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.
—Agilent Technologies’ electronic test and measurement segment has officially begun operating as its own brand, Keysight Technologies. The spin-off of Keysight from Agilent won’t be complete until November, but Keysight has now begun operating under its own name.
“As we launch our new company, we are mindful of our rich heritage as part of Agilent and prior to that, Hewlett-Packard,” said Ron Nersesian, who is president and CEO of the new company, in a statement on the first step toward independent operations. “We are also mindful of our responsibility and commitment to our stakeholders including customers, our shareholders and our employees. We look forward to the many opportunities ahead that will allow us to focus solely on electronic measurement and showcase the leading-edge technologies that our customers have come to expect.”
—Anritsu has introduced an all-in-one optical field instrument for transport testing. The MT100A Network Master Pro is designed as a lightweight, small portable testing unit for optical transport network testing, including the ability to measure Ethernet and SDH/SONET client signals in order to allow technicians to install or maintain mobile or fixed-access networks, or metro or core transmission networks.
—Anite has launched a new testing tool to address quality of experience (QoE) in the core network of LTE systems. Triton diagnoses core network issues as well as validating the details of network performance, Anite said, and “enables mobile operators to verify interoperability of multi-vendor components.”
Anite said that Triton is meant to be used as a single, comprehensive testing tool, with the inherent cost-savings of a single solution, for supporting applications including survey record play (SRP), roaming analysis, network discovery, cell visualization and device tracking. The solution is also designed to address the continuing growth in LTE traffic by offering a data capture capacity of 4×10 GbE, which Anite said is more than any other offering on the market.
—Ixia has made Canadian systems integrator/reseller Empowered Networks an “elite channel partner,” to offer Ixia’s complete network visibility, network testing and security testing portfolio to service providers in Canada.
—Tektronix this week introduced a compliance transitter test solution for the Project 25 (P25) common air interface (CAI) phase 1 and phase 2 standard. P25 is used in two-way land-mobile radio (LMR) wireless communications for public safety, primarily in the North America and Australia. The new software is designed to be a cost-effective offering with push-button measurements and automated pass/fail reporting, and Tektronix said that it runs on its spectrum analyzers, all of its Windows-based oscilloscopes, and on Signal-Vu-PC when linked with the MDO4000B oscilloscope series.
Jim McGillivary, general manager of Tektronix’s RF and component solutions business, called the solution the “most automated for testing P25 transmitters available today,” as well as the least expensive option for validating, verifying and debugging signal issues.
