Keysight Technologies saw its revenues grow 31% year-over-year to $990 million, up from $753 million during the same period last year. Keysight President and CEO Ron Nersesian said that the growth was "driven by broad-based core order strength as customers accelerate development in our...
A free-wheeling NI Week keynote panel discussed self-driving cars issues
A physicist, a semiconductor salesman and a lawyer all met on a stage at NI Week -- sounds like the beginning of a bad joke involving a bar. Instead it was National Instruments’ keynote panel...
Anritsu has added 2x2 multiple-input multiple-output testing capabilities for 802.11ac to its MT8862A test equipment and says that with new software, it can test 2x2 MIMO on Wi-Fi equipment under "actual operating conditions," along with output signal quality, transmit power and receiver sensitivity.
Two of...
Network benchmarking company Rootmetrics has been going through data from its testing during the first half of 2018 and concluded that increasing network data speeds is a clear area of focus for all of the major U.S. carriers.
Rootmetrics dove into its data for the...
Zinwave CTO says OnGo is 'the space to watch'
The 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band is poised of offer both operator and other market entrants prioritized access to valuable new spectrum in support of private LTE, the internet of things (IoT) and...
The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab has expanded its Wi-Fi testing capabilities to include Broadband Forum testing that quantifies Wi-Fi access point performance.
The testing is in line with Broadband Forum's WT-398 test plan for benchmarking consumer customer premise equipment, which UNH-IOL said "represents...
How will you know if a wireless device is using the Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum at 3.5 GHz and interoperates with other such devices? It will be OnGo certified.
CBRS Alliance, taking a page from the interoperability and functional certification that is conducted as...
In a series of hallways made up of orange, grid-patterned walls and white floors with boxy fluorescent lights on the ceilings, virtual flames crackle and smoke. Suddenly, down another corridor, flames explode out of nowhere. The fire looks and sounds quite real -- but...
As quarterly numbers continue to come in from network testing and monitoring companies, Viavi Solutions reported revenues up 11.9% year-over-year to $219.4 million, driven by strength in its network and service enablement unit and its optical, security and performance unit -- however, the company...
A team of researchers from KU Leuven created a network of software defined radios that can simultaneously transmit and detect harmful interference using in-band full duplex technique which results in an ultra-efficient network with double the throughput. Read the case study and download the...
As Boston Marathon runners coped with bad weather on the course during the recent race, there was an invisible competition going on among wireless carriers -- and one of the (legal!) performance enhancers in use was carrier aggregation.
Benchmarking company Global Wireless Solutions reported that...
With first quarter results starting to come in, National Instruments had a record quarter and reported its highest-ever first quarter revenues of $312 million. That number is an increase of 4% year-over-year and continues the company's recent trend toward record numbers. Profits were up...
Designing for 5G New Radio (NR) means dealing with new technologies, as they’re being defined. It's easy to get lost in the buzz words as you try to focus--beamforming, over-air-testing, mmWave, numerology, and on and on. Keysight’s poster focuses on 7 things you need...
Why have one robotic arm to test 5G antennas, when you can have two?
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has outfitted a test chamber with two robotic
arms to research new methods for antenna testing, particularly for 5G antennas, according to NIST. The agency says...
Networks are "not as static" as they used to be
Fresh off its $455 million purchase of Cobham's test and measurement business, Viavi Solutions is touting its expanded position in 5G testing as a result of the purchase.
Viavi Solutions acquired Cobham's test and measurement operations...
In a promising sign for an equipment ecosystem for Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum, CommScope and Ericsson said this week that they successfully completed interoperability testing of Ericsson's equipment with CommScope's Spectrum Access System. This is the third SAS compatibility testing under Ericsson's belt;...
EXFO cited seasonal softness for performance in the second quarter of its fiscal 2018, reporting a net loss for the quarter of $4.66 million as it also digested the impact of a major acquisition.
The test company said that sales were up 7.8% year-over-year to...
New York City and Salt Lake City will both become large-scale testbeds for smart city and 5G technologies, having won funding from the National Science Foundation and a consortium of wireless industry companies under the Platform for Advanced Wireless Research program.
PAWR provides $50 million...
3GPP brought us a step closer to achieving the ambitious vision of 20Gbps data rates for mobile wireless with the completion of the non-Standalone (NSA) part of Release 15 in December last year. The systems that mobile operators will need to use to realize...
Keysight Technologies' Ixia Solutions Group collaborated with networking company Innovium to validate terabit-speeds on an Innovium switch for supporting large-scale data centers.
The Innovatium Teralynx Ethernet switch line was able to achieve 12.8 Tbps in a single chip, as validated by Keysight's K400 400 gigabit...
Although the standard for the next generation of Wi-Fi technology hasn't been officially finalized, that hasn't stopped chipsets, reference designs and test equipment from making it to the market to support the transition to 802.11ax.
The 802.11ax ecosystem has begun picking up steam, with products...
Each step in the evolution of radio access networks (RANs) brings unique opportunities and challenges for mobile network operators. Today, fiber has mostly replaced coaxial cables in new mobile fronthaul builds, otherwise known as fiber-to-the-antenna (FTTA). The next technological innovation in mobile fronthaul is...
Rohde & Schwarz said it is the first test company to validate Rich Communications Services conformance tests, amid growing global momentum for RCS.
RCS is a set of IMS technology features that seeks to enable mobile operators to compete with over-the-top messaging services such as...
Uber has pulled its self-driving vehicles from the roads after one of its autonomous vehicles struck and killed a pedestrian in Arizona, according to published reports. This is believed to be the first pedestrian fatality associated with an autonomous vehicle.
The crash occurred in Tempe,...
