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...
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...
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...
Acquisition expands Teledyne LeCroy's benchmarking and validation testing for data centers, electronic storage
Test-focused Teledyne subsidiary Teledyne LeCroy has acquired California-based Oakgate Technology, which focuses on testing, validation and benchmarking for data centers and the electronic storage industry. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Teledyne...
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What will it take to get users who are still holding onto 3G rate plans and devices to give them up so carriers can re-farm 3G spectrum?
More compelling 4G rates plans, for one, according to new analysis by OpenSignal. The network and device performance...
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...
Cadence Design Systems and National Instruments' new strategic alliance focuses on electronic system innovation for communications
Cadence Design Systems and National Instruments have put together a strategic alliance aimed at bringing more innovation to electronic system design, with a focus on communications, which will more...
Keysight Technologies has laid claim to being the first test equipment company to achieve Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) validation of a cellular vehicle-to-everything communications radio frequency conformance test case.
The test case validation took place in Austin, Texas on October 23, Keysight said, and...
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...
Is it too early to think about '6G'? Nah. Higher, further, faster, baby! The Chinese government is already kicking off its 6G research efforts, and test company Rohde & Schwarz said this week that it has partnered with research institutions including the Fraunhofer Institute...
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...
EXFO improved its financial performance for its full-year fiscal 2019 results, with sales up 6.4% from fiscal 2018 to $286.9 million and a net loss that was trimmed by nearly 80%, to a loss of $2.5 million.
Philippe Morin, EXFO CEO, said in a statement...
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OPPO will leverage the 5G test lab to advance the development and validation of its 5G smartphones
Keysight Technologies and mobile device manufacturer OPPO have jointly established a 5G test lab in Shenzhen, China. The companies hope that the lab will stimulate the 5G ecosystem...
Distance to urban areas is a key factor determining the experience rural users will have, OpenSignal says
How well are mobile networks working for rural U.S. residents? OpenSignal said that there are two primary factors in rural mobile network experience: the proximity of the area...
Live video production company LiveU is working with a number of mobile network operators around the world to test the use of 5G for live sports and entertainment video streaming. The company announced this week a new hardware unit for global newsgathering and live...
Test company Keysight Technologies has joined the 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA) to establish a test framework for industrial 5G networks and applications, and to assure certification of related industrial IoT components
The 5G-ACIA now has more than 50 members from across...
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...
Look for 6G in the 2030 timeframe, Huawei exec says
Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies has started research on future 6G mobile technology at its research facility in Ottawa, Canada, tech site The Logic reported.
Song Zhang, Huawei Canada's vice-president of research strategy and partnerships, reportedly said...
5G is just barely getting off the ground, but it's not too early for "6G" research efforts -- and Keysight Technologies is jumping in by joining Finland's 6G Flagship Program, which is led by the University of Oulu, Finland and supported by the Academy...
Verizon captured P3 Group's "Best in Test" title for the fourth time in a row, turning in the best score that the test company has recorded in its testing of the U.S. market.
Verizon scored 933 on P3's 1,000-point scale, followed by T-Mobile US at...
Which mobile device a user has plays a crucial role in their experience of a mobile network -- and Samsung devices give users the best experience in 35% of countries tested, according to new analysis from OpenSignal.
OpenSignal relies on device-based measurements for its data,...
Fiber deployment by both mobile network operators and cable MSOs in support of next-generation networks will help drive increased demand for fiber testing, according to a new report from analyst firm Frost & Sullivan.
Mobile network operators are deploying fiber to support 5G, including Fixed...
