SAN DIEGO--The technology and use cases associated with 5G will be as different and exciting as comparing today to a decade ago, Jay Alexander, SVP/CTO of Keysight Technologies said during an IEEE Globecom keynote presentation. And that means the test and measurement field needs...
Keysight Technologies beat analysts' expectations when it posted fourth-quarter and full-year results this week, with what company officials described as "strong profit in a soft market." In terms of quarterly Keysight results, revenues were down 1% year-over-year and net income was $277 million. Net...
The test-related products that vendors announced around CTIA Super Mobility 2015 tend to be a reflection of the overall trends within the industry, and this year is no exception. From that perspective, vendors are talking about testing trends that include virtualizing heterogeneous networks (Azimuth),...
In the test and measurement space this week, vendors are gearing up for the CTIA show and highlighting new wares focused on LTE-Advanced and "5G."
- Anritsu launched new support for fading in LTE-A scenarios and support for 4x4 and 8x2 multiple-input/multiple-output technology, additional test...
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...
Spirent Communications launched a new test system for the connected car this week. The Automotive Record and Playback test system lets developers of automotive systems record real-world signals and plays them back in a lab environment, and Spirent said that the approach “complements the...
The big news of the week, of course, was Keysight Technologies' announcement that it will purchase Anite for $606 million. Read more on that transaction, expected to close this fall, here. In other news across the testing industry this week:
• Cobham Wireless, formerly Aeroflex, added...
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...
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...
Chipset manufacturer Ikanos has launched a new speed test option for carriers to get a clearer picture of the data rates they are delivering, without the confounding factors of the home Wi-Fi connection or slowness across the Internet rather than in the service provider's network.
According...
LTE-Advanced testing continues to make progress across the ecosystem. In this week's test and measurement news:
• Anritsu said that its ME7873L RF/RRM conformance test system has received Global Certification Forum approval for more than 80% of radio frequency and radio resource management conformance test...
Keysight Technologies is the newest name and iteration of a testing company that traces its roots back through life sciences company Agilent Technologies to Hewlett-Packard, dating back 75 years. Now,  after being separated from parent company Agilent last month, the company  has taken the form of...
As carrier aggregation begins to be deployed with two component carriers, Anritsu and Keysight Technologies both announced advances this week in the testing of three-component-carrier carrier aggregation, which offers even higher speeds.
Anritsu said it tested three-component-carrier Carrier Aggregation and achieved a stable peak-data rate,...
Effective Nov. 3, Keysight began trading as an independent company on the NYSE. Officially a new company with a 75-year legacy, Keysight was founded in 1939 as Hewlett-Packard and then Agilent’s electronic measurement group. The company is now 100% focused on electronic design, test and measurement issues.
Keysight...
--Ixia met its revenue guidance but delivered a net loss for the quarter, in the midst of what new CEO Bethany Mayer called a "challenging network equipment spending environment."
Mayer told investors on Ixia's quarterly call that the "near-term spending environment will continue to be...
Keysight Technologies (KEYS) has officially completed its split from parent company Agilent Technologies. The new electronic test and measurement company began regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol KEYS today.
Stock was distributed on Friday at the close of business, with...
Editor's Note: The ability to test network and device features and functions is an important piece of technology development and deployment. RCR Wireless looks weekly at test and measurement news to see what's afoot.
—Agilent Technologies' board of directors has approved the separation of its electronic test...
Editor's Note:Â The ability to test network and device features and functions is an important piece of technology development and deployment. RCR Wireless News looks weekly at the test and measurement space to see what's afoot.
—As the industry inches closer to voice over LTE deployment,...
