PCTEST Lab Selects Spirent(R) Communications for Over-the-Air A-GPS Testing
New Capability for Spirent PLTS Identifies GPS Antenna Performance Issues
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Poor GPS antenna performance leads to a disappointing user experience that negatively impacts operators’ Location Based Services (LBS) revenues. Adding a GPS antenna to a densely-packed mobile device can be a major challenge. The industry’s existing A-GPS certification standards do not include OTA testing, which means that GPS antenna performance issues are not always caught prior to commercial deployment. This has led the industry to broaden the scope of its existing OTA Test Plan for mobile devices to include A-GPS.
“The addition of Spirent’s A-GPS OTA test platform is consistent with our commitment to leadership in wireless testing and certification of mobile devices,” said PCTEST president
Spirent PLTS (http://www.spirent.com/go/plts) is a fully integrated, automated test solution for all CDMA mobile devices that use Assisted GPS (A-GPS), Advanced Forward Link Trilateration (AFLT), Hybrid (AFLT and A-GPS) or GPS-only technologies. In addition to conformance/certification testing to industry standards, the Spirent PLTS allows performance evaluation well beyond these baseline test scenarios to identify performance breakpoints under real-world conditions.
“As the leader in A-GPS testing, Spirent has been making significant contributions to the industry’s new OTA Test Plan for A-GPS. We are delighted to see a leading test lab like PCTEST offering this important new capability to its customers,” said
For more information visit www.spirent.com/go/plts.
About PCTEST Engineering Laboratory
PCTEST Engineering Laboratory is a leading testing laboratory in RF and Protocol Conformance testing, Over-The-Air Antenna Performance test, EMC/EMI testing, Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) testing, Hearing-Aid Compatibility (HAC) testing, and Battery Safety testing of Lithium Batteries for IEEE 1725 CTIA certification. PCTEST Lab is an approved CTIA Authorized Test Lab (CATL), Verizon Wireless certified 3rd party ODI Lab, CCF Authorized Test Facility, and is an ISO-17025 accredited laboratory by U.S. NIST/NVLAP and A2LA. For more information on PCTEST’s testing services visit www.pctestlab.com.
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Spirent Communications PCTEST Engineering
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