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Anritsu Corporation is pleased to announce the launch of the MU887002A-007 hardware option to extend the upper frequency of its TRX Test Module MU887002A for the Universal Wireless Test Set MT8870AMT8872A from 6 GHz to 7.3 GHz.With this hardware option the MT8870AMT8872A now supports RF tests of the 6 GHz band 5.925 to 7.125 GHz used by the IEEE 802.11ax and NR-U standards helping increase the efficiency of Wireless communication device production lines.Development BackgroundFollowing U.S. FCC approval in April 2020 for unlicensed use of the 6 GHz band countries worldwide are starting deployment tests. With its much wider 1200 MHz operation range coverage supporting higher communications speeds and larger data capacity the 6 GHz band is expected to facilitate new applications and services. The IEEE 802.11ax WLAN standard regulates this 6 GHz band and the Wi-Fi Alliance is starting its Wi-Fi 6E certification program for IEEE 802.11ax 6 GHz devices.Shipments of Wi-Fi 6E compliant wireless communication device are starting in 2021 and are expected to reach a total of 800 million units in 2025.Moreover 3GPP Release 16 added NR-U to the unlicensed frequency bands for anticipated future use.In these circumstances production lines for wireless communication device such as smartphones and WLAN products have an increasingly urgent demand for measuring instruments to evaluate 6 GHz band RF TRX performance.To meet this demand Anritsu has extended the upper frequency of the MU887002A module used by the Universal Wireless Test Set MT8870AMT8872A to 7.3 GHz for evaluating 6 GHz band wireless communication device performance.
