Microwave network equipment company Aviat Networks this week announced results of field tests conducted with Ameren and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), focused on exploring the effects of unlicensed device use at 6 GHz on microwave point-to-point links in the band.
Aviat said that...
Test equipment company PCTel saw its revenues drop 16% year-over-year, but overall profits were up compared to the same period in 2019, the company reported this week.
Total company revenues for the second quarter were $19.8 million, compared to nearly $23.4 million during the same...
The ongoing covid-19 pandemic will have a negative impact on the proliferation of internet of things devices this year, and subsequently impact the need for related IoT test equipment, according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan. The one exception, the company noted,...
Open RAN player Mavenir will be using Keysight Technologies' testing tools to support development of software for its 5G RAN and core platforms.
Mavenir will leverage Keysight solutions including its 5G user equipment emulation (UEE) capabilities, to emulate a "massive number of subscribers and numerous...
Private equity-backed data analytics-based roaming and network security company Mobileum has picked up network roaming test and fraud detection company Sigos. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Sigo, which provides revenue assurance and fraud detection as well as active testing, says that it has...
EXFO saw its sales drop 10% year-over-year, but the financial impact of the global coronavirus pandemic was blunted in part by cost-cutting and a Canadian government program for wage subsidies.
"Despite constraints and restrictive measures in many countries, EXFO navigated through the coronavirus pandemic with...
Keysight Technologies has acquired digital automation company Eggplant from The Carlyle Group for $330 million.
Keysight described Eggplant as a "software test automation platform provider that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics to automate test creation and test execution" and said that the company's Digital...
Windstream and optical networking company Infinera said that they successfully achieved 800 Gbps single-wavelength transmission over 730 kilometers on Windstream’s long-haul network between San Diego, California and Phoenix, Arizona.
The two companies also claimed another industry record by looping the signal back and achieving 700G...
Semiconductor design company Synopsys has acquired analytics company Qualtera, which focuses on analysis of semiconductor design and manufacturing. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Synopsys said the transaction was not material to its financials.
Synopsys said that Qualtera's analytics, combined with Synopys' own...
OptimalPlus focuses on data analytics for semiconductor manufacturing
National Instruments has agreed to buy OptimalPlus, a data analytics company focused on the semiconductor manufacturing space, for $365 million.
The transaction is supposed to expand NI's enterprise software capabilities, the test company said, "to provide customers with...
Keysight Technologies said this week that after pandemic-driven shut-downs in March and April, it expects to be back to full operational capacity by the end of the third quarter.
"After site closures and limited capacity in March and April, we are pleased to announce that...
Verizon's network has provided it a consistent advantage over its competitors over the years. The differences are narrowing, according to data from RootMetrics, but the carrier still shows "consistent and excellent performance across the board" and has been stepping up its network speeds in...
Verizon is beginning to see a shift back toward a more typical, pre-pandemic network mix of calls and texts and is seeing more evidence of people leaving home, according to its most recent update.
Handoffs between cell sites are "steadily increasing from the peak of...
Keysight says it has supported the development of about 75% of 5G devices
Pandemic notwithstanding, the march toward 5G is so far continuing at a rapid clip across the industry, with new networks launched since the beginning of the year, a surge of available devices...
In a boost to the use of Open Radio Access Network strategies, testing company Keysight Technologies this week unveiled new emulation software, Open RAN Studio, for use in validating whether radio units (RUs) are O-RAN compliant.
Keysight is touting its early involvement with the O-RAN...
AT&T is seeing 'excellent and improved' download speeds across many cities, RootMetrics finds
Despite new testing being on hold due to the pandemic, RootMetrics is moving ahead with carrier-specific reports on the 55 cities it has already tested in the first half of this...
Keysight Technologies said this week that Japanese ecommerce giant Rakuten will be using Keysight's test equipment in support of its Rakuten Mobile network launch.
Rakuten Mobile, which just began offering its low-cost data service to consumers last week, will be using Keysight's 5G network and...
A new project supported by funding from the National Institute for Standards and Technology focuses on testing-as-a-service for mission-critical communications features, including MC push-to-talk, data and video.
NIST's Public Safety Communications Research Division, which provided a grant of $3.5 million to the Networking, Quality and...
Voice calls and virtual private network use continue to be far higher than usual, as people across the country navigate teleworking, distance learning and staying in touch with each other during the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Verizon and AT&T are providing multiple weekly updates on trends...
As the novel coronavirus continues to spread around the world, government orders on restriction of movement, as well as concerns about the health of employees and customers, are leading to the first wave of technology company shut-downs.
Keysight Technologies announced Wednesday that to mitigate the...
Nokia is implementing a new, artificial intelligence and analytics-based test process into its 5G base station manufacturing, and testing tech company Keysight Technologies collaborated with the network OEM on bringing it to reality.
Keysight said that the new software-based approach to the base station manufacturing...
Editor's note: Keysight Technologies offered up these predictions for 2020, from CTO Jay Alexander and Jeff Harris, who leads the company's global marketing.
New realms of measurement will grow in importance in 2020: Measurement based tools of many kinds are key enablers for the technology-based products and...
Keysight credits strength in global 5G ecosystem for its growth
Keysight Technologies reported a record first quarter of 2020, with revenues up 9% to $1.095 billion. Profitability increased as well, with net income rising from $114 million during the same period last year to $163...
The global 5G testing equipment and solutions market is expected to reach $2 billion by 2024 with a compound annual growth rate of 11.5%, according to a new forecast from analyst firm Frost & Sullivan.
The firm said that it expects that "healthy double-digit growth rate"...
