Anite accelerates development of LTE-Advanced Carrier Aggregation capable devices

Fleet, Hampshire, UK - 26 November, 2013 -Anite, a global leader in wireless equipment testing technology, today announced that together with HiSilicon it has verified Release 10 LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) protocols inHiSilicon's newly developed LTE-A chipset.

Anite's early availability of key features within its testing solutions has enabled the industry to develop LTE-A products in line with market requirements. The Anite solution was used to verify HiSilicon's new chipset Balong720, which is the world's first LTE Cat6 platform supporting 20 MHz + 20 MHz Carrier Aggregation (CA). The close collaboration has resulted in the verification of new 3GPP RAN5 LTE-A CA protocol conformance test cases, using Anite's Conformance Toolset - a market-leading protocol conformance and performance testing solution. LTE-A CA provides end-users with superior data rates through combining spectrum resources.

Anite has achieved a number of key industry milestones over the years, such as the first TD-LTE test case verification submissions to 3GPP RAN5 in May 2010 and the industry-first TD-LTE CA test case submissions in July 2013. To date, more than half of all TD-LTE test case verification submissions to 3GPP RAN5 have been provided by Anite using Hisilicon product.

�Anite's close collaboration with Hisilicon has played an important role in advancing key features of LTE technology' says Paul Beaver, Products Director at Anite. He continues, �This underlines Anite's leadership position as a driving force behind the development of 3GPP RAN5 test cases and their subsequent inclusion in the device certification requirements of the Global Certification Forum (GCF).'