NTS Calgary - Headquarters for NTS Canada

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NTS Calgary is ideally located minutes from the Calgary International Airport (YYC) in Calgary's North East. Built in the late 1990's, this state of the art facility and its staff are capable of handling equipment of all sizes. Anchored by its oversized 10 meter semi-anechoic chamber, this facility can handle many equipment types including Wired & Wireless Telecommunications, Heavy & Light Industrial, Test & Measurement, Medical Devices, Military, Aerospace, Consumer Products and more.

Highlights of Calgary's capabilities include:

Wireless Testing
Testing of all unlicensed devices for global markets including Mobile Radios, GPS, Point-to-Point / Point-to-Multipoint, RFID Readers, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, etc.

  • Testing of all licensed devices for global markets including Cellular, PCS, CDMA, CDMA-1x-EVDO, W-CDMA, GSM, UMTS, TDMA, HSPA, ELT's, WIMAX, etc.
  • Full CE Marking capability in accordance with R&TTE Directive including Notified Body services for Opinion as well as Notifications to Member States
  • Global Certifications including TCB and CCB Certifications

Electromagnetic Compatibility

  • FCC and IC listed 10 meter semi-anechoic chamber
  • Compliant 3 meter chamber
  • Full EMI/EMC capabilities including:
    • Radiated Emissions
    • Conducted Emissions
    • ESD
    • Radiated Susceptibility
    • Electrical Fast Transients
    • Surge
    • Conducted Susceptibility
    • Magnetic Susceptibility
      • Voltage Dips & Interruptions - AC/DC
    • Damped Oscillatory and Ring Wave Immunity
    • Conducted Common Mode Disturbances
    • Ripple on DC Input Power Port Immunity

NEBS Testing

  • NTS is an Independent Test Lab (ITL) for Verizon and our test reports (in TCG - Telecommunications Carrier Group format) are accepted by all RBOC's in USA
  • GR-1089-CORE
  • GR-63-CORE
  • GR-487-CORE

Product Safety Testing

  • Fully equipped Electrical Safety lab covering all necessary testing to get the product certified to national (CSA/UL) and international (CE Mark, CB Scheme, other) standards
  • Ingress protection (IP, NEMA)
  • Hydrogen Outgasing Test for battery systems
  • AC Power Fault

Environmental Testing

  • A large selection of temperature/humidity chambers ranging from 2'X2'X2' to 20'X14'X13' walk-in chambers
  • Rain and Water Ingress testing
  • Altitude Testing

Mechanical Testing

  • T-1000 Electro-Dynamic vibration shaker system
  • Testing covering:
    • Operational Shock & Vibration
    • Transportation Shock & Vibration
    • Resonance search
    • Packaged & Un-packaged drop
    • Packaged & Un-packaged bumps

Reliability, HALT/HASS Testing

  • HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Testing)
  • HASS (Highly Accelerated Stress Screening)
  • Heavy duty HALT chamber (4'X4'X4')
  • MTBF predictions
  • Reliability Analysis
  • Reliability Demonstration Testing
  • Engineering services to help debug and re-engineer products to fix design and process flaws

Test System Engineering and Automation

  • NTS TSE (Test Systems Engineering) is a National Instruments Select Partner
  • Focused on LabVIEW and systems integration
  • Integrators, technicians, salespeople, management, project management, and support staff
  • Certified LabVIEW Architects (CLA) and Certified LabVIEW Developers (CLD)