Keysight Technologies saw its revenues grow 31% year-over-year to $990 million, up from $753 million during the same period last year. Keysight President and CEO Ron Nersesian said that the growth was “driven by broad-based core order strength as customers accelerate development in our key focus areas including 5G, automotive & energy and aerospace and defense.”
Keysight’s net income for the quarter was $64 million, up from $49 million during the second quarter of 2017. The company’s strongest segment was its Communications Solutions Group, where revenues were up 27% compared to the same period last year. Keysight said that CSG’s revenues were boosted by 5G research and development spending in wireless, as well as “early investment in next-generation 400G and PAM-4 network test and … growth in the aerospace, defense and government end market.”
Comparatively, Keysight’s Electronic Industrial Solutions Group had revenue growth of 16% year-over-year and its Services Solutions Group, focused on calibration, repair and used equipment, saw revenues rise 11% year-over-year. The Ixia Solutions Group, which had revenues of $90 million during the quarter, had consistent market conditions but was “impacted by extensive integration efforts in the quarter. Many of these integration issues are now resolved and the expected annual cost synergies are ramping as planned,” Keysight said.
In other test news:
-Network benchmarking company Rootmetrics continues to release city-specific results from testing conducted during the first half of the year. In San Francisco, Rootmetrics found that Verizon continues to win its best ratings for the second year in a row and significantly improved its download speeds. Verizon’s median download speed went from 24.4 Mbps to 39.4 Mbps, Rootmetrics said. Median upload speeds for AT&T, T-Mobile US and Verizon were between 14.5-15.8 Mbps. Sprint made notable improvements in speed as well, from 9.2 Mbps median download in the second half of 2017 to 16.6 Mbps — a significant boost, but still far behind other operators’ networks.
Rootmetrics conducted the most recent round of San Francisco testing between April 9-13 at 65 indoor locations and while driving more than 1,200 miles.
–Goodyear Tire & Rubber has joined the connected and autonomous vehicle testing facility Mcity in Michigan. Goodyear says it is the only tire company participating in research at the facility, and that it will be “further developing its intelligent tires and the application of sensors, and extending its role in managing the connection of tires to the road, to vehicles and, ultimately, to consumers.”
–Spirent Communications said it has been working with Italian automotive design company Italdesign, part of Volkswagon, on an integrated system testing connected autonomous vehicles during development. The two companies have spent the past six months cooperating on integrating various test systems (Spirent’s GSS7000 simulator, dSpace’s Scalexio hardware and IPG CarMaker simulation) into “a single combined platform which can perform both hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and software-in-the-loop (SIL) testing” to reduce development times. Spirent said that the combined platform “can simulate positioning information, vehicle component and dynamics data and the traffic environment, all within real-world test scenarios, including the entire surrounding environment, in the virtual world.”
Italdesign is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a display of 30 of its vehicle designs (including vehicles for Maserati, Bugatti, Ferrari, Aston Martin, Chevrolet, BMW and others) at the upcoming Turin Auto Show.
–GL Communications has introduced new software for simulating voice-over-IP end user devices and measuring voice quality.
–Jaguar Networks has chosen Netscout’s virtualized Arbor vAPS’ for its first software-defined security solution against distributed denial-of-service attacks, Netscout announced. Arbor has reported that there were 7.5 million DDoS attacks globally last year and that 45% of data center operators it surveyed “saw their internet bandwidth saturated due to DDoS attacks.”
