JDSU has announced the official timeline for its split into Lumentum and Viavi Solutions: the division and re-naming of the companies will be effective as of Aug. 1. Lumentum shares will be distributed on Aug. 3, with regular trading to begin Aug. 4.
Lumentum is the company’s optical and photonics products business, as well as commercial lasers and 3D sensing – known in shorthand as its CCOP business. JDSU’s network services, visibility and applications business will be renamed Viavi.
The JDSU split is proceeding as planned despite protests from activist shareholders who wanted the CCOP unit to be sold rather than spun off.
– Rice University said that researchers from its Rice Wireless Network Group have developed and demonstrated the first system that enables the transmission of wireless data over ultra-high frequency channels during active television broadcasts, which “could significantly expand the reach of so-called ‘super Wi-Fi’ networks in urban areas.”
UHF spectrum ranges from 400-700 megahertz, and secondary use of the TV white spaces is allowable under Federal Communications Commission rules so long as there is no interference with TV broadcasts.
Edward Knightly, a Rice professor and director of the group as well as department chair for the university’s electrical and computer engineering program, and graduate student Xu Zhang developed Wi-Fi in Active TV Channels, or WATCH, and have been testing the technology on campus since receiving FCC approval last year. The research paper concludes that the use of WATCH “can provide at least six times the total achievable rate to [secondary users] compared to current [TV white space] regulatory models, while at the same time only increasing TV channel switching time by less than 5%.”
– Anite announced a customer win with GrameenPhone, Bangladesh’s largest mobile operator and part of Telenor. GrameenPhone will be using Anite’s Nemo solutions for indoor and outdoor wireless network benchmarking and the analysis of voice quality and network data.
Anite is in the process of being acquired by Keysight Technologies for $606 million.
– Keysight, meanwhile, is working with W2BI, an Advantest Group company, on smartphone battery life test solutions that Keysight says are based on real world end-user behavior and provide a “consistent and efficient” approach to battery testing. W2BI developed the tests using Keysight’s test equipment.
– Ixia is collaborating on automotive Ethernet enablement with Vector Informatik, a German software and services company for the connected car. The focus is on security, validation and optimization for connected car infotainment and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems. Vector Informatik is using Ixia’s solutions to test conformance and interoperability of its TCP/IP stack implementation.
ABI Research has predicted that the market for ADAS will reach more than $91 billion per year by 2020.
– EXFO’s Xtract Open Analytics platform was selected by the Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks in Ottowa, Canada, to provide monitoring and near real-time visualization of the group’s testing-focused lab and network. The use of Xtract is part of the company’s in-kind contributions to the center; EXFO is a tier-one founding member of CENGN, which it joined as part of its software-defined networking/network function virtualization strategy, according to the company.
