Agilent Technologies to Present Three Technical Sessions at 2009 Informa LTE World Summit

The technical sessions are:

* MIMO Mia! -- What the Standards Didn't Tell You about MIMO;
* Honey, Who Shrunk My Mega Bits -- Practical Tips on Measuring Application Throughput in the Real World; and
* Doing Less with Moore - Challenges and Opportunities for Future Standards.

Agilent will exhibit its design-automation tools and flexible instrumentation for early LTE R&D design in components, base-station equipment and mobile devices.

The landscape is changing rapidly in mobile communications, combined with the challenges in global economies, yet LTE clearly is gaining momentum, said Benoit Neel, vice president and general manager of Agilent's Europe, Middle East and Africa field operations. Agilent remains fully committed to providing test solutions for the entire LTE development lifecycle -- from early RF and protocol development to conformance test and comprehensive, real-time network optimization and diagnostics.

Session highlights of Doing Less with Moore - Challenges and Opportunities for Future Standards, an LTE Summit workshop track on standardization presented by Moray Rumney, include:

* Examining trends in standardization
* Growing fragmentation and complexity, diminishing returns
* The growing gap between conformance testing and real life operation
* Opportunities for standards in an uncertain world
* Integration of macrocell and small cell technology
* Can femtocells do it all or do we need Wi-Fi

Moray Rumney joined HP/Agilent in 1984, and in 1991 became the company's representative to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), contributing to the standardization of the GSM air interface and type approval tests. He has represented Agilent at 3GPP and contributed to the development of the W-CDMA air interface and RF conformance tests. This standardization work has evolved to incorporate HSDPA, HSUPA, and now LTE and IMT-Advanced.

Agilent's recently published book LTE and the Evolution to 4G Wireless -- Design and Measurement Challenges will be available at the conference. It is an in-depth examination of the new 3GPP LTE cellular technology and the challenges it poses to engineering design and test teams. The book offers valuable insight into the LTE air interface at the physical layer and its testing challenges. Contributions from LTE authorities Dr. K.F. Tsang and Anite Telecoms round out the signaling and protocol coverage. The content provides technical and practical knowledge about the complex LTE technology that is projected to be deployed in 2010.