Chinese TMC attains Bluetooth testing facility

Chinese-government owned Telecommunication Metrology Center (TMC), an agency of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), has attained the Bluetooth Qualified Test Facility (BQTF).

The facility was attained through the official recognition by AT4 Wireless, a global supplier of testing solutions for wireless technologies, which is recognized as the most complete wireless certification and testing laboratory of cutting-edge test and measurement equipment for telecommunication technologies.

Announcing this development, the Head of Marketing, AT4 wireless, Ms
Jacqueline Casini, said in a press statement made available to Champion Infotel, that her firm has officially validated Bluetooth test platforms BITE T1111 RF Test System and BITE T1212 Protocol Test System in the laboratory facilities of the Chinese Laboratory, TMC.

This, she said, was gained via the Bluetooth Qualified Test Facility recognition from the Bluetooth SIG and has begun to offer Bluetooth Qualification testing services for all the mandatory test requirements, including the latest Bluetooth Core Specifications (BCS).

Casini also said that this achievement confirms BITE test systems from AT4 wireless as the reference test platform for Bluetooth qualification, and nowadays the most deployed solution among the BQTFs worldwide.

She quoted the Product Manager at AT4 wireless, Ms. Angel Romero, as saying that her firm is very proud of having provided TMC with the best-in-class Radio Frequency (RF) and Protocol Test equipment for Bluetooth Qualification Services; the BITE family of test solutions.

“Thereby, AT4 wireless reinforces its leading position in the Bluetooth testing field and confirms the BITE test equipment as the preferred option when setting up a BQTF,” she said.

Her counterpart at TMC, Ms Lv Songdong, said, TMC is now ready to offer Bluetooth qualification testing services to the Bluetooth industry, specially to the Chinese growing market, with the state-of-the-art technology.

According to her “Working with AT4 wireless has definitely helped us to setup and obtain the Bluetooth SIG recognition in the shortest time.”

Explaining that TMC was founded in 1980, with four departments and over 200 staffs, prides itself with an objective and independent third-party test cum calibration institute and also a standard development organization.

In addition, she said, TMC is a leading high-tech laboratory which could provide services on products inspection, verification and technical assessment as well as testing instrument metrology and calibration to NP08 45 AT4wireless TMC BITE Qualification Tester FINAL 19122008 2/2 world wide customers.

TMC, she further said, contributes a lot to telecommunication product standards, metrology standards and test specifications for worldwide standardization organizations.

Testing scope covers almost all the telecommunication technologies, Global System for Mobile (GSM), Universal Mobile Telecommunications Standards (UMTS), WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, UWB, EMC, OTA, Audio, IP and so on.

As a distinguished and experienced testing lab, TMC provide good testing services to world wide customers.

While AT4 wireless founded in 1991, has more than 370 employees and operates from it’s headquarter in Malaga/Spain and its US-based branch in Herndon/VA.

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