LTE (Long Term Evolution)

UMTS Long Term Evolution (LTE) will ensure the competitiveness of UMTS for the next 10 years and beyond and provide a high-data-rate, low-latency and packet-optimized system. Also known as EUTRA (Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access) and EUTRAN (Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network), the new technology will be specified in 3GPP release 8. Besides peak data rates of 100 Mbps in downlink and 50 Mbps in uplink, a significant increase in spectrum efficiency and capacity as well as a significant latency reduction are planned. Commercial aspects like costs for installing and operating the network form also part of the requirements.

For Rohde & Schwarz, LTE is already part of the daily agenda. Our innovative T&M solutions will help to solve the technical and commercial challenges of LTE, and support your development of terminal equipment and base stations.

Flexible, accurate and fast:
Rohde & Schwarz test solutions

Our scalable multi-standard platforms support all major standards in one box, featuring MIMO tests with realtime fading for LTE, WiMAX™, HSPA+, WLAN, etc. To provide leading-edge solutions for the LTE standard, Rohde & Schwarz actively supports NGMN, LSTI, 3GPP, and many more.

Short overview:
Product highlights for LTE (Long Term Evolution)

First with LTE signaling function:
The R&S^®CMW500 wideband radio communication tester provides network emulation for call processing (L3 signaling), see demo see demo.
Scalable platform for all stages of mobile device testing:
The R&S®CMW500 HSPA+ and LTE protocol tester R&S®CMW500 HSPA+ and LTE protocol tester provides highly accurate and comparable results throughout early R&D, interoperability testing, conformance testing, and production.
High-performance RF testing for LTE TDD and LTE FDD:
Rohde & Schwarz platforms for signal generation and spectrum and signal analysis offer extensive LTE test functionality. The latest LTE enhancements can easily be added by software updates.
Go LTE MIMO the easy way:
The R&S®SMU200A vector signal generator R&S®SMU200A vector signal generator is a unique one-box solution with integrated realtime fading for 2x2 MIMO receiver tests. Rohde & Schwarz also offers up to 4x2 or 2x4 MIMO testing with realtime fading.
Scalable RF test systems:
The fully automated R&S®TS8980 LTE RF test systems R&S®TS8980 LTE RF test systems cover all RF test needs from R&D up to conformance tests of LTE mobile devices.
Optimization of mobile radio networks:
The R&S®TSMW universal radio network analyzer R&S®TSMW universal radio network analyzer and the R&S®ROMES drive test software platform R&S®ROMES drive test software platform are ideal tools for network planning, installation, optimization, monitoring, etc.