Viavi Solutions really, really wants to buy rival test company EXFO, and it has made a fourth and higher purchase offer -- which was promptly quashed, again, by EXFO founder, chairman and majority shareholder Germaine Lamonde.
Viavi had upped its most recent offer from...
Crowd-sourced network testing and analysis company Ookla has acquired testing company Solutelia and its Wireless Intelligence on-Demand (WINd) solutions, declaring that together the two companies will "disrupt and forever change the wireless network test and measurement industry."
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed....
The Federal Communications Commission will vote this week on whether to add two more locations to its roster of wireless Innovation Zones: Raleigh, North Carolina and Boston, Massachusetts. Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel proposed the addition of the two locations last week.
The Raleigh location,...
Rohde & Schwarz is looking ahead to the role that quantum computing will play in future technologies, and acquired Zurich Instruments AG as of July 1 to position its test solutions for a quantum-computing world.
Zurich Instruments provides advanced test and measurement systems for...
Mobile and fixed data speeds continue to increase across the U.S., and Verizon is at the top of Ookla's internet speeds list -- but for its wireline broadband service. T-Mobile US, meanwhile, snagged the designation of both fastest and "most consistent" mobile network operator...
Verizon's network performance continues to be strong, but both AT&T and T-Mobile US are seeing a streak of performance improvements, according to the most recent round of testing from Rootmetrics.
In Rootmetrics' analysis, AT&T saw significant improvements at the national and state levels of...
Test companies Anritsu, Spirent Communications and Toyo have put together a solution for evaluating the video quality of 5G devices which incorporates Anritsu’s SmartStudio NR Network Simulator and its Radio Communication Test Station Mt8000Z, with Spirent’s Attero and Umetrix Video software.
Because 5G...
Test company LitePoint said that its Ultra-Wideband (UWB) test platform is the first to be validated by the FiRa (Fine Ranging) Consortium for PHY conformance as part of its FiRa Certified program. LitePoint was the first test vendor to join FiRa Consortium, which focuses...
A research wireless network testbed for rural broadband and related use cases will soon cover roughly 600 miles of central Iowa, including half a dozen communities, multiple school districts and the University of Iowa campus in Ames, Iowa.
The fourth and only rural testbed...
AT&T's 5G will provide the foundation for new private 5G network testing at Texas AT&T University's RELLIS research campus, for exploration and development of commercial and defense use cases. The private 5G network testbeds will open this fall.
The RELLIS campus covers more than 2,000...
EXFO's board of directors has rejected a third acquisition offer from Viavi Solutions, in the face of unequivocal opposition from EXFO's founder, chairman and controlling shareholder.
The board was faced with two competing offers: A recent go-private offer from Chairman Germaine Lamonde at $6...
Midband (or C-band) is considered the “waterfront property” of RF spectrum for 5G. It offers the best compromise between RF coverage and RF bandwidth, and with 100 MHz of bandwidth, C-band can truly enable the highly hyped enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) use cases. Yet,...
As 5G is being deployed, the latest in wireless technology is bringing new use cases and potential revenue streams to life. It is also bringing new demands to network deployment and testing. Even though 5G is still in its early days, networks are already...
"I will not consider any alternative change of control transaction of EXFO," says company founder & chairman
EXFO Founder and Chairman Germain Lamonde has extended an acquisition offer for outstanding shares that will take EXFO private, and when Viavi Solutions used that offer as an...
WLAN is a cable-less technology for data communications typically using Ethernet over a local area. The first IEEE 802.11 standard regulating WLAN technology, released in 1997, supported only the 2.4 GHz band, but in 2020 the WLAN technology has begun supporting the 6 GHz...
Availability, reliability and speed are three key aspects of a mobile network -- but when it comes to 5G, it appears that each of the three national networks are excelling at a different one of those aspects, at least according to Rootmetrics' analysis.
The...
Accenture to 'significantly scale' network engineering capabilities with umlaut acquisition
Accenture will be acquiring German network engineering, testing and analytics company umlaut for an undisclosed sum, saying that the purchase will "significantly scale Accenture’s deep engineering capabilities to help companies use digital technologies like cloud,...
AT&T is claiming a C Band first, saying that it has successfully completed 5G field test calls using test devices and a Mobile Test Platform at locations in Plano, Texas and Detroit, Michigan.
Operators want to move as quickly as possible to start utilizing...
Telecom Italia (TIM) launched an Open Test and Integration Center (OTIC), a lab dedicated to testing Open RAN solutions, the telco said in a release.
The new "TIM European OTIC Lab", approved by the O-RAN Alliance, will be based at the TIM Group's Innovation laboratories...
The Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) Project Office is moving to support development and testing of an open-source Standalone 5G software stack from the OpenAirInterface (OAI) Software Alliance, with the launch of OpenAirX-Labs (OAX).
The lab launch under PAWR gives a U.S.-based home to work from...
Viavi Solutions has made optical spectrum analysis a new module option on its Viavi Multiple Application Platform (MAP) Optical Manufacturing Test system, joining 17 other application modules for the MAP system. The MAP wideband optical spectrum analyzer (mOSA) offers a 30% improvement in measurement resolution compared...
Viavi Solutions has made its virtualized, cloud-based TeraVM O-RAN Central Unit (O-CU) Tester available on AWS Outposts, which the company says makes it the first O-CU test solution deployed on Amazon Web Services' managed services at the network edge.
"As 5G services leverage edge computing,...
Keysight Technologies has picked up a software company that focuses on identifying and reducing errors in quantum computing, for an undisclosed sum.
Privately-held, venture-backed Canadian company Quantum Benchmark specializes in performance validation, error diagnostics and error suppression software for quantum computing. Its investors including...
Keysight Technologies was firing on all cylinders in the most recent quarter: Revenues up 36% to $1.22 billion, profits at $186 million, up from $71 million in the year-ago quarter, and orders up 22%, with growth coming across all of its business segments.
Keysight...
