HSDPA Testing with QVoice Smart

QVoice Smart – our successful 'pocket' network measurement tool now has HSPDA test intelligence.

Just consider ... that 'good coverage' is a vital prerequisite for high HSDPA throughput; and typically subscribers access their high-speed data services indoors. Assessing HSPDA performance in buildings is therefore very important and QVoice Smart is the practical solution.

QVoice Smart provides testing of IP services such as HTTP, WAP and FTP on HSDPA connections – and in addition to application related measurements like throughput and access times, QVoice Smart gathers a wide range of HSDPA parameters and displays the most important in real-time during measurement. For example:

• CQI (Channel Quality Information) statistics – In the CQI the handsets notifies the network about the data rate it expects being able to receive based on current radio conditions. A high CQI indicates high potential throughput.
• Layer 1 performance and quality metrics – Modulation usage (QPSK vs. 16QAM), number of parallel codes in use, re-transmission rate and actual bit rate provide instantaneous information on HSDPA physical layer performance.
• HSDPA activity value – as HSDPA is a shared resource within one cell, it is important to know how much of the available resource a single subscriber can get at once. When doing large file downloads on FTP the HSDPA activity value provides this information.

Of course, HSDPA testing is not all that the QVoice Smart can do as it is also very well liked for it's accuracy in testing real speech quality along with SMS & MMS. QVoice Smart uses the identical data file format as all QVoice data acquisition products, meaning QVoice Smart measurements are accessible for post-processing with QVP and Field Analyser.

Why not try it for yourself and see QVoice Smart in action by going to http://www.qvoice.com/smart.

Sincerely
Your QVoice Team