Vodafone and Predictable Network Solutions are leading a new Broadband Forum project that focuses on connection quality features including latency and reliability, as part of wired networks' preparation for 5G.
Broadband Quality Experience Delivered, or Broadband QED, uses the Quality Attenuation framework "to look beyond just...
Mobile network benchmarking company RootMetrics this week put the spotlight on its most recent test results from three Southwestern cities: Phoenix, Arizona, and Dallas and Houston, Texas.
In Dallas, T-Mobile US gained ground and shared the award for overall performance, which Verizon previously held for four...
When the ball dropped on New Year's Eve, three teams from Global Wireless Solutions were testing carrier networks in New York's Times Square.
It took hours of waiting in line along to get the teams in place to do their ground-level testing, according to GWS...
Network monitoring and visualization deal to support CSP's network integration and automation
As EXFO reported its quarterly results today, the company also dropped the news that it has won a deal worth $4.9 million with an unnamed Tier One service provider in the U.S., to...
Ford's move could shift the conversation around the 5.9 GHz spectrum allocation
Ford Motor Company has confirmed that it will use cellular vehicle-to-everything technology in all new U.S. models by 2022, in a break with automakers who favor the use of Dedicated Short-Range Communications.
In a...
With support from Intel and Ericsson, T-Mobile US says it has completed the first 5G data and video calls using 600 MHz spectrum, as it aims to build out nationwide availability of 5G service by 2020.
The calls were conducted on a live, commercial network,...
In the grand tradition of kicking off a new year with predictions, a few recent analyst reports offer new forecasts for the test market in the upcoming years, from electromagnetic compatibility testing to the overall market.
A December report predicts that the general market for test...
Join Keysight experts for complimentary 60-minute webinars:
Physical Layer Modeling Principles of 5G New Radio – March 13, 2019
Big Data Analytics: Enabling the Smart Factory – January 9, 2019
Easier Hybrid Cloud Management – February 5, 2019
Unable to make it? Register for on...
5G: Are we there yet?
In 2019, hype meets reality for 5G devices and services. After several years of discussions on use cases and exotic technologies, “real” 5G products will start to scale on 3GPP Release 15 5G NR networks. On the use-case front, the...
With indoor 5G expected to be a major part of opening up new enterprise and industrial use cases and seen as essential to operators' 5G competitiveness, Rohde & Schwarz featured an indoor 5G demonstration in partnership with network planning company iBwave and equipment provider Anokiwave.
The...
North Dakota is a bright spot for the rural mobile video experience
The best mobile video experience in the U.S. happens in a cluster in the northeast, according to OpenSignal.
That cluster includes the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey and Maryland, as well as the...
Germany's Dekra will undergo a major reorganization in January, shifting from its current three business units (automotive, industrial and personnel) to integrating its services across eight segments. The testing, inspection and certification company plans to work with Deutsche Telekom and Telefonica for network support...
Six teams share $750,000 in prizes in the second event of DARPA's Spectrum Collaboration Challenge
LAUREL, MARYLAND--The moment came with the ding of a winning bell, cheers and a spotlight flashing around the auditorium at the Johns Hopkins Advanced Physics Lab, as the first team...
Samsung is supporting Verizon and AT&T millimeter wave 5G deployments
Millimeter wave frequencies are key to the multi-gigabit-per-second data speeds and ultra low latency expected of commercial 5G networks. And, after years of development and skepticism, initial 5G launches from U.S. operators Verizon and AT&T...
Qualcomm and Nokia said this week that they successfully tested nonstandalone 5G New Radio data calls over the air for interoperability, using both millimeter wave spectrum and sub-6 GHz.
The tests were conducted at Nokia's 5G center in Oulu, Finland and used Nokia AirScale base...
With the promise of 5G—including higher data speeds and new services—come major challenges for operators in terms of network quality, reliability, and availability.
Mission critical applications will demand a network which cannot fail, and ensuring network quality will be at the core of deployment and...
Service assurance and analytics company MYCOM OSI has been acquired by private equity Inflexion, which said that the telecom industry's transition to 5G and internet of things services represents a significant opportunity for MYCOM OSI's cloud-based assurance solutions. Financial terms of the deal were...
Sprint is trying to capitalize on recent favorable testing results with a new advertising campaign that proclaims its network is "better than ever" -- emphasizing how much its network has improved by comparing by its own past performance and coverage to its present capabilities,...
Millennials report high adoption and use of smartphone-controlled IoT
Nearly half of U.S. shoppers plan to use their smartphones to shop this holiday season, but most of them still haven't bought into the use of mobile payments applications to pay for purchases, according to a...
The vision for 5G includes support for multi-Gbps throughput for a range of devices, both fixed and mobile. Early 5G deployments show the promise of millimeter wave in delivering enhanced broadband, but what's next?
In the U.S. the FCC is planning spectrum auctions for high-band...
The vision for 5G includes support for multi-Gbps throughput for a range of devices, both fixed and mobile. Early 5G deployments show the promise of millimeter wave in delivering enhanced broadband, but what's next?
In the U.S. the FCC is planning spectrum auctions for high-band...
New research explores frequencies up to 150 GHz
Even as the mobile industry steps into a 5G world where it is making use of millimeter wave frequencies for commercial cellular services, some are eyeing even higher -- and more plentiful -- spectrum resources.
Test company Rohde...
The U.S. firm also secured a 5G collaboration agreement with Korean carrier SK Telecom
Keysight Technologies announced it has extended its collaboration with China Telecom to accelerate commercial deployment of 5G technology.
The extended collaboration supports China Telecom’s 5G New Radio (NR) device trials using Keysight’s...
