Test and Measurement

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Anite says it has submitted the first LTE carrier aggregation (CA) protocol test cases for verification to 3GPP’s RAN Working Group 5 (RAN5),  key step toward validation that would lead …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

 Ixia announced new products for validating and testing the resiliency of enterprise networks, including the ability to simulate a data center rack of virtualized servers. The company’s new RackSim is …

As part of quarterly results, we’re getting a few different takes on the market this week. Texas Instruments’ results came in at the high end of its guidance, with first …

LTE-Advanced will be here sooner than you think, according to test equipment company Anite. According to comments from Paul Beaver, products director at Anite,”With LTE-A, services and applications such as …

Recent performance testing on LTE chipsets by Spirent Communications revealed some interesting results: the top performer wasn’t market leader Qualcomm, but Intel. Rather than focus solely on conformance testing, the …