A bevy of partners including Spirent Communications and the 5G Open Innovation Lab worked together to spotlight a new private network solution that is aimed at making easier to deploy enterprise private mobile networks and assure their performance.
The collab includes cloud application and security company F5 and network-as-a-service company GXC, and the partners say that their offering delivers “greater security, control, and resilience with improvements to operational costs” for private networks in hard-to-reach locations. F5’s BIG-IP Virtual Editions is used to optimize traffic flows and help to enable end-to-end visibility and security between the 5G core and the content network, the partners said; GXC contributed its distributed mesh configuration that enables “easier and faster deployment of a private network while providing full coverage and capacity of a cellular network,” according to the partners. Spirent is involved via the use of its Landslide AMF Nodal application to bring real-world traffic modelling e entire solution was pressure-tested through technology made available through the 5G OI Lab and its enterprise and operator partners deployed with GXC’s ONYX Portal.
Spirent’s Landslide AMF Nodal application will emulate 5G mobile subscribers and access nodes and bring that real-world traffic modeling into the 5G OI Lab. The partners noted that the “entire solution was pressure-tested” through the 5G OI Lab and enterprise and operator partners via GXC’s Onyx Portal.
In other test news:
–Rohde & Schwarz is laying claim to a lead in Global Certification Forum-validated 5G Reduced Capability (RedCap) test cases, as of GCF’s May meeting. The test company said that its R&S CMX500 one-box signaling tester (OBT) and R&S TS8980 conformance test systems support a variety of 5G RedCap test cases in “all device production stages, from early R&D to type approval conformance testing.” That includes RedCap specs from 3GPP’s 5G Release 17 for R&D, the company said. The CMX500 OBT has 177 test cases validated for protocol conformance testing, Rohde’s TS8980FTA-3A supports 161 test cases for RF testing and the company’s R&S TS-RRM-NR offers 49 test cases for radio resource management (RRM) across GCF test platforms.
-Telecom networks are facing a slew of simultaneous changes that are increasing complexity, from the deployment of 5G and the addition of new, higher frequency spectrum bands to the cloudification of the network and the exploration of Open Radio Access Networks. In a conversation during RCR Live: Telco Reinvention in London, the head of Spirent Communications’ 5G market strategy, Stephen Douglas, and Ian Fogg, VP of analysis at Opensignal, discussed the implications of rapidly changing networks on how those networks are tested, assured and optimized. Read a recap of the session here.
–Tektronix released a new Double Pulse Test solution (WBG-DPT solution) for advanced power converters, which runs on its 4, 5 and 6 series MSO oscilloscopes and can provide “automated, repeatable, and accurate measurements” on wide bandgap devices like silicon carbide and gallium nitride metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs).
“Tektronix customers are the designers of the next generation of cutting-edge power electronics technology, and their designs must be optimized to balance efficiency, size and reliability,” said Daryl Ellis, Tektronix’s mainstream portfolio GM. “We are confident that the design of the Tektronix WBG-DPT Solution will allow for simplified debugging, repeatable measurements … and a faster learning curve. Test automation reduces test times and retesting errors, ensuring our customers meet their project timelines and time to market plans.”
–Keysight Technologies has added to its test portfolio focused on enabling autonomous vehicles, with the introduction of a new Lidar Target Simulator for testing and validating lidar sensors, which enable vehicles to detect objects and navigate in complex, real-world scenarios. Keysight said that the LTS offers a small physical footprint with a compact bench set-up that simulates target distances from 3 meters to 300 meters and surface reflectivity ranging from 10%-94%. It is also “fully automated using a cobot,” the company said, which provides precise device movement for field-of-view testing.
-California-based test and measurement rental and calibration company Advanced Test Equipment has become an authorized rental partner for Anritsu.
