Viavi Solutions has extended its TeraVM's 5G emulation capabilities to include Standalone 5G New Radio as well as Non-standable 5G NR. While most networks in the planning and deployment phase currently rely on the NSA standard, SA networks are expected to be close behind.
Viavi...
The dawn of 5G means the way we get, experience and manage information will change, putting user experience front and center. To enable services in each of the three 5G primary use cases identified by the 3GPP—eMBB, URLLC and mMTC—network operators must dramatically transform...
Real-time 5G analytics drive service assurance from fiber to applications
Given the multi-year hype cycle that's finally coming to fruition with operator deployments, 5G has a lot to live up to. As such, it's important that the network delivers what it's supposed to, according to...
Mobile network benchmarking company RootMetrics this week put the spotlight on its most recent test results from three Southwestern cities: Phoenix, Arizona, and Dallas and Houston, Texas.
In Dallas, T-Mobile US gained ground and shared the award for overall performance, which Verizon previously held for four...
Network monitoring and visualization deal to support CSP's network integration and automation
As EXFO reported its quarterly results today, the company also dropped the news that it has won a deal worth $4.9 million with an unnamed Tier One service provider in the U.S., to...
Orange Poland early adopter of ONAP
As it continues a "bricky-by-brick" approach to 5G, Orange Poland recently worked with EXFO to incorporate passive virtual probes into the Beijing Release of the Open Network Automation Platform; the goal is service assurance for virtualized network deployments.
According to...
EXFO's sales up, profits down
EXFO reported a quarter that its CEO described as disappointing, but promised that 2019 will be a year of renewed focus on execution by the test company, which has had a number of recent acquisitions.
Sales for the company's fiscal...
New 5G base station test solution aimed at manufacturing test
In the ramp-up to 5G deployment, Keysight Technologies is focusing on manufacturing test for 5G base stations. The test company this week unveiled a new offering aimed at making 5G base station manufacturing testing scalable,...
Rohde & Schwarz's deep packet inspection specialist, ipoque, has launched a new network traffic analytics offering for network operators that supports up to 100 gigabit network speeds and is designed to be used for network planning, product marketing and customer care.
R&S Intra has real-time...
5G networks open up a host of new possibilities for mobile network operators.
Three very distinct initial capabilities are envisioned for 5G networks: enhanced mobile broadband, with high capacity and gigabits-per-second speeds; ultra-reliable and low-latency communications; and massive machine-type communications to support the internet of...
The MNO’s RAN performance team noticed that the operations support system (OSS) flagged the presence of an RF noise issue in the network based on high uplink (UL) received signal strength indicator (RSSI) levels.
In order to take a closer look and attempt to diagnose...
Anritsu has added 2x2 multiple-input multiple-output testing capabilities for 802.11ac to its MT8862A test equipment and says that with new software, it can test 2x2 MIMO on Wi-Fi equipment under "actual operating conditions," along with output signal quality, transmit power and receiver sensitivity.
Two of...
Network benchmarking company Rootmetrics has been going through data from its testing during the first half of 2018 and concluded that increasing network data speeds is a clear area of focus for all of the major U.S. carriers.
Rootmetrics dove into its data for the...
Part of the 5G vision includes an on demand, bespoke data pipe that perfectly optimized to meet the needs of any service.
 Network and spectrum resources will see maximum efficiency of usage in this model, but how do we get there?
The deployment of 5G networks will require the simultaneous availability of several new technologies for the first time. Those technologies—namely SDN, NFV, network slicing, distributed cloud and mobile edge computing—will need to work together, interoperating successfully in order to make 5G a reality. Currently,...
In a promising sign for an equipment ecosystem for Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum, CommScope and Ericsson said this week that they successfully completed interoperability testing of Ericsson's equipment with CommScope's Spectrum Access System. This is the third SAS compatibility testing under Ericsson's belt;...
EXFO cited seasonal softness for performance in the second quarter of its fiscal 2018, reporting a net loss for the quarter of $4.66 million as it also digested the impact of a major acquisition.
The test company said that sales were up 7.8% year-over-year to...
Mobile network operators (MNOs) have been driven to upgrade their cell towers through fierce competition to provide higher bandwidth and quality of service. Typical Internet traffic has been constantly increasing. Mobile video traffic by the usual suspects—YouTube, Vine, Netflix, just to name a few—is...
This white paper reviews the latest trends in the radio access networks (RANs) of mobile networks, including the evolution to Cloud-RAN, virtualized architectures. Although it can be difficult to make accurate predictions for some technologies, we are fortunate in the case of future RAN...
Each step in the evolution of radio access networks (RANs) brings unique opportunities and challenges for mobile network operators. Today, fiber has mostly replaced coaxial cables in new mobile fronthaul builds, otherwise known as fiber-to-the-antenna (FTTA). The next technological innovation in mobile fronthaul is...
Mobile network operators (MNOs) are expanding their fronthaul networks to get ready for 5G. As more RRHs are deployed, the number of RF signals and fiber optic connections being monitored—and trouble tickets being generated—will skyrocket. All that change means field technician workloads are set...
While T-Mobile US came out ahead of Verizon by a hair on LTE availability on a national level in OpenSignal's most recent round of app-based testing, regional battles have heated up in the past year, according to the company.
Verizon came out in top in...
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Sophie Legault, Director of Product Management at EXFO discusses and demonstrates EXFO's SkyRAN solution while at Mobile World Congress 2018.
EXFO has achieved its takeover of French performance monitoring and analytics company Astellia for about $31.6 million.
EXFO said today that it has acquired 97.44% of Astellia's share capital and at least 95.07% of voting rights, after a second phase of a public offer. Now...
