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Keithley Adds WiMAX Testing Capability to Its RF Test Instrument Family

Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 7:42:42 AM       Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox                            Digg This Article   Add to Delicious

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    Keithley''s unique approach to instrument design provides simple, low-cost upgrade path to future Wave 2 MIMO with 4x4 signal streams and other new wireless standards

    Cleveland, Ohio - June 17, 2008 - Keithley Instruments, Inc. (NYSE:KEI), a leader in solutions for emerging measurement needs, today announced a set of signal creation and analysis tools that extend its RF test capabilities to include WiMAX signal testing. Keithley''s new solution is built on a next-generation hardware platform that makes it simple and inexpensive to add support for new signal standards, such as 802.16e mobile WiMAX Wave 2 testing with up to 4x4 MIMO channels, without requiring expensive hardware upgrades or different instrumentation. In addition, the new instruments support testing to lower frequency bands down to 400MHz, an increasingly important capability for new WiMAX solutions being developed. For more information on Keithley''s expanded WiMAX test solutions, visit http://keithley.acrobat.com/mobilewimax.

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