Don't just emulate. Replicate.
To rapidly innovate and deliver reliable services for cloud-based mobile networks, lab and production can no longer operate separately. LAMTA creates a mirror environment for your production mobile network and integrates test and deployment into one system workflow.
What is LAMTA?
The LAMTA solution is an end-to-end RF testing and automation platform for mobile network operators (MNOs). The platform blends the lab and production environments together, isolating them for testing and integrating them for deployment. By modelling the real RAN more accurately in the lab, users can enable more sophisticated testing, optimize lab resource usage, increase confidence in test results, and reduce time-to-market by simplifying deployment into production.
System Architecture
LAMTA is an orchestration platform that controls all the disparate systems and equipment in the lab. It is a scalable solution that enables users to programmatically configure, control and test network elements (RAN, test emulators, and UE devices). Lab network elements can be configured for multiple frequency bands, RATs, and site configurations. LAMTA can also be used to set up and automate advanced mobility scenarios such as MIMO, carrier aggregation, and handover.
LAMTA Modules
Radio Management
Manage 5G/LTE/UMTS/WI-FI connections on a dashboard, not on patch panels.
Test Automation
Simulate and automate RF test scenarios like MIMO, handover, and carrier aggregation.
Resource Management
Track and manage lab resources to improve resource utilization, boost productivity, and increase ROI.
LAMTA Features
Scalable & Flexible Radio Management
An RF switch matrix passes RF signals from sources such as RRUs to Devices Under Test (DUT) in RF shield boxes. Under control of the LAMTA server, the RF switch matrix uses variable attenuation to mix any combination of input signals together and pass them to any combination of outputs.
- Scalable radio connection management for 5G/LTE/UMTS/Wi-Fi
- Flexible switch connections between radios, network elements (CU/DU/RRU) and test chambers
- Real-time radio transit power monitoring
- Manage connections from a web-based GUI
MIMO, Handover, Carrier Aggregation and Tier Roaming Testing
Controlled by LAMTA software, automate testing of advanced mobility scenarios and simulate real-world scenarios like handovers, MIMO, and carrier aggregation.
- Tests are conducted automatically and repeated as needed
- Functional and performance testing
- One-click setup for repeatable test environments
- Operate tests from an easy-to-use GUI interface from a remote location
Massive MIMO Testing
- Massive MIMO testing in conducted mode
- End-to-end solution using our Phase Shift Attenutation hardware to connect AAU and test devices
Allocate test resources to users & track testing status
LAMTA can also be used to help manage lab assets and resources and enable remote testing and management.
- Share RRU sources among several testers simultaneously
- Combine and share RF signals as needed by testers
- Assign RRUs and test chambers to avoid resource blocking
- Keep track of testing progress
Log Automation
- UE/DUT and NE log capture and analysis
- Layer 3 log capture with automated pass/fail analysis
- Faster time-to-market by automating testing processes with Restful APIs
- Error-free log analysis by policy-based machine learning techniques
