Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced a new software feature for handheld wireless measurements on its E6474A network optimization platform that turns a standard WiMAX PC Card (CPE) into the industry’s smallest WiMAX scanning solution for Drive Test. This new mode of operation gives network equipment manufacturers and wireless operators’ RF engineering teams the most cost-effective way to confirm WiMAX coverage and provide basic troubleshooting tasks to assess signal quality.
A commercial WiMAX CPE and Agilent’s E6474A network optimization platform with option E6474-655 enables this new mode of operation. A single WiMAX CPE can be used either in “Phone” mode as a standard WiMAX CPE or in “Scanning Mode,” providing dedicated RF measurements on up to 10 channels. For each channel, a Preamble Index Decode, BSID, RSSI, CINR and MAC messages are reported for the dominant, visible server(s), providing a comprehensive view of the surrounding network.
“Our new WiMAX scanning functionality enables the subscriber device to be used as a dedicated scanner,” said Jonathan Dunbar, general manager of Agilent’s Drive Test business. “This delivers the Wireless industry’s smallest and most cost-effective solution for basic WiMAX coverage and signal quality assessment.”
Benefits of the Agilent E6474A Drive Test WiMAX Scanning Mode option include:
- Small size: Smallest, lightest WiMAX scanning solution available – ideal for indoor testing.
- “Phone” and “Scanner” capability: Single WiMAX CPE can be used as a phone to validate WiMAX service performance and as a scanner to assess WiMAX coverage and signal quality.
- Ease of use: Single solution addresses multiple optimization tasks.
- Future-proof of investment: Same software license used for the WiMAX Scanning Mode also enables WiMAX measurements for the W1314A Receivers; simply add a WiMAX-capable W1314A receiver when more advanced troubleshooting is needed.
- Advanced troubleshooting capabilities: Increased measurement speeds, greater multicarrier support and dedicated interference and spectrum analyzer modes.
U.S. Pricing and Availability
The Agilent E6474A Scanning Mode feature is available now in Release 12.0. Pricing starts at $15,600.
Information about Agilent’s E6474A WiMAX Drive Test solution is available at www.agilent.com/find/e6474a.
Product photos are available at www.agilent.com/find/e6474a_images.
Agilent in WiMAX
A Principal Member of the WiMAX Forum (www.wimaxforum.org), Agilent Technologies is an active participant in this organization. As a world leader in test and measurement solutions, Agilent continues to be at the forefront of this emerging market, offering WiMAX design and test solutions that span the entire technology lifecycle -- R&D, design verification and pre-conformance, conformance, manufacturing through network deployment, and service assurance. Information about Agilent’s WiMAX design and test solutions can be found at www.agilent.com/find/wimax.
About Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) is the world’s premier measurement company and a technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company’s 20,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenues of $5.4 billion in fiscal 2007. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com.
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