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Azimuth Systems Press Release - September 17, 2011
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Rice University Chooses Azimuth Systems ACE MX Channel Emulator
- World-Renowned Facility to Use MIMO Channel Emulator to Support Ground-Breaking New Research
ACTON, MA- October 17th, 2011 -
Azimuth Systems, Inc., a leading provider of
comprehensive real world wireless test solutions for 2G/3G/4G, LTE-Advanced and beyond, today announced that
Rice University, renowned for its cutting-edge research
programs and ranked among the top 20 schools in the US, has selected the Azimuth
ACE MX MIMO channel emulator in its 8x4
bi-directional configuration for use in upcoming research on Spectrum-Programmable Access for Next-generation
Deployments.
Led by Professor Edward Knightly in conjunction with Professors Ashutosh Sabharwal and Lin Zhong, the new project
is intended to yield the first urban deployment with aggregated access to diverse spectral ranges, enabling
disruptive system designs unconstrained by any standard. The new network, leveraging Rice University TFA
(tfa.rice.edu) and WARP platform (warp.rice.edu), will serve a large urban population with a 10,000 user footprint
in an underserved community, and is designed to yield three key developments.
First, a high-performance
and programmable wide-band node that can access 100 times more spectrum and aggregate multiple bands to yield four
times greater transmission bandwidth than any currently available open-source platform. Thus the project
innovations will enable clean-slate programmability at any layer and will provide new multi- full-duplex transit
node and the first multi-user beam-forming gateway;
Second, a unique network-scale monitoring tool that will provide distributed signal, packet, and system monitoring
across vast spectral, spatial, and temporal scales for both clients and infrastructure nodes and;
Lastly,
the team is planning to deploy a 3 km2 wireless network comprising of new wideband nodes, compliant smartphones,
and community-owned legacy 802.11 clients.
Rice University chose the ACE MX MIMO channel emulator for this critical research due to key product
features including its ability to support carrier aggregation, as well as multi-user and beamforming scenarios.
Rice University also has extensively
used the ACE WB MIMO channel emulator as part of its Wireless Open Access Research Platform (WARP).
“The new platform will enable fully-observable at-scale experiments with disruptive protocol designs driven by
unique applications and traffic types, providing a distinctive opportunity to revolutionize wireless technology,”
said Ashutosh Sabharwal, former director of the Center for Multimedia Communications at Rice University and
founder of the WARP project. “By enabling transformational research in spectrum access, we will be developing
technologies which will impact spectrum policy and standards, as well as the broader wireless industry and
research community.”
“Advanced wireless research requires the most advanced wireless test tools --
Azimuth solutions bring the real world into the lab with effective and easy-to-use implementations to rapidly
assess and benchmark the performance of complex and evolving wireless technologies,” said Ajay Patel, executive
director, product management, Azimuth Systems. “Azimuth’s field-proven, solutions-focused automated wireless test
equipment makes testing more reliable by increasing the scope of testing, paving the way for the future of
wireless test.”
The ACE MX wireless channel emulator replicates real-world channel conditions in a controllable and repeatable
fashion through the use of sophisticated channel models and multiple programmable parameters. Azimuth
recently enhanced the ACE MX and Director II Management Software to serve the critical needs of Azimuth’s
growing and diverse customer base with improved ease-of-use and functionality, increased bandwidth for support of
carrier aggregation and updated standard channel models. This enables mobile infrastructure, chip set and device
vendors, operators and test labs to test devices in real-world conditions while minimizing the time and expense of
testing in the field. A purpose-built, enhanced testing solution, the ACE MX wireless channel emulator is
architected to meet the demanding needs of Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output (MIMO) and orthogonal
frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)-based systems for testing LTE, LTE-Advanced and other wireless
infrastructure equipment and devices, and also includes all of the backwards-compatible channel emulation features
to test 2G/3G cellular products.
About Azimuth Systems
Azimuth Systems is a
leading provider of wireless broadband test equipment and channel emulators for LTE, WiMAX, 2G/3G cellular and
Wi-Fi technologies. Azimuth’s products are used by the world’s foremost wireless semiconductor designers,
infrastructure and mobile equipment vendors, and service providers to improve wireless product quality and speed
time-to-market. Azimuth’s wireless test and channel emulation products and solutions enable research, development,
quality assurance and systems engineers to test the performance, conformance, certification and interoperability
of broadband wireless devices and networks while greatly reducing the cost and time of manual testing.
The
company is based near Boston, Massachusetts, USA and may be contacted at +1 (978) 263-6610 or at
www.azimuthsystems.com. Follow Azimuth Systems on
Twitter at:
http://twitter.com/azimuthsystems.
Azimuth® is a registered trademark of Azimuth Systems and ACE™ and Field-to-Lab™ are trademarks of Azimuth
Systems.
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For additional information contact:
Erik Org
Senior Marketing Manager
Azimuth Systems, Inc.
+1 978-268-9211
erik_org@azimuthsystems.com
Jill Colna
SVM Public Relations
+1 401-490-9700
jill.colna@svmpr.com
Posted 10/17/2011
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