Early this year CSR and Motorola announced the creation of the enhanced global positioning system (EGPS) Forum to foster development of EGSP technologies. This week Agilent Technologies and Spirent Communications joined the Forum to ensure that the test equipment is in place for designers to easily and quickly design and test EGPS products. Working with CSR, Agilent and Spirent have created an essential building block of EGPS, a single system that can simulate both GPS and cellular signals. This system provides a development and test platform on which to build EGPS technologies, said the partners.

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Richard Catmur, Location Test Product Segment Manager at Spirent Communications commented, “We are pleased to be a key contributor to the development of a comprehensive testing capability for EGPS. The system we have developed in collaboration with CSR and Agilent goes much further than test systems developed for earlier Assisted GPS (A-GPS) technologies.”

“Agilent is committed to leveraging the RF and data analysis strengths of the Agilent 8960 wireless communications test set to help our customers design enhanced 2G, 2.5G, and 3G devices such as those employing EGPS technology,” said Niels Faché, vice president and general manager of Agilent's Mobile Broadband Division. “We’re excited to participate in the EGPS Forum, working with CSR to create test and development solutions, and believe the combination of accurate cellular and satellite positioning in EGPS has the potential to revolutionize location technologies.”

CSR’s Location Based Services Business Unit vice president, Stuart Strickland stated, “Agilent and Spirent bring an essential combined experience and expertise to the Forum. By designing a comprehensive testing system for EGPS together we have taken a necessary step closer towards driving a wider industry adoption of EGPS technologies to be designed into portable and consumer applications.”

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