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Take your WLAN (wireless local area network) technology ideas from concept to consumer with confidence. Agilent has the industry’s most extensive offering of WLAN technology instruments, tools, and systems for R&D, certification and manufacturing including the latest WLAN technology, 802.11ac and 802.11ad. And Agilent’s expert test engineers continue to evolve our test products to keep pace with emerging technologies such as MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) in the 802.11n standard and the new 802.11ac. Greater insight. Greater confidence. Accelerate next-generation wireless.

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Tackling MIMO Design and Test Challenges for 802.11ac WLAN 
This article from Microwave Journal shows how the system engineer can use system simulation to help understand the design performance and design requirements needed to achieve transmitter system-level metrics such as EVM.

Article 2012-03-11

 
802.11ac Wireless LAN: what’s new and the impact on design and test 
EE times article by Agilent’s Mirin Lew describing the 802.11ac, the technical challenges and comparisons to earlier technologies.

Article 2011-11-09

 
Caution: MIMO Test Challenges Ahead 
Article published by Wireless Design & Development on MIMO testing challenges and methods to achieve higher data rates such as two0 and four-channel MIMO.

Article 2010-09-20

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A WLAN Test System using Test Equipment with EDA Software 
This Article by Dingqing Lu & Jinbiao Xu details a test system configured from basic h/w test equipment: signal generator, vector signal analyzer connected with EDA software for testing WLAN systems.

Article 2003-05-01

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