Amazon Prime Air has received permission from the Federal Communications Commission for drone testing over the next two years, using millimeter-wave spectrum. The company, which plans to launch drone delivery in two cities this year, wants to conduct testing at three other U.S. locations....
PCTel saw its revenues grow more than 15% compared to the same time last year, to $25 million, and the testing equipment and antenna company generated profits for the second quarter of $400,000.
David Neumann, CEO of PCTel, said that the company has expanded its...
The immersive lab, a partnership between the FirstNet Authority and NIST's PSCR, enables both training and tech R&D
During the Marshall Fire, which burned around 1,000 homes in small towns west of Boulder, Colorado in late December 2021, the First Responder Network Authority's technical quarters...
TCO reduction and vendor diversification are Open RAN deployment drivers
For part of the recent Open RAN European Forum, RCR Wireless News surveyed 100 members of our audience to gain a better understanding of how they’re thinking about Open RAN deployment. Top motivations include...
5G RF planning helps to drive Netscout's quarterly revenue
Network assurance and security company Netscout reported revenue gains of nearly 10% for the quarter ending June 30 and narrowed its net loss compared to a year ago.
President and CEO Anil Singhal told analysts on...
AT&T and Verizon both sees some improvement, but not enough to top Rootmetrics' rankings
Another round of Rootmetrics' analysis of 125 metro markets in the U.S. confirms that T-Mo continues to lead in 5G reach and speed, while Verizon landed its third consecutive win in...
5G is a "strong, enduring growth driver," Spirent says
Spirent Communications saw strong performance and record orders during the first half of the year, driven by 5G and its targeting of new customers such as hyperscalers with assurance solutions.
CEO Eric Updyke said in a...
You can’t feel, see, hear, touch, taste, or smell it, but the air around you is full of electromagnetic activity. These bursts of oscillating electric and magnetic fields are the carrier pigeons of the information age. They contain our voices, our faces, and our...
In its latest acquisition, Ookla has picked up a Swedish company, CellRebel, that specializes in measurement, analysis and visualization of network data for optimization purposes.
“The complexity of modern networks demands diversified streams of data to fuel holistic insights on performance, quality, and accessibility,” said...
Cable co. receives two-year FCC testing permission
Cable company Charter Communications is extending its testing of 5G using a combination of millimeter-wave spectrum and midband airwaves with CBRS as the anchor, according to a filing with the Federal Communications Commission.
The cable company had originally requested...
Japanese operators have deployed a significant amount of 5G millimeter wave coverage in Toyko with unobtrusive sites and are using carrier aggregation (2 x 100 megahertz) in the uplink to achieve speeds in the hundreds of megabits per second, according to a new Signals...
It's a time of transition for mobile network operators: LTE to 5G NonStandalone, then to 5G Standalone; from Voice over LTE to Voice over New Radio; implementation of mobile edge computing and dabbling in Open RAN, and a more complete realization of cloud-native network...
T-Mobile US continues to hold a dominant position in network performance over AT&T and Verizon on nearly every metric, according to Ookla's latest analysis of mobile networks.
For the second quarter of 2022, T-Mo landed the best numbers in download speed, upload speed, latency, performance...
iBwave, perhaps best known for its indoor network planning tools, is in the midst of widening its target market to focus on campus networks and public safety, as well as private networks, and move beyond the network planning market.
As part of those efforts,...
Service providers have to deal with increasing complexity in their networks and services, amid what have been highly manual and ponderous service assurance deployments that almost inevitably result in visibility gaps and too much data that needs highly skilled human interpretation to resolve issues.
As...
Test and measurement companies are highlighting their recent support of Open RAN testing and demonstrations, in the wake of the recent Open RAN global plugfest.
Viavi Solutions was among the vendors which enabled plugtest demos and testing around the world for the O-RAN Alliance...
umlaut CEO touts the 'perfect test environment'
German test and analytics company Umlaut has begun operating a private 5G Standalone Open RAN network, aimed at providing companies a place to test private 5G solutions without having to build their own private network or purchase spectrum...
The general-purpose test equipment market is expected to grow at nearly 6% per year through 2026, reaching $1.95 billion by the end of the forecast period, according to new numbers from TechNavio. This market segment includes oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, arbitrary waveform generators,...
5G is a transformational technology designed to provide significant flexibility and support for a variety of use cases. From a network architecture perspective, 5G is defining a service based architecture (SBA) where different network functions (NFs) provide services via service-based interfaces. Download your free...
5G is a transformational technology designed to provide significant flexibility and support for a variety of use cases. In this white paper, we describe the emerging infrastructure trends of wireless networks for 4G, 5G, and beyond 5G. Such trends include:
Spectrum trendsDensification & coverage extension...
Electronic devices are pushing the frequency spectrum higher, necessitating new coaxial connectors to handle the higher frequencies with waveguides often used at the millimeter end of the spectrum. Our new poster summarizes the many size variations required to cover the bands up to 1.7...
5G is evolving - from an adjunct technology to a solid communications standard that will change how we communicate with each other and the things around us. Although for many, it feels like we just got here, the evolution of 5G has already begun....
5G is evolving - from an adjunct technology to a solid communications standard that will change how we communicate with each other and the things around us. Although for many, it feels like we just got here, the evolution of 5G has already begun....
Sub-terahertz and terahertz (THz) waves, ranging from 0.1 THz to 10 THz, fall in the spectral region between microwave and optical waves. The prospect of enabling transfer rates in the terabit/sec range make them a key research area of 6G mobile communication. Sub-THz technologies require...
