NetHawk Joins LTE Industry Initiative LSTI

(Business News & Technology News, 10 Jul 2008)

NetHawk is now a member of the LTE/SAE Trial Initiative (LSTI), a global, collaborative technology trial initiative focused on accelerating the availability of commercial and interoperable next generation 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile broadband systems. NetHawk will be contributing to the LTE network interoperability testing (IOT) and initial field trials through its NetHawk EAST LTE simulation platform and NetHawk M5 LTE monitoring platform, which will provide LSTI activities with comprehensive testing solutions including combined monitoring and simulation.

The NetHawk EAST LTE simulation platform provides a wide range of functionalities from conformance testing and load testing up to end-to-end testing with test automation. Meanwhile, the NetHawk M5 LTE monitoring platform is capable of monitoring and correlating all the LTE interfaces as well as all the 2G/3G interfaces in one box.

"We are very much committed to the LSTI work and we believe that through our long experience in testing 2G and 3G networks combined with our comprehensive LTE monitoring and simulation capabilities, we can really contribute to the quality of the future LTE networks," says Jari Sankala, Head of Sales and Marketing, NetHawk. "As a technology forerunner, we are already now delivering our LTE testing equipment to several network vendors."

The main objectives of the conjoint LSTI activities are to drive the industrialization of 3GPP Long Term Evolution and System Architecture Evolution, to demonstrate the 3GPP LTE/SAE capabilities and to promote it to operators, vendor analyst community and regulators. The LTE/SAE Trial Initiative is divided into three main phases; Proof of concept, Interoperability and Trial. Joint testing and reporting of ongoing results will continue up to the end of 2009, with initial LTE system deployments planned for the 2010 timeframe.

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