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3G UMTS Test Gear Order for Acterna

27th October , 2004

US : Acterna announced the sale of multiple units of the Acterna 8630 protocol analyzer to a major telecommunications manufacturer in China. The sale was announced today at PT/EXPO COMM China 2004 in Beijing and constitutes Acterna's largest Asia Pacific order for UMTS test gear to date.

The Acterna 8630 (shown above) will boost system integration at research and development (R&D) and production sites and will offer smooth acceptance testing in line with the global manufacturer's deployments. The 8630 was selected for its unmatched capabilities for system integration and commissioning of 2/2.5/3G (UMTS) radio access networks (RANs) in China and for global export projects.

Specifically, the analyzer was chosen for features such as its high-speed signaling link (HSL) functionality and local presence for on-site support in all Asian metropolitan areas. The customer ultimately determined the 8630 was the most complete solution for their test needs and provided the broadest set of applications.

According to a major market research firm, there are approximately 268 million regular wireless subscribers in China today, a number forecasted to grow at a rate of nearly 12 percent per year. Given this explosive adoption rate and the high customer demand for data services, the same study predicts there could be as many as 118 million subscribers to 3G data services in China by 2008. As 3G adoption accelerates and reaches a mass deployment stage, planning, deployment and maintenance of 3G networks and services ahead of demand will be crucial.

"Acterna is also pursuing an aggressive rollout of additional 2.5G and 3G applications (such as those for GPRS & EDGE), including a centralized protocol analysis system offering multi-faceted applications for remote troubleshooting and traffic management for public and non-public (GSM-R) RANs," said John J. Jones IV, Acterna's vice president of sales and services for the Asia Pacific region. "We expect to grow as our customers do and continue to provide them with the solutions they need as 3G becomes mainstream."

About the Acterna 8630

The Acterna 8630 is a modular, portable protocol analyzer that is designed for operation and maintenance teams responsible for optimizing and troubleshooting tasks in mobile networks and also for labs performing integration and interworking testing. It is used for testing all fixed interfaces of mobile radio networks (GSM, GPRS, EDGE, CDMA, UMTS), access networks (V5, ISDN) and SS#7 networks and offers powerful applications for detailed analysis and statistical evaluation of signaling information (online and offline), making it the ideal solution for installation, maintenance, troubleshooting and network optimization.

The Acterna 8630 is particularly valuable for manufacturer and operator integration test labs; network element manufacturer service teams; and telecommunication operators' engineering, planning, operation and maintenance teams.

The modularity of the Acterna 8630 allows for the combining and extending of number of interfaces, the adding of applications and decodes. The 8630 also provides the platform for future technologies and grows with the customer's needs.

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