Electronics Weekly
“Virtualising the solution provides operators with the flexibility to test technology and share hardware, software and licenses via the cloud,” said Cobham tecjnology director Dr Li-Ke Huang, “The scalable, agile nature of the solution will help operators realise cost savings through reduced investment in physical architecture, while increasing test times, efficiency and coverage.”
The UE simulator can also support multiple simultaneous 5G air interfaces which are compatible with various wireless standards, including 3GPP’s 5G New Radio (5GNR).
“This means that the UE simulator can support current and future cellular standards, as the technology develops,” said the firm. “It supports a lab-as-a-service model for 5G testing towards a virtual-radio access network [V-RAN] architecture.”
Programmable data logging is included, as is signal visualisation for early 5G air interface integration testing and debugging.
IoT simulator
The company will also showcase an IoT proof-of-concept, able to emulate up to one million 5G IoT devices to validating network performance.
It can also demonstrate how service providers will be able to support the scale, density and complexity of 5G’s massive IoT test requirements. “In the near future, service provider networks will have to be robust enough to support the huge increase in 5G IoT devices. Our proof-of-concept demonstrates how service providers can test their networks in the face of growing demands,” said Huang.
National Instruments is co-operating in at least one of the demonstrations, provided the 5G programmable RF front-end.
