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Test and Measurement: Viavi to buy positioning specialist Inertial Labs

Inertial Labs offers solutions including GNSS tracking, LiDAR scanning and alternative PNT Viavi Solutions is buying a Virginia company that specializes in precise positioning and navigation technologies for use aerospace, defense and industrial settings. Inertial Labs has solutions that Viavi...

Test and Measurement: Rohde & Schwarz launches monitoring probe, wins NTN testbed with Viavi

Rohde & Schwarz goes deeper into monitoring, and scores an NTN testbed win in Japan with Viavi Solutions Rohde & Schwarz is broadening its portfolio to include a network monitoring probe, aimed at both mobile network operators and private enterprise...

Test and Measurement: Canadian 5G midband spectrum use expands

Opensignal's assessment of Canadian 5G service reflects slightly more use of midband spectrum Canada's 5G user experience is slowly improving, and its use of midband spectrum for Canadian 5G is expanding after a spectrum auction last year, according to new...

Keysight to divest some assets as part of Spirent acquisition

Spirent acquisition by Keysight still on track to close by April 2025 Keysight Technologies is working on divesting some of Spirent Communications' business segments, in order to satisfy regulatory requirements so that it can close on its purchase of the...

Test and Measurement: Dekra heads toward 100 with record sales

Privately-held Dekra will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2025 Dekra, which says it is the world's largest privately held testing, inspection and certification company, recorded sales of 4 billion Euros for the first time in its history during 2023 and expects...

Test and Measurement: Keysight beats guidance but sees lower revenues

Keysight reported a net loss for the quarter due to a $315 million tax-related expense in Singapore Keysight Technologies beat the high end of its guidance for the most recent quarter, but still saw lower revenues than the year-ago period...

Test and Measurement: Ahead of holiday travel, Ookla tests airport connectivity

Should you choose mobile or Wi-Fi to get the fastest airport connectivity? Ookla gives a breakdown on speeds. If you're traveling via San Jose's Norman Mineta International Airport this holiday season, you're passing through the airport with the fastest free...

Report: Head in the Cloud – Using test to make the most of a 5G hosted cloud core

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...

Test and Measurement: Spirent Communications sees an ‘uptick’ in performance

Spirent Communications is in the process of being acquired by Keysight Technologies Spirent Communications said that it has been seeing an "uptick" in its performance during the third quarter of the year, compared to the same time last year. In...

Fixed Wireless Access adoption takes off, shedding new light on design and test requirements

Fixed wireless access (FWA) point adoption rates are continuing to climb in the U.S. and globally, as mobile carriers harness the combined power of 5G and advanced Wi-Fi to tap into a new revenue stream while improving the customer...

Test and Measurement: Viavi to build USAID-funded O-RAN test lab in the Philippines

Viavi Solutions will be designing, building and operating a new, comprehensive Open Radio Access Network test lab in Quezon City in Metro Manila, aimed at fostering adoption of Open RAN in the region as well as making it easier...

Test and Measurement: Rohde & Schwarz touts ‘full coverage’ Skylo NB-NTN testing

Rohde & Schwarz says that it now has "full coverage" for the test plan to certify narrowband IoT Non-Terrestrial Networks (NB-NTN) devices on NTN provider Skylo's satellite network. The testing also covers NTN SMS capabilities. Texting capabilities for emergency...

Test and Measurement: Axon Networks buys DZS’ service assurance, Wi-Fi management assets

Service management and orchestration company Axon Networks is buying software company DZS' service assurance and Wi-Fi management software portfolio that includes CloudCheck, Expresse and TruSpeed. Axon is making the acquisition as an all-cash, $34 million transaction. The products will...

Key takeaways from SRG’s Open RU/DU testing

Testing the various components of Open Radio Access Networks—the open control unit, distributed unit and radio unit, or O-CU, O-DU and O-RU—has been the focus of multiple plugfests and other extensive testing as operators, vendors and test companies work...

Test and Measurement: Viavi opens VALOR Open RAN test facility

Viavi Solutions has officially opened its Viavi Automated Lab-as-a-Service, or VALOR, Open RAN testing facility in Chandler, Arizona. VALOR is aimed at filling a need for pay-as-you-go, flexible, accessible and automated testing-as-a-service for Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN)...

As more BEAD plans get approval, Ookla asks: Where do the states stand on broadband speeds?

As $42.5 billion in federal funding makes it way to the states to be translated into infrastructure deployment projects, Ookla recently assessed how the 50 U.S. states stand in terms of delivery of broadband speeds. Ookla examined its Speedtest data...

Test and Measurement: Consumers recognize the value of 5G, GWS survey finds

Global Wireless Solutions (GWS) has released new Nationwide Connectivity Experience Awards, based on a combination of network testing plus additional insights from surveying mobile device users. GWS gave out three awards: One that focused largely on the mobile experience,...

Editorial Report: How is AI being applied in network testing and assurance?

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,...

Test and Measurement: Keysight seeks to extend software-centric strategy, pick up Synopsys’ optical design tools

Keysight Technologies plans to pick up Synopsys' optical design and analysis software tools, an acquisition that Keysight says will broaden its design engineering software portfolio and computer-aided engineering capabilities. Synopsys is in the process of a pending $35...

Q&A: Keysight on AI in network testing and assurance

AI and its older sibling, machine learning, have been around and in development in telecom networks for many years now. This is particularly true among the tools of network testing, measurement, monitoring and assurance, which have traditionally been the...

Test and Measurement: Keysight debuts quantum circuit simulation environment

Keysight Technologies said that it has achieved an industry first, in the form of a quantum circuit simulation environment that features frequency-domain magnetic flux quantization. The test company worked with Google Quantum AI on its new Quantum Circuit Simulation...

How Vecta Labs is using AI for interference hunting

As mobile network operators operate under increasingly strict capital and operating budgets, they are not only seeking greater efficiencies, they are looking at smarter tools for highly manual and expensive processes. Vecta Labs is one of a number of companies...

The six levels of AI autonomy, as applied to network testing

There are a number of ways of classifying the phase of development or capabilities of a particular type of artificial intelligence, with a focus on the level of autonomy of the system. Perhaps the most common scale of AI...

Test and Measurement: Viavi intros AI infra testing

As broad interest in and use of artificial intelligence and other high-performance compute surges, Viavi Solutions has introduced what it says is the first solution to address testing and validation needs of the emerging 1.6 terabits per second (Tb/s)...

Test and Measurement: New Bluetooth spec includes channel sounding

Editor's note: RCR Wireless News' weekly run-down of news in the test and measurement space is moving to Wednesdays. Email khill@rcrwireless.com with news items for consideration. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (Bluetooth SIG) has released a new specification that includes...