Spirent’s Virtual Drive Test (VDT) – Conversion Tool is an invaluable aid in bringing “virtual drive testing” to your wireless device lab. Virtual drive testing reduces the cost and time-to-market liabilities inherent in live drive testing.

Drive testing has always been a “necessary evil”—it is expensive and imposes a drag on time-to-market goals. It requires you to expose precious intellectual property to the outside world. And when results are gathered, there’s no way to tell whether deltas in the results are due to design tweaks or changes in the field environment. On top of all that, complex multiple-antenna (diversity and MIMO) scenarios are becoming the norm, exacerbating all these issues.

Virtual drive testing, available on Spirent’s SR5500 and VR5 HD channel emulators, has been a life-saver for drive-test engineers and managers. Now the VDT – Conversion Tool adds even more efficiency, automating the conversion so data goes from scanner log to active use in a matter of minutes. The tool also takes care of the nuances that have historically made it difficult to bring scanner data to the RF lab.

Now capturing, saving and “playing back” an RF environment is easier than ever with Spirent’s VDT - Conversion Tool. Drive a route once, capture RF scenarios, and play them back for repeatable, realistic drive testing that starts the minute you decide to do it.