Aeroflex Limited announced recently that the TM500 family of network and infrastructure test systems now supports the aggregation of component carriers of both types of LTE-A radio access, TDD and FDD, Rfglobalnet.com reported.

4G mobile operators can address customer demand for higher data rates by using carrier aggregation of TDD and FDD bands to combine spectrum allocated to the different radio access technologies. Mixed-mode TDD and FDD carrier aggregation gives network operators more flexibility by using frequency allocations in both TDD and FDD bands to maximize 4G data speeds.

The TM500 is the industry-standard base station tester in use by infrastructure vendors across the world, and the E500 – part of the TM500 family – is used by leading network operators to verify the performance of new network features.