From emergency texting to revolutionizing agriculture, explore the promises and challenges of cellular coverage into space in RCR Wireless News' new report.
In the report we explore the intricacies of space-based cellular connectivity and delve into the status of NTN standardization and commercialization.
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Softbank received permission this week from the Federal Communications Commission for an initial test of a drone using 4G/5G connectivity to provide services as part of emergency disaster response.
"By making use of cutting-edge UAV with its preinstalled high quality camera sensors and additional...
Gogo Business Aviation says that it is using an advanced virtual flight simulator that was constructed by its radio frequency engineering team, to emulate the radio channel in an airborne environment in order to test its 5G software—before it gets its hands on the...
Mavenir will be using the Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR)'s wireless testbed in Salt Lake City to test a first-of-its-kind Open RAN 5G Standalone deployment that uses millimeter wave spectrum.
The  Platform for Open Wireless Data-driven Research, or POWDER, testbed was established through...
Keysight Technologies has unveiled a network emulation test platform for Wi-Fi 7 devices, describing its new E7515W UXM Wireless Connectivity Test Platform for Wi-Fi as a "turnkey solution" that provides insights into both the physical layer and media access control (MAC) layer.
Existing solutions...
Sub-terahertz frequencies will be tested in an indoor-only environment for high-throughput data links
Microsoft is going to test indoor sub-terahertz wireless links as a potential supplement to wired links in data centers, according to documents filed with the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology.
Sub-terahertz...
Testing company Fortive, whose T&M brands include Tektronix and Fluke, beat its guidance and saw fourth quarter 2024 revenue growth of 4% year-on-year.
Net earnings for the fourth quarter were $265 million, and for the full year, net earnings were $866 million.
The company...
Simulation and validation company dSpace is partnering with Spirent Communications to leverage Spirent's high-fidelity global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) simulator, the Spirent GSS7000, as part of a turnkey solution to make Autonomous Driving Hardware-in-the-Loop test systems (AD-HIL) "even more realistic" by including real-time positioning...
Keysight Technologies this week shared an update on progress toward its squeeze-out acquisition of real-time digital twin company ESI Group, which was announced in June 2023.
ESI Group shares have ceased trading on Euronext Paris, pending the implementation of the squeeze-out. Keysight said that...
As future 6G standards are discussed this year, current work on Releases 18 and 19 in areas such as AI / ML, MIMO, and power savings will provide the starting point.Â
The rollout of 5G is well underway. At the same time as 5G is...
Test company Anritsu said recently that the first Non-Terrestrial Network protocol conformance tests for narrowband IoT were validated on its 5G NR Mobile Device Test Platform ME7834NR, in conjunction with testing of Sony Semiconductor Israel’s Altair device. Those tests have been submitted to the...
The Open RAN Alliance said that it has successfully concluded its fall 2023 plugfest. The event was co-hosted by 24 major operators, OTICs and independent institutions for testing, the organization said. It ran from September-November 2023 and was held in 16 labs around the...
Keysight Technologies closed out its fiscal year with record revenue of $5.46 billion, up 1% from $5.42 billion last year. Net income was down 6% to $1.06 billion, compared to $1.12 billion during the company's fiscal 2022.
However, Keysight's fiscal fourth quarter of 2023 was...
6G-SANDBOX aims to develop a large-scale EU-wide experimental platform for 6G emerging technologies
6G-SANDBOX has signed of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) to foster research in the 6G field, the former said in a release.
6G-SANDBOX is a pan-European...
TiC6G houses a suite of instruments capable of testing prototype devices for future 6G networks
The University of Glasgow announced the opening of new research lab dedicated to helping advance future 6G communications technologies.
The "Terahertz On-chip Circuit Test Cluster for 6G Communications and Beyond" lab,...
Emerson has officially completed its acquisition of National Instruments (NI), at an equity value of $8.2 billion.
NI will become a new Test and Measurement business segment within Emerson's Software and Control group. Emerson indicated that it expects the addition of NI to boost...
Rohde & Schwarz, along with broadcaster Levira, supported a major government exercise in Estonia focused on training and testing of the country's nationwide emergency response capabilities, which included the first test of 5G Broadcast for emergency alerts to smartphones.
The large-scale evacuation test exercise,...
One of the mains goal for autonomous vehicles is to improve human safety, by reducing the number of traffic crashes. But how do you know if autonomous vehicles actually do so, under what conditions, and by how much? A benchmark is needed, and a...
LG Electronics said the recent test was carried out in partnership with Korean operator LG U+ in Seoul
Korean tech company LG Electronics announced a successful wireless transmission and reception of terahertz (THz) data over 500 meters, which it claimed is the longest distance recorded...
Keysight updates on Open RAN innovations and the testing processes behind them
Open RAN contains multitudes. It’s an ideological movement grounded in the belief that a diverse radio supplier ecosystem begets competitions which begets advantageous economics which begets more and faster innovation. It’s an ongoing...
One way to asses what test and measurement companies think is coming next in terms of needed technologies and capabilities is to look at the ways in which they have been expanding their portfolios with new automation and analytics offerings. They are also increasingly...
The first Global Open Testing and Integration Center (OTIC) Summit was held in late August, and more than 190 participants from 12 countries representing network operators, government agencies, vendors, lab operators, academia and the O-RAN Alliance leadership team attended the event, said co-organizer Keysight...
The momentum around non-terrestrial networks (NTN) continues to build, with both Keysight Technologies and Viavi Solutions this week announcing NTN-related developments.
Keysight and MediaTek joined up to verify that MediaTek's 5G modem technology supports 5G New Radio and internet of things (IoT) technologies based...
Keysight's communications solutions segment sees drop in commercial communications revenues, more than offset by aerospace/defense growth
Keysight Technologies continued a run of recent record quarters, reporting that it brought in revenues of $1.38 billion—a figure that was roughly flat compared to the same period last...
