Anritsu Corporation and Altair Semiconductor to Offer Advanced LTE Solutions

The two companies demonstrate the interoperability testing (IOT) of their products – Anritsu’s MD8430A and RTD and Altair’s FourGee™ LTE USB ExpressCard UE. The results of the successful IOT can be viewed in Anritsu’s Mobile World Congress booth – stand 1B31 - where a live LTE link will be demonstrated, showing high-definition video streaming up and downlink between the UE and eNB emulator.

The demonstration will benefit the companies’ joint customers and partners by enabling Anritsu and Altair to blend the early availability and maturity of Altair’s comprehensive LTE chips and software portfolio with Anritsu’s market leading LTE test equipment.

“Anritsu is pleased to be able to join together with Altair to demonstrate leading edge capability in the area of LTE technology, giving customers for both companies an opportunity to see the technology and solutions in live operation. With the wide range of skills and capability in both companies we have been able to successfully bring together this LTE demonstration” comments Jonathan Borrill, Director of Marketing for Anritsu.

“As LTE technology begins its international roll out, Altair’s demonstration with Anritsu helps to ensure device manufactures, developers and service providers have access to comprehensive testing solutions,” said Eran Eshed, Co-Founder and VP of Marketing and Business Development for Altair Semiconductor. “Customers and partners of both companies will now have seamless access to Anritsu’s advanced LTE test systems and Altair’s commercial grade LTE chipsets and LTE ExpressCard as they continue to develop advanced LTE solutions.”

Altair’s FourGee™ LTE USB ExpressCard UE is one of the industry’s first Category-3 datacard solutions. Based on Altair’s FourGee-3100/6200 baseband/RFIC LTE chipset, the ExpressCard is an ideal test and IOT UE platform for system vendors and carriers involved in the development, trialing and deployment of LTE systems. The FourGee™ LTE USB ExpressCard UE is also a reference design for terminal manufacturers working to develop commercial products based on the FourGee™ family of LTE chips.

Anritsu’s MD8430A Signalling Tester and Rapid Test Designer software toolset provides:

* Worlds leading hardware platform for LTE testing.
* Cat 4 speeds of 150Mbps download and 50Mbps upload, including MIMO 2x2 and 4x2.
* FDD/TDD support, frequency range 300MHz – 3GHz.
* World’s most advanced inter-active test case development and de-bug environment.
* Full featured protocol viewer and analysis capability.
* Fastest development time for test case creation

Altair’s FourGee™ LTE USB ExpressCard UE Feature Highlights Include:

* Category 3 speeds of 100Mbps download and 50Mbps upload
* Power consumption within the USB specification power budget (<2.5W)
* ExpressCard34 form factor with a USB2.0 HS host interface
* Available in select FDD/TDD bands in the range of 700M-2700MHz
* Full-featured, IOT tested LTE L1 and protocol stack

The FourGee™ LTE USB ExpressCard UE is part of Altair’s comprehensive portfolio for LTE, which also includes:

* FourGee™-3100 – an LTE CAT-3 baseband processor
* FourGee™-6150 – a MIMO LTE RF transceiver that supports LTE-TDD
* FourGee™-6200 – a multi-band LTE MIMO transceiver that covers all global FDD/TDD bands