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The GSS5700 by Spirent is a Wi-Fi Positioning Simulator, designed to meet the demands of quick and precise location information by combing the power of Wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) positioning with other cutting-edge technologies like GNSS and Cell-ID in a hybrid solution. The GSS5700 serves as an invaluable tool for a wide range of applications, including research and development, integration, design verification, performance analysis, benchmarking, regression testing, pre-launch evaluation, software regression tests, and acceptance tests.

With the GSS5700, the user can conduct repeatable and reliable device testing in a controlled lab environment, significantly reducing the need for costly and time-consuming field testing. The simulator allows simultaneous simulation of multiple Wi-Fi Access Points (APs), each of which can be independently configured and controlled. Leveraging advanced software features, the user can effortlessly create tests that accurately replicate real-world scenarios, complete with a customizable AP database, adversarial situations, and advanced vehicle motion. Moreover, the GSS5700 seamlessly integrates with compatible GPS and multi-GNSS Simulation Systems, enabling comprehensive testing of true hybrid location performance.

The GSS5700 enables the user to reduce time-to-market, enhances Wi-Fi positioning performance, and ensures optimal hybrid location capabilities. Equipped with powerful test definition tools and comprehensive modeling features for simulated device motion and channel power levels, the software suites accompanying this simulator offer unmatched flexibility and precision. Furthermore, individual characteristics of Wi-Fi access points, including location coordinates, MAC address, transmit ERP, and channel number, can be imported or defined via a user-friendly remote interface and stored as an ASCII database. The GSS5700 standard configuration allows for 12 APs, with expandability options up to 24 APs in a single chassis or even up to 48 APs with an expansion chassis.

The GSS5700 excels at reproducing the relevant beacon signaling associated with multiple APs simultaneously, offering three distinctive operating modes: emulation mode, simulation mode, and replay mode. In emulation mode, the GSS5700 functions as a controllable instrument, allowing the user to define fundamental characteristics for each received AP signal, including MAC address, signal channel number, and incident power level. In simulation mode, the emulator dynamically re-creates an operational environment, simulating the device under test moving within a collection of static APs, with power levels being determined by the distance from the AP (path loss) and its transmit power. Lastly, in replay mode, the emulator intelligently selects APs and receives power levels directly from a time-ordered script of AP visibility and characteristics, which can be derived from field observations or artificially created.