Virtual Drive Testing Toolset: Real-world, automated performance testing of mobile devices and network infrastructure in the laboratory
Mobile operators and equipment manufacturers face a growing challenge to quickly and cost-effectively deploy new mobile devices and infrastructure equipped with more features and more technologies, including MIMO, Carrier Aggregation and VoLTE. This intensifies the need for a future-proof test solution that quickly and efficiently benchmarks mobile devices and network infrastructure to assess an end-user’s experience of accessing mobile applications.
Anite addresses this challenge with its Virtual Drive Testing Toolset, an integrated solution that offers a highly authentic field-to-lab testing experience. Virtual Drive Testing Toolset is an automated, lab-based performance test solution for cost-effective assessment of mobile devices and network infrastructure KPIs such as data throughput rate, call drop rate, call setup times, etc. It uses data captured in the field to build tests that replay drive or indoor test routes by emulating real-world RF network conditions in a controlled laboratory environment. Users are thereby able to cost-effectively verify device and infrastructure performance from end user perspective.
Anite has used its recognised expertise in channel emulation and network measurement to create a solution that integrates its Propsim Channel Emulator and Nemo drive test tools with real network infrastructure. The solution enables mobile operators as well as device, chipset and network equipment manufacturers to control the device under test from a single, easy-to-use graphical user interface, conducting real-time diagnostics monitoring, logging test results and analysing test data.
Its powerful script and device automation capability allows the user to repeat virtual field test routes for different use case scenarios, enabling reliable and cost-effective device benchmarking and field issue resolution. The solution’s ready-to-run test case packages further help to improve product performance and trouble-shoot interoperability issues.
