I was a tester for a long time and I was asked the following question from time to time. What is the best country to work as a LTE tester? In which country I can use my competence to get better compensation and live a better life.
LTE is an all-IP network with no CS support. To support voice communication operators have many options. Voice Over LTE Voice Over WiFi CS Fallback Let’s check briefly about the above options for voice communication. Voice Over LTE (VoLTE) VoLTE is the true solution for voice communication over the all-IP LTE network. It uses the IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) to (more ..)
Do you check a tons of text logs everyday? What is your favorite tool to filter out the logs? If you are like me, you must be spending a good amount of time on text based logs. These include Android ADB logcat logs or modem logs. And the big problem is to find the right too to do the job (more ..)
Field test is challenging! I was tester for almost 5 years doing 3G and LTE field and lab test. I traveled across the globe to do interoperability testing with operators and network vendors. Each test session was unique and I learned a lot from each of those. I struggled in the beginning, but as I stated to travel more (more ..)
Internet of Things is the buzzword at this moment. Whenever I go to a startup meetup these days, half of the discussion is about Internet of Things. Either it is connected cars or connected home or anything which can just talk to another device is the next big thing. Almost all ideas are now about connecting something to something. This (more ..)
5G is coming and we all are curious about what the next generation mobile technology is going to offer! Though there is still sometime to see real world deployment (First 5G deployment plan is 2020), companies are putting their best efforts to shape the technology up. Among those who shown tremendous interest and working to make things work is Motorola. (more ..)
I am happy to announce the first version of 3GPP Decoder, a open source and free tool to decode LTE, UMTS and GSM messages and PDUs. For the first version the following messages are supported: GSM GAN TCP GAN UDP GSM CCCH GSM SACCH LLC NAS SNDCP SNDCPXID UMTS RLC-AM RLC-UM NAS RRC BCCH.BCH RRC BCCH.FACH RRC DL.CCCH RRC DL.DCCH (more ..)