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Drive test adapts to VoIP, moves into lab.

Publication: Test & Measurement World
Publication Date: 01-JUN-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Rick Nelson, Editor in Chief

"Can you hear me now?" So asks the advertising character who personifies the complex drive testing that wireless carriers perform to test the reliability of their networks, monitoring parameters like BER (bit-error rate), FER (frame-error rate), and DCR (dropped-call rate), which in turn affect customer satisfaction (Ref. 1). Drive testing is becoming increasingly important as cellular technology evolves into wideband implementations that carry data as well as voice. And as bandwidths expand, factors such as multipath...

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