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Test and Measurement: GWS puts AT&T’s 5G on top in Super Bowl performance

This year's Super Bowl wasn't just a showcase for the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers—or halftime performers Shakira and Jennifer Lopez. It was also an opportunity for the four national wireless carriers to highlight their 5G network capabilities, and a large-scale test...

Test and Measurement: NI reports a record quarter

National Instruments reported record numbers for the quarter and full year. Revenues for the fourth quarter were $367 million, up 2% year-over-year, and a quarterly record, according to the company. NI CEO Alex Davern said that he was proud of the company's "ability to grow...

Test and Measurement: AT&T snags Opensignal’s nod for fastest download speeds

Last year was a big one for major network improvements, according to Opensignal, whose latest numbers show improving mobile video quality -- particularly for both Verizon and Sprint (!) -- while AT&T surged ahead in download speeds and won the category. Despite the hype around...

Test and Measurement: Orange Belgium launches 5G Standalone testing hub at port of Antwerp

Telecom operator Orange Belgium is opening up a 5G Standalone network at the port of Antwerp to allow enterprises to explore the possibilities of the technology, particularly for industrial applications. Orange Belgium said that it has already demonstrated an actual data connection in the...

Test and Measurement: WTG buys Holzworth Instrumentation

Wireless Telecom Group has agreed to acquire Boulder, Colorado-based Holzworth Instrumentation. The company makes phase noise analyzers and signal generators, and WTG said that its instruments "are used by government labs, the semiconductor industry, and network equipment providers, among others, in research and automated...

For FirstNet contractors, the right PIM hunting training and tools are crucial

  As AT&T continues to ramp up its build-out of the First Responders Network Authority’s Band 14 spectrum, adding that beachfront 700 MHz spectrum to existing systems poses some deployment challenges. The FirstNet build-out is happening rapidly. AT&T says that it has deployed Band 14 spectrum...

Test and Measurement: P3 rebrands as umlaut

Network testing and engineering firm P3 Group AG has rebranded itself, taking the name of the Germanic umlaut -- two small dots placed over a vowel -- to symbolize itself as an agent of change. An umlaut, the company said, "changes a regular vowel...

Test and Measurement: 5G helps to drive data center testing needs, Frost & Sullivan says

The anticipation of broader 5G deployments is one of the driving factors for fiber-optic testing and monitoring needs in data centers, according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan. The analyst firm said that the shift from multi-fiber push-on (MPO)-8 to MPO-12 is...

Test and Measurement: Duubee sets up new 5G lab

Chinese handset and IoT hardware company Duubee has established a 5G device testing lab, the company said in a release this week. Duubee said it has invested "several million dollars" in the lab, which is outfitted with a 5G terminal test platform and equipment for...

Test and Measurement: AT&T cites Ookla for fastest network claim; Ookla responds: Yes, but …

AT&T recently claimed "fastest national network" status, based on crowdsourced, device-based Ookla Speedtest data -- and this week, Ookla responded with a blog entry that provided more insights on the data and a subtle "slow your roll" to the carrier. According to AT&T's press...

Anritsu Webinar: Field Testing Next-Generation 5G Deployments

2019 will be the year 5G finally starts to become a reality with large-scale field deployments. As the industry starts to converge on installation and maintenance best practices, the next-generation of test equipment is needed to support the unique technology used in 5G networks...

Test and Measurement: CommScope, Google pass CBRS environmental sensing tests

CommScope and Google have successfully testing the environmental sensing capabilities, or ESC, that will enable the use of the shared Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum. The companies said this week that they received official word from the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences that their jointly developed...

Test and Measurement: Test highlights from MWC 2019

With 5G dominating the conversations at this year's Mobile World Congress, the technology is moving from labs and trials into the field -- and the test industry's focus has shifted accordingly. A number of the products launched at MWC aim to support 5G field...

Test and Measurement: TIA seeks to develop best practices for edge computing

The Telecommunications Industry Association has started up a new standards task group that aims to develop industry best practices for edge data centers. The work will update TIA's existing TIA-942 standard -- which was developed with large, centralized data centers in mind -- to include...

Test and Measurement: Viavi snags deal to support Rakuten’s roll-out

As Rakuten, Japan's newest mobile operator, joins the market with a new network build-out, the carrier will be using Viavi Solutions' TM500 system to help with end-to-end validation of its cloud-native mobile network. Rakuten is aiming for an October 2019 launch of 4G services and...

Test and Measurement: New year, new test market predictions

In the grand tradition of kicking off a new year with predictions, a few recent analyst reports offer new forecasts for the test market in the upcoming years, from electromagnetic compatibility testing to the overall market. A December report predicts that the general market for test...

Test and Measurement: Sprint launches ad blitz for ‘better than ever’ network

Sprint is trying to capitalize on recent favorable testing results with a new advertising campaign that proclaims its network is "better than ever" -- emphasizing how much its network has improved by comparing by its own past performance and coverage to its present capabilities,...

Test and Measurement: Michigan State turns campus into mobility lab

Michigan State University said this week that it is turning its campus into a "connected ecosystem," with the aim of supporting connected and autonomous vehicle development and better understanding the human element of mobile technology. The 5,200-acre East Lansing campus has been divided into five...

NTT DoCoMo selects Anritsu for 5G testing systems

  DoCoMo confirmed it will adopt Anritsu’s 5G New Radio RF Conformance Test System ME7873NR platform Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo has formally adopted Anritsu's equipment for 5G testing. The Japanese carrier said it will use Anritsu’s 5G New Radio RF Conformance Test System ME7873NR platform as its...

Test and Measurement: Bluetest expands 5G OTA testing partnerships

Anritsu and reverberation chamber testing company Bluetest are collaborating on 5G over-the-air testing capabilities, Bluetest's second recent partnership in 5G OTA testing. Anritsu's Radio Communications Test Station MT8000A and Bluetest's OTA Reverberation Test System RTS65 have been integrated in order to support 5G OTA testing....

Anritsu: ‘It’s 5G, 5G and 5G’

Anritsu talks 5G testing 5G testing is in full swing as chipset, device and infrastructure vendors seek to support early deployments and prepare for more widespread build-outs of the technology beginning in 2019. Among the various 5G testing-related news coming out of Mobile World Congress Americas,...

Test and Measurement: The three big test trends at MWCA

Test trends at MWCA were dominated by 5G It was a busy week for test companies at Mobile World Congress Americas, and while one subject -- 5G testing -- dominated the demos, it wasn't the only area of focus. The three big test trends from MWCA...

Test and Measurement: AT&T cut network latency in past 16 months, says OpenSignal

OpenSignal data analysis showed that AT&T went from fourth to first in network latency Although AT&T wasn't a big winner in LTE speed or availability in its most recent assessment of U.S. mobile network data speeds, the carrier made notable improvements in the latency of...

Test and Measurement: Rootmetrics puts Verizon on top in L.A., NYC

Verizon came out on top in nearly every category of network performance in the New York City metropolitan area and Los Angeles, California in the most recent round of testing by Rootmetrics. Rootmetrics recorded a median download speed of more than 40 Mbps for...