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Decoding 5G New Radio: The Latest on 3GPP and ITU Standards

Everywhere you look today, 5G is at the center of conversations about exciting new technology. Recent announcements from Mobile World Congress 2017 in late February indicate that 5G is already here. The truth is that 5G isn’t here yet, but we are getting closer....

Enabling Global Deployment of LTE IoT Devices with SAW-less Radio Design Architecture

  This white paper explains how Sequans’ Single-SKU technology works through a design technique that eliminates the need for surface acoustic wave (SAW) filters in the radio front-end architecture of an LTE system, thereby enabling a single hardware design to work in any LTE band...

Preventing IoT Edge Device Vulnerabilities

  Security issues around IoT edge devices are rarely mentioned in literature, however, the projected billions of IoT edge devices out in the wild makes for a vast attack surface. Should hardware designers be concerned about security for IoT edge devices? And, is it worth...

Is Your IoT Operation Ready for the Future? Future-proofing IoT Operations in the As-a-Service Economy

"The Internet of Things (IoT) is a technology trend that has caught the imagination of technical and business folks alike with the promise of billions of connected devices and trillions of dollars of value creation. After the initial hype settles down, there is a serious question of...

State of 5G 2017 & Beyond – Cradlepoint Business Intelligence Report

5G is rapidly climbing the hype cycle. Qualcomm has even claimed it could be as “transformative as electricity.” Wireless network operators in the U.S. are not only talking about 5G, but asserting that their trials are ongoing and deployments are coming soon — in many...

Small cells convert urban demand into reliable revenue

As the world goes digital, people’s daily lives are increasingly dependent on easy access to data, wherever they are. High-quality mobile connectivity can influence where people decide to live, raise the efficiency of their work and increase their relaxation time. By steadily densifying their networks,...

Get up to speed on WLAN

Take WLAN technology ideas from concept to consumer with confidence. Keysight keeps pace with the constantly evolving WLAN standards – such as 802.11ax and 802.11ad – all with a clear goal to continuously improve spectrum utilization, throughput, and user experience. Our complimentary videos, app...

Ensuring network profitability through secure service enablement

While voice over LTE (VoLTE), voice over WiFi (VoWiFi) and other communication services open up new revenue opportunities for operators, they also increase traffic diversity, network complexity and management burden. To profitably seize the opportunities of these network evolutions, operators need their authentication, authorization and...

5 Essential Hints to Improve Millimeter-wave Network Analysis

Improve your results for design and test network analysis at millimeter-wave frequencies: get five hints to help you optimize device performance.

Spectrum Analysis is the Key to Network Optimization and Success

  Telecommunications networks are dynamic systems in a constant state of flux. Service providers are rapidly investing in wired and wireless systems to expand coverage and deliver better experience to consumer and enterprise end users. The current climate is marked by the evolution from LTE...

The Role of CPRI in C-RAN Architecture: Challenges & Testing

  Learn about the challenges of C-RAN, and best practices for testing   Recent advancements in radio technology have allowed service providers to deploy LTE networks using a distributed baseband architecture. Radios are installed at the top of the tower, close to the antenna, and separated from...

Industrial IoT (IIoT) – Where is Silicon Valley?

The news provides a stream of reports that factory workers will be replaced by robots due to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).  But actually, IIoT is transforming the way companies and factories operate by automating actionable information starting with the supply chain, through the...

LTE TDD Performance Measurement with 3.5 GHz Band

This paper addresses LTE radio performance in the 3.5 GHz band and how it compares with TDD band 40 (2300-2400 MHz). Experiments have been carried out for throughput Range versus Rate, CQI variation, MCS distribution, and SINR on different path loss. Based on these...

EXFO Case Study: Tier 1 C-RAN field trial

For MNOs that want to deliver bandwidth and coverage today and tomorrow with 5G on the horizon, the move to fronthaul C-RAN architectures is a necessary step and delivers many benefits. However, as seen in this field trial, fronthaul C-RAN comes with its share of...

5G over the Air Performance Measurement and Evaluation Using FieldFox Handheld Analyzers

5G’s ecosystem of high-performance applications will operate over the ultimate consolidation of voice, data and video. For many RF engineers, this is uncharted territory: mastering millimeter-wave, characterizing air interfaces, measuring antenna efficiency, and solving elusive interference problems. To help you explore new ground, Keysight...

Accurate modeling of NB-IoT design

Accurate modeling of NB-IoT design is vital to understand the complex analog and digital components of the communication system and the overall device behavior. Now you can explore RF transceiver, advanced modem and more modeling examples using a new simulation method in a combined multi-domain...

5G: Advancing the World of Connectivity

  5G wireless technology has many hopes and promises associated with it, including delivering up to 10 Gbps of throughput per user with much denser networks and super-low latency speeds.  Although not expected to be standardized until 2018, 5G is clearly transitioning from an industry vision to a tangible,...

The Essential Resource Guide to 3GPP: An Overview of 5G New Radio

  The most effective wireless researchers have something in common: they understand the complexity of looking at standards, what their competitors are doing, and how-to work towards 5G development for their organization. Our complete guide will provide an overview and update covering: PHY and MAC layers...

5G deployment models are crystallizing

5G comes with the promise of unseen services and futuristic use cases. Telecom operators and other industry players are making big bets on next-generation services. 5G will bring new interactive and immersive experiences to customers. Use cases are already being built around immersive sports viewing...

Secure Linux Development with Embedded Solutions

  While Linux is becoming the preferred platform for embedded solutions, a key challenge for developers is to balance the pressures of shorter development sprints without compromising security.  Learn how SUSE is positioned to provide the flexibility, tools, Linux expertise and support necessary to help...

10 Things you should know about Massive MIMO

5G solutions and technical resources that are ready to enable deeper insights, especially as the standard evolves. The Keysight 5G poster, titled “10 Things You Should Know About Massive MIMO,” provides insights into massive MIMO as well as 5G solutions.  Gain insight from Keysight industry...

National Instruments White Paper: Massive MIMO – Top 10 Research Topics in Need of Prototyping

This white paper features key, yet-to-be published Massive MIMO topics and how a testbed can be used to accelerate wireless research by enabling the validation of simulated results through rapid prototyping.

Challenges and Choices in Next-Gen Wireless Network Planning

 Upgrading the LTE networks of today and planning and deploying the wireless technology of tomorrow can both benefit from a new approach using powerful 3D modeling tools for network planning. Driven by advances in the quality of geodata and the availability of computing power,...

Accelerating deployment in the Internet of Things

The benefits for enterprises in deploying successful Internet of Things solutions are potentially huge: cost savings, new income streams, efficient business processes and happier customers. However, when it comes to developing enterprise IoT solutions such as predictive maintenance, remote monitoring, fleet management or building management,...