The University of Michigan has opened its new M-City connected car testbed, partnering with automotive and technology companies including Ford, Honda, Toyota, Nissan, General Motors, Qualcomm Technologies and Verizon Communications, for research and development on driverless vehicles.
The 32-acre site re-creates urban and suburban road...
With the first commercial launches of 5G expected within five years, research into 5G systems is revving up with partnerships and exploratory steps around the globe.
RCR Wireless News spoke with Tod Sizer II, who leads Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs' wireless research program and is in charge...
JDSU has announced the official timeline for its split into Lumentum and Viavi Solutions: the division and re-naming of the companies will be effective as of Aug. 1. Lumentum shares will be distributed on Aug. 3, with regular trading to begin Aug. 4.
Lumentum is the company's optical and...
NetScout has officially closed on its $2.3 billion acquisition of Danaher's communications business, which includes Tektronix Communications, security firm Arbor Networks and parts of Fluke Networks, broadening the company's portfolio in network visibility and threat detection.
In addition to the completion of the transaction, NetScout...
Spirent Communications launched a new test system for the connected car this week. The Automotive Record and Playback test system lets developers of automotive systems record real-world signals and plays them back in a lab environment, and Spirent said that the approach “complements the...
Adam Smith is a 15-year veteran of working with radio frequency aspects of wireless testing and has
been with test company LitePoint since 2012. He recently took over as director of marketing for LitePoint, and spoke to RCR Wireless News about his perspective on a number...
German-based Dekra, which specializes in safety and certification, has acquired Spanish testing company AT4 Wireless to boost its offerings for "Internet of Things" testing.
Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. AT4 has labs in the U.S., Spain, Chile and Taiwan and nearly 300 employees;...
Continuing RCR Wireless News' examination of some of the publicly available testing results for the co-existence of LTE over unlicensed spectrum, we look at testing done by the LTE-U Forum and CableLabs. For more information on the LTE-U testing performed by Qualcomm, Google and...
As the use of LTE over unlicensed spectrum moves toward field trials expected later this year, LTE-U testing results that show mixed results as to its ability to co-exist fairly with Wi-Fi have been presented by a number of industry players. Even the basic...
As the 5G ecosystem starts to take shape, research partnerships continue to be announced among mobile operators, testing companies and research institutions. The latest of those is Keysight Technologies' news this week that it has a memorandum of understanding with Korean operator KT to collaborate...
The big news of the week, of course, was Keysight Technologies' announcement that it will purchase Anite for $606 million. Read more on that transaction, expected to close this fall, here. In other news across the testing industry this week:
• Cobham Wireless, formerly Aeroflex, added...
In this webinar, participants will get a review of power measurement basics and learn how new measurement technologies can help them increase throughput, reduce cost, and improve reliability.
Who should attend:
R&D engineers, manufacturing line engineers/managers, test engineers
What you will learn:
• Basics of power measurement
• Critical factors in choosing the right power measurement solutions
• Advantages...
In one of the first public views of how voice over LTE is performing in live networks, P3 Communications released VoLTE benchmarking results, which reflected good performance across all of the carriers that have implemented the technology – in one market, at least.
In general, the results...
Test vendor Keysight Technologies has made a bid to acquire competitor Anite in a transaction valued at about $606 million that could boost Keysight's software testing capabilities as the telecom industry moves toward more software-oriented networks.
The boards of the two companies announced this morning...
Spirent Communications achieved a first this week at Interop Tokyo, giving what the company said was the first demonstration of "two separate 400Gb Ethernet implementations interoperating live in a public forum."
The demo involved Spirent's 400Gb Ethernet Test System generating and passing traffic to Huawei's NE5000E core...
Software-defined networking and network function virtualization are gaining considerable momentum in the telecom space and bring with them new challenges for benchmarking, testing and monitoring virtual systems instead of proprietary hardware.
"Proactive and reactive performance monitoring, identification of failures, isolation of any faulty network functions and corrective...
A new report from ABI Research concludes that the adoption of LTE is driving the market for network monitoring and optimization, and the market's size will reach more than $40 billion over the next five years.
"Mobile optimization is more important than ever," ABI noted, adding...
Ericsson has 5G pilot networks live in Plano, Texas, and Stockholm and is inviting mobile operators, academics, its eco-systems partners and analysts to come and try them out.
Although 5G has not yet been standardized, Ericsson is delving into some of the technologies expected to...
Consumer demand for mobile data continues to overtake demand for voice capacity, a trend that places greater emphasis on data throughput. Operators must optimize data networks to maximize revenue opportunities and achieve Quality of Service (QoS) and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) benchmarks that will...
Fluke Networks launched its first cloud-based app-monitoring software this week for cloud-based implementations, part of its strategy to address what it calls the "borderless enterprise."
The shift reflects a growing trend among test companies to move toward monitoring and software as well as hardware offerings....
Elektrobit, which produces hardware and software for connected cars and other wireless technologies, is switching gears in the midst of a company split and opting to sell its automotive business to Continental AG for approximately $668 million.
Elektrobit had been making progress toward a planned company split, in which...
Spectrum sharing hot topic at ISART
Test and measurement was a major focus of the International Symposium on Advanced Radio Technologies this week, with federal agencies, industry representatives and academic researchers grappling with the technical issues of how the ability to accurately characterize spectrum propagation...
BOULDER, Colo. – Spectrum sharing were the buzzwords of the week as a bevy of federal agencies came together at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to discuss the topic with industry and academia. Google was one of the companies on-hand that shared how it is...
Azimuth Systems' channel emulator is going to be used to test drones for Parrot, which specializes in wireless products in the civilian drone, automotive and connected-things market. Azimuth's ACE MX channel emulator will test drones' communication and data transfer links, establishing a controlled radio frequency...
