Test and measurement company Keysight Technologies said Anite SAS interoperability test solution’s ability to support Cat M1 and NB-IoT technology using Qualcomm Technologies’ LTE IoT modems has resulted in IoT test solutions.
Anite SAS interoperability test solution will assist device manufacturers to verify that their Cat M1 products comply with North American carrier’s Cat M1 focused Test Plan.
Keysight said that the carrier validated the Test Plan following execution of test cases using the carrier acceptance solution SAS, as well as a device equipped with Qualcomm Technologies’ MDM9206 LTE IoT modem. Cat M1 is an IoT-centric variety of LTE that uses 1.4 MHz of spectrum to deliver 300 kbps to 400 kbps.
Keysight offers the ability to optimize IoT designs for critical performance attributes such as power consumption, RF performance and interoperability, by simulating the real world in the lab using the Keysight UXM.
The UXM wireless test set will demonstrate connectivity with an NB-IoT device that complies to the NB-IoT standards. NB-IoT is a standards-based low-power wide-area technology developed to enable a wide range of new IoT devices and services.
“Keysight’s ability to support Cat M1 and NB-IoT technology using Qualcomm Technologies’ LTE IoT modems has resulted in IoT design and test solutions,” said Giampaolo Tardiolo, senior director for Chipset Mobile Test at Keysight Technologies.
Keysight in IoT
Keysight in February said its NB-IoT testing solutions help designers accelerate the deployment of cellular long-range IoT technology by offering the world’s first wireless test set solution that connects with a standard compliant NB-IoT device.
Keysight said its solutions enable users to optimize IoT designs for critical performance attributes, such as power consumption, RF performance, interoperability, and the worldwide premier NB-IoT GCF conformance test cases.
Frost & Sullivan has recently recognized Keysight Technologies with the 2016 Global Frost & Sullivan Company of the Year Award — based on its recent analysis of the test and measurement (T&M) industry for Internet of Things (IoT).
Keysight has consolidated its position at the top of the leader board by basing its solution portfolio on its distinctive test equipment. It has combined equipment with the broadest format coverage across the product life cycle of IoT devices to ensure there are no dips in product performance or quality.
“The success of its solutions has cemented Keysight’s market dominance, earning it almost 40 percent of the global market share in IoT Wireless Technologies,” said Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Mariano Kimbara.
Keysight said its EXM and UXM one-box wireless testers are ideal to support radio frequency (RF) measurements ranging from 300 MHz to 6 GHz. Its multi-layer protocol logging provides insights that can help enhance the battery life of IoT devices.
The company’s four modular signal analyzers — M9393A, M9392A, M9391A and N7109A – come with frequency range of 9 kHz to 27 GHz and 250 MHz of analysis bandwidth. They use indigenous superheterodyne technology, analog-to-digital converters (ADC), and digital signal processing (DSP) technologies to achieve high-resolution spectrum measurements.
