Anritsu:

Managing

interference in

densified networks

A conversation with Tom Elliott,

Sr. Product Manager,

Anritsu Company

By Monica Paolini, Senza Fili

In collaboration with

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Profile

Anritsu

Founded over 120 years ago, Anritsu Corporation

is a global provider of communications test and

measurement solutions.

Anritsu’s measuring instruments support multiple

areas:

 Mobile wireless communications, RF and

microwave: base station analyzer, Bluetooth and

WLAN tester, cable and antenna analyzer,

conformance test system, interference hunt,

PIM analyzer, peripheral equipment, power

meters and sensors, signal analyzer, spectrum

analyzer, signal generator, signaling tester,

shield box, trace management, vector network

analyzer, handheld vector network analyzer

 Digital broadcast: Digital broadcast analyzer

 Devices and components test: Bit-error-rate

testing, eye pattern analyzer, vector network

analyzer, signal generator, optical spectrum

analyzer, peripheral equipment

 Transport: IP/Ethernet testers, SDH/SONET/OTN

analyzers, PDH/DSn analyzers, multi-layer

network test platform

 Optical: OTDRs, multi-layer network test

platform, optical loss test set / light source /

optical spectrum analyzer, video inspection

probe

In addition, Anritsu has recently introduced

SkyBridge Tools™ to manage cloud data. SkyBridge

Tools helps mobile operators with documentation

and reports, real-time analytics, automated

assessment of RF sweeps and PIM test results.

The ability to automate and scale testing and

monitoring in wireless networks is crucial for

operators moving to multi-layer, multi-RAT

networks and with DAS; the number of tests

needed to assess performance rapidly increases

with complexity and makes manual field testing

time consuming and expensive in terms of staff

resources.

Anritsu solutions also help operators with

densified networks to identify the different

sources of interference that affect macro-cell and

small-cell networks and to manage interference, if

necessary, in real time.

The portfolio of Anritsu measuring instruments is

well suited for indoor densified networks. It

consists of solutions for both the wireless and

optical segments; they can test and monitor both

the access and backhaul/fronthaul portions of

mobile networks.