As the telecom ecosystem gets deeper into CBRS deployments and eagerly awaits the availability of C-Band spectrum, carriers and vendors are partnering on numerous tests and trials of various aspects of the two bands. In the C-Band, most testing is focused on pre-deployment work...
The U.S. has lagged in midband spectrum availability for 5G compared to the rest of the world. But now, CBRS PAL licenses are in-hand. The first tranche of C-Band spectrum will be available in December. RCR Wireless News looks at the availability of midband...
Innovate5G, Nokia and Athonet are laying claim to making the first commercial North American call via a 5G Standalone private network in the midband at 2.5 GHz (Band n41, TDD spectrum).
The partners said that they made the call using Athonet's 5G SA core...
The Streaming Video Alliance said this week that it successfully demonstrated multi-provider interoperability of its Open Caching APIs, connecting content caches from multiple entities in a new testbed order to deliver streaming video.
The testing involved Disney+ as the content origin, with Broadpeak and...
EXFO's plan to go private under the ownership of its founder and executive chairman has been approved by the Superior Court of Québec. The transaction is expected to be completed around August 27, meaning that the company will transition to being privately held before the end...
Keysight Technologies had a record quarter, turning in its all-time highest quarterly revenue and record orders.
Revenues were at $1.25 billion for the quarter, up 23% year-over-year; orders were similarly up 23% from the same time last year and reached $1.31 billion. Profits...
Over the past several years, Facebook's connectivity group has been focusing on research and development in communications network infrastructure, with an eye to how innovative approaches can reshape network economics and ultimately, benefit the company by connecting new users to the internet.
One...
The saga of Viavi Solutions' pursuit of competitor EXFO appears to be over. A majority of EXFO's minority shareholders have voted to take the test company private in a transaction with its majority shareholder, founder and executive chairman Germain Lamonde.
A 30-minute virtual meeting...
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new modeling technique that reduces by 33% the number of measurements needed for configuring shared spectrum.
“We’re introducing a new method for designing communications experiments,” said Jason Coder, co-author of a...
The increasing complexity of 5G networks and disaggregated radio systems means the test, measurement and assurance process is also becoming more complex. Viavi's Kashif Hussain examines these trends and highlights the role of automation in achieving velocity and scale.
RCR Wireless News · Will 5G...
There is little doubt that communication service providers (CSPs) will need to extend and increase their RAN capacity to accommodate new 5G services. CSPs are using their 5G buildouts as an opportunity to move away from legacy, proprietary RAN technology to an Open RAN architecture. Current...
Test company Anritsu said this week that it has verified protocol conformance tests on its 5G NR Mobile Device Test Platform ME7834NR for Dual Connectivity in 5G New Radio Standalone mode, which it says is an industry first. The system uses Qualcomm's Snapdragon...
Starlink speeds surpass local wired broadband networks in multiple countries, Ookla finds
Starlink's low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellite-based broadband service can provide download speeds faster than average wired broadband in a number of countries, new numbers from Ookla show -- although its upload speeds and latency still...
The first half of 2021 saw a widening swath of Americans with access to 5G mobile networks and better performance on those networks, according to Rootmetrics' latest data.
"5G is quickly becoming more widespread, speeds are getting faster, and we expect the end-user ......
The U.S. has lagged in midband spectrum availability for 5G compared to the rest of the world. But now, CBRS PAL licenses are in-hand. The first tranche of C-Band spectrum will be available in December. RCR Wireless News looks at the availability of midband...
Verizon is gearing up for a nationwide effort to test C Band spectrum in order to tune its models for deployment. The carrier was granted permission by the Federal Communications Commission this week to use a 30 kilohertz slice of C Band spectrum at...
EXFO's founder, majority shareholder and executive chairman calls Viavi's multiple offers for the company "noise on the line"
Germain Lamonde says he has fielded many offers to buy EXFO, the network test and measurement company that he founded, over the decades that it has been...
Altiostar said that it is expanding its flagship U.K. test lab, located in the London area, and it is hiring new staff to support expanded software development, customer support and testing for 4G and 5G Open Radio Access Network technologies.
The lab is set...
5G is bringing 'positive impact and performance improvements ... to all operator networks,' says GWS CEO
Ahead of its annual comprehensive network analysis, network benchmarking company Global Wireless Solutions (GWS) released a look at carrier 5G networks and pegged AT&T's 5G network as having the...
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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...
