Spirent (News - Alert) Communications, a provider of testing solutions for wireless networks, services and devices, has announced a new product offering for mobile device designers and developers.

The new product is designed to address the design needs of engineers who design cellular phones, tablets, data cards and machine-to-machine cellular modules.

The Spirent CS8 Wireless Device Design Tester bundles network emulation with innovative testing software and subject matter expertise into an affordable package.

Spirent already offers highly automated testing systems used by manufacturers and network operators for design verification and acceptance testing of finished products.

"CS8 is about delivering our performance testing and rapid test case development technology, which until recently were available only in our network operator solutions, into the hands of the design engineer," said Hesham ElHamahmy, vice president, Spirent, in a statement.

"In fact, by offering purpose-specific software, interfaces and other components, this one platform can be used at every stage of the development process, from RF or baseband design to system-level DVT," ElHamahmy added.

The CS8's Interactive Tester includes a network-grade Evolved Packet Core (EPC). The EPC testing solution is already being used by infrastructure vendors to verify their network equipment. It provides advantages over using a fixed script-based EPC.

“First, it runs right out of the box, without requiring the user to spend weeks modifying scripts to control the network. Second, the implementation is very realistic, both in terms of latency and in the completeness of the message implementation,” company officials said.

Recently, Spirent Communications (News - Alert) announced its participation in Symmetricom SyncWorld program. The program is aimed at offering support to the precise timing and synchronization that is imperative while transitioning to all-IP backhaul networks and 4G/LTE (News - Alert) mobile platforms.