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New 3G WCDMA Test Tools

15th November , 2004

Europe : Mobile Telecom International, the Horsham, UK, based radio propagation specialists, announce the European launch of Pilot Fleet and Pilot Pioneer, a powerful integrated suite of wireless test tools for advanced cellular network testing. The “all in one” concept allows operators and their service partners to collect air interface test data and use it efficiently for multiple applications, such as troubleshooting and fault finding, network optimisation and performance measurements, QoS testing and comparative benchmarking. The ITU 3G speech algorithm PESQ is supported along with advanced diagnosis functions and user programmable statistics and report functions. The user may export the test data if he wishes to process it alongside core network data, otherwise no other tools are required.

Pilot Fleet collects the data from multiple networks via multiple channel autonomous probes which can be located either at fixed locations or in moving vehicles such as taxis; these probes then transmit it back to a central database for application processing. A single system may handle up to 256 probes. While it is designed for automatic operation, with a considerable saving in manpower costs, the user may at any time use a client PC to access the data stream from any probe to enable real time analysis of the network at that location.

The sister product, Pilot Pioneer, enables the user to manually collect data during drive tests, or during pedestrian applications such as airports or shopping malls. This data can be analysed in real time or later, or added to a Pilot Fleet database to supplement the autonomous data. Pilot Pioneer may also be remotely connected to a Fleet system to monitor any probe’s data stream in real time. This flexibility is made possible by the use of a common GUI for all engineering applications whether the data is collected automatically or manually, or is analysed in real time or post processed. This significantly improves operating efficiency in addition to reducing training time.

The Pilot products cover WCDMA, GSM/GPRS, and CDMA/1X/ EVDO standards and have been designed by Dingli Communications Inc. Over the last few years they have come to dominate the Chinese marketplace and enabled it, despite its large geographic area and 300M subscriber base, to maintain world class network quality. Dingli is a fully independent company and offers equal service and support to all customers with system functionality appropriate for all makes of network equipment.

About MTI
MTI was formed by Mike Summerfield who owned Chase Communications until its sale in 2001. It is staffed by professionals experienced in radio propagation and wireless tools and has been formed to meet the demand from the cellular industry for more efficient and cost effective radio test solutions. MTI’s appointment by Dingli to handle their expansion into Europe is the development of a long standing relationship between personnel in the two companies and first hand knowledge of the part played by Pilot tools in the success and quality of the two Chinese networks.

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