Live or progressive? Which codec and compression rate? All these factors and more impact end user QoE and operator’s bottom-line.
By 2020, more than half of all mobile data will be video driven, according to industry projections. As consumer demand for mobile video continues to explode, service providers...
RF interference can reduce coverage, capacity, and throughput by desensitizing receivers, increasing noise floors, and lowering signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). These conditions can prevent the use of higher modulation coding schemes and efficient resource block allocation as LTE schedulers attempt to avoid impacted spectrum. Detecting...
Ahead of next week's IWCE conference in Las Vegas, Anite and Bittium announced a collaboration around public safety drive testing capabilities. Bittium's Band 14-capable, ruggedized ToughMobile smartphone has been integrated with Anite's Nemo Outdoor drive testing solution, with an eye toward serving the market for...
As vendors and their customers face constant pressure on keeping testing costs in line, test companies are always seeking to reduce the amount of time required for testing.
Two test and measurement companies have announced efforts to speed up testing in different areas. Anite said this...
New entrants into the home broadband market – think Google Fiber, as well as various government-driven initiatives – are putting the pressure on cable and multiple-system operators. One new avenue for competition is adoption of DOCSIS 3.1 technology, which enables competition against more costly...
P3 Group, QuEST Forum and Metrinomics have partnered on new customer experience management services that seek to provide the telecom industry with a more complete view of wireless customers' experience by leveraging a combination of objective, on-device performance data along with subjective customer reports...
TechNavio said the growing use of mobile applications is one of four major trends impacting the software testing market, with the other three being the emergence of vertical-specific testing services, the increased use of cloud-based software testing and a shift toward increasingly automated testing.
The...
Frost & Sullivan came out with a new report this week claiming the emergence of "5G" technologies will "ignite the global test and measurement market,"Â with smart cities and the drive to monitor international sporting events also seen as additional drivers. Communications testing will be...
Verizon Communications has started "5G" field tests with Nokia Networks, testing pre-standards technology in Verizon's live network in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Verizon and Nokia said they tested an "extreme broadband" use case to look at the viability of replacing high-speed, indoor wireline connections with...
Network testing company Global Wireless Solutions is challenging RootMetrics' popular crowd-sourced ratings of wireless carriers with a new OneScore rating system for wireless carriers, which takes into consideration both how users want to utilize their devices as well as actual network testing data.
"Despite a recent...
As more small cells are deployed, scalability and reproducibility become central to return on investment, and new industry solutions are available that seek to streamline processes and shrink costs in order to make small cells viable on a large scale. small cell testing
This webinar...
As more small cells are deployed, scalability and reproducibility become central to return on investment, and new industry solutions are available that seek to streamline processes and shrink costs in order to make small cell testing viable.
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This report looks at challenges of getting small cells...
Test company Rohde & Schwarz has moved to consolidate its cybersecurity focus in a new subsidiary company, Rohde & Schwarz Cybersecurity GmbH, with the aim of becoming a dominant force in the network security market in Europe.
R&S made several network security-related acquisitions in the...
In-building wireless testing can be more complex than outdoor network testing because there are more potential sources of interference, and more variables to coordinate. An indoor small cell environment can include multiple radios and antennas; when these are aligned they can help support one...
With the rapid roll out of tower mounted radios and deployment of C-RAN network architectures, new installation and maintenance methods have to be developed to reduce installation and maintenance costs. The use of costly tower climbing crews needs to be minimized resulting in new...
Viavi Solutions has a new CEOÂ as of this week, with Oleg Khaykin taking over from interim president and CEO Richard Belluzzo. Viavi had been operating under Belluzzo's leadership since former CEO Tom Waechter stepped down after the split of JDSU into Viavi and Lumentum.
Khaykin...
Voice-over-LTE users can encounter three to four times as many dropped calls as they experience on legacy voice systems, according to Amdocs' annual State of the Radio Access Network report.
The call drop numbers are an average, cautioned Graham Wright, product marketing manager with Amdocs,...
ALLEN, TEXAS – Nexius, specializing in delivering end-to-end network services and business intelligence solutions, today announced a new partnership with RCR Wireless News to create an Independent Proof of Concept Lab and Testing Program for network operators and enterprise sector buyers.
“This new partnership with RCR...
Spirent Communications is working with mobile phone original equipment manufacturer Foxconn to put more voice- and video-over-LTE-enabled phones on the market, supplying the Chinese electronics company with Spirent's BeeHD VoLTE client framework.
The move to work more closely with VoLTE developers is the most recent shift toward...
As better network visibility becomes available via monitoring platforms, geolocation information and other big data, operators are able to minimize expensive in-person drive testing or cover situations in which drive-testing would not be feasible. Two recent announcements illustrate that trend:
-Mobile operator Swisscom is using Astellia's Nova RAN...
The full duplex relay trial was carried out in the city of Turin
Italian mobile operator TIM carried out what it claims to be the world’s first test of the full duplex relay technology, which doubles the transmission capacity of the current LTE network and...
Antenna company Taoglas USA opened an expanded design and test center for machine-to-machine and "Internet of Things"Â modules in San Diego.
Taoglas, which is based in Ireland, quadrupled the size of it's current San Diego facility to more than 16,000 square feet for the new IoTx...
A conversation about QoE with Paul Gowans, Wireless & RAN Solutions Marketing Manager, and Ronnie Neil, Customer Experience Assurance Solutions Marketing Manager
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Measuring QoE is difficult and even more...
T-Mobile US' new Binge On streaming video offering has reduced video data rates compared to non-Binge On video watching before the service was launched, according to new data from P3 Group.
"The T-Mobile customer video data rate was reduced much less than the maximum bandwidth," P3 Group concluded,...
