The emergence of 5G brings new challenges to the task of site testing such as new base station architecture, OTA connectivity requirements, higher frequency bands and the necessity to test parameters such as latency and download speed.
Each new installation needs to be verified to...
As 5G starts making its way into broader deployment, new bands and technologies are bringing additional complications to the Radio Access Network: Dynamic Spectrum Sharing, massive MIMO and millimeter wave, just to name a few.
How do you efficiently test, optimize and troubleshoot in a...
The second global Open RAN plugfest event included 55 companies from around the world, spread across four regions and focusing on testing functionality and multi-vendor interoperabiltiy of O-RAN-based network equipment.
“Testing and integration are crucial for developing a commercially available open RAN ecosystem and that’s...
Loon balloon provided test service for three months, then tested the limits of flight duration
Loon balloon HBAL703 accomplished something that none of its silvery, high-flying compatriots have: 312 days soaring in Earth's stratosphere.
HBAL703 launched from Puerto Rico in May of 2019, navigated to Peru,...
Dr. Paul Carter is CEO of network benchmarking and analysis company GWS. RCR Wireless News recently reached out to GWS to discuss testing millimeter-wave 5G networks. The following Q&A was conducted via email and has been lightly edited.Â
How is benchmark testing different in mmWave,...
Content delivery network provider Akamai is acquiring Asavie, which focuses on security, performance monitoring and access policies for mobile and IoT devices.
Terms of the all-cash deal were not disclosed. Asavie is based in Dublin, Ireland, and employs about 130 people; its customers include telecom...
AT&T users saw the fastest median mobile download speeds on LTE in the third quarter of 2020, according to new crowd-sourced data analysis by Ookla. Verizon's LTE speeds came in fourth, behind both T-Mobile US' legacy network and that of the former Sprint. AT&T's...
Forty percent of enterprises are frequently experiencing network performance degradation, slow-downs or congestion that impact applications but don't rise to the level of complete outages, according to new research from Accedian.
"Since COVID-19, businesses across industries expedited digital transformation efforts to facilitate remote working and...
A video call connected from the stratosphere topped off a recent test of an autonomous, fixed-wing aircraft, as Loon and HAPSMobile successfully put a telecommunications payload into the upper reaches of the atmosphere and used it to deliver LTE connectivity.
Video from the test shows...
Qualcomm Technologies will be using open Radio Access Network testing solutions from Keysight Technologies in multiple test beds in New Jersey, as the chipmaker develops and validates new designs based on open RAN interfaces.
Keysight said that the two companies have done open RAN and...
Netscout: COVID-19 "added rocket fuel to the growth in DDoS attacks"
Cyber threats are shifting rapidly as attackers respond to the changing network conditions driven by the global coronavirus pandemic. In new analysis of dedicated denial of service attacks during the first half, network monitoring...
4G is still the dominant force determining users' network experience, and the quality of that experience is a crucial element of operators' ability to attract and retain customers. Despite the hype around 5G, operators are steadily making robust improvements to their 4G networks, according...
Keysight Technologies is making a number of leadership changes, from its CTO and COO to the heads of individual business units.
Keysight CTO Jay Alexander has announced plans to retire in late 2021, and the company has appointed a new chief operating officer, effective immediately:...
With the Priority Access License Auction concluded, the Citizens Broadband Radio Service continues to expand its ecosystem related to the secondary PALs market and network planning tools.
Select Spectrum, a secondary spectrum broker, said this week (pdf) that it plans to launch on web-based platform,...
U.S. wireline networks held up well overall under the network usage shifts associated with the coronavirus pandemic, according to new data from benchmarking and analysis company umlaut provided exclusively to RCR Wireless News. The one exception seems to be related to ultra-high-definition streaming, which...
5G operators are facing two significant optimization challenges: bandwidth and propagation. If these challenges are looked at separately, the preferences for 5G frequencies can vary.
To gain a clearer picture of 5G Network coverage and the importance of MIMO (Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output) and the 3.5...
Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) is a key feature existing 4G LTE cellular operators can utilize to augment their migration to 5G NR. Learn about the key concepts of DSS including the benefits and trade offs it brings. Learn about the critical need for testing...
Test company Rohde & Schwarz and digitalization and software company Fieldforce are partnering to integrate test capabilities with Fieldforce's digital workflow management.
Basit Malik, founder and CEO of Fieldforce, said that as its customers were deploying 5G, the company noticed that they were taking pictures...
The 4th edition of NI's Wireless Research Handbook offers a selection of 2-page case studies from top researchers around the world.  Different applications from mmWave beam tracking to precoding for satellite communications are included.
Explore the handbook to see how software defined radios are being used...
Keysight Technologies this week announced what it is calling the industry's first cloud-native distributed network performance and security test software for characterizing user experience and validating network performance of hybrid networks, services and security devices.
The solution, called CyPerf, is aimed at meeting the need...
This paper discusses the RF design fundamentals of an RF communication system, including the transmission medium, wave propagation, free space path loss, the transmit and receive portion, link design and key components with the intent to provide practical knowledge on the process for designing...
EXFO is in the process of acquiring Taiwan-based InOpticals, which specializes in ultra-high-speed test instruments for the laboratory and manufacturing markets with particular strength in 400G/800G transceivers, active and passive components and integrated test systems.
Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed, although EXFO...
In a glimpse of the combined T-Mobile US network's future, the carrier used 2.5 GHz spectrum and multi-user MIMO to achieve peak cell throughput of more than 5.6 Gbps with eight 5G devices.
T-Mo said that in one 100-megahertz channel of 2.5 GHz, it connected...
In RootMetrics' first round of benchmarking that used 5G-enabled devices to test both 4G and 5G networks, Verizon and AT&T ran neck-and-neck in most categories. But Verizon ultimately topped the rankings in most performance metrics, although AT&T outpaced Verizon in terms of speed.
RootMetrics temporarily...
