Anite has announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with China Telecommunication Technology Labs (CTTL) to further development of cutting-edge MIMO Over-The-Air (OTA) testing methodologies and solutions. CTTL Terminals is an organisation administered by the China Academy of Telecommunication Research. The collaboration will make use of Anite’s industry leading Propsim channel emulators for advanced MIMO OTA testing to help device manufacturers and mobile operators verify the actual performance of mobile devices.
In MIMO OTA testing, a channel emulator creates realistic RF conditions within an anechoic or a reverberation chamber where the MIMO capable device is tested without any connected cables. The development of MIMO OTA systems will also help Chinese operators in their device selection process by enabling efficient benchmarking of MIMO capable products, thus enhancing the end-user experience. Under this agreement the parties will collaborate to develop MIMO OTA methodologies for Carrier Aggregation MIMO OTA, 3D MIMO OTA testing, virtual drive MIMO OTA testing, MIMO OTA with multi-cell handover and interference, as well as device-to-device testing.
CTTL–Terminals will benefit from Anite’s future-proof Propsim F32 channel emulator which offers more than twice the emulation capacity compared to other products on the market. This makes it a cost-effective, integrated test solution for verifying the actual performance of Carrier Aggregation capable LTE-Advanced devices. Anite’s channel emulators are already compliant with CTIA, CCSA, 3GPP and major mobile operator acceptance test plans.
