Agilent Technologies (A) reported flat net revenues and a 35% year-over-year drop in net income for its second fiscal quarter ending April 30, and announced a restructuring program that will result in 450 eliminated positions.
That figure reflects a cut of about 2% to Agilent's...
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 an industry first, according to Ixia, and simulates all the complexities of a rack of...
Rohde & Schwarz has launched a new flagship test product, the R&S SMW200A high-end vector signal generator.
The box combines a baseband generator, RF generator and MIMO fading simulator, with the options of hooking up an additional RF path for frequencies up to 6 GHz,...
National Technical Systems, which provides testing and engineering services to the telecom industry among others, had a record quarter of growth. Revenues were up almost 19% to $184.5 million for its fiscal 2013.
Revenues for its fiscal fourth quarter jumped almost 9% year-over-year, to $43.8...
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 quarter revenue of $2.89 billion and net income of $362 million.
That net income figure was...
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 HD streaming, online gaming and video conferencing will become standard offerings. Mobile operators will finally...
RCR Wireless takes a look at the regulatory challenges facing the wireless industry, including spectrum issues, potential for additional spectrum auctions, regulations on the second-hand spectrum market, M&A regulations and sitting challenges. As a special bonus, we will provide an annual FirstNet update.
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Welcome to this week's round-up of news, products, and analysis in the network test and measurement space.
Chinese test system provider Tri-L Solutions integrated Agilent Technologies' PXT wireless communications test set with some of its own test systems for over-the-air LTE device and antenna testing...
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 test scenarios used by Spirent on its 8100 test system involved both static assessments and...
Anite's test solutions for 2G, 3G and LTE conformance and interoperability testing will be used in CanvasM Technologies' new test lab in New Jersey. CanvasM is a subsidiary of India-based Tech Mahindra, and has been working with Anite for more than three years in...
A new partnership helps enterprise IT departments do some of their own radio frequency testing to find interference sources in corporate WLANs. Bandspeed announced this week that its AirMaestro radio frequency spectrum analysis software is being integrated with some of Broadcom's solutions to allow...
It’s no secret that the future of the enterprise network lies with wireless, especially as computing technology aggressively and constantly expands on a mobile level. But, to support the mobile device boom (which Cisco pegs at 50 billion by 2020), network engineers will need to...
International communication doesn't have to be complex. In this white paper, you'll discover the challenges organizations with international travelers face to strike an appropriate balance between ease of use for those focused on being productive when traveling internationally, and the cost of using non-domestic...
The Optical Fiber Communications Conference this week was a chance for test and measurement companies to share their wares related to testing the wired portions of communications networks.
Anritsu's equipment was used in demos by Mindspeed Technologies, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Kotura, and Semtech Corp.
Anritsu also revised...
Distributed antenna systems are one of the fastest-growing types of cellular infrastructure. Global annual DAS sales will top $1 billion this year, ABI Research predicts. And by 2017, more than 2.5 million
Modern tracking generators deliver a convenient way to test the performance of two port components. In this webinar you will discover when you need to normalize a measurement and when you don’t. The need for wide dynamic range will be shown and advanced topics will...
How will increasingly detailed service intelligence and network data change the game for wireless service providers? Of late, it seems like everyone from traditional equipment manufacturers to testing companies to BSS/OSS software vendors are making service and network assurance claims to help carriers defend...
The network test and measurement space is busily supporting wireless operators as they transition to LTE networks and advanced wireless services. RCR Wireless News' Kelly Hill is tracking this space in a weekly look at analysis, trends and new products in test and measurement.
National...
Battery life on voice over LTE second-generation chipsets has significantly improved, showing growing maturity of the technology, according to a new test report by Spirent Communications.
Spirent tested first and second generation VoLTE devices on MetroPCS’ LTE network, and concluded that the newer LG Spirit...
The volume of cloud-based announcements at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week reflected enterprises' interest in having mobile services and applications delivered “as a service.”
The network test and measurement space is busily supporting wireless operators as they transition to LTE networks and advanced wireless services. RCR Wireless News' Kelly Hill is tracking this space in a weekly look at analysis, trends and new products in test and measurement.
Wireless...
QRC Technologies launched a wide-band transcorder this week, which it describes as a self-contained radio frequency recording and playback system designed to allow technicians to record network conditions in the field and transport or e-mail the information for troubleshooting.
QRC is aiming the product at...
The network test and measurement space is busily supporting wireless operators' transition to LTE networks and advanced wireless services. RCR Wireless News' Kelly Hill is tracking this space in a weekly look at analysis, trends and new products in test and measurement.
Spirent Communications is...
We kick off this week's test and measurement news with Agilent Technologies' results. The company reported revenues of $1.68 billion for its first fiscal quarter ending Jan. 31, 2013.
