Published reports peg the value of a combined Bureau Veritas and SGS at $33 billion
Two of the largest testing and certification companies in the world are in merger talks. France's Bureau Veritas has put out a statement confirming that it is in discussions with...
Inertial Labs offers solutions including GNSS tracking, LiDAR scanning and alternative PNT
Viavi Solutions is buying a Virginia company that specializes in precise positioning and navigation technologies for use aerospace, defense and industrial settings. Inertial Labs has solutions that Viavi says will "accelerate entrance...
Rohde & Schwarz goes deeper into monitoring, and scores an NTN testbed win in Japan with Viavi Solutions
Rohde & Schwarz is broadening its portfolio to include a network monitoring probe, aimed at both mobile network operators and private enterprise and mission-critical networks.
The new...
Spirent acquisition by Keysight still on track to close by April 2025
Keysight Technologies is working on divesting some of Spirent Communications' business segments, in order to satisfy regulatory requirements so that it can close on its purchase of the U.K.-based network testing company.
In...
Privately-held Dekra will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2025
Dekra, which says it is the world's largest privately held testing, inspection and certification company, recorded sales of 4 billion Euros for the first time in its history during 2023 and expects to see even more growth...
Keysight reported a net loss for the quarter due to a $315 million tax-related expense in Singapore
Keysight Technologies beat the high end of its guidance for the most recent quarter, but still saw lower revenues than the year-ago period and recorded a loss due...
Should you choose mobile or Wi-Fi to get the fastest airport connectivity? Ookla gives a breakdown on speeds.
If you're traveling via San Jose's Norman Mineta International Airport this holiday season, you're passing through the airport with the fastest free Wi-Fi speeds in the country,...
Spirent Communications is in the process of being acquired by Keysight Technologies
Spirent Communications said that it has been seeing an "uptick" in its performance during the third quarter of the year, compared to the same time last year.
In a trading update, the company...
Rohde & Schwarz says that it now has "full coverage" for the test plan to certify narrowband IoT Non-Terrestrial Networks (NB-NTN) devices on NTN provider Skylo's satellite network.
The testing also covers NTN SMS capabilities. Texting capabilities for emergency situations have been one of...
Service management and orchestration company Axon Networks is buying software company DZS' service assurance and Wi-Fi management software portfolio that includes CloudCheck, Expresse and TruSpeed.
Axon is making the acquisition as an all-cash, $34 million transaction. The products will then be integrated into Axon's...
Keysight Technologies plans to pick up Synopsys' optical design and analysis software tools, an acquisition that Keysight says will broaden its design engineering software portfolio and computer-aided engineering capabilities.
Synopsys is in the process of a pending $35 billion acquisition of microchip software...
AI and its older sibling, machine learning, have been around and in development in telecom networks for many years now. This is particularly true among the tools of network testing, measurement, monitoring and assurance, which have traditionally been the means of viewing the network:...
Keysight Technologies said that it has achieved an industry first, in the form of a quantum circuit simulation environment that features frequency-domain magnetic flux quantization.
The test company worked with Google Quantum AI on its new Quantum Circuit Simulation (Quantum Ckt Sim) Solution.
"In...
As broad interest in and use of artificial intelligence and other high-performance compute surges, Viavi Solutions has introduced what it says is the first solution to address testing and validation needs of the emerging 1.6 terabits per second (Tb/s) Ethernet ecosystem based on 224G...
A longtime smart technology incubator, the city of Peachtree Corners in Georgia is getting a new smart lighting deployment from Israel-based company Juganu, which promises to provide energy-efficient lighting, environmental sensors, edge computing and free public Wi-Fi.
This is Juganu’s first full smart city...
Keysight Technologies reported revenue and earnings above its guidance for the most recent quarter, and indicated that things look good for improvements in the second half and a "gradual" recovery in 2025.
Revenues were down, but less than expected: From $1.38 billion in the...
Pending acquisition by Keysight slowed customer orders in the first half, Spirent says
Spirent Communications saw a continued slide in its financial performance during the first half of this year, which the company said was a combination of the ongoing telecom slowdown as well as...
After a decade of serving as chief operating officer and part of the executive board of Rohde & Schwarz, Peter Riedel (pictured below) is retiring from the company, citing personal reasons. Riedel, who took the COO role in 2014, will maintain a role...
Rohde & Schwarz said this week that its longterm partner, Calian, is going to take over the R&S DOCSIS portfolio.
Calian has been Rohde's partner since mid-2011 and the two companies jointly developed DOCSIS test and measurement solutions; the company specializes in radio frequency...
Ansys said that it is collaborating with Supermicro and Nvidia for highly sophisticated, multi-physics simulation solutions that will support larger and more complicated models for applications like 5G/6G antennas, automotive aerodynamics and crash testing, and more.
"Turnkey, customized hardware solutions with central processing units (CPUs),...
New integrated solution includes 5G RedCap OTA test support
Test companies Rohde & Schwarz and Emite are continuing to work together on integrated solutions for over-the-air testing, extending that work to put Rohde's CMX500 signaling tester's latest capabilities to work in conjunction with Emite's OTA...
Anritsu and fellow test equipment company ETS-Lindgren have collaborated on a new Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) testing solution, which combines Anritsu’s MT8821C Radio Communication Analyzer with ETS-Lindgren’s EMQuest antenna measurement software and supports narrowband IoT NTN testing.
The MT8821C has a wide dynamic range, supports cellular technologies and...
Drone company DJI says that for the first time, drones have been used to safely deliver equipment to climbers on Mount Everest and remove trash from the mountain.
DJI completed test flights in April on Everest with its FlyCart 30, which carried three oxygen...
Viavi Solutions launched new UTC timing services this week, which rely on L-Band and Ku-Band satellite signals but operate "completely independently" of traditional GPS and GNSS.
The new altGNNS GEO and SecureTimeSM services are "extremely difficult to jam or spoof and leads the industry...
