Frost & Sullivan came out with a new report this week claiming the emergence of "5G" technologies will "ignite the global test and measurement market," with smart cities and the drive to monitor international sporting events also seen as additional drivers. Communications testing will be...
Network testing company Global Wireless Solutions is challenging RootMetrics' popular crowd-sourced ratings of wireless carriers with a new OneScore rating system for wireless carriers, which takes into consideration both how users want to utilize their devices as well as actual network testing data.
"Despite a recent...
The 3rd Generation Partnership Project accepted specifications developed by industry players for low-power wide area network development, expected to be a major piece of the "Internet of Things" in terms of devices that send small amounts of data, require a long battery life and may...
New solutions launched this week take test company Spirent Communications from its traditional focus on simulation in the lab into monitoring and insights into live networks, as well as customer experience analytics.
Spirent is taking its flagship Landslide product, which is used in the lab to...
Signals Research Group recently took a look at the performance of voice over Wi-Fi as part of its in-depth exploration of all things voice-over-wireless related, using Spirent Communications' Nomad User Experience Analytics System to measure POLQA voice quality in various scenarios while examining the...
As testing labs prepare for the new SISO and MIMO OTA testing standards from CTIA, PCTest Engineering Laboratory said it is expandings its capabilities in those areas with a MIMO OTA testing solution from Spirent Communications. Spirent's solution is also going to be used by...
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...
Spirent Communications achieved a first this week at Interop Tokyo, giving what the company said was the first demonstration of "two separate 400Gb Ethernet implementations interoperating live in a public forum."
The demo involved Spirent's 400Gb Ethernet Test System generating and passing traffic to Huawei's NE5000E core...
In a move that boosts the trend toward software-defined, modular testing solutions, Cobham Wireless (formerly Aeroflex) and National Instruments have teamed up with a focus on combining their strengths in PXI.
Under the partnership, NI is acquiring Cobham's line of PXI modular hardware and will be...
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.
--NI has joined the CROWD consortium, otherwise known as the European Union Framework...
LAS VEGAS — One of the challenges associated with making connected cars work well is the complexity involved in the interplay between multiple devices and connectivity types in a moving environment — which need to be tested thoroughly in order to ensure that both...
Editor's Note: 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,...
Spirent Communications studied more than 47,000 calls and 170,000 data tests on iPhone 5C devices across wireless operators in the United Kingdom and found that the main differences among operators came down to data speeds, while all operators performed well in call and file upload/download completions.
The...
