Rohde & Schwarz has made a series of new additions to its portfolio recently, as well as some new customer wins.
The company introduced a new signal and spectrum analyzer with a range double that of the previous product, from 160 MHz to 320 MHz. The company says its new R&S FSW is the only signal and spectrum analyzer on the market that can process signals in that bandwidth; the analyzer is aimed at wideband digital communications and radar systems.
Rhode & Schwarz said the analyzer can be used for interference analyst on radar signals and testing multi-standard radio base stations, as well as modulation analysis on radio links with a channel bandwidth of 250 MHz. The company said that users could, for example, perform WLAN signal analysis that includes both adjacent channels of an 80 megahertz wide WLAN signal.
Rohde said that CETECOM test lab selected TS8991 its test system for over-the-air analysis of LTE MIMO and all 2G, 3G and 4G standards, as well as 802.11 WLAN standards – not just the legacy a, b and g, but 802.11n OTA in a third-party environment, which both companies said was a first.
Agilent made several announcements this week, including that its FieldFox analyzers can now be remotely controlled using devices powered by Apple’s iOS.
Agilent also launched two software upgrades that allow better design and verification of envelope tracking, which improves the performance of power amplifiers in mobile handsets, as well as upgrades to its mid-range N9020A MXA X-Series signal analyzer that are aimed at addressing the issue of interference in heterogeneous wireless networks. Interference between small cells, Wi-Fi deployments and the macro network are one of the ongoing concerns about hetnet deployments.
“These updates to the MXA make it an indispensable tool for wireless engineers trying to understand and resolve what’s happening inside signal-rich systems or environments,” said Andy Botka, VP and GM of the microwave communications division at Agilent. “As manufacturers seek to maximize channel capacity, the functionality and performance of the MXA will help them ensure that their devices are transmitting accurately and without unwanted interference.”
