As today’s cellular phones and PDAs become capable of connection into wireless local-area networks (WLAN), Aeroflex is keeping pace by releasing a new measurement suite for WLAN, as well as expanding features of the existing GSM/EDGE measurement suite. These measurement suites for use with Aeroflex’s PXI modular RF platform will help speed up testing during the development and manufacture of WLAN and cellular devices using a single Aeroflex test system. Aeroflex’s modular RF platform achieves greater flexibility and speed than equivalent conventional rack-based test systems by leveraging the inherent benefits of PXI, an industry open standard for lower-cost, higher-speed instrumentation. PXI-based test systems for mobile handset manufacturing combined with easy-to-implement and speed-optimized measurement suites have accelerated test times by as much as five times.

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The Aeroflex PXI measurement suites for WLAN and GSM/EDGE will test all modulation formats of 802.11a, b and g WLAN or GSM/EDGE devices. The WLAN and GSM/EDGE measurement suites offer the ability to make a variety of spectrum, modulation and power measurements with a single PXI test system, saving valuable time and test resources. Both suites are options to the Aeroflex 3030 PXI RF digitizer family. The measurement suites complement the company’s continually growing PXI test capabilities for WLAN and GSM/EDGE as well as other popular 2G and 3G standards.

The Aeroflex WLAN measurement suite for PXI is priced at $3146. Delivery for the WLAN measurement suite is late December 2005. The Aeroflex GSM/EDGE measurement suite is priced at $3146. Delivery for the GSM/EDGE seasurement suite is late November.