Products of the Week: February 26, 2024

Feb. 26, 2024

Here's this week's selection of some of the most interesting new products that have been launched of late.

3GPP 5G Conformance Test Solutions Claim Smallest Footprint Available

Addressing 5G RF and RRM conformance testing, Rohde & Schwarz’ R&S TS8980S-4A is a single-box solution tailored to 3GPP inband test cases, and the R&S TS8980FTA-3A is a single-rack solution covering inband and out-of-band test cases. Presented as the only such solutions in such a compact format, the R&S TS8980 5G conformance test platform is approved by the Global Certification Forum and the PCS Type Certification Review Board to perform RF (TP298) and RRM (TP296) tests in line with 3GPP specifications. The R&S TS8980FTA-3A supports both inband and out-of-band test cases and the certification process for RF and RRM, covering 5G NR as defined by 3GPP.

An automated conformance test system for performing validated conformance test cases up to 8 GHz and 4 carrier aggregation, the R&S TS8980S-4A is based on an enhanced R&S CMX500 one-box 5G signaling tester for a cost-efficient solution that supports 3GPP RX/TX inband conformance test cases as well as demodulation and radio resource management (RRM) test cases. Customers can also upgrade their R&S CMX500 to a R&S TS8980S-4A for 5G device manufacturers who want to perform inband testing inhouse and outsource out-of-band testing to a test house.

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R&S TS8980S-4A

R&S CMX500

R&S TS8980FTA-3A

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Alix Paultre | Editor-at-Large, Microwaves & RF

Alix is Editor-at-Large for Microwaves & RF.

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the U.S. military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications, most recently as Editor-in-Chief of Power Systems Design.

Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.