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Anite Virtual Drive Testing Toolset

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Keysight Technologies

Anite Virtual Drive Testing Toolset

Quickly and Efficiently Benchmark with an Integrated Solution Offering a Highly Authentic Field-to-Lab Testing Experience

Leading mobile operators and equipment manufacturers face a growing challenge to quickly and cost-effectively deploy new mobile devices and infrastructure equipped with more features and more technologies, including MIMO, Carrier Aggregation and VoLTE. This intensifies the need for a future-proof test solution that quickly and efficiently benchmarks mobile devices and network infrastructure to assess an end-user’s experience of accessing mobile applications.

Accelerate Product Rollouts and Quality Assurance Testing by Integrating Industry-Leading Lab and Field Test Tools with Sophisticated Test Automation

Keysight Technologies offers Virtual Drive Testing Toolset, an automated, lab-based performance and interoperability test solution for cost-effective assessment of mobile devices and network infrastructure. The toolset uses data captured in the field to build tests that replay drive or indoor test routes by emulating real-world RF network conditions in a controlled laboratory environment. This replay can be performed with a real network infrastructure or a simulated network using the Anite 9000 network simulator, providing you with a cost-effective way to verify the end-user Quality of Experience.

Bridge the gap between lab and field testing through seamless real-world representation of the environment, significantly reducing unnecessary field testing and accelerating deployment of devices and networks. Integrate sophisticated test automation with industry-leading field and lab test tools to accurately replicate field mobility scenarios.

Its powerful automation capability allows repetitive testing of virtual field test routes for different use case scenarios. This enables reliable and cost-effective device benchmarking and resolution of issues found in the field. Virtual Drive Testing Toolset streamlines the performance and interoperability testing process from early R&D lab evaluation through field testing and optimization.

Real-World, Automated Performance Testing of Mobile Devices and Network Infrastructure in the Laboratory

Mobile operators use the toolset to comprehensively verify the end-user experience by replicating and repeating virtual drive test scenarios in a controlled lab environment. Virtual drive testing helps mobile operators benchmark and test interoperability of devices and real networks prior to deployment, which enables them to identify and resolve issues earlier in the R&D process. This forms an effective addition to a mobile operator’s existing device acceptance process and also helps them determine the root cause of any issues found during deployment. As the toolset supports the mobile operator’s own infrastructure elements and services in the lab, test conditions are very realistic closely simulating what end-user’s experience in practice.

Network equipment manufacturers use Virtual Drive Testing Toolset to verify the performance of their network infrastructure in combination with mobile devices under real-world wireless propagation scenarios. It enables them to cost-effectively and quickly verify multiple designs or revisions of a single design. This allows them to assure infrastructure performance under a wide range of usage scenarios, radio access technologies and cellular conditions using actual devices that their customers deploy to networks instead of simulated mobile devices.

Device and chipset manufacturers use virtual drive testing to reduce costly field trials by verifying new technology such as VoLTE, carrier aggregation, MIMO, beamforming and CoMP, under realistic network conditions before deploying engineers into the field. The solution also helps them conduct end-to-end performance testing and competitive benchmarking based on different wireless propagation environments and a wide range of mobility and roaming scenarios.

Instantly Access Metrics to Support Decision Making throughout the Entire Development and Launch Process

Verify end-user experience with real-life mobility scenarios

The toolset’s KPI analysis enables you to automate a wide range of real-life RF conditions captured in the field, including population density, physical location, mobility scenarios and types of terrain. In other words, Keysight’s virtual drive testing solution verifies the end-user experience in typical usage scenarios, such as in-vehicle, in-building, in a dense city environment or in a pedestrian area. Early detection of issues using repeatable and automated testing in a laboratory environment increases productivity and reduces test and quality-related costs.

Accelerate testing with 24/7 automation

Virtual Drive Testing Toolset offers straightforward access to ready-to-run performance and interoperability test case packages, enabling automatic evaluation of Quality of Service metrics. This significantly simplifies and accelerates test case planning and scheduling. The toolset has the capability to virtually roam between different locations across the globe, allowing you to verify the performance of a device under a wide range of roaming conditions. The solution helps verify that a device complies with any mobile operator test plan.

The toolset offers 24/7 automated analysis and reporting on a wide range of parameters, displaying results in intuitive graphs and maps. This makes it a highly effective evaluation tool. The 24/7 automated test execution, data logging, data analysis and reporting capabilities with clear KPI metrics, allows you to significantly speed up test processes and reduce costs. When combined with the ready-to-run test cases, it helps device manufacturers accelerate product maturity and improve performance prior to customer demonstrations and acceptance testing.

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