Aeroflex has developed a system for testing the offload of live data calls between LTE and Wi-Fi.
“With LTE and LTE-A networks experiencing ever-increasing demands on their capacity, Wi-Fi offload is one of the most important areas of technology advancement in the industry today,” said Evan Gray, Product and Marketing Director of Aeroflex Limited.
The Wi-Fi offload test system is designed using the company’s E500 LTE Capacity Test System, including D500 Real Data Generator, Evolved Packet Core (EPC) for LTE/Wi-Fi, and Wi-Fi STA (station) systems.
The company advises, Wi-Fi offload is just one of the features being introduced in the LTE and LTE-A standards that will give operators new tools to manage higher data consumption and also offer improved Quality of Service to subscribers. To gain the maximum advantage from these features, operators and vendors need to ensure that they are correctly implemented and are commercially robust, but will also need to optimise performance, scheduling and offload algorithms and to model a wide variety of real world traffic scenarios.
The company highlights that its TM500 platform already supports 3GPP Release 10 features such as eICIC, carrier aggregation and 4×4 MIMO. The addition of Wi-Fi offload test capability to the test mobile and E500 capacity test system adds the ability to test ever more complex scenarios in an efficient manner prior to commercial roll-out.
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