Wireless test equipment for UK university

Aeroflex Limited and University College London (UCL) have officially opened the UCL-Aeroflex Wireless Communications Laboratory in the department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the university.

The laboratory is equipped with AU$2.3 million worth of test equipment donated by Aeroflex, which has an R&D and manufacturing facility in Stevenage, UK. The lab will give UCL an advantage in its research into technology for the next generation of wireless communication networks and user equipment, such as smartphones, tablet PCs and future mobile devices.

The donated equipment includes two TM500 LTE test mobiles for emulating user equipment as well as three digital radio test sets for handset and terminal testing.

Aeroflex also made a similar endowment worth almost AU$1.5 million in September 2011 to Lancaster University’s School of Computing and Communications.

“The inauguration of this new laboratory affirms Aeroflex’s commitment to supporting academic research and continues our program of assisting universities who are at the forefront of wireless technology in order to nurture the talented engineers that the industry needs to be competitive in the future,” said Dr Hayk Manukyan, technical product manager and head of collaborations with universities at Aeroflex. “We are very pleased to support UCL in this way and we look forward to a long and mutually beneficial partnership with them.”