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Each RF channel has two SMA antennae connectors for either cell and GPS or cell and diversity. Forward facing "push push" SIM holders provide easy accesibility.

Cellular capabilities are provided using modules from Cinterion (HC series) or Option (GTM series). These give plenty of flexibility, are able to support most current HSDPA and HSUPA services as well as GPRS and EDGE. Other modules can be used if needed for your application. Each module is on a separate board that is independently switched under software control. Module power down recovery, cold start testing and hard reset can all be performed from software.

The processor board is an Intel^® Atom^TM dual core running Windows^® XP Embedded. Used with Probe Builder^TM this can run a wide variety of protocols and applications, simulating typical business and consumer activity. The Atom processor has very low power consumption and the entire unit only consumes around 22 watt/hour on a typical testing cycle.

It implements tests using scripting and ActiveX^® object technology, making it easy to extend and to integrate. It provides a record and replay feature for Citrix^®, Windows^® and Internet Explorer^® to allow capture of customer scenarios for use in service tests.

You can build probes that meet a variety of needs:

• The Application Assistant allows you to build a probe by recording your use of Internet Explorer or any other Windows graphical program.
• The Terminal Assistant allows you to record a Citrix^® session with the host application and replay as a probe from the client location(s).
• EPS Mobile Workbench provides support for mutihomed test systems and a range of protocols useful in mobile testing.
• General capabilities of the JScript^® environment and ActiveX^® object technology from Microsoft and other suppliers give almost unlimited scope for probe builders.
• You can run commands on both Windows and UNIX^® (using VT100 emulation or remote execution) and process any output returned.
• You can probe databases using SQL with Microsoft’s ADO (ActiveX^® Data Objects).
• Console applications may be run using built-in JScript facilities.
• Automation capable applications, such as Microsoft Office, may be scripted directly using their automation interfaces.
• You have access to an enormous range of measurement and administrative data through Microsoft’s Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).

It is especially suited for measuring customer service experience on mobile networks through modem or mobile phone connections, but is equally at home testing service on Windows^® desktop, browser or terminal based applications. Control Point provides discovery and inventory for your test equipment. It will discover and manage your test PC’s, network interfaces, modem or phone connections, SIM cards and EPS specific test equipment. It provides remote (LAN) access to modems for diagnostics and settings. For EPS equipment it also provides remote power switching and supply sensing.

Control Point provides a GPS service for location based testing and allows multiple test scripts to share a GPS device.

Control Point can also be used to manage your service testing tasks. Service tests are defined, test resources allocated and tests scheduled. The schedule is distributed to the test points and test results returned to the Control Point measurement database ready for integration with your systems and network management and reporting. (Test scheduler available Q2 2010)

Extensions are provided as objects ready for use in Probe Builder scripts and the following objects are available:

It is particularly useful where multi-lingual testing is required as it uses PCM pattern matching rather than voice recognition. Changing a test from one language to another is as easy as loading a different sample catalogue. VTS is also used for music sample discrimination. It applies time and frequency domain analysis to determine correct delivery of value added services that involve music replay.