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...
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...
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 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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
'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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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 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...
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...
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...
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...
Chinese over-the-air measurement company General Test Systems and Japanese test and measurement company Toyo plan to form a new U.S.-based company called AeroGT Labs. The board of both companies have approved the plans, and the new company will combine products, market knowledge and sales...
Spirent CEO says that assurance, validation and testing are "the closest things our customers have to a crystal ball"
Network testing, validation and benchmarking are taking on new urgency in 5G and are even helping to shape operators' strategies for monetizing those new networks,...
Network testing company EXFO has announced a new collaboration with Red Hat, focused on adaptive service assurance for a 5G world.
Specifically, EXFO's Nova Active μ-Verifier service assurance solution is now available as a Red Hat-certified container, which can be deployed on Red Hat's...
As the debate over whether terrestrial C-Band cellular networks can safely co-exist with aviation altimeters continues to play out -- and carriers put off lighting up towers near some U.S. airports to accommodate concerns about interference -- Viavi Solutions says it has put together...
Charter has been granted permission by the Federal Communication Commission to test 5G New Radio with a combination of 37 GHz and CBRS spectrum, using CBRS as an anchor.
The Special Temporary Authority (STA) documentation outlines a research project in which Charter will test...
