Agilent Technologies announced a variety of new testing products for wireless networks this week at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona.

New offerings from the test-and-measurement company include a real-time signal analyzing platform, which now uses LTE and SAE technology with Gigabit Ethernet in mobile network analysis. This is used for analyzing signaling procedures, mobile services and streaming media quality.

Its new modules include J7880A signaling analyzer software, J6860A distributed performance manager and J6804A distributed network analyzer.  The 7880 and 6860 are available now; the 6804 will be available in April.

Also new from Agilent are:

• A quality-of-service analyzer for prioritizing service and network problems. It has a session trace option; both are expected to be available by late Spring 2008;
• WiMAX analysis software testing of network and individual call performance on R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 and R8 interfaces, which also has remote configuration and control, available now;
• A version of the Mobile WiMAX Wave 2 Protocol Test supporting Runcom Technologies' chipset, which is currently in the testing phase;
• A measurement receiver for Mobile WiMAX, the W1314A, supporting support GSM, UMTS, IS95, cdma2000, 1X EV-DO, iDEN and WiMAX, and which integrates with the E6474A network optimization software, all available now;
• MIPI D-PHY protocol test solution, supporting Camera Serial Interface (CSI-2) and Display Serial Interfaces (DSI) for mobile devices, using the 16900 logic analyzer platform, available now;
• The Anite SAT LTE Protocol Tester, which is the first in a planned series of 3GPP LTE test products on top of Agilent's E6620A LTE UE platform, available now and soon to be available with SAS and CT conformance test systems; and
• Manufacturing test support for WiMAX Devices based on the Sequan Wave 2 chipset