Test mobile goes to Beijing

Aeroflex has delivered a TM500 time division duplex-long term evolution mobile test system to the China Academy of Telecommunications Research. The TM500 will support CATR's ongoing TD-LTE technology trials conducted by Chinese and international network equipment vendors.

The mobile is installed at the MTNet laboratory in Beijing.

The unit allows efficient allocation of downlink resources and opens up the unpaired spectrum for LTE.

Before the launch of commercial devices, test mobiles (test equipment that simulates user equipment vendors, operators and government bodies) evaluate the performance of LTE networks.

The mobile is fully compliant with TD-LTE specifications: it can emulate Cat 3 and 4 user equipment with downlink data rates of up to 150 Mbps.