At the Mobile World Congress 2014, Anritsu Corporation announced its demonstration of the Intel XMM 7260 device platform achieving LTE-Advanced Category 6 data rates of concurrent 300 Mbps downlink and 50Mbps uplink with carrier aggregation technology, using the Anritsu MD8430A/RTD development test environment.
In a statement, Anritsu said using the high performance MD8430A signaling tester from Anritsu, together with the RTD advanced test case development and protocol analyzer, Intel has been able to establish an end to end data connection with concurrent 300 Mbps in downlink and 50Mbps in uplink.
This requires that both the Signaling tester and device platform are capable to support the LTE-Advanced Carrier Aggregation technology with 20+20 MHz bandwidth. “The advanced R&D features and high stability of the MD8430A/RTD enables users to rapidly enable the functionality within the device platform and verify the performance capability,” said Olaf Sieler, director of Global Accounts for Anritsu.
“Last year, Intel entered the market for multimode LTE. This year, we’re delivering a competitive LTE-Advanced experience with our new 7260 platform as demonstrated with Anritsu,” said Aicha Evans, corporate vice president of wireless platform research and development at Intel.
