Ag­i­lent Tech­nolo­gies, An­ite to Demon­strate LTE End-to-End Stream­ing Video with Sig­nalion, Blue Won­der Com­mu­ni­ca­tions LTE UEs at 2009 Mo­bile World Con­gress

Ag­i­lent Tech­nolo­gies Inc. (NY­SE: A) and An­ite plc (LSE: AIE) to­day an­nounced they will demon­strate 3GPP LTE in­ter­op­er­abil­i­ty show­ing end-to-end stream­ing video with LTE UE de­vices from Sig­nalion and Blue Won­der Com­mu­ni­ca­tions. The demon­stra­tion will oc­cur here at the 2009 Mo­bile World Con­gress. It will fea­ture LTE test equip­ment and de­vices that in­clude the Ag­i­lent E6620A LTE wire­less com­mu­ni­ca­tions test set, An­ite SAT LTE Pro­to­col De­vel­op­ment Toolset, Blue Won­der UE chipset and Sig­nalion LTE UE sim­u­la­tor.

"By work­ing with in­dus­try lead­ers to as­sure in­ter­op­er­abil­i­ty of LTE de­vices, Ag­i­lent is demon­strat­ing its com­mit­ment to de­liv­er­ing mar­ket-lead­ing LTE UE test so­lu­tions based on the E6620 plat­form across the en­tire LTE de­vel­op­ment life cy­cle," said Niels Faché, vice pres­i­dent and gen­er­al man­ager of Ag­i­lent's Mo­bile Broad­band Di­vi­sion. "Work­ing in part­ner­ship with An­ite, we are cre­at­ing test so­lu­tions that meet the ear­li­est LTE R&D test­ing needs - em­pow­er­ing to­day's UE de­vel­op­ers to stay at the fore­front of this fast-evolv­ing tech­nol­o­gy."

This LTE tech­nol­o­gy demon­stra­tion is a tan­gi­ble re­sult of the on­go­ing strate­gic part­ner­ship be­tween Ag­i­lent and An­ite to de­liv­er mar­ket-lead­ing LTE UE de­vel­op­ment tools to wire­less engi­neers. Us­ing the­se tools, LTE de­vel­op­ers and their man­agers can test de­signs ear­lier and more com­plete­ly, there­by short­en­ing de­vel­op­ment cy­cles and ac­cel­er­at­ing time-to-mar­ket.

"To­day's LTE stream­ing-video demon­stra­tion shows that we have achieved in­ter­op­er­abil­i­ty with two in­dus­try-lead­ing LTE UE de­signs, as­sur­ing our LTE so­lu­tions will en­able cus­tomers to achieve faster time-to-mar­ket in all phas­es of their de­vel­op­ment," said Paul Beaver, busi­ness unit di­rec­tor, An­ite. "Our part­ner­ship with Ag­i­lent plays a piv­otal role in pi­oneer­ing the LTE ecosys­tem and al­lows us to main­tain a con­stant lead in the emerg­ing LTE mar­ket."

As a key com­po­nent of the LTE stream­ing video demon­stra­tion, Ag­i­lent's E6620A wire­less com­mu­ni­ca­tions test set pro­vides a pow­er­ful, com­mon hard­ware plat­form, in­te­grat­ing a 3GPP re­lease 8-com­pli­ant pro­to­col stack (joint­ly de­vel­oped with An­ite), for build­ing scal­able test so­lu­tions across the LTE UE R&D life cy­cle. Help­ing to sig­nif­i­cant­ly short­en de­sign cy­cles, it of­fers re­al-time, sys­tem-rate net­work em­u­la­tion for L1/L2/L3 uplink and down­link via RF or dig­i­tal base­band.

An­ite's ad­vanced SAT LTE Pro­to­col De­vel­op­ment Toolset (com­mer­cial­ly ship­ping on the E6620A plat­form) pro­vides a suite of de­vel­op­ment tools for UE de­sign­ers. It is the first of the Ag­i­lent/An­ite port­fo­lio of test so­lu­tions de­signed around a com­mon pro­to­col stack and test en­vi­ron­ment, en­abling rapid de­vel­op­ment and de­bug cy­cles to speed LTE UE pro­to­col de­sign.

Sig­nalion's SOR­BAS LTE Test UE is used to test evolv­ing LTE mo­bile com­mu­ni­ca­tions in­fras­truc­ture. Its 3GPP LTE mo­bile ter­mi­nal ca­pa­bil­i­ties, cou­pled with ad­di­tion­al ad­vanced test in­ter­faces and fea­tures, make the SOR­BAS LTE Test UE an ide­al tool for net­work in­fras­truc­ture equip­ment de­vel­op­ers. SOR­BAS pro­vides an air-in­ter­face test sys­tem for func­tion­al and load tests of LTE ap­pli­ca­tions.

"With LTE de­vel­op­ments rapid­ly oc­cur­ring through­out the world, our LTE-speci­fic test prod­ucts are crit­i­cal to pro­vid­ing cus­tomers the flex­i­bil­i­ty they need to de­vel­op re­li­able prod­ucts," said Dr. Matthi­as Stege, head of mar­ket­ing, Sig­nalion. "The suc­cess of LTE will de­pend on the avail­abil­i­ty of test equip­ment with ap­proved stan­dard con­for­mance. Con­se­quent­ly, Sig­nalion's strat­e­gy is to do in­ter­op­er­abil­i­ty tests be­tween LTE tests sys­tems at an ear­ly stage. The LTE stream­ing video demon­stra­tion with Ag­i­lent and An­ite fur­ther en­hances our po­si­tion as a lead­ing LTE so­lu­tions provider and of­fers us yet an­oth­er means of build­ing cus­tomer con­fi­dence in our so­lu­tions."

The LTE IODT UE so­lu­tion demon­strat­ed in co­op­er­a­tion with Blue Won­der Com­mu­ni­ca­tions is based on the sec­ond gen­er­a­tion of a pow­er­ful soft­ware modem ini­tial­ly pre­sent­ed at MWC 2008. Due to its flex­i­ble ap­proach, stan­dard changes can be easi­ly adapt­ed and con­tin­u­ous­ly val­i­dat­ed again­st so­lu­tions like the Ag­i­lent/An­ite test sys­tems; an ad­van­tage that will en­able suc­cess­ful par­tic­i­pa­tion in up­com­ing field tests.

"As a new star­tup, it is im­per­a­tive that we estab­lish our­selves as a trust­ed and re­li­able part­ner for LTE de­vel­op­ment," said Dr. Matthi­as Weiss, co-founder of Blue Won­der Com­mu­ni­ca­tions. "By par­tic­i­pat­ing in this LTE stream­ing video demon­stra­tion, we are val­i­dat­ing our ca­pa­bil­i­ties to de­vel­op lead­ing-edge LTE so­lu­tions."