Tektronix Communications made a pair of announcements at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today, including K2Air, a new monitoring system supporting LTE networks with Uu Interface monitoring capabilities.
K2Air collects data via digital RF interfaces and completes the company’s portfolio of test, monitoring and optimization solutions for LTE operators and network equipment manufacturers.
Tektronix says the K2Air probe provides deep dive insight into air interface performance and key eNodeB functionality that cannot be monitored on the LTE wireline interfaces. The probe is fully integrated with Tektronix Communications' protocol monitoring solutions for performance test and monitoring in lab verification and live network-troubleshooting environments; it provides seamless, fully correlated LTE wireless and wireline monitoring.
Meantime, Tektronix today announced the GeoLocalization module to accompany its OptiMon suite of advanced network optimization products designed for operators.
Based on an innovative algorithm which processes radio measurements data reported by network and handset data, the OptiMon GeoLocalization module provides a geographic view of subscriber activities, failure events and radio conditions. Results are plotted on a geographic map, enabling significant productivity enhancements and reduced time-to-resolution with instant knowledge of the service issue location. With this new groundbreaking addition to OptiMon, each network handset virtually becomes a drive test device. OptiMon users will be able to precisely identify the location of performance or coverage problems, QoS/QoE issues and traffic distributions on geographic maps. With this new revolutionary approach, optimization engineers are much less dependent on post processing drive test data, thus enabling dramatic cost reduction throughout the entire optimization and network operations process by real time location based optimization, according to the company.
