Industry Leaders’ Collaboration Enables Operator Verification of Next-Generation Mobile Devices

Sunnyvale, Calif. – April 28, 2014 — Spirent Communications, the leader in testing wireless networks, services and devices, announced its collaboration with Bluetest to deliver an integrated test solution that provides unprecedented accuracy and reliability for MIMO Over-The-Air (OTA) throughput testing. Leading North American operators have developed their own MIMO OTA test plans and are requiring immediate support for evaluating the performance of this critical technology in next-generation LTE devices.

Come visit Bluetest at the largest gathering of chip, board and systems designers in the world: DesignCon. The expo takes place in Santa Clara, CA, USA on January 29-30 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Find us in booth #757 and see how the reverberation test system (RTS) technology can help unlock the design challenges of next generation wireless devices.

Read more at: http://www.designcon.com/santaclara/

This year’s ISAP2013 conference will be held in Nanjing, China 23-25 October, 2013 and Bluetest is the Silver Sponsor of the conference. We will have a booth where we will present our products and you can learn more about the reverberation test system. Welcome to our booth A10!

Bluetest will exhibit at the Futurecom exhibition in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 21-24 October. The exhibition will be held at the Riocentro Convention Center. Futurecom is Latin America’s largest event in the ICT industry and we will be there to present our reverberation test system solutions for testing antennas and wireless devices. You will find us at the Swedish Pavilion which is located at stand number D36.

Bluetest will hold three workshops in China in October, 2013:

• 15th in Beijing
• 16th in Shanghai
• 17th in Shenzhen

Bluetest’s distributor ITGT will host a MIMO OTA seminar in cooperation with Bluetest on the 24th of September in Taipei, Taiwan. The seminar will give you a presentation and introduction to Bluetest as well as a deeper technical presentation of the reverberation chamber theory and you will gain a better understanding on Bluetest’s product offerings. Bluetest is actively driving the proposed RC methodology in CTIA and 3GPP and a standardization progress overview will also be given during the seminar.

Bluetest has now released support for OTA MIMO LTE Carrier Aggregation (LTE CA) measurements. The first systems were delivered to customers in June.

Bluetest will exhibit at the CTIA 2013 show in Las Vegas, USA, May 21-23. The exhibition will be at the Sands Expo and Convention Center Las Vegas, NV. We will have the RTS60 and TTS11 in the booth for live LTE and WLAN measurements so take the opportunity to learn more about the reverberation test system and its capabilities to do fast and easy 2x2 MIMO measurements on wireless devices.

Read more about CTIA 2013 here: http://www.ctia2013.com/

Welcome to join us in booth #3055.

Bluetest is Platinum Sponsor of the 7th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2013, held in our hometown Gothenburg. The conference and exhibition will take place 8-12 April at Svenska Mässan (Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre) and we are hoping that you want to join us for this week.

On November 9th Bluetest moved the head office to new premises.

CEO Kjell Olovsson says: “The new premises are built to our specification and meet our demand for more office space, lab space and space for assembly of our MIMO enabled Over-The-Air (OTA) test systems. This means we can increase our R&D and manufacturing capacity even further to meet the rapidly growing need for OTA measurement systems capable of handling MIMO measurements on LTE, WLAN and other wireless standards.”

Electronica is one of the leading trade fairs for the electronics industry. The trade fair will take place in Munich, Germany, 13-16 November at Messe München. Bluetest is co-exhibiting with our distributor Gigacomp and we will have an RTS60 in the booth together with the TTS11. Visitors will be able to see live demonstrations of active measurements such as LTE/MIMO.

Come and visit us in hall B3, booth 347!

For more information about Electronica 2012 click here.

Bluetest will attend at the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (AP-S) in Chicago, IL, USA on July 8-14. Bluetest will together with Chalmers University hold a half day short course on July 8 called OTA Measurements in Reverberation Chamber. In addition to the short course Bluetest has two contributions to the conference together with Chalmers University that will be presented on Wednesday, July 12. Bluetest’s distributor MI Technologies will exhibit in booth # 406.

For fiscal year 2012, Bluetest AB increased sales more than 100 percent – achieving the highest turnover in the history of the company. Reasons include high demand of solutions for Over-The-Air MIMO measurements of mobile phones and other wireless devices.

Kjell Olovsson, Bluetest AB CEO, says: “Our sales of MIMO enabled reverberation test systems used for mobile phones and mobile devices, currently the biggest market segment for Bluetest, has increased according to plan. In addition, we are meeting solid demand from our customers for the recently introduced W-LAN test system.”

Bluetest is now launching the new WLAN IP throughput tester TTS11 (Throughput Test System 11), an instrument for IP throughput testing for the WLAN 802.11a/b/g/n standards. To measure the throughput versus received power level is the best way to characterize a WLAN device on the IP level. The TTS11 is an excellent tool to fast and accurately distinguish between a god and bad transceiver designs.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 7, 2012

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that Bluetest AB now supports Agilent’s PXI wireless communications test set. The Bluetest RTS (Reverberation Test System) uses the Agilent PXT test set to evaluate LTE devices over the air.

OTA testing of LTE user equipment is essential to evaluate and prove performance prior to commercial deployment. Bluetest offers a range of fast and accurate solutions to these measurement challenges.

We need to expand our development organization in Gothenburg. We are looking for engineers that can help us to secure our position as the leading supplier of test solutions.

Are you interested? Read more and apply here (Swedish).

The reverberation chamber has been included in 3GPP’s technical specification that describes test procedure for measurements of the 3G/2G user equipment/mobile stations. The reverberation chamber has been included as an alternative test method for the OTA (Over-The-Air)SISO measurements.

The new technical specification can be found here

Master students Jacob Hidén Rudander and Ikram-E-Khuda have received the RFID Nordic scholarship Award 2011 for the Master project “RFID Measurements in Reverberation Chamber”, finalized in Dec 2010. The award amounts to SEK 20 000.

Bluetest will attend the ISAP 2011 conference in Jeju, South Korea together with our distributor Dymstec. Bluetest’s and Dymstec’s contribution will be presented in a poster presentation at the conference.

Prof. Per-Simon Kildal is an invited speaker at ISAP 2011 and he will give a presentation Wednesday 26th at 11.10-11.40 about Fast and Cost Effective OTA-MIMO Measurements in Reverberation Chamber. You can find his abstract and biography here http://www.isap2011.org/sub04_02.php

Elektroniktidningen in Sweden has published an article about Bluetest in the August issue of the magazine. The article describes the success Bluetest has had the past 10 years and how the market starts to accept the Reverberation Test System as a good method to verify small antennas and terminals with small antennas. The article is in Swedish and you can find it here.

Professor Per-Simon Kildal, the founder and main owner of Bluetest AB, has received the prestigious Distinguished Achievements Award of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (APS) for “For pioneering contributions to design and characterization methods for reflectors, feeds and small antennas utilizing soft and hard surfaces, and reverberation chamber for Over-The-Air measurements”.

Michael Kwan has joined Bluetest as the Business Development Manager for Asia Pacific as of today. Michael has previously worked for Wandel & Goltermann, Acterna and for Willtek (Wireless Telecom Group) as the head for China sales. We are sure that his long experience in the Asian wireless business will help us to grow and expand the Bluetest business in the region. Michael will be located in Beijing but will spend a lot of his time traveling to help our distributors and customers in the region.

Kjell Olovsson who joined Bluetest as Vice President for sales and business development in September 2009 is today appointed CEO of Bluetest.

During Bluetest’s fiscal year 2010/2011 sales was more than doubled compared to the previous fiscal year. The successful sales increase has mainly been driven by the high demand for cost effective LTE MIMO OTA test solutions. Bluetest proven technology is now used by more than 50 customers worldwide including 14 of the largest mobile device manufacturers as well as 6 of the largest telecom operators in the world. Bluetest will continue to expand and invest to stay in the world leading position in the reverberation test system industry.

The demand for the Bluetest RTS60, which is the most cost-effective LTE MIMO OTA test system on the market, is growing rapidly. The introduction of LTE capable devices continues at a rapid pace as the demand for mobile broadband continues to grow. During the past months the number of installed systems for LTE/MIMO have increased to 20 worldwide.

Bluetest is exhibiting and gives presentations at the 5th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Rome 11-15 April. Through presentations and exhibition, EuCAP provides the ideal place for the exchange of scientific and technical information, both at academic and industrial levels.

The CTIA Wireless is the premier wireless event that brings together wireless and converged communications, wireless broadband, mobile web. International CTIA WIRELESS is where the wireless world meets each year for three days of intense business, learning and networking. Bluetest and MI Technologies will have an RTS60 in the booth for live measurements and demos. You will find us in booth 1327 and you are welcome to visit us to see some live tests! For more information about CTIA Wireless click here.

Elektronik 2011 is Sweden’s new electronic trade fair where you can meet local and national electronic suppliers. The microwave cluster Microwave Road has a meeting- and information sharing point in stand B04:02 in which Bluetest will exhibit together with other member companies. If you are visiting the fair these two days, come and meet us in stand B04:02! For more information about the exhibition click here.

If you want to work in an exciting and fast developing business environment read more and apply here!

Spirent Communications, a leader in testing wireless networks, services and devices, and Bluetest AB, a leading supplier of reverberation test systems, today announced their collaboration to advance Over-The-Air (OTA) test methods for mobile devices. Through their collective research and development, these two industry leaders will dramatically improve the time and reduce the cost required to deliver a superior user experience to mobile subscribers.