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CMX500, CMP200 Revision Date Note 1.0.0 10/2020 First released Version About Rohde & Schwarz Rohde & Schwarz is an independent group of companies specializing in electronics.

The R&S®CMX500 radio communication tester is designed to cover all 5G signaling test applications and to support end-to-end data rates up to 20 Gbps.

The joint conformance test solution is listed as test platform 227 (TP227) in GCF and PTCRB. 5G NR USIM/USAT conformance tests, 5G NR, 5G NR SA, CMMX500 This video highlights the test solution from Comprion and R&S using a R&S®CMX500 5G NR mobile radio tester & Comprions UT3 USIM simulator platform.

R&S®CMX500 | PCTEST Selects Rohde & Schwarz for 5G and LTE Device Testing Learn why PCTEST has selected the Rohde & Schwarz CMX500 to expand 5G NR and LTE device testing capabilities.

Watch the video and see how you can simplify your test setup and enjoy best reproducibility and stability, wherever you need it. application testing, data testing, CMX500 Discover the data testing solution for all applications, featuring support for IP v4 and v6 within R&S®CMX500 - enjoy best reproducibility and stability.

The demystifying 5G video series discusses main topics related to 5G including new technology components, procedures and testing challenges. 5G NR, CMW500, CMX500 Explore the test setup required to test 5G NR devices in non-standalone (NSA) mode using the R&S®CMX500 mobile radio tester from Rohde & Schwarz.

A turnkey 5G Field-to-Lab solution based on R&S®CMX500

5G New Radio (NR) is the fifth-generation radio interface and radio access technology (RAT) which was officially published by 3GPP in release 15. With the 5G technology, it enters a new era to meet the ever-increasing demands of mobile communications not only in the conventional cellular communication world, but also in the vertical industries.Since the commercialization of 5G NR, worldwide 162 networks have been deployed as per the report of GSA. On the path to the 5G NR network commercialization and service launch, field test is one of the essential user centric processes that User Equipment (UE) vendors should go through. Sophisticated features and versatile deployment options have to be thoroughly checked to ensure the reaching of certain confidence level before the official launch.However, field test is often linked with some challenges, such as► High costs due to the extensive drive tests► Time tedious analysis of a drive test that lowers the efficiency► Lack of test repeatability that makes the regressing tests impossibleWhat if providing an alternative solution in a laboratory environment to cope with all above mentioned challenges during the field test? R&S® as a world-wide well established test measurement equipment manufacturer and solution provider developed a 5G field-to-lab (F2L) turn-key solution, R&S®CM360°. It features► the simulation of the network with the real network configurations to avoid the cost intensive drive test by utilizing mobile radio tester R&S®CMX500► intuitive tools to visualize, drill down the problems and therefore enhance the debugging efficiency based on R&S®SmartAnlytics► the specialized key performance indicator (KPI) tests configured through real network data offered on R&S®CMX500 that guarantee the test reliability and repeatabilityThis application note aims to demonstrate the status of quo R&S®CM360° F2L solution.

16-Jul-2021 | AN-No. 1SL369

In this day and age of internet of things, more and more devices are connected to the local network, making it even more difficult for the IT department to monitor them. Rohde & Schwarz instruments are also increasingly accessed via their LAN interface, which provides additional convenience features such as remote desktop, SMB file transfer or a web interface. To make it easier to monitor the use and status of instruments, some devices offer a software option, the Health and Utilization Monitoring Service (HUMS) .HUMS can be accessed via SNMP and REST (HTTP) and provides all necessary information about the health status and utilization over time in many details.This application note describes how to access HUMS and what data is provided.

11-Jan-2021 | AN-No. GFM336

The R&S®CMsequencer is a graphical scripting interface that creates, configures and executes test scripts on the R&S®CMX500 radio communications tester. The R&S®CMsequencer is part of R&S®CMsquares, the powerful R&S®CMX500 user interface and control center.

Provides the information required to prepare the R&S®CMQ500 for use and start working. Describes all operating modes, functions and remote control commandsThe online version is meant for immediate display (no download required).

EN-DC Mode According to 3GPP 38.521-3

5G New Radio (NR) is a radio access technology (RAT) specified by 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) in release 15 technical standard which was first published in 2018. It is designed to enhance the spectrum efficiency to meet the diverse needs of wireless communication applications, such as enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), massive machine type communications (mMTC) and ultra-reliable and low latency communications (URLLC).Two deployment modes are defined for 5G NR technology► non-standalone (NSA) mode involving both E-UTRA (access technology used for LTE) and 5G NR RAT► standalone (SA) mode allows the user equipment (UE) to access 5G core network (5GC) over LTE or 5G NR RATAll 5G NR air interface related core specifications as well as associated test specifications are included in the 3GPP 38 series specifications. In an UE product lifecycle, UE vendor is obliged to go through the device certification process by passing all the required conformance tests which include RF, protocol, performance tests before official launch of the product. RF conformance testing is of course essential for the market access. The conformity of 3GPP specification has to be ensured even in the early product R&D phase.This application note aims to guide the R&D reader through the 5G NR Frequency Range 1 (FR1) NSA RF UE conformance test according to 3GPP38.521-3 based on mobile radio tester R&S®CMX and associated web user interface R&S®CMsquares in interactive operation mode, i.e. manual operation mode, through test configuration examples. After reading this application note, the reader should be able to conduct 3GPP RF conformance tests with proper settings manually and understand measurement results in R&S®CMsquares.

25-Jun-2021 | AN-No. 1SL368

The R&S®CMW wideband radio communication tester offers universal, efficient test solutions for all modern cellular and non-cellular standards. The R&S®CMW is the world’s most widely used T&M platform for development, production and service. It meets all of the requirements for a state-of-theart wireless communication tester. The R&S®CMW can also emulate network operation under realistic conditions for protocol and RF tests.

5G devices operating in the mmWave range (FR2) require over-the-air (OTA) testing approaches since it is not possible to use RF connectors. The Rohde & Schwarz solution is the R&S®CMPQ.

CMP200 Radio communication tester, vector signal analyzer and ARB based generator functionality

The R&S®CMX500 is now ready to test NR Dual Connectivity FR1&FR2 with up to 10Gbps end to end IP data rate. The R&S®CMX500 is designed to meet all 5G test requirements that may occur over the entire product lifecycle of a mobile communications device.

The demystifying 5G video series discusses main topics related to 5G including new technology components, procedures and testing challenges. 5G NR, CMW500, CMX500 Explore parallel RF parametric tests and end-to-end tests, such as ping measurements, on a 5G device in non-standalone (NSA) mode using R&S CMX500.

The demystifying 5G video series discusses main topics related to 5G including new technology components, procedures and testing challenges. 5G NR, CMW500, CMX500 CMsquares, a unified user experience concept, simplifies 5G NR device testing. It controls the R&S®CMX500 and allows to combine various measurement tasks.

To do so, the R&S®CMW500 & R&S®CMX500 setup can be extended by an audio analyzer. The R&S®CMW500 wideband radio communication tester in combination with the R&S CMX500 5G communication tester comes with everything needed to test 5G voice services (VoNR) on mobile devices.

The R&S®CMX500 together with the R&S®ATS800R CATR rack based antenna test system enables signaling, data throughput and RF measurements. The R&S®CMX500 adds 5G capability to the company’s tried and tested LTE solutions such as the R&S®CMW500 or R&S®CMWflexx test system, allowing to perform testing from 2G to 5G on one platform.

LTE, CMX500, CMW500, TS8980, Aircom, TEOCO, Rohde & Schwarz, test lab, device test Aircom International expands 5G NR & LTE device testing capabilities with Rohde & Schwarz

The verified test solutions from Rohde & Schwarz, based on the R&S®CMX500 and R&S®CMW500 radio communication testers and the R&S®CMsquares unified test software, simplifies signaling testing with DSS in non-standalone (NSA) mode.

The R&S CMX500 radio communication tester is ideal to perform 5G NR signaling measurements for SA mode.

The radiocommunication test setup is based on the R&S®CMX500. It measures RF parameters of 5G NR transmission and can be used to analyze signaling behavior of 5G and LTE protocol stacks. The R&S®CMX500 has a modular design and is opearated through a state-of-the-art web-based user interface, which makes it easy for users to configure their tests for RF parametric and data end-to-end analysis.

In this video, the R&S®CMX500 establishes an LTE anchor cell and a 5G NR TDD cell, configured with 4x4 MIMO and modulation of DL 256QAM to achieve a maximum data end-to-end throughput of 2 Gbps on IP layer using TCP data with a Qualcomm Snapdragon X55 modem. R&S®CMsquares is the unified user interface for R&D mobile device tests on the R&S®CMX500 5G NR mobile radio tester.

With an R&S®CMX500 based test system, Rohde & Schwarz supports carrier acceptance tests like PQA, NPT and LBS in 5G FR2. In all applications, the extremely compact R&S®ATS800R CATR chamber is used for the required over-the-air measurements.

A T&M solution guide for device makers

The first episode of a new video series will take a look at where 5G is today, explore the unique challenges for test and measurement and discover innovative solutions such as the R&S CMX500 radio communication tester.

MWC2019, CMW500, CMX500, FR1, FR2, non-standalone mode, NSA, 5G NR, LTE Rohde & Schwarz presents an integrated 5G signaling solution for FR1 and FR2 that can be seamlessly integrated into an existing LTE test environment at GSMA Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona.

The web-based GUI application controls the R&S®CMX500 radio communication test platform and enables to perform these measurements in parallel with end-to-end (E2E) tests and with power controlling the 5G device.