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The largest Telecom Operator in the USA has approved the use of EMITE H-Series CATR 5G CATR OTA Test Platform for its 5G NR RF OTA Test Plan. The approval comes after a 3-month laborious evaluation with other key players. Test Labs, OEMs and interested parties can now select and purchase the test platform and start intense 5G testing services. Telecom Carriers, Device Manufacturers (OEMs), Test Labs, and Chipsets Manufacturer, use EMITE 5G Test Platforms FR1+FR2 worldwide, and can now use them also for running 5G NR RF OTA Test Cases and submit official results to this carrier.
EMITE latest 5G OTA testing technology will be present at the Mobile World Congress in Los Angeles next October 22nd-24th. This year, the GSMA event is focused on connectivity, including the latest industrial progress on 5G, IoT, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data. EMITE has recently been approved as 5G OTA Test Vendor member by PTCRB. EMITE H‐Series is a unique 3GPP-permitted medium-size anechoic chamber for simultaneous FR1+FR2 5G OTA testing, which has submitted for validation a number of RF, RRM and Protocol Test Cases in order to help vendors bring new terminals to market quickly, develop new models and improve existing models with a fully‐automated single platform.
Anritsu and EMITE are proud to announce that the Anritsu MT8000A test instrument, an integrated one-box test set for testing 5G NSA and SA at Sub-6 GHz and mm-Wave frequency ranges, has been successfully integrated and used in combination to the EMITE H300 CATR 5G OTA Test System to test 5G OTA figures of merit. The combination of H300 + MT8000A enables simultaneous Sub-6 GHz and millimeter-wave bands OTA measurements and beamforming tests using call connections specified by CTIA, 3GPP and PTCRB with automated reporting and pass/fail evaluation.
With 0.5 dB STD repeatability differences across CATR systems in two different continents, EMITE has found that current commercial 5G devices exhibit RF OTA performance differences above 5 dB. The ability to independently test 5G device performance to meet market demands and enhance first generation 5G devices becomes of the outmost importance, and EMITE-unique signaling-box-independent CATR Test Platform for simultaneous FR1 and FR2 OTA testing represents the state of the art equipment for achieving an ever-increasing demand of high performance 5G devices.
PTCRB has approved at its PVG#86 meeting in Seoul the membership application by EMITE. EMITE has also been added to the PTCRB database as test vendor, and a set of 5G OTA RF Test Cases have been submitted for validation. It is the intention of EMITE to have its H-Series 5G OTA Test Platform testing 5G OTA RF, RRM and Protocol Test Cases within 2019. As a result, the EMITE H-Series 5G OTA Test Platform is expected to play a key role in PTCRB-certified OTA testing of 5G devices worldwide, bringing new terminals to market quickly, help developing new models and help improving existing models with a fully-automated single platform.