FLEET, England, February 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Leading Manufacturers Choose Testing Platform To Accelerate Development Of The First Devices

Anite, a global leader in testing technology for the wireless industry, today announced the industry's first protocol test solution for TD-LTE devices. The Anite solution is already helping to push forward pioneering implementations of TD-LTE. 4G chip maker Sequans Communications is utilising Anite's Development Toolset to test the chips and USB dongles for the first trial TD-LTE (Long Term Evolution for TDD spectrum) network at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai.

"The Chinese mobile operator market is driving TD-LTE technology forwards at tremendous speed," said Paul Beaver, 3GPP Business Unit Director, Anite. "The schedule it is setting for the trials and deployment of TD-LTE is throwing down the gauntlet to manufacturers to deliver the user equipment that will showcase the performance of the new networks. By providing the first protocol testing solution, we're helping manufacturers to stay ahead, accelerating the rate of development and speeding device time to market."

"Sequans aims to be at the heart of LTE. Anite is helping us stay in front by speeding time to market for our LTE chipset and protocol stack development," said Bertrand Debray, VP of Engineering, Sequans Communications. "Anite's Development Toolset offers great flexibility - providing the means to emulate the behaviour of an eNodeB as we verify the performance of chipset designs, but also helping us to assess compliance with the TD-LTE standard."

Pressure to bring devices to market sooner places a greater emphasis on testing that helps to verify designs, identify and resolve errors at each stage of development. Anite's Development Toolset provides a single solution to facilitate an integrated test process - starting with pre-silicon and software-only protocol development tools that help developers test designs before the final chipset hardware is ready, through to advanced development tools to aid design-verification testing in target hardware.

Anite's Development Toolset builds upon a common software core that is shared by all of Anite's protocol test solutions. This modular approach means that today's achievements with TD-LTE will also accelerate the availability of Anite's test solutions for later phases of testing, such as conformance and interoperability testing, and which will be required to make the commercial deployment of TD-LTE a success.

About Anite

Anite provides a comprehensive range of critical IT solutions to Wireless and Travel sector organisations across the globe.

We develop and implement software, provide consultancy, systems integration and managed services to ensure that our customers operate effectively and securely. We use the latest technologies to deliver quality and cost-effective solutions that meet specific requirements and realise tangible results.

With a deep understanding of our customers' markets we deliver wireless mobile test and operational software to the top telecommunications manufacturers and wireless operators and holiday booking systems for the travel industry.

Our team is focused on making a difference and exceeding expectations. We are diverse, draw on worldwide expertise and are enthusiastic about the future.

With our Headquarters in the UK, we employ around 500 staff in 13 countries across Europe, America, Asia and the Middle East. For more information, please visit http://www.anite.com.

    For further information, please contact:

    Anite
    Tel: +44(0)1252-775200
    Email: wireless@anite.com


    Editorial contacts:
    Lorna Neville
    Tel: +44(0)1252-775284
    Email: lorna.neville@anite.com

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