Anite and Middle Eastern telecom provider Du launched live operations at their new Terminal Innovation Lab in the United Arab Emirates, outfitted with Anite’s test equipment for devices and networks. Anite says it is the first lab of its kind in the Middle East region.
Du, which has been accredited by the Global Certification Forum, wanted the lab in order to improve its device testing as well as validation of end users’ experience on their network. The company said that the lab will also support its efforts for smart cities in the UAE.
– Keysight Technologies has kicked off the new year with a flurry of launches, including a new series of touch-screen oscilloscopes. The new InfiniiVision 3000T X-series of digital storage and mixed-signal oscilloscopes have both capacitive touch screens and zone triggering.
“As digital speeds and device complexity continue to increase, signals under test are getting more complex, and engineers are more challenged to isolate anomalies in their devices,” Keysight said in its introduction of the new series. “Intuitive graphical triggers, previously unavailable in mainstream oscilloscopes, help engineers debug and characterize their cutting-edge devices faster and more easily. With graphical triggers, engineers can use a finger to draw a box around a signal of interest on the instrument display to create a trigger.”
The oscilloscopes also offer upgradable bandwidths from 100 MHz to 1 GHz, and Keysight said that the equipment provides correlated frequency and time domain measurements using gated FFT function for the first time in this particular class of instruments.
Keysight also has begun offering its N9038A MXE electromagnetic interference receiver with a new option of a frequency range from 20 Hz to 3.6 GHz for commercial testing of electromagnetic compatibility; the company said applications in that frequency range include automotive, industrial, medical, consumer and “Internet of Things” use cases.
In addition, Keysight released the latest version of its Advanced Design System software this week and introduced a new compliance test application for systems using low-power double-data-rate 4 memory, which is a dynamic random-access memory technology often used in embedded and mobile applications such as smart phones, tablets and gaming consoles.
– Anritsu has added support for carrier acceptance testing of emergency broadcast messages for mobile devices to its MD8475A signaling tester. The testing for the Commercial Mobile Alert System includes three separate packages for carrier acceptance testing utilizing Anritsu’s SmartStudio Manager software, focused on meeting the CAT requirements of North American operators in 2G, 3G and LTE networks.
Device manufacturers can use the testing set-up to check that devices receive CMAS messages correctly and react with the proper alert for the end-user.
“Mobile operators are using CMAS to provide geographically targeted public safety messages to customers,” said Bob Kersey, marketing director of wireless testing solutions for Anritsu, in a statement. “The MD8475A, along with the integrated SmartStudio Manager, allows mobile device manufacturers to quickly verify proper device operation, lowering the test cost and speeding time to market.”
– I recently interviewed the new CEO of Ixia, Bethany Mayer, on the direction of the company as well as industry trends. You can read that story here.
