Hello, I am Cristi McMahan. I am here with Kailash Narayanan, R&D manager at Agilent Technologies.
We are here talking about the Agilent UXM wireless test set just announced for 4G chipset
and UE development. Kailash tell us about that UXM. Thanks Cristi. The UXM is a completely
new generation of signaling test set. It has the most highly integrated advanced architecture
that is designed to handle the current test challenges of 4G, and frankly, well beyond.
The UXM was created for design validation focused initially on LTE and LTE-Advanced, but
it is a multi-format capable platform, and ready for much more. We are very excited about
the possibilities. The UXM allows development engineers to assess their design readiness
with greater confidence. It offers flexible RF performance testing of both transmitters
and receivers, plus deep functional performance testing, including IP data connection, data
throughput, protocol logging, and handover scenarios. We know Agilent and Agilent's competitors
have had test sets in this market for some time If someone has one of these other instruments
why should they now consider Agilent's UXM? Quite simply, the UXM is perfectly positioned
to address the LTE-Advanced CAT6 development and rollout that is underway.
For starters, it has a rock solid CAT6 bi-directional data throughput. It is really exciting. It has
300 Mb per second in the downlink, and 50 Mb per second in the uplink. The UXM
has two independent 100 MHz bandwidth RF transceivers that enable multiple cells, carrier aggregation,
4x2 MIMO, and integrated fading, which can be independently controlled for each component
carrier. The UXM also supports a highly flexible downlink allocation scheme and close loop
testing for very thorough receiver analysis, and the ever-popular Agilent X-Series measurements
for transmitter test. Plus, there is tons of headroom for future possibilities. Looking
at the instrument I see that it has a huge touch screen display. What was the motivation
for that? We wanted the ultimate flexibility in how we designed the user interface with
this new test set. There is so much more we can do with this type of display. The 15-inch
touch screen allows us to offer the next generation ease-of-use, and to tackle most anything that
the future standards might bring. The user interface also enables us to maintain the
similar looking feel of our legacy test sets and other software solutions while allowing
our users to see more of their measurements. Everyone seems to claim that their instrument
is built for the future, or future proof. Agilent makes a similar claim with the UXM.
Can you stand by that? Most definitely. This is a new platform design that was built with
future test sets in mind. The UXM architecture really is incredible. It was designed with
modular extensibility in mind, with upgradeable processors, and multiple expansion slots,
and has buses with multiple lanes of high-speed interconnects all adding up to a blazing fast
backplane. It is ready to handle much faster data rates, higher order MIMO, and more component
carriers. If you were to distill down the top contributions the UXM provides the typical
cell phone designer, what would they be? Besides helping engineers validate that their device
can achieve full CAT6 data rates, what I think will be really exciting is how it will simplify
their bench top. With integrated fading and IP servers, and all of the network emulation
functionality, receiver, and transmitter tests, they will have a wealth of test capabilities
right there inside the UXM on their bench. And the hardware is ready for so much more,
and is future proof. They do not have to worry about enabling the next advancements in antenna
techniques, component carriers, higher data rates. This test set is going to help them
assess their designs with greater confidence now, and be ready to evolve as technology
changes. It sounds like an exciting new contribution for the industry. Thanks for your time today
to introduce us to the UXM. It is a very exciting product Cristi. I am glad to share it with you.