Test and measurement (T&M) vendor Anite today announced its participation in an Intel project to develop virtualized testing environments to accelerate 4G and 5G technology development and testing.
Project Virtuoso, subsidized by the Danish High Technology Foundation, will run for four years and other partner companies include Telenor and Aalborg University Department of Electronic Systems, who will bring valuable operator and research knowledge.
Anite said it aims to enhance its Virtual Drive Testing Tools (VDT) to utilize data measured in the field to virtually recreate the field test environment in a laboratory. This enables repeatable benchmarking of devices or base stations as well as simplifying the debugging of errors found in the field.
Anite’s VDT, based on the Propsim channel emulator, is a performance testing toolset which enables chipset and device manufacturers, as well as operators, to reduce the time and money spent on device design, integration and verification. By enhancing the feedback loop from final-stage field trials to early-stage design development, the industry is able to accelerate development and launch of new mobile technologies.
“Our collaboration with Intel will help strengthen our understanding of the design and testing challenges faced by chipset developers implementing leading edge technology,” said Mike Bonin, managing director at Anite.
