Welcome to this week’s round-up of news, products, and analysis in the network test and measurement space.
Chinese test system provider Tri-L Solutions integrated Agilent Technologies‘ PXT wireless communications test set with some of its own test systems for over-the-air LTE device and antenna testing chambers.
The OTA test ensures that radiation from wireless devices meets certain standards, as well as ensuring performance.
“The active antenna pattern measurement delivered by this integration is crucial for research and development to optimize antenna performance,” said Yangguang Xu, Tri-L Solutions’ CEO.
Agilent also said this week that its 3-D EM simulation software was chosen by semiconductor company STMicroelectronics for development of integrated passive devices, which are used in the development of radio frequency systems for mobile applications in 800 MHz and higher frequencies.
Texas Instruments opened a $2.2 million Electronics Design teaching lab at the University of California, Berkeley. The 26 workstations include prototyping platforms from TI and donated benchtop measurement equipment from Agilent.
Network connectivity and monitoring company Emulex announced the results of 100GB Ethernet performance tests for full-stream recording over high speed networks, in partnership with testing company Ixia and IT provider Merlin International. The tested solution was from Endace, a division of Emulex,
According to Emulex, network recording is critical for troubleshooting, diagnostics and security forensics, but that many of the tools in use today can only handle a fraction of the network capacity and therefore their information is misleading or inaccurate. A white paper on the test results is available here.
