Altair teams with Aeroflex for joint LTE collaboration

For several months, Altair and Aeroflex have collaborated on IOT of their respective products.

-- Test & Measurement World, 3/2/2010 7:00:00 AM

Altair Semiconductor, a 4G chip company, and Aeroflex, a provider of LTE test equipment, are working together to develop testing solutions for LTE equipment manufacturers and service providers. Through the partnership, the two companies will perform IOT (interoperability testing) to enable joint customer development and testing on a pretested and qualified UE (user equipment) test setup. Altair has ordered multiple 7100 LTE digital radio test sets from Aeroflex, with the first delivery in January, 2010.

For several months, Altair and Aeroflex have collaborated on IOT of their respective products: Aeroflex's 7100 and Altair's FourGee LTE USB ExpressCard UE. Altair's LTE data card has also undergone extensive IOT with additional partners and vendors and is currently being used in various field activities.

"Companies developing products based on Altair's LTE chips and software and employing Aeroflex test equipment will find using the Aeroflex 7100 extremely useful and easy," said Eran Eshed, VP of marketing and business development for Altair. "We have already done all of the prep work to ensure a seamless integration. As LTE expands on a global scale, we look forward to further expanding our collaboration with Aeroflex," Eshed continued.

The FourGee LTE USB ExpressCard UE is one of the industry's first Category 3 data cards. Based on Altair's FourGee-3100/6200 baseband/RFIC LTE chipset, the ExpressCard serves as a test and IOT UE platform for system vendors and carriers involved in the development, trialing, and deployment of LTE systems.

Altair Semiconductor, www.altair-semi.com, and Aeroflex, www.aeroflex.com.