Agilent Technologies will name its spin-off electronic measurement company Keysight Technologies. The separation of the company's test and measurement business is expected in early November. Keysight will be headquartered in Santa Rosa, Calif., and have about 9,500 employees in 30 countries.
Agilent has struggled with profits...
Azimuth Systems Inc. introduced a new over-the-air mobile device testing platform this week. The Intelligent Over-the-Air (iOTA) platform has already been accepted in a Tier One operator's mobile device test plan and in OEM labs, according to the company.
The iOTA does traditional throughput tests,...
Spirent Communications said that independent lab Intertek's wireless device testing business has chosen its 8100 Mobile Device Test System for Voice over LTE/IMS testing as operators prepare for the roll-out of VoLTE. The company's portfolio includes test solutions for areas including IMS, RCS, audio quality,...
Acquisition, analytics and mobile payments. These are just a few of the recurring topics in the world of telecom software this week. Welcome to our weekly telecom software wrap-up, where we gather together all of the biggest news stories on the topic in one...
With the ever-increasing demand for tower climbers and the increased number of recent tower deals, RCR Wireless News thought the time was nigh to introduce a weekly Tower Technology weekly wrap-up. Each week we will gather all the top stories in the world of...
With the ever-increasing demand for tower climbers and the increased number of recent tower deals, RCR Wireless News thought the time was nigh to introduce a weekly Tower Technology weekly wrap-up. Each week we will gather all the top stories in the world of...
Agilent Technologies has added new functionality and options to its M9703A AXIe eight-channel wideband digital receiver/digitizer (pictured at right), which is used for measurements in communications and the aerospace/defense industry. The equipment is designed for wide analysis bandwidth on up to 40 phase-coherent channels,...
Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Telecom Software weekly wrap-up where we gather top telecom software news stories for the week:
U.S. Cellular is working with its billing company Amdocs to fix glitches that caused multiple inaccurate bills for customers and other errors.
Actix rolled...
Agilent's SystemVue platform for communications, aerospace and defense system design now supports high-performance distributed computing. Agilent said that allows next-generation system performance to be verified up to 64 times faster using Linux-based grid computing managers like the IBM Platform Load Sharing Facility.
The SystemVue 2013.08 version...
Test equipment company Anritsu announced that its equipment now supports TD-LTE carrier aggregation (CA) testing, claiming the slot as the first LTE network simulator that supports CA for Time Division Duplex (TDD) Long Term Evolution, the variant favored by operators such as China Mobile.
The...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.Â
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...
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.
