End-to-end fronthaul testing, as well as isolation testing, provide the big picture and granular data needed to drive Open RAN adoption
Given one of the primary goals of Open RAN—providing architectural flexibility by breaking up the centralized unit (CU), distributed unit (DU) and radio unit...
Cloud-native telecom networks are all about agility and functionality, and operators around the world are increasingly architecting their 5G cores in the cloud as they move to cloud-native, 5G Standalone systems.
According to the GSA, 60 operators worldwide have launched 5G Standalone as of September...
Artificial intelligence and machine learning has been moving into many aspects of network testing, from the field to service assurance, to fuel automation and increased efficiency. So where exactly is AI/ML being applied in network testing and assurance today, how is it proving its...
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Keysight Technologies reported revenue and earnings above its guidance for the most recent quarter, and indicated that things look good for improvements in the second half and a "gradual" recovery in 2025.
Revenues were down, but less than expected: From $1.38 billion in the...
Rohde & Schwarz and VIAVI offer joint test solutions to meet the needs of radio equipment manufacturers who apply for the NTIA Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund.
Rohde & Schwarz and Viavi Solutions have announced an expansion of their partnership delivering state-of-the-art O-RU testing...
In modern networks, timing and synchronization are increasingly important due to the deployment of TDD midband spectrum for 5G and the demand for precise coordination for features like carrier aggregation, massive MIMO and positioning.
As MNOs focus on optimizing and densifying 5G networks, and as...
The LoRa Alliance has expanded its certification scheme for LoRaWAN-based IoT devices to include Relay feature testing, and also authorised a new test lab in Brazil, its first in Latin America. The facility, in Atibaia, near São Paulo, is owned by German test company...
As networks continue to evolve from classical, monolithic architectures to cloud-native, disaggregated networks, the way we test networks needs to evolve too in this more software-centric environment, to ensure that new 5G-specific services can be guaranteed for end users.
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A new NPRM from the FCC will propose bringing rules on test lab certification in line with federal law on secure networks
The Federal Communications Commission will vote at its open meeting on Thursday on a proposal meant to ensure that the hundreds of labs...
The rise of Open RAN, where multi-vendor radio systems comprising centralized, distributed and radio units are made interoperable, is now decidedly mainstream. Following early commercial deployments from greenfield operators, Open RAN is scaling out in brownfield networks. In addition to the pre-deployment interoperability work,...
LitePoint focused on testing Open RAN MIMO radio units as a whole rather than antenna-by-antenna
As operators look to maximize spectrum utilization and deliver strong quality of experience to users, multi-antenna MIMO radio units have become mainstays in global radio access networks (RANs). LitePoint has...
Spirent is already taking steps to automate service assurance in carrier networks
At the recent Test & Measurement Forum, Spirent Communications Senior Director of Assurance Strategy Ross Cassan laid out key networking trends that are impacting service assurance and how the company is amending its...
The latest test and measurement trends include Non-terrestrial and Open RAN networks
To set the stage for the Test and Measurement Forum (available on demand here), Emil Olbrich, vice president of network technologies with Signals Research Group (SRG), laid out some of the market trends...
In partnership with Northeastern University, VIAVI is also using AI for city-scale network digital twins
Operators, generally, are currently (and have been for some time) going through a number of significant transformations, chief among them the shift to cloud-native 5G Standalone and the disaggregation of...
Keysight has offered nearly $1.5 billion for Spirent
U.K.-based test and measurement company Spirent Communications is passing on Viavi Solutions’ previous $1.3 billion purchase proposal in favor of a higher bid from Keysight Technologies, and U.S.-based testing company. The new offer from Keysight includes a...
Always at the forefront of technological innovation, Rohde & Schwarz is shaping the future of the mobile industry with its comprehensive range of test and measurement solutions. The company will showcase at MWC Barcelona 2024 under the motto “Enabling Connections, Empowering Innovations” a wide-ranging...
The telecom industry always expected that taking the next step in 5G network evolution, moving to full 5G Standalone (5G SA) networks, would be a heavy lift. And indeed, 5G SA network deployments saw sluggish growth last year, largely due to the technical challenges...
Future 6G systems are already coming into focus through research and early development, and one of the most exciting aspects is the role that artificial intelligence will play in the next generation of cellular systems.
First, a note on artificial intelligence versus machine learning....
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...
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,...
Test equipment company EXFO has introduced a new cloud-based reporting platform, Exchange, which enables data from its equipment to be directly reported to and analyzed in the cloud.
EXFO Exchange provides real-time visibility into field operations and processes, and it supports increased process automation, a...
Operators rely on analytics tools to help them sift through the (virtual) mountains of data that comes from their networks. As the amount of data grows, so does the need for increasingly intelligent analytical tools to optimize and troubleshoot the network, to provide subscriber...
There is a dizzying array of data available to telecom operators on the status, performance and health of their networks; at various speeds and levels of granularity; focused on end-user-experience, or peak network capability.
How do you make the best use of that data and...
