Fluke Networks launched its first cloud-based app-monitoring software this week for cloud-based implementations, part of its strategy to address what it calls the “borderless enterprise.”
The shift reflects a growing trend among test companies to move toward monitoring and software as well as hardware offerings. Fluke has been expanding its cloud-based reporting and testing options recently, and the launch of its first software-as-a-service solution puts it in a position more closely aligned with IT – where, according to Daryle DeBalski, VP and GM of the enterprise business unit at Fluke Networks, those departments are being challenged by the fact that they are expected to be responsible for app performance and end-user experience when apps are being hosted in the cloud with limited visibility.
With movement toward cloud-based solutions, mobility and BYOD, DeBalski said, “that really puts IT in a bind. They don’t know what’s going on, they have less control and visibility, but they’re still on the line for performance.”
Fluke’s new TruView Live solution leverages a test sensor called a Pulse, which is available either as a small appliance or a virtualized software version – either downloadable locally or able to be hosted globally – with multiple service levels and a subscription model. It can operate by itself for cloud-based app monitoring, or works with Fluke Networks’ other testing solutions. The service is designed for performance and end-to-end availability in real time using the Pulses.
Meanwhile, this week Keysight Technologies added four component-carrier carrier aggregation testing to its UXM platform, as well as support for LTE-Unlicensed testing.
• Spirent Communications is expanding its presence in southeast Asia with a new lab focused on user experience evaluation.
• JDSU announced that its soon-to-be-independent spinoff company Lumentum has a big investor lined up – Lumentum is the heir to JDSU’s communications and commercial optical products business, which has been the subject of some stockholder controversy. Japanese company Amada, which manufactures machine tools for metal fabrication, has signed an agreement to buy up to $40 million in preferred stock in a wholly owned Lumentum subsidiary. The separation and public trading of Lumentum and Viavi Solutions – the network and service-focused company – is expected to come in the third quarter, at which point the final figure for Amada’s purchase will be determined based on Lumentum’s first day of trading.
• The Evans Analytical Group network of labs, which focuses in part on microelectronics testing, has added new test equipment to its portfolio for electronics failure analysis, which it said involved millions in investment. It now has a Phemos-1000 emission microscope from Hamamatsu Photonics for detecting faint emissions that are caused by device anomalies; an Okos Vue 400-P scanning Acoustic microscopy and ultrasonic nondestructive package testing tool for advanced imaging; and an LA LIT layer-by-layer decapsulation tool from Control Laser that allows the removal of individual layers of a semiconductor’s molded die, down to the substrate, to allow inspection and PCB trace probing or reworking.
• Signal Hound updated its free Spike Spectrum Analysis software with new digital modulation analysis tools for the company’s BB60C and BB60A spectrum analyzers. The newest version adds more sophisticated analysis options focused on cellular, “Internet of Things” and machine-to-machine applications.
• Copper Mountain Technologies has launched new vector network analyzers. The Cobalt series currently has two models for S-parameter measurement between 100 kHz and 20 GHz. The company said it leverages new, proprietary manufacturing and test approaches to get high performance for a low cost.
• If you missed the LTE Innovation Summit, videos of the main sessions and some demos are now up for viewing, courtesy of host company Rohde & Schwarz, which includes talks on LTE vulnerabilities, a demo of LTE-Unlicensed and more. You can read RCR Wireless News’ coverage here and watch additional interviews and demos from the show on our YouTube channel as well.
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