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...
'C-Band could change who’s going to be fastest in the U.S.,' benchmarking company says
The turn-up of C-Band spectrum by AT&T and Verizon is already having an impact on 5G download speeds, according to new data from Ookla, and could upend the relative market positions...
Test company Rohde & Schwarz says it is offering the first system capable of testing the compliance of smartphones to provide location information for emergency calls to 112.
A new European Commission regulation requires that all smartphones sold in the European Union, starting in March...
Thailand, which has a long-standing relationship with Rohde & Schwarz to equip vehicles for mobile interference hunting, is expanding its use of the test company's spectrum monitoring system.
Since 2014, Thailand’s Office of National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) has operated a fleet of...
Netscout said this week that it will be handling end-to-end service assurance visibility for Southern Linc, the wireless service unit of Southern Company that provides private, mission-critical LTE for enterprise customers -- in particular, its fellow Southern Company subsidiaries Alabama Power, Georgia Power and...
As the security of current and future 5G network implementations continues to be a top-of-mind issue for the industry, CTIA is launching a new security testing and validation initiative for commercial 5G networks.
The 5G Security Test Bed (STB) was born out of CTIA's...
The aggregation of 600 MHz + 2.5 GHz uses low-band, FDD spectrum to improve performance
The aggregation of low and mid-band carriers in both Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) and Time Division Duplex (TDD) spectrum improves cell edge performance in T-Mobile US' network, according to...
Rohde & Schwarz recently announced that it has put together tailored test solutions for Broadcom's Wi-Fi 6E chipsets, which operate in the 6 GHz band. In collaboration with Broadcom, R&S said that its new R&S CMP180 wireless device test platform has been validated for Broadcom's new chipsets.
The test...
Cellular technologies have advanced from first generation (1G) analog technologies to advanced high performance fourth generation (4G) and fifth generation (5G) systems in just four decades. Despite the increase in complexity of wireless standards and devices, cellular technologies maintain a set of common principles...
There was a point in early 5G development where 5G was practically synonymous with millimeter-wave spectrum: Super-fast, but assumed to be for short-range use only, with propagation issues and RF and antenna complexity that hadn’t yet been sufficiently addressed in the engineering of network...
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is continuing its ongoing series of Plugtest events to test the interoperability of mission-critical communications services, including mission-critical push-to-talk (MCPTT), mission-critical data (MCData) and mission-critical video (MCVideo).
The most recent Plugtest, ETSI's sixth, was conducted in a hybrid...
Starlink sees a 10 Mbps dip in median speeds for US users, compared to the second quarter of this year
New data from Ookla shows a slight decrease in Starlink's speeds during the third quarter of this year, which could be due to bringing on...
"Operators who have been rolling out 5G NR networks for some time have the coverage advantage," SRG says
For some time, Dish Network has been promising a beta launch of its much-anticipated 5G network in Las Vegas, amid delays. That beta test phase with friendly...
Keysight Technologies and Viavi Solutions touted their support of the most recent Open RAN Alliance global plugfest event, which was the third such event focused on testing the performance capabilities of O-RAN-compliant systems and interoperability across the O-RAN ecosystem.
"Rigorous testing under real-world conditions...
There has been a long-running debate in network testing that basically asks, which is better: Highly controlled and repeatable drive- and walk-testing with special test set-ups to get deep RF and chip-level data, which shows what a network is capable of with the latest...
Ookla, known for its Speedtest product, is adding to its portfolio of network data with the acquisition of drive- and walk-testing specialist RootMetrics.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed; RootMetrics has been part of IHS Markit.
“Ookla plus RootMetrics fully enables the...
U.S.-based Transaction Network Services is working with Irish company Cellusys on research, development and testing of roaming and security solutions for 5G networks.
The two companies will use TNS' 5G Innovation Lab and partner to develop and test solutions that combine Cellusys' security solutions, including...
The sixth generation of cellular technology has yet to be formally defined, and the official 3GPP release that is designated as “6G” is probably still several years away. But we already have a sense of what the major features of 6G will be. How?...
The use of CBRS spectrum in Verizon's LTE network boosts average speeds by as much as 80% in the urban areas where the carrier has deployed those midband airwaves, according to new analysis from Opensignal.
Opensignal looked at average LTE download speeds for the three...
"Mid-band and especially low-band 5G solutions may not be enough to deliver a smooth experience in crowded situations," RootMetrics says
The omicron variant notwithstanding, crowds are gathering once again across the U.S.: In stadiums, at concerts and theaters, at airports and in city centers. With...
