CDMA Certification Forum Authorizes Additional 3G Certification Test Facilities
Thursday January 19, 2006, 12:00 am
COSTA MESA, Calif., Jan. 18, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- The CDMA Development Group (CDG) today announced that two more CDMA Certification Forum (CCF) test facilities are authorized to certify CDMA2000(r) devices for commercial availability -- Wireless Test Systems (WTS) headquartered in San Diego, California, and the Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA) headquartered in Seoul, Korea.
The CCF, www.globalccf.org, is a global forum that has created a uniform and well-defined test and certification process that significantly reduces the time and cost of bringing third generation (3G) devices to market. The CCF has demonstrated that its streamlined and evolutionary CCF test process, which increases the number of test cases conducted by 40%, can thoroughly test and certify CDMA2000 devices for commercialization within three weeks at a cost of 20% lower compared to the traditional test process.
"The CDMA industry is rapidly building its capabilities to deliver high-quality products to the market at a lower cost and in a timely manner so operators are able to capitalize on the growing demand for advanced wireless communications," said Perry LaForge, executive director of the CDG. "There are already operational CCF facilities in North America and Asia, and our goal is to establish a truly global network of testing resources to better serve the unique needs of individual markets."
WTS, www.wirelesstest.com, and the TTA, www.tta.or.kr, are now ready to begin accepting CDMA2000 1X devices. Using a combination of laboratory and field tests over a period of a month, the labs will verify whether or not a device is ready for certification by the forum. Once the modem layer functionality, product conformance, network interoperability and essential performance of the device are certified, CDMA carriers worldwide can take advantage of this certification. This is especially valuable for CDMA carriers without an existing test process.
Michael Spitzer, President and CEO of Wireless Test Systems, said, "We are very pleased to see how the highly automated CCF test process has standardized and expedited the testing of products. It will help us meet the needs of CDMA handset vendors and carriers that have short development cycles to get their devices to market quickly."
Kyung-Sik Kim, General Manager of CDMA Testing Section at the TTA, added, "By certifying our test lab here in Korea, the CCF has ensured that the product certification needs of the CDMA2000 industry in Asia will be well served." He also commented that, "The CCF certification process is an essential step towards improving the availability, interoperability and affordability of the increasingly sophisticated variety of CDMA2000 devices."
Along with NEWS IQ Labs, these two independent testing and evaluation laboratories will support the rapid commercialization of next-generation CDMA devices around the world by reducing the queue and amount of time it takes to test the commercial readiness of CDMA2000 devices. |
