Qosmotec QPER Supports Azimuth's MIMO Channel Emulation Platform
February 24, 2012. Qosmotec has announced that it will support Azimuth Systems’ portfolio of test products with the Qosmotec Propagation Effects Replicator (QPER) software. With QPER, Azimuth’s customers will have access to an application that creates virtual environments, which can then be recreated with the dynamic RF fading capability available with the Azimuth ACE MX MIMO channel emulator.
The Qosmotec QPER is a software tool for subscriber mobility and MIMO simulation and is designed for lab usage. It can simulate drive tests in a virtual landscape as well as handover and cell reselection scenarios. In addition, it can verify network set-ups by enabling “virtually driving” through a predicted network. QPER also supports simulation of fast fading amplitude fluctuations, antenna coverage patterns, and radio shading.
Azimuth’s portfolio of products enables network operators, network equipment manufacturers, and device and silicon vendors to recreate real-world network conditions in an automated lab environment. Azimuth’s products include the ACE MX MIMO channel emulation platform, the Field-to-Lab (FTL) product (which provides a repeatable and automated environment for replaying field conditions within the labs of mobile operators), and the RPM (Real World Performance Measurement) automated over-the-air device performance test system.
QPER support for the ACE MX channel emulator means that customers will now be able to leverage Qosmotec’s solution for network modeling with Azimuth’s wireless channel emulation platform to define and develop customized network fading channel models and scenarios, which they can use to simulate and evaluate device and network performance before committing to actual network modifications.
Dr. Dieter Kreuer, Qosmotec managing director, stated, “We are very pleased to be cooperating with Azimuth Systems. By adding support for the ACE MX MIMO channel emulator, we provide our customers with the most robust platform on the market to develop new network models and predict and evaluate device and network performance.”
Pete Paglia, senior vice president of field operations at Azimuth, said that Azimuth and Qosmotec together will enable operators as well as infrastructure and device vendors to test proposed network configurations—modeled with QPER—using real-world fading implemented using the ACE MX MIMO channel emulation platform.
QPER, with support for Azimuth ACE MX, will be demonstrated at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona from February 27 to March 1.
Qosmotec, www.qosmotec.com.
Azimuth Systems, www.azimuthsystems.com.
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