German test equipment company Rohde & Schwarz is helping Indian test house Marquistech check mobile devices, IoT products and wireless modules with support for 4G and 5G conformance, NB-IoT NTN, Cat-M, NB-IoT, MCX and location-based service certification.

Marquistech has expanded its operations in the Indian city of Noida to build a fully equipped conformance recognised test organisation lab for GCF and authorised test lab for PTCRB testing based on Rohde & Schwarz systems.

Marquistech selected Rohde & Schwarz to equip its conformance and EMI and EMC test lab in Noida with various systems for GCF and PTCRB certification testing. The investment includes the TS8980FTA-3A RF/RRM full type approval system, CMX500 radio communication tester for protocol conformance, TS-LBS positioning test system for location-based service testing, and TS9982 and TS9975 EMI and EMC test systems.

With this expanded setup, Marquistech says it has become the first fully equipped conformance test house in India for both certification programmes. The lab, located in the Delhi national capital region, is aimed at serving companies in the mobile, IoT and wireless module markets at a time when India is gaining importance as an export focused electronics manufacturing location.

The newly installed systems support legacy 4G as well as advanced 5G features, including non-terrestrial networks (NTN) and mission-critical communications (MCX), and lead in numbers of validated test cases covered. Additionally, Rohde & Schwarz has provided regulatory testing capabilities for EMC and EMI at the site to enable a broad range of services. This helps the test house lower costs and reliance on outsourced testing. For customers, it reduces the time to complete a certification campaign.

Marquistech has been active for some time as a GCF field testing organisation. With the expansion of the site, the company has extended its global operations to conformance testing. This adds a broader local test offering for device makers that need certification support during development and before market entry.

“Our goal is to provide a globally competitive certification hub for GCF and PTCRB testing, delivering quality, flexibility and faster time-to-market,” said Prashant Jain, vice president at Marquistech (www.marquistech.com). “Together with Rohde & Schwarz, we are helping strengthen the global wireless certification ecosystem.”

The local support structure provided by Rohde & Schwarz (www.rohde-schwarz.com) was a decisive factor for Marquistech. R&S operates a major development site nearby with integrated laboratories that cover the wireless product lifecycle for conformance, supported by local engineering and application teams.