mimoOn GmbH announces first delivery of LTE mi!TestMOBILETM for Femtocell development and testing
Duisburg, Germany –2nd June, 2010: mimoOn GmbH, a pioneer in end-to end LTE software solutions for programmable Software Defined Radio (SDR) platforms, announced first commercial shipments of its advanced LTE Test-Mobile, mi!TestMOBILE™, to a major infrastructure manufacturer in the Asia Pacific region. The customer will use mi!TestMOBILE™ to test their Femtocell designs initially in the lab, and later for field trials.
mi!TestMOBILE™ is a small and low-cost, fully featured test mobile for the rapid deployment and optimization of LTE networks, products and applications. With its SDR based platform, mi!TestMOBILE™ is able to evolve to the emerging 3GPP standards, enabling customers to upgrade & test their network, devices and eNB solutions in a low cost, fast and effective manner, ensuring quality of service to their end customers. mi!TestMOBILE™ relies on mimoOn’s terminal software product mi!Mobile™, which is also available for licensing on different chip platforms.
mi!TestMOBILE™ offers advantages for the entire mobile ecosystem. It enables infrastructure OEMs to test their base-station equipment prior to deployment, and handset and semiconductor OEMs can benchmark their reference designs prior to general availability. With its small form factor and battery pack option, mi!TestMOBILE™ is also suited to field and drive testing. In addition, mi!TestMOBILE™ is not tied to any particular base-station or core network design, so it offers operators a neutral way to compare vendor capabilities and test actual network performance prior to switching on LTE.
According to Brian Robertson, VP Sales & Marketing of mimoOn, “This is a major milestone for mimoOn as it validates our belief in SDR enabling low cost, flexible and scalable platforms for LTE. With our first commercial deliveries, miTestMOBILE™ can also start to enable our customers to test, mature and evolve their own solutions for the explosive growth that will happen in LTE over the next years”.