Monday, March 8, 2010

X-Series Application Promotion

Upgrade your Spectrum Analyzer and participate in the following promotion:

  • For two eligible X-Series Advanced Measurement Application purchase, customer will receive 15% Instant discount
  • For three eligible X-Series Advanced Measurement Application Purchase, Customer will receive 20% Instant discount
  • For four eligible X-Series Advanced Measurement Application Purchase, Customer will receive 25% Instant discount.

Eligible Software Part numbers are:

Eligible Applications
Application Product number Options
1xEV-DO    N9076A  1FP, 1TP 
802.16 OFDMA   N9075A   2FP, 2TP 
Analog demodulation    N9063A  2FP, 2TP 
Analog demodulation for CXA    W9063A  2FP 
cdma2000®   N9072A   2FP, 2TP 
CMMB   N6158A   2FP, 2TP 
DTMB    N6156A  2FP, 2TP 
DVB-T/H   N6153A   2FP, 2TP 
GSM/EDGE/EDGE evolution   N9071A   2FP, 2TP, 3FP, 3TP, XFP, XTP 
ISDB-T    N6155A  2FP, 2TP 
LTE FDD   N9080A   1FP, 1TP 
LTE TDD   N9082A  1FP, 1TP 
MATLAB® for signal analysis    N6171A  M01, M02, M03 
Noise figure    N9069A  1FP, 1TP 
Noise figure for CXA   W9069A   1FP 
Phase noise   N9068A   2FP, 2TP 
Phase noise for CXA  W9068A  2FP 
Pulse measurement    N9051A  2FP 
Remote language compatibility     N9061A  1FP, 2FP 
TD-SCDMA    N9079A  1FP, 1TP, 2FP, 2TP 
Vector modulation   89601XFP, 89601XTP   AYA 
VSA    89601XFP, 89601XTP  205 
W-CDMA    N9073A  1FP, 1TP, 2FP, 2TP, 3FP, 3TP, XFP, XTP 
WiMAX™    N9074A  XFP, XTP 
WLAN   N9077A   XFP, XTP 
WLAN modulation   89601XFP, 89601XTP   B7R 


Discount is limited to a maximum of 25% discount. Higher Quantities will not be eligible for an increased promotion discount.
The promotion discount is combinable with the standard purchase agreement discount. Customer’s standard purchase agreement terms and conditions apply.
Support options or lease orders are not eligible to receive the promotion credit.
Q-wire Technologies reserves the right to modify or discontinue this offering during the promotional period.

Monday, March 1, 2010

IXChariot Used to Perform 3G Performance Testing on AT&T Network

Based on Mark Sullivan of PC World (2009), AT&T performed 3G Performance Test benchmark test by choosing 13 major cities. In each city testing criterias were used based on population density, physical terrain, social-economic status, building construction and foliage. Also 20 testing location where selected to create a grid formation starting at the center of each city. At each testing location a network stress test was performed using laptops and smart phones.

For the laptop testing, IxChariot was used to test speed and network reliability. In order to measure download speed, IxChariot requested a number of large, uncompressible files from a dedicated server in the network; it then measures the speed of each transfer during a 1-minute period. To measure upload speed, Chariot sends a number of files from the Chariot client on the laptop to the server on the network, again timing each transfer during a 1-minute period. The result of this test consisted of the average of all of these transfers at each location. Then an average of all tested locations were taken to obtain an average city performance.

For the Smartphone tests to be approximate to the real-world connection between specific smartphones and specific networks. Tests were performed from the same locations that was used for the laptop tests by applying an Internet-based performance test designed by Xtreme Labs (http://www.xtremelabs.com/) This script sends a large test file back and forth between the smartphone and a network server, IxChariot will then measure the speeds at which the data is transferred. Three upload tests and three download tests were performed at each testing location and the average was taken into account.

For more information on this testing metodology click on: PC World
For more information on IxChariot click ont: IxChariot