An­ite, Blue Won­der and 4M Wire­less Show­case LTE In­ter­op­er­abil­i­ty

Press Re­lease: 10th Febru­ary 2010 - Live demon­stra­tion of LTE FDD/TD-LTE De­vice in­ter­op­er­abil­i­ty at Mo­bile World Con­gress in Barcelona

An­ite, a glob­al lead­er in test­ing tech­nol­o­gy for the wire­less in­dus­try, will demon­strate its lat­est LTE de­vel­op­ments at Mo­bile World Con­gress this year. The­se demon­stra­tions in­clude LTE FDD, and TD-LTE test so­lu­tions in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Blue Won­der Com­mu­ni­ca­tions LTE base­band so­lu­tion, which in­cor­po­rates the LTE pro­to­col stack pro­vid­ed by 4M Wire­less.

The demon­stra­tion will take place at the An­ite stand (1H21), as well as the 4M Wire­less stand (1F57) in Hall 1 at Mo­bile World Con­gress in Barcelona from 15th to 18th Febru­ary 2010.

This demon­stra­tion is sig­nif­i­cant, as it will show­case the world's first FDD/TD-LTE mul­ti­mode ter­mi­nal plat­form, by run­ning mul­ti­ple live video streams, VoIP and video con­fer­enc­ing ap­pli­ca­tions. The LTE ref­er­ence ter­mi­nal con­sists of the re­cent­ly launched em­bed­dable LTE modem IP pro­duct by Blue Won­der "BWC200", in­te­grat­ed with the 4M Wire­less PS100 LTE pro­to­col stack. To sup­port smooth sys­tem in­te­gra­tion, the com­plete LTE ref­er­ence ter­mi­nal is com­pre­hen­sive­ly test­ed with the in­dus­try renowned An­ite De­vel­op­ment Toolset.

The An­ite De­vel­op­ment Toolset is a pro­to­col de­vel­op­ment test so­lu­tion that pro­vides an in­te­grat­ed, in­no­va­tive suite of tools that sup­port all phas­es of wire­less ter­mi­nal de­vel­op­ment. For this demon­stra­tion, the An­ite De­vel­op­ment Toolset is be­ing used with the mar­ket-lead­ing An­ite 9000 Mo­bile Test Ac­cel­er­a­tor to em­u­late an LTE net­work for both FDD and TD-LTE.

"Our cus­tomers are look­ing for test so­lu­tions that will help ac­cel­er­ate their test­ing and re­duce time to mar­ket for their LTE de­vices", said Paul Beaver, 3GPP Busi­ness Unit Di­rec­tor, An­ite. "At the same time our cus­tomers need tools that en­sure that the LTE user ex­pe­ri­ence lives up to con­sumer ex­pec­ta­tions. Our work with Blue Won­der and 4M Wire­less prove that An­ite's LTE so­lu­tions are at the fore­front of meet­ing this chal­lenge."

Blue Won­der's BWC200 modem IP is ful­ly 3GPP Re­lease 8 com­pli­ant up to cat­e­go­ry 4, and op­ti­mized for low­est pow­er con­sump­tion and small­est chip area. "This com­bi­na­tion of mul­ti-mode LTE sup­port im­ple­ment­ed in­to an op­ti­mized IP de­sign is essen­tial to our cus­tomers who aim to ad­dress the mass mar­ket for LTE," says Peter Mey­er, Manag­ing Di­rec­tor and Head of De­vel­op­ment at Blue Won­der Com­mu­ni­ca­tions.

An im­por­tant en­abler of the demon­stra­tion is the 4M Wire­less pro­to­col soft­ware con­sist­ing of the 3GPP Re­lease 8 LTE Lay­er 2, Lay­er 3 and NAS pro­to­col lay­ers with In­ter-RAT han­dover ca­pa­bil­i­ties. The stack has been through com­pre­hen­sive in­ter­op­er­abil­i­ty tests with lead­ing LTE in­fras­truc­ture ven­dors and is present­ly the most wide­ly used LTE ter­mi­nal pro­to­col stack in the in­dus­try. "4M Wire­less has been at the fore­front of LTE pro­to­col stack de­vel­op­ment and we have suc­cess­ful­ly de­liv­ered our pro­duct to sev­er­al cus­tomers and part­ners," said At­if Ma­lik, CEO of 4M Wire­less. "We are de­light­ed to be part of this demon­stra­tion with Blue Won­der Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and An­ite as it proves the in­ter­op­er­abil­i­ty of our of­fer­ings and our abil­i­ty to provide a stan­dards com­pli­ant pro­duct for LTE ter­mi­nals."