Agilent Speeds UMTS, CDMA2000 Rollout with Real-time Signaling Analyzer
2/27/2004 - Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) announced real-time 3G (UMTS and CDMA2000) capability in its new real-time Signaling Analyzer application. This offering, combined with Agilent's Network Analyzer solution family, enables analysis from physical layer to the highest protocol layer in a single platform on all the major interfaces, from narrowband through ATM and IP. The integrated auto-configuration, graphical call trace, truly distributed architecture and exceptional ease of use reduce the time required to perform root-cause analysis on complex, multiport and multiprotocol problems, thereby speeding deployment and improving quality of service.
"3G has been getting a lot of press lately, not all of it positive," said Steve Witt, vice president and general manager of Agilent's Network Systems Test Division. "Our customers must deploy this new technology in timescales and with quality expectations previously unthinkable, with no additional headcount and a lot of press attention. Our new real-time Signaling Analyzer application provides our customers in the mobile arena with an unrivalled toolkit to speed the rollout and increase the QoS of the latest 3G mobile networks. Combined with our solutions for LAN, WAN and recently announced WLAN capability, this application enables Agilent to offer the power, breadth and flexibility required by our customers to help make 3G the success it deserves to be."
The Signaling Analyzer solution offers the following new functionality:
- Centralized, synchronized real-time analysis on multiple interfaces
- Support for UTRAN (Iu, Iub, Iur), CORE (Gb, Gr, Gn, etc.) and CDMA2000 interfaces (A10, A11)
- Support for high-level protocols, such as HTTP, FTP, POP, and WAP
- Real-time multisegment/protocol graphical call trace
- Real-time MMS call trace
- Real-time graphical and tabular statistical analysis
- RF QoS analysis on FP, CRCI, SIR, QE and BLER
- Real-time ATM AAL-2 and AAL-5 reassembly
- Real-time, continuous auto-configuration on Iub, Iu and Iur interfaces
- AMR voice recording/playback (offline mode)
- High-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) offline
- Phase 2 release in mid-2004, which will include support for GPRS and GSM networks via a new high-density LIM
- Iub deciphering (offline)
- Future support for 2G to 3G handover call traces, core network protocols, real-time HSDPA and IP-based UTRAN
These new features and capabilities enhance the Network Analyzer family's position as the most comprehensive solution for all layer 1-7 testing. Efficient troubleshooting helps network operators solve the most complex network problems fast. Used as both a distributed and single-point test solution, the Signaling Analyzer provides an unprecedented level of flexibility, scalability and ease of use for both network operators and equipment manufacturers who require protocol test.
Further information on this product is available at www.agilent.com/comms/mobile-signaling.
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Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is a global technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company's 28,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenue of $6.1 billion in fiscal year 2003. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com.
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