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Agilent Technologies' new wireless solutions reduce 3G deployment
costs
October 23, 2002
Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced solutions that will directly
address wireless service providers' urgent need to reduce operational
expenditures as they deploy 2.5G and 3G wireless networks. The new
solutions, including a Base Station Test Set that is the most comprehensive,
single-box base station tester on the market, are designed to significantly
improve the productivity of technicians and RF engineers.
Wireless service providers can use the solutions to increase the
efficiency and speed of planning, deploying, maintaining and optimizing
their wireless networks, such as cdma2000, GSM, GPRS, and UMTS.
The new solutions include the following:
- Agilent Base Station Test Set, which is the most comprehensive
one-box tester available today for deploying and maintaining wireless
base stations. Now technicians will no longer need to carry, manage
and learn multiple test sets to perform base station maintenance.
This portable, easy-to-use solution combines the most highly utilized
BTS tools into a single box that technicians can use for daily maintenance.
By consolidating the most frequently used tools, the solution dramatically
increases technician productivity and helps reduce training costs
and the time and expense of commissioning and maintaining new base
stations. The test set is field-rugged for all testing environments
and supports cdmaOne, cdma2000, TDMA and analog systems, GSM and
UMTS base stations.
- Agilent Wireless Network Optimization Platform, a comprehensive
system that enables service providers and equipment manufacturers
to optimize all major 2G, 2.5G and 3G networks quickly and accurately.
Agilent has added UMTS phone-based measurements -- including integrated
IP/application data test and engineering parameters -- to existing
receiver-based measurements. The integrated platform helps operators
solve data quality of service issues faster and more completely,
minimizing the required number of drive tests and maximizing engineering
efficiency.
- Agilent Air Interface Remote Monitoring System, which now supports
GSM and GPRS, allows service providers to improve the efficiency
of wireless optimization by up to 60 percent. Remote measuring probes,
typically located inside fleet vehicles, continuously collect RF
performance data and sends this data back to the central server
for analysis. Service providers can use the system to identify and
resolve network problems within hours rather than days or weeks.
- Agilent Wizard, a wireless network planning and design software
tool that helps service providers quickly migrate from 2G to 2.5G
and 3G networks and now supports the migration from TDMA to GSM
and GPRS. Wizard allows RF design engineers to completely simulate
a network and model various subscriber usage patterns, which ensures
complete and reliable network performance as a network is deployed
or expanded. By detecting RF problems in the planning stage, Wizard
can help service providers reduce deployment time by as much as
20 percent.
Increased financial pressures on wireless service providers worldwide
have slowed the deployment of 2.5G and 3G wireless networks. However,
subscribers are demanding new wireless applications currently unavailable
on existing networks, including video messaging and high-bandwidth
mobile Internet connectivity. Agilent's solutions will help service
providers work within existing financial constraints to build the
networks required for these and future applications.
"Wireless service providers face enormous financial challenges
as they deploy 2.5G and 3G networks," said Eric McHenry, vice president
and general manager of Agilent's Wireless Network Test Division.
"In an environment of declining average revenue per user and slowing
subscriber growth, the need to cost-effectively plan, deploy, maintain
and optimize networks is more acute than ever. The Agilent Base
Station Test Set and our other new solutions will help increase
productivity, cut operating costs, improve the bottom line and make
2.5G and 3G a reality."
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