The metaverse and extended reality (XR) applications are considered critical to unlocking the full consumer potential of the 5G technology. Rigorous testing is crucial to ensure the performance and market acceptance of these immersive experiences. Rohde & Schwarz and Slalom have collaborated to address...
Traditional network KPIs need to be realigned as the importance of sustainable 5G becomes top of mind
From the advent of cellular networks until present, the majority of operators have focused investment and analysis on network key performance indicators (KPIs) that speak to the ability...
Subscribers expect their mobile operator to deliver a seamless Quality of Experience when using voice, video services and OTT applications and in a highly competitive market, ensuring QoE is a key factor to avoid churn. With the emergence of 5G and the demanding commercial...
In an increasingly complex and technology driven market, mobile network operators and infrastructures are facing the challenges of reducing costs and increasing competitiveness. At the same time, investments in infrastructure and resources are required to ensure the successful rollout of new services and technologies...
Google’s QUIC made its debut a few years ago and it quickly became a headache for operators. Why? QUIC is an encryption-based protocol and many types of traffic become invisible. Operators struggled to deliver content and manage subscriber Quality of Experience (QoE).
Fast forward to...
The ability to compare the end user’s QoE perception of applications and services and the overall network performance on a national but also international scale is the key metric for professional benchmarking and optimization. This poster guides you through the complete benchmarking and optimization...
Download this white paper to learn how the NPS integrates voice and data KPIs to calculate an overall network score and deliver improvement recommendations.
The white paper also describes how Rohde & Schwarz (MNT) products implement the network performance score versions 1.1 and 1.2. In...
Wireless connectivity has never been as crucial to as many people as it is today. In a new world shaped by social distancing, wireless capabilities have transcended convenience and become the primary fabric of human interaction.
As recently as 2016, ABI Research reported that more...
The pandemic has put data-driven decision making under the microscope—everyone, everywhere is questioning data and the decisions being made based on it today. For mobile operators, it has always been a challenge to process your data into meaningful information that guides your next course...
Do you want to find out how to increase targeted network quality and improve the network performance?
This e-Guide is a comprehensive test solution guide that consist of different applications and use cases along the entire value chain – from data collection to automatic insights...
The race to roll out 5G technology is well underway. But 5G represents far more than the previous major transition, where, from 3G to 4G, we simply enjoyed faster speeds and greater coverage. 5G will power multiple use cases, many of them new and...
Many different and fragmented proprietary scores have swept the market over the years and the methods of scoring are not transparent. Therefore, ETSI STQ group have came about and harmonize the process, they then released the technical report TR 103559 which defines best practices...
CSPs worry about impacts of IoT, 5G on network congestion
5G promises to offer such enormous bandwidth that it will be able to handle the traffic from massive internet of things deployments, demands from augmented/virtual reality applications and consumers taking advantage of enhanced mobile broadband...
Wired and wireless operators are juggling an unprecedented number of simultaneous transitions in their networks: from purpose-built hardware to virtualized network functions and software-defined networks; from highly manual processes to DevOps and automation, and ever-faster speeds across the network as a whole. Cable companies...
Network architectures are becoming more complex and decentralized. Applications are becoming more advanced, data-heavy, and compute-intensive. Both trends will continue as communications service providers (CSPs) upgrade their 4G networks first, and then begin the migration to 5G.
While doing so, service providers are transforming their...
The gaming industry is on a winning streak. Last year, video games were worth around $165 billion, and by 2022 are set to reach $235 billion. Online gaming in particular packs a punch, with Statista forecasting there to be over 730 million online gamers...
MWC 2019 was peppered with artificial intelligence (AI) robots and references to machine learning (ML) across the various halls. For a show aimed at mobile operators, very few of those applications of AI and ML actually impact the network. The Radio Access Network (RAN),...
5G New Radio (NR) introduces many changes compared to the existing LTE air interface, impacting field testing, assessment of QoE and radio network performance. This webinar highlights 5G NR field measurement, drive test, benchmarking and data post processing technologies and reviews practical examples and...
As service providers transform their networks from traditional, physical infrastructure to a more dynamic, virtual one, they face new challenges in delivering high service quality across an increasingly complex hybrid network.
Service assurance tools and processes have always been instrumental in helping achieve service excellence,...
Smartphone usage. Voluminous streaming data. Multiple mobile devices tethered together. All of these activities are expected to have much smoother connections once 5G is rolled out. Because it’s touted as the answer to latency or slow speeds, network operators are anxious to get started...
It’s well accepted that quality of service (QoS) is essential in a network environment, allowing network managers to “provide different priority to different applications, users, or data flows, or to guarantee a certain level of performance to a data flow,” according to the Wikipedia...
5G New Radio (NR) introduces many changes compared to the existing LTE air interface, impacting the field testing and assessment of QoE and radio network performance. This webinar highlights the 5G NR key technological concepts and explains their impact on field testing.
This webinar will...
The world’s first, entirely cashier-less store in Seattle opened recently. AmazonGo uses “intelligent” cameras and a powerful set of algorithms to “think”. It is a grocery outfit, but not as we know it. Shoppers simply scan their phones on the way in, grab what...
The rapid adoption of gigabit LTE on the path to 5G is one of several mega-trends shaping the way carriers plan, deploy, monitor and manage networks. The telecom industry is undergoing major transitions including the move from physical to hybrid to virtual networks built...
