Anite and Agilent Technologies Announce First-to-Market LTE UE Protocol Tester with Development Toolset Based on Agilent's New LTE UE Test Platform


Anite, a global leader in testing technology for the wireless industry, and Agilent Technologies Inc., the world's premier measurement company and a technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis, today introduced the first product in a planned portfolio of 3GPP LTE R&D test products developed on Agilent's new E6620A LTE UE test platform. The Anite SAT LTE Protocol Tester with Development Toolset was created as part of a partnership between Agilent and Anite, announced in November 2007. Featuring an impressive breadth and depth of features, this first-to-market SAT LTE Protocol Tester is ideal for engineers working in early protocol design of LTE mobile phones.

Agilent's new LTE platform - the E6620A Wireless Communications Test Set - provides a powerful, common hardware platform and 3GPP-compliant protocol stack for building scalable test solutions across the LTE UE R&D lifecycle. As an advanced, one-box test set for LTE, it offers real-time, system-rate network emulation for L1/L2/L3 uplink and downlink via RF or digital baseband, and is designed to support MIMO and protocol conformance test, with full RF measurement capabilities.

"The E6620A builds on Agilent's broad LTE portfolio by providing a powerful and scalable platform designed to cover the LTE UE development life cycle with a range of solutions - from early protocol development to conformance test," said Niels Fach©, Vice President and General Manager of Agilent's Mobile Broadband Division. "These new products demonstrate our commitment to the LTE marketplace - providing advanced test solutions when our customers need them, and ensuring they deliver successful LTE products to market while meeting their aggressive time-to-market goals."

The Anite SAT LTE Protocol Tester with Development Toolset is the first commercially available product to be built on the E6620A LTE UE test platform. It features a suite of development test tools that include simple to use GUIs, developer's API, and development aids for rapid generation of Layer 1-3 test applications. Other products currently under development on the E6620A are the Anite SAS and CT conformance test systems, and Agilent bench-top mobile application test and RF conformance test systems. This new LTE portfolio joins the existing portfolio of 8960/Anite 3G test equipment available for UE development through conformance test developed jointly by Anite and Agilent.

"Anite's SAT Protocol Tester comprises proven technology compliant with the latest version of 3GPP standards," said Paul Beaver, LTE Business Unit Director, Anite. "This first-to-market solution delivers a 3GPP LTE test capability for Wireless R&D to advance the deployment of commercial LTE products and is a testament to our strategic partnership with Agilent. The integrated test environment supports all phases of UE development and will be further enhanced to support our leading Conformance Toolset and SAS products in the near future. We look forward to further demonstrating that commitment through development of future E6620A-based test solutions."

Anite and Agilent will be introducing their new solutions for 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) at Mobile World Congress 2008 on stands H21 (Anite) and D45 (Agilent) in Hall 1. New LTE test products will be shown, including a first-to-market LTE UE development test platform with real-time protocol development tools. This LTE UE platform will help R&D engineers speed development of LTE UE design for next-generation mobile communications products.

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 19,000 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.

About Anite
Anite plc is an international IT company whose primary focus is the provision of business critical solutions based on its deep sector knowledge of the wireless, travel and public sector markets. Headquartered in the U.K., Anite employs over 1,300 staff in 12 countries across Europe, the Americas and Asia.

The Wireless division of Anite provides test solutions to equipment manufacturers, operators and test laboratories for early handset development, integration, conformance and interoperability test through to network measurement solutions. With in-depth expertise and over 18 years' experience in providing customer-focused solutions, Anite and its products have played a major role in the advance of the global wireless market. For more information about Anite visit http://www.anite.com/wireless.

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