CETECOM Spain Chooses Agilent Technologies' Wireless Test Equipment for WiMAX Certification Testing

The WiMAX Forum, which promotes and certifies broadband wirelessproducts, chose CETECOM Spain as its certification laboratory forWiMAX conformance and interoperability testing. The WiMAX standard(IEEE 802.16-2004) is quickly emerging as an important specificationfor broadband wireless fixed-access technology.

CETECOM will use the Agilent E4438C ESG signal generator withN7613A Signal Studio software and the Agilent 89600 Series vectorsignal analyzer (VSA) as part of its system to test and certifyWiMAX-compatible base stations and user equipment.

"We have selected the Agilent VSA and signal generator for theWiMAX Radio Conformance Tester, not only because they provide all thestandard-compliant measurements and tools required to develop the testsystem, but also for their flexibility and easy integration in alaboratory environment," said Jose de la Plaza, wireless laboratorymanager at CETECOM Spain.

"We began working with the WiMAX community long before thestandards and test procedures were finalized," said Ken Voelker,Agilent VSA product manager. "Thanks to our many beta-test partners,our products reflect a solid industry consensus of the keymeasurements and how they are to be performed."

The ESG signal generator and Signal Studio software togetherprovide pre-configured and user-configurable WiMAX waveforms thatdevelopers can use to stimulate their WiMAX components at frequenciesto 6 GHz.

The VSA has the ability to measure the different WiMAX equipmentprofiles with bandwidths from 1.25 MHz to 28 MHz, at frequencies frombaseband to 11 GHz and beyond. It also supports advanced WiMAXfeatures such as sub-channelization.

Agilent previously announced an upgrade option to the VSA thatwill support mobile WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e), the part of the standard formobile broadband communications that is currently under development.

Images of the VSA are available atwww.agilent.com/find/89600_image.

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