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Test and Measurement: Teledyne has a record quarter

Teledyne Technologies reported a record quarter, with sales up 64% compared to the first quarter of 2021, to $1.32 billion. Profits, meanwhile, jumped 151% year-over-year, from $84.7 million to $212.6 million. "We began 2022 with the greatest first quarter sales, earnings and adjusted operating...

What is 5G Broadcast/Multicast?

Rohde & Schwarz and Qualcomm will demonstrate the technology at CABSAT conference in May One of the use cases being explored for 5G systems is that of remote media production. But the 5G standard also offers a built-in broadcast function, called 5G Broadcast/Multicast. A broadcast or...

Test and Measurement: Viavi continues its Open RAN testing wins

Viavi Solutions is adding to its list of Open RAN testing partnerships and customers, this week announcing that Rakuten Symphony will use Viavi's TM500 Network Tester to validate performance of solutions ranging from the lab to the field. Viavi said that the tester will be used...

How to deploy Standalone 5G—strategies and considerations

The move to Standalone 5G means technological and organizational changes with the latter perhaps more difficult As some operators begin to operationalize Standalone 5G, it’s clear there are different strategies, based on spectrum deployment, network modernization and other factors, that inform this key network evolution....

Five ways that networks (and testing) are transforming in 5G

"The network of the future is a cloud of a cloud of a cloud," said Viavi Solutions CTO Sameh Yamany 5G is opening up support of new verticals and use cases via a more flexible network -- but it also brings new challenges for network...

AT&T tests antennas using a drone

AT&T is using a drone carrying a lightweight signal generator to test high-gain outdoor antennas in spectrum up to 40 GHz. As described in AT&T's filings with the Federal Communications Commission, the carrier seeks to measure the radiated patterns of high-gain antennas in order...

Nextivity Delivers In-building RF Tools for System Integrator Efficiency and Profitability with Cel-Fi Solutions

System integrators are an essential part of Nextivity’s ecosystem and are integral to the company delivering exceptional in-building cellular coverage. From high-rises, complexes, and multi-use buildings to multi-family dwellings and large homes, Nextivity’s cellular signal distributed antenna solutions for poor cellular coverage address each...

Selecting tools from the 5G toolbox: Top considerations

5G offers communications service providers more range in the types of services their networks can efficiently support -- but that flexibility also means some additional complexity comes along. Jason Elliott, head of CSP portfolio and partnership marketing at Nokia, likens 5G to a...

Test and Measurement: PCTel automates critical comms uplink testing

Test company PCTel says that it has automated indoor uplink testing for public safety networks, which is sometimes required by building codes to ensure that first responders have sufficient signal strength inside buildings in case they must respond to an emergency at that location....

Editorial Report: Optimizing and monitoring maturing 5G networks

Low latency, ultra-reliability, fast speeds -- 5G networks promise it all. How do operators and vendors make sure that they're truly delivering, particularly when it comes to serving enterprises? What changes are necessary to optimize and monitor 5G networks when you're using them to...

Test and Measurement: Zayo claims longest 800G optical wave

Fiber network provider Zayo and its networking partner Infinera say that they have successfully completed the longest known 800G optical wavelength in a commercial network. The 1,044.51-kilometer achievement occurred in a Zayo-owned fiber route between Springville, Utah and Reno, Nevada, which uses Infinera's 800G...

Smartphone matchup: 5G devices speeds are 1.5-3x faster than 4G, Opensignal finds

Which mobile network a user is on doesn't solely determine their experience; the age, model and/or capability of their device plays a critical role as well. In recent analysis comparing 4G and 5G user experiences, Opensignal looked at an apples-to-apples comparison on how devices...

Ookla: Starlink’s median speed hits 100 Mbps+ in the US

Starlink continues to far outpace other satellite providers on speed, in the US and elsewhere Low-Earth Orbit satellite broadband service Starlink reached a median download speed that achieves the 100-Mbps service tier baseline for the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund program, according to Ookla data and...

How changes in 5G architecture impact network visibility

Service providers are taking multiple routes to architecting and/or opening their 5G networks. Some are handing them off to hyperscalers, either for specific applications or more broadly. They face the decision of what data to keep under their own control on their own compute,...

AT&T: QoE, 5G and putting it all together

'We are trying to drive the notion of QoE,' says AT&T's VP of network analytics and automation “In 5G, our focus is the customer experience. We are trying to drive the notion of QoE,” says Raj Savoor, vice president of network analytics and automation for...

Editorial Webinar: Optimizing and monitoring maturing 5G networks

Low latency, ultra-reliability, fast speeds -- 5G networks promise it all. How do operators and vendors make sure that they're truly delivering, particularly when it comes to serving enterprises? What changes are necessary to optimize and monitor 5G networks when you're using them to...

Test and Measurement: Keysight touts US ‘6G’ experimental license

Keysight Technologies says it has been granted the Federal Communications Commission's first experimental license for spectrum above 246 GHz and 275.5 GHz, as part of multiple FCC grants to pursue research on future 6G systems and sub-terahertz spectrum. Keysight describes "sub-terahertz" as the swath...

Rohde & Schwarz White Paper: An introduction to interference hunting

Interference in the Radio Access Network is ubiquitous and becoming more critical as the deployment of the latest cellular standards brings increased sensitivity and subsequent degradation of network capacity and subscriber Quality of Experience. The rapid rise in both the prevalence and the importance...

Test and Measurement: Anritsu, MediaTek work on speeding up 5G handovers

It was a busy week for T&M announcements coming out of Mobile World Congress Barcelona, as well as vendors looking ahead to next week's OFC conference on optical communications. Here are some of the highlights: -Anritsu announced a demo this week focused on taking steps...

Dish to test 5G in Oklahoma City

Dish Network is continuing to move forward with its work on 5G, and has been granted permission by the Federal Communications Commission to test 5G at a site in Oklahoma City, Okla. Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen recently admitted that the company is about six months...

Keysight CEO to retire; COO tapped to take the reins

Keysight Technologies President and CEO Ron Nersesian will be retiring from his role as of May 1, and current COO Satish Dhanasekaran has been selected to step into the CEO position. Nersesian has served as Keysight's CEO since the company was spun out of...

Test and Measurement: Rohde & Schwarz set to demo 5G Broadcast, wins China Mobile deal

Rohde & Schwarz has won a third consecutive contract with China Mobile for frequency scanners to assist in 5G deployments, and the test company is heading into Mobile World Congress Barcelona set to demonstrate end-to-end live streaming demonstration via 5G Broadcast at Mobile World...

Terahertz spectrum in 6G: The only place to go is up

6G isn’t even close to being standardized, but work is already underway to figure out what it might look like. And when it comes to what spectrum that future 6G systems will use, the path is clear: Spectrally speaking, the only place to go...

Test and Measurement: Keysight reports another record quarter

Keysight Technologies reported this week that it saw all-time highs for its first-quarter revenues, earnings and orders, beating its own guidance. Among the highlights from Keysight's results for its first quarter, ending January 31, 2022: -Orders were up 22% to $1.5 billion during the...