The ShockLine family of affordable vector network analysers (VNAs) from Anritsu has been extended with the Performance ShockLine MS46500B series. It lowers cost-of-test and speeds time to market in numerous testing applications up to 8.5GHz, including designing and manufacturing mobile network equipment, mobile devices, automotive cables, high-speed data interconnects and system integration components.

The MT8821C is a new Radio Communication Analyzer from Anritsu for research and development testing of mobile devices (User Equipment, UE) with the widest capability for supporting LTE-Advanced. The analyzer also operates as a network simulator supporting LTE, W-CDMA/HSPA, GSM/GPRS/EGPRS, TD-SCDMA/HSPA, and CDMA2000 1X/1x EVDO technologies to run RF TRX tests in compliance with the 3GPP and 3GPP2 standards, as well as parametric tests.

Important enhancements have been added to Anritsu’s portable MT1000A Network Master Pro and MT1100A Network Master Flex family of all-in-one transport network testers. The enhancements include the support of CPRI/OBSAI and RFC 6349 TCP throughput testing, Optical Transport Network (OTN) multi stage mapping for OTU3/4, a powerful remote operation tool and support of a Video Inspection Probe.

The VectorStar ME7838A4 4-port broadband vector network analyser (VNA) system from Anritsu features the world’s widest differential broadband sweep from 70 kHz to 110/125 GHz and utilises the smallest mmWave modules to conduct highly stable and fast measurements when characterising differential devices.

The complexities of the modern automobile continue to increase, with more and more technology being added to support communications applications and safety features. These technologies result in increased vehicle production costs for the manufacturer as well as increasing the cost of ownership.

Web Remote Tools for the Spectrum Master MS2720T handheld spectrum analyser that allow the instruments to be controlled from any web-enabled device, including laptops, tablets, and smart phones, over an Ethernet link have been introduced by Anritsu. Field technicians will have greater flexibility when conducting measurements and save time and money when conducting RF spectrum monitoring, and testing Remote Radio Heads (RRUs) and other inaccessibl...

The Anritsu MT8820C Radio Communication Tester has been successfully used in combination with the EMITE E500 Reverberation Chamber and the Anite Propsim FS8 channel emulator to test LTE Carrier Aggregation, using 2x2 MIMO and more realistic isotropic Urban-Macro (UMA) fading profiles. The tests were performed for a leading US carrier.

AT4 wireless and Anritsu have reached an agreement to upgrade the LTE Advanced conformance test and carrier acceptance test capabilities in Europe, North America and APAC, supporting certification of mobile devices globally. The agreement adds significant capability for the latest protocol and RF/RRM LTE test packages and Work Items, including Carrier Aggregation, IMS and VoLTE which are the latest features being launched on LTE-Advanced networks...

Anritsu says its newly launched ShockLine MS46121A series of 1-port USB Vector Network Analysers (VNAs) bring the price, performance, and ease-of-use advantages of it’s patented ShockLine VNA technology to an extremely compact package. Two models with frequency coverage of 40 MHz to 4 GHz and 150 kHz to 6 GHz are powered and controlled via a user-supplied computer to simply and cost-efficiently test cables, antennas, and other passive RF de...

Anritsu’s stand at Mobile World Congress 2015 in Barcelona (March 2-5) will feature a sophisticated, cloud-based connected car system for fleet tracking developed at the Smart Systems Laboratory, University of Hertfordshire in the UK, and demonstrated together using satellite positioning technology GNSS Simulator from Spectracom.

Anritsu will feature a sophisticated, cloud-based connected car system for fleet tracking developed by the University of Hertfordshire in the UK at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (March 2-5). It was developed with the help of network simulation technology from Anritsu. The company will also demonstrate comprehensive support for developers of new mobile phone technology with live tests of a mobile handset operating at the latest 450Mb/s peak d...

Anritsu has released its protocol test solution for Enhanced Multicast Broadcast Multimedia Service (eMBMS).  It says the new solution is already helping mobile chipset and device makers accelerate the development of products that can receive LTE broadcast services.  EXPWAY’s e-Cast Broadcast Multicast Service Centre (BM-SC) Server has been integrated with Anritsu’s MD8430A LTE signalling tester and Rapid Test Designer (RTD)...

Anritsu has launched free e-Learning courses for mobile device engineers who use its Rapid Test Designer (RTD) software to test cellular modem chipsets and devices under development. RTD e-Learning offers a modular series of professional product training videos. All staff members belonging to an organisation with an RTD support agreement can log into their personal e-Learning account at times that are convenient to them. 

An electromagnetic field (EMF) radiation measurement system has been added to Anritsu’s Spectrum Master handheld MS271xE spectrum analysers and Cell Master MT8212E/MT8213E base station analysers. With the option installed and an Anritsu isotopic antenna attached, the analysers can be used by field technicians of government regulatory authorities and cellular operators to measure electromagnetic fields, ensuring wireless networks are in comp...

Anritsu has upgraded its MT8852B Bluetooth tester, providing support for the Data Length Extension introduced to Bluetooth Low Energy as part of the latest Bluetooth Core Specification version 4.2. With the new Data Length Extension option, designers and manufacturers of Smart and Bluetooth Smart Ready devices can use the MT8852B to conduct radio layer tests that comply fully with the newly adopted Bluetooth 4.2 standard.

Field engineers and technicians can now conduct highly accurate and efficient LTE-Advanced Carrier Aggregation (CA) measurements during network deployment and maintenance on Anritsu’s BTS Master MT8220T base station analyser. The new capability enables key LTE-Advanced CA measurements for all active component carriers (CCs) and displays them simultaneously on the same screen, allowing users to quickly and accurately verify LTE-Advanced CA f...

The GCF, the certification body for the mobile phone industry, has validated Anritsu’s LTE eMBMS Band 4 and Band 13 RF conformance test cases. Anritsu is the world’s first test equipment supplier to gain validation for these Band4 and Band 13 RF conformance test cases. The enhanced Multimedia Broadcasting Multicast Services (eMBMS) technology is a multicast service for LTE mobile networks which provides for high capacity data distribu...

Anritsu’s ShockLine family has been it has won the Frost & Sullivan 2014 Price-to-Performance Leadership award in the Vector Network Analyser (VNA) market. Frost & Sullivan noted that the ShockLine family addresses the need for economical VNAs with the necessary performance to accurately test passive devices.

Producing equipment to test communications networks has to move forward at a breathless pace to keep up with the technology and its test requirements. Anritsu’s latest solution is the MT1100A Network Master Flex, a portable transport tester for optical networks which can measure client signals at data rates up to 100Gb/s and which is suitable for testing the next generation of 400Gb/s network equipment.

Field engineers and technicians are frequently called upon to identify sources of interference and these can be difficult to pinpoint accurately. Anritsu claims to have made the task easier by introducing mobile interference hunting system that will locate sources of interference more accurately, efficiently, and economically.