Measurement Journal Issue 6

Charting a Unique Path to Technology Innovation and networks. Unlike other vendors who support a single wireless standard, Agilent provides solutions in support of all major wireless standards across the entire product lifecycle including Chinaspeciﬁc standards such as TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE. Remaining technology neutral, Agilent retains an unbiased view of emerging standards and is therefore able to offer a unique perspective on different technologies as the industry evolves from 2.5G to 3.9/4G networks. China — in a quest to develop its own intellectual property for communications standards — has chosen TD-SCDMA over other global 3G standards (e.g., W-CDMA) for its initial rollout of 3G multimedia services. This service has now been deployed in eight Olympics cities across China. For 3.9G data services, China is working with the international standards committees to develop TD-LTE, a more advanced time-domain-duplexed standard that maintains strong Chinese technical contribution but is more integrated into the global LTE standard. As the leading test-and-measurement vendor in China, Agilent worked to help deﬁne these standards and created TDSCDMA-speciﬁc measurement solutions which have been used by the majority of all TD-SCDMA equipment providers to develop their products. Agilent maintains large R&D and marketing teams in China and their responsibilities include creating and supporting test solutions for Chinaspeciﬁc communications standards. These teams have been integral to Agilent’s success with customers who create and provide equipment for these standards. Agilent created the ﬁrst test solutions for TD-SCDMA and recently released the industry’s ﬁrst TD-LTE product to the market. Agilent’s role in China’s wireless-communications industry was recently spotlighted during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Prior to the event, the Beijing Olympic organizing committee granted China Mobile the right to provide WiMAX™, Wi-Fi and 3G (TD-SCDMA) network services. The WiMAX mobile terminals were offered by Samsung and provided voice, data and wireless networking services. A temporary trial WiMAX network was deployed in Qingdao, China to test this service. A TD-SCDMA commercial trial has also been deployed with over 40,000 TD-SCDMA mobile phones in use during the Olympic Games. Agilent provided China Mobile with both WiMAX and TD-SCDMA test solutions and over 60 percent of all test equipment needed to deploy the TD-SCDMA basestation network in the Olympic host cities. Agilent even provided 24-hour technical support for the TD-SCDMA network prior to and during the Olympic Games. Agilent’s decision to take a unique path in supporting all leading wireless standards has enabled it to play a key role in moving China’s vision of the wireless-communications industry forward. Whatever unique path China chooses to take in the future, Agilent will be there with the necessary technology and solutions to make it a reality. WiMAX is a trademark of the WiMAX Forum Ron Nersesian Vice President of Agilent’s Wireless Business Unit, Agilent Technologies P Professional athletes — whether competing in the Olympics or other major sporting events — often follow their own unique training path to push beyond their limits. Likewise, Agilent and China are each charting a unique path in the wireless communications industry. Today, this industry is being driven by an insatiable need for increased data. Two key trends have resulted: the convergence of cellular and wireless connectivity, and an increase in data rates, requiring faster signal speeds and development of technologies with more complex encoding schemes. Increasing mobile-handset complexity (e.g., from the inclusion of eight to ten radios per handset) is another result of the demand for data. Softwaredeﬁned radios (SDRs) offer one way of dealing with this complex environment. As an enabler of emerging industries and a supporter of technology commercialization, Agilent is uniquely qualiﬁed to address the needs of increasingly complex mobile-communication devices Agilent Measurement Journal 2

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Measurement Journal Issue 6 Using a Few Words to Convey a Deeply-Held Spirit Charting a Unique Path to Technology Innovation Contents Announcing First Commercial GC/MS Metabolites Library Assessing Nonlinear Behavior Testing Combines Form and Function Testing Multiplay Networks Higher Sensitivity LC/MS Easing Military Radio Test Stepping Up Calibration Accuracy Increasing Spectrum Analyzer Bandwidth 3GPP Tool Supports TS 36 Standards The Olympic Story Spotlights Agilent's Continuing Contribution to Technology Innovation Ensuring a Level Playing Field in Competitive Sports GPS: Coming of Age Resolving Design Issues in HSPA Mobile Devices Achieving Accurate Results with Oscilloscope-Based Jitter-Analysis Software RF Handheld Testers Guarantee Traffic Stability Under Olympic-Sized Stress Conditions Utilizing LAN-Based Instrumentation to Measure Total Harmonic Distortion in Remote Facilities IMT-Advanced: 4G Wireless Takes Shape in an Olympic Year EPO Doping: A Speed Engine, Turbo-Charged by Chemistry

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