International network consulting and test company P3 Group this week signed an agreement with research firm Strategy Analytics to partner on an effort to provide consumer insights via mobile devices.
The mobile insights partnership will combine P3's on-device measurement software with Strategy Analytics' AppOptix platform...
Test company Anite has been increasing its focus on in-building testing and data flow across its product lines.
Alex Chua, director for product management and business development at Anite Network Testing, told RCR Wireless News that the company has been focusing of late on three areas:...
Fluke Networks and Brother Mobile Solutions are integrating their technologies to help installers make labeling and tracking of cable simpler with on-site printing of cable and ID identifier labels. The labels are based on data generated during the network design and installation process in...
P3 Group’s automotive division is opening a new automotive-focused Mobility Innovation Center in the metro Detroit, Mich. area and plans to hire nearly 100 people this year to focus on research and development in advanced automotive technologies. The 25,000-square foot facility in Southfield, Mich....
Two test-focused companies are expanding their "Internet of Things" portfolios with IoT acquisitions, although each has a different focus.
MTS is buying sensor production company PCB Group for $580 million. MTS plans to combine PCB into its own sensors business with an eye toward more complete test...
Network testing vendors focused this week on preparing for more widespread 100 gigabit telecommunications networks as part of the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition in Anaheim, California.
EXFO unveiled a new lab solution for design, development and deployment testing of next-generation fiber networks. The LTB-8...
Ahead of next week's IWCE conference in Las Vegas, Anite and Bittium announced a collaboration around public safety drive testing capabilities. Bittium's Band 14-capable, ruggedized ToughMobile smartphone has been integrated with Anite's Nemo Outdoor drive testing solution, with an eye toward serving the market for...
As vendors and their customers face constant pressure on keeping testing costs in line, test companies are always seeking to reduce the amount of time required for testing.
Two test and measurement companies have announced efforts to speed up testing in different areas. Anite said this...
As better network visibility becomes available via monitoring platforms, geolocation information and other big data, operators are able to minimize expensive in-person drive testing or cover situations in which drive-testing would not be feasible. Two recent announcements illustrate that trend:
-Mobile operator Swisscom is using Astellia's Nova RAN...
Measurement Computing, which produces hardware and software for data acquisition and logging for test and measurement, acquired competitor Data Translation for an undisclosed sum.
Data Translation focuses on PC-based data acquisition and designs modules compatible with a range of technologies, including USB, PCI, LXI and Ethernet as...
Walk test measurements are needed in most cases to verify in-building deployment. In-building measurements are time consuming and expensive. In order to be efficient, both the data collection and following analysis needs to be executed professionally to ensure the number of visits to the...
EXFO optimistic about 2016 revenue despite FY 2015 declines
EXFO reported that its quarterly and full-year fiscal 2015 results saw significant currency rate impacts affecting its sales numbers.
Sales for the fourth quarter were $56.6 million, compared to $59.7 million during the same period last year. Quebec City,...
As industry interest and exploration of "5G" deepens, Tektronix announced this week it has a new feature capable of ultra-wide signal analysis for 5G backhaul arrangements.
The company said the implementation of its SignalVu software on the company's DPO70000SX ATI performance oscilloscopes will simplify multi-instrument test set-ups that...
Get real time network performance metrics to make the most out of costly infrastructure deployments
In the competitive wireless marketplace, customers expect high quality of service everywhere, not just outside. With costly distributed antenna system (DAS) and small cell deployments gaining traction with service providers...
Keysight didn't wait long to make good on its CEO's remarks that the company has a "strong" appetite for acquisition, announcing this week that it is expanding its equipment calibration and repair support with the purchase of U.K.-based Electroservices Enterprises for an undisclosed amount.
Keysight...
Anite enables geo-located call trace analysis of WCDMA and LTE networks with its Nemo WindCatcher desktop analytics solution
The new module processes call trace data from major infrastructure OEMs in native OSS format. It allows the analysis of coverage and quality KPIs and poor...
Currency issues and lower revenue impacted Keysight Technologies' quarterly results, but the company still pulled in $70 million in profit during its most recent quarter. As the company integrates test company Anite in a freshly closed $600 million transaction, Keysight President and CEO Ron Nersesian told...
As testing labs prepare for the new SISO and MIMO OTA testing standards from CTIA, PCTest Engineering Laboratory said it is expandings its capabilities in those areas with a MIMO OTA testing solution from Spirent Communications. Spirent's solution is also going to be used by...
JDSU has announced the official timeline for its split into Lumentum and Viavi Solutions: the division and re-naming of the companies will be effective as of Aug. 1. Lumentum shares will be distributed on Aug. 3, with regular trading to begin Aug. 4.
Lumentum is the company's optical and...
As LTE World Summit comes to a close this week, this is the last go round for this event and location. Next year it’s moving to London and shifting the focus to be primarily 5G. Goodbye LTE World Summit and hello 5G World. I...
Test vendor Keysight Technologies has made a bid to acquire competitor Anite in a transaction valued at about $606 million that could boost Keysight's software testing capabilities as the telecom industry moves toward more software-oriented networks.
The boards of the two companies announced this morning...
A new report from ABI Research concludes that the adoption of LTE is driving the market for network monitoring and optimization, and the market's size will reach more than $40 billion over the next five years.
"Mobile optimization is more important than ever," ABI noted, adding...
Spectrum sharing hot topic at ISART
Test and measurement was a major focus of the International Symposium on Advanced Radio Technologies this week, with federal agencies, industry representatives and academic researchers grappling with the technical issues of how the ability to accurately characterize spectrum propagation...
Anritsu and Emite said they have achieved successful, repeatable MIMO over-the-air testing for carrier aggregation that utilized a reverberation chamber and tested 2x2 MIMO with isotropic urban-macro fading profiles in tests performed for an unnamed "leading U.S. carrier."
Emite's reverberation chamber was used, along with...
