MET Labs and AT4 Wireless Partner on Telecom Equipment Testing
April 15, 2013. MET Laboratories and AT4 wireless have signed an agreement to cooperate on testing for mobile equipment in order to provide clients of both parties the opportunity for a complete testing solution that includes MET’s regulatory certification services and AT4 wireless’ range of conformance testing of mobile and other telecom equipment.
MET Laboratories will provide A2LA-accredited EMC, RF, safety, and SAR (specific absorption ratio) regulatory testing and certification required in the North American marketplace.
MET will also provide Radiated Spurious Emissions (RSE) testing for mobile communications and regulatory certification.
AT4 wireless will provide mobile communications conformance certification and carriers´ related testing services including RF, protocol, RRM (radio resource management), and OTA (over the air) testing services and Type Approval/Certification. These services will be provided at AT4 wireless’ U.S. facilities in Herndon, VA, and San Jose, CA, or at any other AT4 wireless international location in Europe, Latin America, or Asia/Pacific.
“Customers are increasingly seeking a single-source testing solution that combines regulatory and performance/conformance testing, and this agreement allows us to provide it,” said MET Labs President Rob Frier. “Also, we are pleased to again partner with AT4 to help telecom equipment manufacturers get their products to market as quickly and painlessly as possible.”
“We are very satisfied with this partnership. We have done business with MET Labs for more than 10 years now, MET has a great market reputation, experience, and state of the art facilities that will be able to provide our customers the services that they need. AT4 wireless and MET Labs working as a team can provide the best services for the North American market specifically around Mobile Communications, M2M, integrations, etc.,” said Fernando E. Hardasmal, AT4 wireless CEO.