Joint development agreement

Aeroflex and the Beijing StarPoint Telecommunication Software Company have announced an agreement to jointly develop what claims to be the first full TD-SCDMA protocol conformance test system.

TD-SCDMA is the 3G technology standard being developed by the Chinese Academy of Telecommunication Technology (CATT) that is expected to be the primary 3G technology in use during the forthcoming Beijing Olympics.

With TD-SCDMA mobile terminal and base station technology now reaching maturity, the protocol conformance test system being developed by the companies will support its commercial rollout, both speeding up and decreasing the cost of deployment by reducing the requirement for extensive field and interoperability trials.