COMPRION SIMfony Family

Get ready for 5G with GCF/PTCRB test platform TP227!

If you need to prepare your device for 5G NR operation in standalone (SA) mode, simply add COMPRION SIMfony CMX500. Hence you benefit from the first test tool validated and activating the tests for certification of 5G SA USIM/USAT features!  This way you work on the test platform TP227, listed at GCF and PTCRB as approved for WI-508-NR and WI-509-NR. That means the new 5G Work Items number 508  is testing the New Radio features for USIM and number 509 for USAT. Now, the new R&S® CMX500 Radio Communication Tester works with the (U)SIM simulator UT³ Platform. Using this setup you benefit from the worldwide first test platform with 5G tests validated at PTCRB and GCF.

 

5G SA USIM Testing

For GCF/PTCRB "USIM Interaction with 5G" device certification, GCF WI-508-NR and PTCRB RFT 508 list tests from
3GPP TS 31.121 Release 16 in the following clauses:
•   5.3 "Handling subscription identifier privacy for 5G"
•   5.4  "Unified Access Control information handling for 5G-NR"
•   15.1 "Authentication procedure for EAP-AKA"
•   15.2 "Authentication procedure for 5G AKA"

Hence, these come with the following COMPRION SIMfony CMX500 packages:
•    Clause 5.3: 3GPP TS 31.121 USIM 5G Test Bench Stage 1 – All 17 test cases available and GCF/PTCRB validated!
•    Clause 5.4: 3GPP TS 31.121 USIM 5G Test Bench Stage 2

•    Clauses 5.5, 15.1 and 15.2: 3GPP TS 31.121 USIM 5G Test Bench Stage 3 – All 10 tests available and GCF/PTCRB validated!
 

5G SA USAT Testing

So far, 34 tests for 5G SA USAT have been defined according to 3GPP TS 31.124 Release 15, but more will be added by maintaining this work item.

These tests cover the following features:
•    Provide Local Information
•    Refresh
•    BIP (Open Channel, Close Channel, Receive Data, Send Data, Get Channel Status)
•    Event Download (Location Status, Data Available, Channel Status Change, Access Technology Change, Network Rejection, Data Connection Change)
•    CALL CONTROL on PDU Session for NG-RAN
•    SMS-PP Download via DL NAS TRANSPORT message

The Work GCF-WI-509-NR and PTCRB RFT 509 list these tests for GCF/PTCRB "USAT Interaction with 5G" device certification.

Here 9 tests cases are available in 3GPP TS 31.124 USAT 5G Test Bench Stage 1, and all have been validated at GCF and PTCRB!

Since COMPRION has activated this GCF Work Item with the CMX500, the related tests and features are now available for certification. Stay ahead with TP 227!

Covered Network Technologies
 

• GSM
• W-CDMA
• LTE

 

COMPRION Test Platforms

Since long COMPRION SIMfony MD8475A is one of the most commonly used test platforms for mobile device testing. If you need to gain market access through compliance to 2G/3G or LTE, prove it comfortably with Test Platform TP151. SIMfony MD8575A consists of UT³ Platform, the Anritsu signalling tester MD8475A plus the corresponding software.

 

More important, it saves time with comfortable automation functions like Terminal Application Provider and remote control. Alternatively, you can save money with the so-called pre-conformance variant installed on Prove 2 instead of UT³ Platform. In-house conformance evaluation parallel to the product development reduces the risk to fail the approval test and the costs for the test sessions in a test house significantly.

Covered Network Technologies

• GSM
• W-CDMA
• LTE

 

Continue with COMPRION Test Platform TP 151

Benefit longer from the conformance flagship UT³ Platform now available with MD8475B! This network simulator is the successor of the A-variant. GCF and PTCRB list it as configuration version of TP151. To make their network simulators future proof, Anritsu has launched MD8475B. Hence COMPRION offers a comfortable migration path.

Get well prepared for your conformance tests in the lab and verify your product compliance already during development. To speed up debugging, you can access the network simulator logs with a right mouse click on the test case result in the Device Test Center.

Progress further with mobile device testing and move on to the new network simulator to extend life time of your setup.

 

Covered Network Technologies
 

• LTE/CAT M1
• W-CDMA
• NB-IoT

 

COMPRION Test Platform 150

Assure 4G connectivity of your IoT solutions with SIMfony CMW 500. This GCF and PTCRB approved test platform validates your component´s  conformance to implement cellular connectivity for Internet of Things use cases. It addresses the need of low power consumption combined with high numbers of devices that access the network relatively rarely. For those devices usually built into modules for sensors, telematics control units or machine status controllers, connectivity is king to flawless operation.

The setup uses R&S®CMW500 Wideband Radio Communication Tester and the UT³ Platform and it is approved at GCF and PTCRB as Test Platform TP150.

Alternatively your are able to run those test cases on non-validated hardware. Thus SIMfony CMW 500 is also available with Prove 2 in a less costly variant. Since pre-conformance testing reduces the risk to fail the approval test, you lower the costs for the test sessions in a test house significantly.

 

Covered Network Technologies
 

• LTE/CAT M1
• NB-IoT

 

Connect your mobile IoT solution with LTE-M and NB-IoT compliance

On the one hand more and more 2G and  3G networks are being deactivated. On the other hand a long life IoT solution requires a path into 5G networks. Here, SIMfony CMW500 helps to assure cellular connectivity for mobile IoT. As it tests LTE-M and NB-IoT compliance for USIM/USAT, global and reliable connectivity to mobile networks is assured. More important,  LTE-M and NB-IoT compliance reap benefits from optimized network technology: long battery life due to minimized power consumption and small data rates. Finally, both have a path into 5G as they can operate in a 5G New Radio band. In a nutshell, global and future proof technology for mobile IoT.

For LTE-M and NB-IoT compliance the setup requires R&S®CMW500 Wideband Radio Communication Tester and the UT³ Platform. Together, they are approved at GCF and PTCRB as Test Platform TP150. To gain market access you need to prove conformance by GCF and PTCRB certification, therefore you need an approved test platform.

Need to save time? Benefit from the automation with COMPRION Terminal Automation Provider. With this control software you adapt equipment just once. Then you can run the efficient batch mode for  regression tests.

Alternatively your are able to run those test cases on non-validated hardware. Thus, SIMfony CMW 500 is also available with Prove 2 in a less costly variant. Since pre-conformance testing reduces the risk to fail the approval test, it lowers the cost and length for the test sessions in a recognized test lab significantly.

Verizon Wireless Test Plans

Meet Verizon's LTE Device-UICC Interaction Test Plans with the most advanced test tool in the SIMfony Family.

Benefit from the only test tools listed and validated for the VZW 5G NR SA Supplemental UICC Test Plan: SIMfony CMX500 and SIMfony MT8000A. Both setups are available for UT³ Platform and Prove 2. Use the same tool as the Network Device Evaluation Test Laboratory (NDET) and make sure, that your device can enter this mobile network.

Covered Network Technologies

• 5G
• LTE

These are the offered test benches for the different Verizon Wireless test plans:

VZW 5G SA NR Supplemental UICC Test Plan

• SIMfony CMX500 and SIMfony MT8000A have been validated for this Test Plan.

LTE Device-SIM Application Interaction Device Test Plan
(SIMAPPINT; Device Types 1, 2 and 4):

• VZW LTE Device SIM Application Interaction Test Packages
  

LTE Device-UICC USIM-ISIM Interaction Test Plan:

• IT³ VZW USIM LTE Test Bench
• IT³ VZW USAT LTE Test Bench
• IT³ VZW ISIM LTE Test Bench

LTE Device-UICC USIM-ISIM Interaction Band 4 Test Plan:

• IT³ VZW LTE Band 4 Test Bench

 

Of course, COMPRION also offers the software packages needed for the control of the required network simulators, like R&S CMW500 and CMX500 as well as MT8000A from Anritsu.