Bangladeshis select Rohde & Schwarz for network test

With the goal of improving the quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE) for end users, the test equipment allows BTRC officials to follow an internationally standardised and fully transparent process based on the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).

A huge increase in network traffic and demand has impacted the QoS and QoE of certain operators to invest in their infrastructure, the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has initiated a campaign to transparently benchmark and assess operator performance.

The BTRC contract includes modular Benchmarker II systems to be set up in vehicles and R&S Freerider 4 backpacks for in-field data collection.

In addition, the SmartMonitor solution supports remote data collection management and visualisation, and SmartAnalytics provides deep data analytics and reporting based on the QoE centric network performance score (NPS). Rohde & Schwarz coined the NPS, a methodology ratified by ETSI and documented in ETSI TR 103 559 to characterise the overall network performance for a defined key performance indicator (KPI).