Subzero temperatures, subway dwellers, and airborne rattlesnakes were among the challenges that tower climbers have shared with Anritsu as part of the company's 2013 Toughest Site Competition. The test and measurement equipment maker has held the contest for four years to highlight the harsh...
Can Field-To-Lab Get Even Closer To The Real World? Field-To-Lab has revolutionized mobile device testbeds, by enabling operators, device OEMs and other ecosystem participants to record field conditions on live networks and replay them in the lab.  As much as FTL has created operational efficiencies by approximating real-world conditions...
Spirent Communication's equipment was used to support China's first public OpenFlow interoperability test event in China at the Global SDN Certified Testing Center (SDNCTC), a subsidiary of the Beijing Internet Institute.
More than 10 software-defined networking vendors participated in the event; Spirent's TestCenter was used...
Spirent Communications says that the launch of Voice over LTE service is "imminent," and has integrated its field testing solution with lab systems for call quality and device testing, so that carriers and mobile device suppliers can use the same testing system in live...
Tektronix Communications says its new Spectra2 XL3 test solution can test more than 400,000 simultaneous, bi-directional G.711 IP-based calls while taking up only a single, two-unit rack space.
The company is aiming to cut operators' and manufacturers' capex and opex costs for testing IMS and...
Agilent Technologies' stock jumped after the company reported a better than expected third quarter, and a partnership with Gradient Design Automation.
"Although we are operating in a very challenging economic environment, we are pleased with our operational performance, as we continue to make progress improving...
Anite has announced that it is the first to release a device testing solution for enhanced Inter-Cell Interference Coordination, or eICIC, an LTE-Advanced feature that deals with interference issues in heterogeneous networks that include both macro sites as well as small cells.
Anite said its...
Ixia saw its revenue for the second quarter grow 28% to $115.9 million, with much of the increase attributed to two acquisitions rather than its core products.Â
Revenues for the same period in 2012 were $90.7 million. Ixia said that its recent acquisitions of Anue...
National Instruments saw flat revenue year-over-year, with net income plunging from $26.4 million to $14.4 million. The company cited industry weakness in giving a lackluster estimate for its third quarter revenues.
Revenues for the second quarter edged up just 1% year-over-year. NI said its orders...
Agilent Technologies Inc. launched a 28.4 Gb/s multiplexer this week for characterizing receivers for next-gen servers, storage systems and data-center networks.
"To manage the increasing demand for higher bandwidth, lower power consumption and increased interconnect reach, many new network interface standards are emerging, along with...
Testing for LTE devices continues to evolve, with Spirent Communications' announcement of the availability of validated LTE location conformance tests for GCF certification for "every mobile device that supports LTE Positioning Protocol defined by the 3GPP for LTE networks."
The tests have been available on...
Intertek received accreditation from PTCRB and can now conduct testing under "any industry certification scheme for all 2G, 3G and 4G wireless technologies," the company said.
The PTCRB accreditation was issued June 13 and announced today. PTCRB is a device certification group that serves mostly...
Anritsu has received confirmation from the Global Certification Forum of protocol test cases for LTE-Advanced, and the company is aiming at the test market for China with its  ME7834 Mobile Device Test Platform with validated protocol conformance test cases for TD-LTE, including interoperability tests.
TD-LTE...
Cell towers are starting to reap the benefits of the technology they enable, thanks to new software developed by test and measurement leader Anritsu. Anritsu's wireless remote tools for its handheld instruments allow technicians to stay on the ground while conducting field measurements like...
Test and measurement company Anite plc announced its final results for its fiscal year, along with the news that it is acquiring one of its distributors, Genentel SAS.
Genentel distributes Anite's wireless testing software to French-speaking markets including France and North Africa, and is focused...
Carrier aggregation is picking up speed. Several test companies have now announced submissions for validation and other testing for the eagerly anticipated LTE-Advanced feature. The first LTE-A device supporting CA was announced this week, when Qualcomm revealed that its Snapdragon chip is powering the...
Anite says it has submitted the first LTE carrier aggregation (CA) protocol test cases for verification to 3GPP's RAN Working Group 5 (RAN5), Â key step toward validation that would lead to the test cases being included in both the Global Certification Forum and the...
Welcome to this week's look at news in network test & measurement.
Ixia was named among the fastest-growing U.S tech companies by Forbes Magazine. The company came in at #14 on Forbes' list.
National Instruments announced that it is working with Anteverta Microwave, Focus Microwaves, Maury...
Mobile operators are looking for ways to provide a remarkable and differentiated user experience. Maintaining an accurate frequency and phase synchronization between radio access and mobile core network is an easy way to achieve this objective. For more information, download Juniper's White Paper about LTE-Advanced...
Agilent Technologies opened two new offices in Vietnam, in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. This comes even as the company announced a 2% cut in its global workforce (about 450 employees) earlier this month.
In Hanoi, a new repair and calibration center for electronic...
Telecom analytics is one of the most exciting areas in the wireless business. In a very competitive environment, carriers have to give a deeper look at how they manage all data they have in order to give them advantages and monetization opportunities. Information without...
Microwave Vision Group launched a new antenna measurement test system for "4G" devices, with up to three-times faster measurement capabilities and a broader dynamic range in passive antenna measurement mode.
The new SG 24 system is compliant with CTIA OTA performance specs, for testing mobile...
Anritsu Co. is giving the first ever single-instrument radio frequency testing of carrier aggregation at CTIA 2013, the company said. Carrier aggregation is one of the most highly anticipated features of LTE-Advanced, and allows wireless operators to make more efficient use of their spectrum.
The...
The Global Certification Forum and the CDMA Certification Forum announced that they are working together to offer a single certification process for mobile devices that incorporate any combination of 3GPP and 3GPP2 wireless technologies.
CCF is the official authority for certifying devices that use CDMA2000,...
