulations without MIMO operation with aggregated cell operation	Max. Throughput [bits/s]
Cat. 13	15	1	35280	259200	QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM	Not Applicable (MIMO not supported)	Not Applicable (aggregated carriers operation not supported)	17,640,000
Cat. 14	15	1	42192	259200				21,096,000
Cat. 15	15	1	23370	345600	QPSK, 16QAM			11,685,000
Cat. 16	15	1	27952	345600				13,976,000
Cat. 17	15	1	35280	259200	QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM	-		17,640,000
			23370	345600	-	QPSK, 16QAM		23,370,000
Cat. 18	15	1	42192	259200	QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM	-		21,096,000
			27952	345600	-	QPSK, 16QAM		27,952,000
Cat. 19	15	1	35280	518400	QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM			35,280,000
Cat. 20	15	1	42192	518400				42,192,000
Cat. 21	15	1	23370	345600	-	-	QPSK, 16QAM	23,370,000
Cat. 22	15	1	27952	345600				27,952,000
Cat. 23	15	1	35280	518400			QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM	35,280,000
Cat. 24	15	1	42192	518400				42,192,000
Cat. 25	15	1	23370	691200	-	-	-	46,740,000
Cat. 26	15	1	27952	691200				55,904,000
Cat. 27	15	1	35280	1036800	-	-	-	70,560,000
Cat. 28	15	1	42192	1036800				84,384,000
Cat. 29	15	1	42192	777600			QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM	63,288,000

Diversity Support for Four BTS (max.)

• Built-in support for handover tests between four BTS with diversity reception to simulate handover tests in near-to-real network environment
• Field verification items can be bench-tested, reducing time in field testing

Strong Baseband Support

• The optional Baseband Interface Unit (MU848077C) supports stable W-CDMA/HSPA chipset performance and function evaluation tests irrespective of the of RF section performance
• Development of HSPA mobiles requiring performance evaluation in severe mobile environments is supported by configuration of a high-reproducibility coding/decoding test environment

All-in-One Support for LTE and Other Communications Technologies

All the world's main communications technologies, including triple-system LTE/W-CDMA/GSM mobiles and TD-LTE/TD-SCDMA/GSM as well as LTE/CDMA2000™ hybrids, can be tested using the all-in-one MD8475A/MD8475B (requires installation of optional units and software for each standard).

Other communication technologies includes W-CDMA/HSPA/HSPA Evolution/DC-HSDPA, GSM/(E)GPRS, CDMA2000™ 1X/1xEV-DO Rev. A. and TD-SCDMA/TD-HSPA. The MD8475A also supports VoLTE services and call-processing for multimode LTE devices.

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Scenario-less Smartphone Tests using SmartStudio

Unlike earlier base station simulators requiring time-consuming creation of complex scenarios, the Anritsu SmartStudio interactive user interface eliminates the need to create scenarios, smoothing UE testing.

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Verifying Existing Smartphone Functions using SmartStudio Manager

Smartphone development requires verification of existing functions. Testing of items that have already been tested many times over, such as voice tests and SMS sending/receiving, are automated using SmartStudio Manager to improve development efficiency.

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Supports Versatile Smartphone Tests

A full line of test environments are supported for the general mobile verification phase, such as max. throughput performance tests, stress tests, and battery consumption tests of multisystem LTE mobiles using 2x2 MIMO, as well as CS-Fallback, call connection reliability and stability tests at handover, communication tests at low RF power, and service verification using LTE Multiple PDN and SMS in a 2-cell environment.