GPS/GNSS News Coverage
11 Jun 10 - Connected Planet - Why Better Location Data Means Better Location-Based Services
LBSs are red-hot, but that won't continue if developers can't get accurate location data from today's complex, hybrid location technologies.
10 Jun 10 - GPS Business News - Spirent Introduces Wi-Fi Positioning Test Solution
Spirent has introduced the GSS5700 Wi-Fi Positioning Access Point Simulator to test Wi-Fi positioning capabilities in suitably-enabled devices and chipsets.
09 Jun 10 - Satellite Spotlight - Wi-Fi Positioning Test Solution Introduced by Spirent
To test Wi-Fi positioning capabilities in suitably-enabled devices and chipsets, Spirent introduced the GSS5700 Wi-Fi Positioning Access Point Simulator.
11 Aug 2009 - Spirent Launches New Signal Generator-Inside GNSS
Spirent Communications plc has launched the GSS6300 Multi-GNSS Signal Generator, intended for high-volume production test applications for devices that use commercial GPS/SBAS, GLONASS, and/or Galileo receivers.
20 July 2009 - Spirent unveils GSS6700 Simulator for GNSS Testing-Electronics Talk
The GSS6700 offers a GPS test capability and support for the Russian Glonass system and the planned European Galileo system.
29 Jun 2009 - GPS Wing Seeks Manufacturer, User Feedback on SVN49 Signal Anomaly, Solution - Inside GNSS
... According to the GPS Wing, GNSS simulator manufacturer Spirent Federal is preparing a scenario, based on the SVN49 error models, to simulate the SVN-49 problem and enable laboratory testing.
15 Apr 2009 - GNSS Simulators Serve as Industry Bellwether-GPS World
Examples of high-end GNSS simulators include Spirent's GSS8000 series and iFen's NavX-NCS.
09 Apr 09 - Interview with Nigel Wright, Spirent - GPS Business News
Spirent is a worldwide leading test and measurement company specializing, among other, in navigation and positioning test systems. At the CTIA trade show last week, GPS Business News met with Nigel Wright, vice president of product marketing, who explained us that there is still a lot to be made to increase GPS performance in improving GPS implementation in handsets and how the CTIA itself is pushing forward a certification methodology for over-the-air testing.
07 Apr 2009 - ETS-Lindgren's platform meets CTIA 3.0 A-GPS test plan-TMWorld.com
ETS-Lindgren announced an integrated platform that lets wireless device manufacturers test their products for compliance with CTIA's new requirement for over-the-air performance testing of A-GPS (Assisted-GPS) enabled mobile devices.
02 Apr 2009 - A-GPS big at CTIA-Microwave Journal Blog
... Spirent Communications, a mobile device, application, and wireless network testing company, has partnered with ETS-Lindgen, a provider of RF chambers and antenna measurement solutions, to integrate Spirent's UMTS Location Test System ...
26 Mar 2009 - Spirent Communications Solution for CTIA A-GPS Over The Air Test Standard-Mobile Handset Design Line
A common feature in smart phones today is GPS. However, accuracy is not always trustworthy, limiting the capability and reliance by users. This can be caused by a number of reasons, one of which is poor GPS antenna performance.
09 Apr 2009 - Interview with Nigel Wright, Spirent - GPS Business News
Spirent is a worldwide leading test and measurement company specializing, among other, in navigation and positioning test systems. At the CTIA trade show last week, GPS Business News met with Nigel Wright, vice president of product marketing, who explained us that there is still a lot to be made to increase GPS performance in improving GPS implementation in handsets and how the CTIA itself is pushing forward a certification methodology for over-the-air testing.
07 Feb 2008 - Spirent Enhances A-GPS Conformance Testing Product-InsideGNSS.com
Spirent has announced the availability of two new capabilities for its UMTS Location Test Solution (ULTS) that will affect assisted GPS (A-GPS) implementation in mobile communication devices and location-based services (LBS): enhanced testing of secure user plane (SUPL) and wideband CDMA (WCDMA) signaling conformance testing.
26 Sep 2007 - Spirent Delivers First SDS M-code Simulators - GPS World
Spirent Federal Systems said today that it has delivered the first SDS M-code simulation systems to Raytheon and Rockwell Collins companies in support of their Modernized User Equipment (MUE) Receiver Card Development contracts with the U.S. Air Force's GPS Wing.
08 May 2006 - Spirent Federal GPS Simulation System Selected by Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR); NAVAIR Uses Spirent System to Test GPS Receivers - FreshNews.com
The U.S. Navy's Naval Air Systems Command PMA209 Common System Integration Lab will use Spirent Federal's GPS Simulation System for testing of GPS receivers.
01 Oct 2005 - Turn, Turn, Turn: Wheel-Speed Dead Reckoning for Vehicle Navigation - GPS World
A senior systems engineer for Spirent Federal Systems, Curtis Hay writes about the use of wheel-speed sensors for in-vehicle navigation systems.