Aeroflex holding company subsidiary of the elfas Co. Ltd. (Aeroflex Limited) recently announced the launch of an extended version: the TM500 industry standard base station test instrument, a new version of the desktop unit box it is possible to simulate thousands of LTE user equipment (UE), fading channel model and the carrier aggregation function. TM500 testing terminal provides more leading LTE-A development capabilities, the UE density on the market is higher than any other solutions.

"The carrier aggregation allows operators to wider bandwidth required to achieve a truly 4G services and higher data rate," Kimball Product Manager Ngwa Shusina said: "provided by small single box TM500 LTE-A function, so that the basic equipment suppliers to develop carrier aggregation function in the cellular systems, and a true LTE-A phone number listed before, can simulate the real network traffic bring thousands of the terminal."

As early as 2012, TM500 took the lead in supporting the LTE-A carrier aggregation, and from then on was global operators to actual performance in field environment in the characterization of carrier aggregation.

The TM500 test platform is to test LTE and LTE-A base station that industry standards, and to use all the leading network equipment supplier. Aeroflex will continue to work with the mobile operators and equipment vendors, launched the new 3GPP features in the future, so that they can go to the development and introduction of high broadband running FDD and TDD two LTE-A modes promised.

Aeroflex in LTE and LTE-A in the field of proprietary technology

Aeroflex market leading LTE product line includes a set of end-to-end testing system, which covers the development, LTE TDD and FDD network equipment and terminal performance, service and manufacturing test application.

The world almost every base station manufacturers in the use of TM500 terminal test series, this series of products can be considered as the de facto standard for eNodeB development and testing. E500 is the only network capacity test contains has been Aeroflex TM500 LTE air interface verification solution.

Aeroflex 7100 LTE digital radio frequency tester is a single box complete test system, which can provide measurement and calibration of all the tool user equipment chip and mobile terminal required in accordance with 3GPP LTE standard, including the signal fading simulation function.

The PXI 3000 series is a modular RF test system based on PXI technology, is a proven, in order to improve the manufacturing capacity and speed up the solution listed in the development process, and it can meet the current and future needs of the RF test. It is especially suitable for modern mobile phones and wireless data communication and key test in a high volume manufacturing environment.

A software engineer working on the LTE and LTE-Advanced test systems are Afas in its global R & D center, to support the current and next generation network and equipment.