Anritsu along with Qualcomm has successfully demonstrated peak download speeds of 2 Gbps. The demonstration used a mobile test device, powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X24 LTE modem and a network simulator using 5x carrier aggregation (5CC) with 4x4 MIMO, and 256-QAM modulation on all 5 carriers. Using the mobile test device and the Anritsu MT8821C LTE Simulator, Anritsu was able to successfully demonstrate stable physical layer download speeds of 2 Gbps. The solution will be demonstrated at Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona, Spain.
Utilizing newly introduced capability enables a multi-box configuration of MT8821C to simulate 3 contiguous LTE baseband cells on a single RF carrier. With 3 MT8821C simulators in a "master/slave" combination, Anritsu can offer more aggregated carriers with higher-order MIMO than other solutions on the market. Cells can be placed in any licensed or unlicensed band using the RF capability to cover 350 MHz to 6 GHz.
The MT8821C is a scalable LTE network simulator product for RF parametric testing and verification of 2G/3G/4G smartphones, tablets, M2M modules and IoT devices. It supports the latest 3GPP technologies, including VoLTE, Gigabit LTE, and Cellular IoT applications.
Click here to read more abou the Qualcomm Snapdragon X24 LTE modem that was used to demonstrate download speeds of 2 Gbps.
