Rohde & Schwarz’s deep packet inspection specialist ipoque, Dell and Cardinality have partnered on a new virtualized probe and analytics solutions for telcos which leverages ipoque’s recently announced R&S Net Sensor OEM software IP probe.
The probe is integrated with Cardinality’s Perception big data analytics platform and the combined solution runs on Dell EMC’s PowerEdge servers. The three companies said that the joint offering “combines the processing optimization of Dell EMC PowerEdge servers with the traffic visibility provided by R&S®Net Sensor OEM and the large-scale analytics of Cardinality’s Perception platform” in order to provide real-time insights for operational intelligence, control plane analytics, marketing, customer experience management, cell experience and service issues.
Prashant Kumar, CTO at Cardinality, said that the partnership offers a “best-of-breed big data analytics solution.”
“It is a perfect strategic fit that leverages the three companies’ respective strengths. With enhanced insights into customer and network behavior, communication service providers can harness the joint solution to reduce operational costs and maximize return on investment,” Kumar added.
Rohde & Schwarz will be showcasing the new probe at next week’s Mobile World Congress event in Los Angeles.
In other test news:
– Rohde & Schwarz was also involved with a 5G Broadcast trial in Brazil with Brazilian and Latin American TV network operator Grupo Globo. In late September, Grupo Globo broadcast the Rock in Rio festival in an experimental UHF channel using 5G broadcast, according to R&S, which supplied an R&S TMU9evo transmitter and the R&S BSCC network component to support the testing.
R&S has also been involved in the 5G Today project in Bavaria which also is exploring the use of 5G Broadcast. Like that project, R&S said, the field trial with Grupo Globo “is intended to contribute information for discussing the further development of TV in Brazil and worldwide.” The 5G Today project also includes Kathrein and Telefónica Germany, as well as the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation and the Broadcast Technology Institute IRT.
–EXFO improved its financial performance for its full-year fiscal 2019 results, with sales up 6.4% from fiscal 2018 to $286.9 million and a net loss that was trimmed by nearly 80%, to a loss of $2.5 million. Read the full story here.
–Keysight Technologies has extended its collaboration with Renesas Electronics subsidiary Integrated Device Technologies, which is using Keysight solutions to characterize components of 5G New Radio millimeter integrated circuit beamformers for 5G NR base stations.
–AppNeta says that it is enabling active monitoring in data centers at 100 Gbps with a new r1000 monitoring point appliance.
–Allied Market Research said in a new report that the global millimeter wave technology industry garnered $220.5 million in 2018 and is estimated to hit $3.25 billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 40.4% over that time period. The report says that one of the factors is the “rise in testing of 5G technology in U.S., Japan, South Korea, and China” as well as growing demand for smart devices. The telecommunications segment accounted for nearly three-fourths of the global millimeter wave technology market share in 2018, the report concluded, and is anticipated to dominate the forecast period.
–National Technical Systems is focusing on its network of testing chambers and their testing capabilities, and the new chambers that it has added at its network of 28 labs. The company recently hosted the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers EMC/EMI Summit at its laboratory in Boxborough, Massachusetts. NTS said it has “the largest collection of EMI/EMC laboratories in the Western Hemisphere” and is expanding its EMI/EMC testing capabilities into more regions. It recently added new test chambers in both the Boxborough lab — which is a 10-meter chamber — and one in Rustberg, Virginia.
-5G is definitely fast and has a lot of potential, but it’s still in its infancy as far as technologies go — it needs time to mature and get past its early growing pains, according to a new report on U.S. 5G networks from RootMetrics. Read the full story here.
