Test and Measurement: Quantenna expands 802.11ac testing capabilities

Chipset vendor Quantenna is pushing forward with testing capabilities designed to support advanced 802.11ac features in development as well as in large volumes for manufacturing.
Quantenna is continuing two long-standing test vendor relationships as it expands those 802.11 testing capabilities. It is using LitePoint’s IQxel-MW for calibration and verification of its new 802.11ac Wave 3 chipsets for volume production in a manufacturing environment. The company has also chosen Azimuth Systems’ Spider scalable radio frequency emulation platform for development and product testing as well as system verification.
–P3 Group continues its global expansion. The device and network engineering and testing company is opening or expanding offices in Great Britain, North America, Latin America, Japan, Spain and the Netherlands. P3 CEO Hakan Ekmen said the company is also considering locations in Scandinavia, Asia and South America within the next few years.
-Software testing company Qualitest joined Ixia’s solution provider program, with plans to offer Ixia’s traffic emulation and validation solutions to expand its solution portfolio.
–Signal Hound added features to its free, real-time spectrum analysis Spike software. The new additions include EMC precompliance tools, which will be available as a free download from the company’s website beginning Monday.
-Some interesting numbers out of Strategy Analytics: gender plays an important role in how fast a user drains his or her smartphone battery. The firm analyzed numbers from its AppOptix Telementry Intelligence Platform for more than 250 device models across a range of price points and found women consistently drained device batteries faster than men. The research also found (probably unsurprisingly) that premium devices costing $450 or more charged much faster, but also saw significantly more use: two-times the data traffic of less costly devices and 134% more time on social media apps, contributing to faster battery drain.
“Battery life is among the top considerations in user experience, and it’s important that OEMs pay close attention to the user behavior,” said Bonny Joy, chief of consumer telemetry platforms at Strategy Analytics, in a statement.
–GL Communications boosted its voice quality testing solutions, with the ability to test up to a dozen independent devices at once in the latest version of POLQA.
–ICSA Labs, which is an independent division of Verizon Communications, is rolling out a new “Internet of Things” security testing and certification program to examine six components of IoT security: communications, cryptography, authentication, alerts/logging, physical security and platform security. Stay tuned for a full story on that next week.