Editor’s Note:Â The ability to test network and device features and functions is an important piece of technology development and deployment. RCR Wireless News looks weekly at the test and measurement space to see what’s afoot.
—Anite said this week that the new version of its Nemo Outdoor laptop-based drive testing solution supports carrier aggregation (CA) and Category 6 devices. Nemo Outdoor supports all major network technologies.
Anite said that operators are in the trial and testing phase for CA using two carrier components and downlink bandwidths of 20 MHz. On its part, the test company said that it has already achieved application data throughput of 293 Mbps using two component carrier CA for 40 MHz bandwidth, with Nemo Outdoor in a lab environment.
Anite announced earlier this month that it is also dabbling in three component carrier CA, and had achieved demo speeds of 300 Mbps with 40 MHz bandwidth using three carriers.
—Radcom said it is expanding its network monitoring presence with two of its Latin American customers who started out with its wireless network solutions and are now adding monitoring for their fixed-line VoIP networks in order to have the solutions for both networks on one platform.
—The smartphone testing market hasn’t evolved as quickly as the devices themselves, and that presents new opportunities for device testing, according to a new report from Heavy Reading.
—Anritsu was recognized by Frost & Sullivan, receiving the analyst firm’s 2014 award for customer value leadership in the global RF testing market.
—The testing of SDN transport is being explored by standards bodies and operators. Read more here. Along similar lines, EXFO this week launched EXFO Xtract, which is a monitoring platform for real-time performance visibility across telecom networks. EXFO said in a statement on the launch that the “reality is that legacy monitoring solutions are no longer capable of coping economically with the new infrastructure scale and complexity” that come with cloud-based solutions and network function virtualization (NFV). Xtract was developed to give an in-depth view of infrastructure and proactive monitoring and management of network assets, the company said.
EXFO said Xtract “has the smallest hardware footprint in the industry” and is designed to run on commodity hardware while generating capex savings of up to 60% more than its closest competitor.
