Anritsu Corporation has announced that the company’s ME7873L RF/RRM conformance test system has achieved more than 80% of RF/RRM conformance test cases approval by GCF related to the LTE-advanced TD-LTE carrier aggregation.
 
LTE-Advanced is a faster mobile communications standard than LTE now being deployed by global network operators; the key technology it uses to achieve faster speeds is called carrier aggregation. Test systems must obtain GCF approval for at least 80% of test cases as a condition for terminal certification by GCF.
 
The FDD LTE-Advanced standard has already been commercialized in many regions of the world and there is an urgent need for GCF certification approval of at least 80% of test cases for the TDD standard now under full-scale deployment centered especially on China.
 
Anritsu launched its ME7873L RF conformance test system in January 2014 as the first instrument to achieve GCF certification approval for better than 80% of its FDD-LTE carrier aggregation test cases. Now, in late December 2014, it has reached more than 80% GCF approval for its TD-LTE carrier aggregation RF/RRM conformance test cases.
 
China is deploying LTE-advanced services using TD-LTE technology starting in 2015 and both Japan and the USA are planning introduction of these services too. Anritsu will continue to focus its efforts on obtaining GCF/PTCRB certifications to help bring next-generation mobile broadband systems to market as soon as possible.
 
LTE-Advanced is a faster implementation of the LTE mobile communications system. It aims to offer maximum data throughput speeds of 1 Gbps for stationary and slow-moving mobile units used by pedestrians as well as speeds of 100 Mbps for fast-moving mobile units in shinkansen trains, etc.