RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ascom Network Testing, the leader in mobile network testing, optimization, and benchmarking solutions, and HTC Corporation, a global leader in mobile innovation and design, today announced an agreement allowing the integration of two of Ascom’s mobile network testing products –TEMS Investigation™ and TEMS Pocket™ – with two HTC Android™-based 4G LTE smartphones: the HTC Rezound™ and the HTC Vivid®.
"Our phones integrated with Ascom TEMS tools allow our key operator customers to leverage the benefits of our 4G LTE smartphones to accelerate 4G network deployment, troubleshooting and optimization”
The agreement enables network engineers to use TEMS Investigation™, the industry-leading tool for wireless network drive testing, and TEMS Pocket™, a smartphone and advanced test tool-in-one for wireless network verification, to test, monitor, and verify quality of service on 4G LTE networks utilizing HTC Android-based 4G LTE smartphones. Benefits of the combined solution include:
Interoperability between HTC Rezound and Vivid smartphones and TEMS Investigation
Single source delivery of HTC Rezound and HTC Vivid smartphones preloaded with TEMS Pocket application
In addition, the agreement allows HTC to use TEMS Investigation and TEMS Pocket to test, optimize, and validate the performance of its 4G LTE smartphones to verify quality of experience over LTE networks before and after commercial launch.
"4G LTE technology presents a unique set of challenges in verifying quality-of-service for voice, data and video applications,” said Rikard Lundqvist, General Manager of Ascom Network Testing. "This agreement with HTC – a global innovator in 4G LTE smartphones – enables us to extend our 4G LTE leadership to handheld testing with TEMS Pocket.”
"Our phones integrated with Ascom TEMS tools allow our key operator customers to leverage the benefits of our 4G LTE smartphones to accelerate 4G network deployment, troubleshooting and optimization,” said Mohammed Versi, product management, HTC.
Ascom Network Testing is a leader in LTE testing, with its Ascom TEMS Investigation™ and TEMS Pocket™ solutions used to test 60% of all 4G LTE network deployments worldwide. The agreement with HTC now extends this leadership by providing TEMS customers with the ability to test 4G LTE network quality from the end user’s smartphone perspective. The integration of HTC Rezound and HTC Vivid with TEMS Pocket 12.1 is currently available, and the HTC Vivid is currently available in TEMS Investigation 14.1.
Today’s announcement continues Ascom Network Testing’s track record of working with the world’s leading handset, chipset and infrastructure vendors to enable wireless operators and service providers to have timely and efficient network deployments and quality of service across a vast set of technologies and standards worldwide. Through its commitment to internal R&D, its extensive history in the mobile industry and investments in partnerships with mobile technology leaders, Ascom Network Testing continues to pave the way for multi-vendor, multi-format and multi-environment network testing, optimization and benchmarking.
