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LTE: Next-Generation Test Challenges
Aug 5, 2009 | Phil Medd, Aeroflex Test Solutions - Before designers can achieve the faster data rates, higher efficiency, and lower costs that LTE promises, they need to develop a test plan that accounts for the standard’s complexity and characterizes each part of the design.
Despite difficult financial conditions, global mobile phone usage continues to grow. More than 3.9 billion subscribers currently use 3GPP-based technology networks.1 As a result, major network operators around the world (and not just 3GPP operators) are pressing ahead with their plans to roll out the next generation of cellular technology—Long-Term Evolution/System Architecture Evolution (LTE/SAE).