Atec Agilent-8960 User Manual

E5515C/E (8960)
Wireless Communications Test Set

High performance hardware platform for the
8960 Series of mobile device design and
manufacturing test solutions

Technical Overview

The only test set with robust and accurate RF measure-

ments, flexible network emulation and high data rate

performance that allows you to achieve complete wireless

device testing across the development lifecycle.

The E5515C hardware platform for the 8960 wireless communications test
set is the world’s most trusted solution for wireless device manufacturing,
and RF design and verification. The E5515E, designed for high performance,
has improved high data rate hardware, multiple signaling and RF paths, and
increased headroom to support today’s cutting edge 3.5G technologies, such
as 42 Mbps DC-HSDPA and MIMO. Combining the E5515C/E with the 8960
family of embedded software applications creates a cellular network emulator
for testing mobile device RF, baseband and IP data traffic flows. Testing can be
done via call processing or test mode control and provides:

• Industry’s most accurate, repeatable, standards-compliant RF and baseband
measurements

• Stable performance for end-to-end high speed IP data throughput testing

• Industry leading accuracy, reliability and measurement speed

Test performance specifications are documented in the software applications.
Refer to www.agilent.com/find/8960 for available software applications.

Flexible Configuration
and Easy to Order

The 8960 can be configured to either the E5515C or E5515E hardware platform,
depending on the application.

The E5515C platform has three hardware functionality options:

•Option002 – Second RF source for GSM, GPRS and EGPRS technologies

•Option003 – Flexible CDMA base station emulator for today’s CDMA-based

technologies such as cdma2000®, 1xEV-DO, W-CDMA, HSPA and HSPA+.
Also needed for some GSM, GPRS and EGPRS features

• Option004 – Digital bus for fading test solutions used with Agilent N5106A PXB
baseband generator and channel emulator

The E5515E platform includes a second RF source and flexible CDMA base
station emulator. E5515E has one functionality option:

•Option004 – Digital bus for fading test solutions used with the Agilent N5106A
PXB baseband generator and channel emulator

The E5515C is upgradable to E5515E with the following upgrade path:

•E5515CU-80E – Hardware upgrade set for E5515C

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