Viavi Solutions said this week that Philippine engineering and technology solutions provider Fiber Infrastructure and Network Services Inc. (FINSI) will be using Viavi’s OneAdvisor 800 platform for testing as it serves the telecom, energy and infrastructure industries across the island nation with fiber and Radio Access Network build-outs.
FINSI will be using OneAdvisor 800 for optical connector inspection, its radio frequency measurement capabilities and bi-directional optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR) functions.
“With the rapid pace of technological advancements, innovative and out-of-the-box thinking is truly needed to help businesses and Filipinos thrive in the digital age,” said Robert Cabatan, director and solutions cosultant at Ark One, a technology solutions integrator and test equipment sales provider which represented Viavi.
In other test news:
-Big news this week that Cisco announced plans to acquire network assurance and analytics company Accedian for an undisclosed sum, with the aim of bolstering its service assurance offerings. Full story is here.
-As details continue to trickle out from this year’s Open RAN spring plugfest, Rohde & Schwarz and Viavi Solutions joined forces on conformance testing of 4T4R Open Radio Units (O-RUs) from Benetel at the i14y Lab in Berlin, as part of this year’s plugfest event. The solution focused on isolated testing of Benetel’s RAN650 O-RU, which supports four-by-four MIMO and up to 100 megahertz of bandwidth, and making sure that it conformed to the O-RAN Alliance’s open fronthaul interface specification to ensure interoperability.
–Keysight Technologies said that it has gained validation from Qualcomm Technologies for the use of Keysight solutions in verifying Open RAN RU and gNodeB products that make use of Qualcomm’s 5G RAN platforms.
-Test house STL is touting its readiness for optical fibre and cable product testing and certification, as India looks to ramp up 5G and fiber deployments. The company has labs in Aurangabad and Silvassa and says that they can meet the expected guidelines of the Department of Telecommunications’ framework on Mandatory Testing and Certification of Telecom Equipment (MTCTE), which are anticipated to include a stipulation that telecom equipment be tested and approved by local testing laboratories before being installed in the network infrastructure.
-ICYMI: Space-based cellular connectivity company AST SpaceMobile said this week that it has repeatedly achieved download speeds of more than 10 Mbps over LTE as it tests its LEO BlueWalker 3 satellite with unmodified, commercial smartphones on the ground. AST SpaceMobile used leased AT&T spectrum and Nokia Radio Access Network gear for the testing, which was conducted in Hawaii in June using multiple off-the-shelf smartphones. The company reported that it tested both data speeds and voice calls to AT&T employees, and that it saw initial LTE speeds up to 10.3 Mbps. Full story is here.
–Anritsu‘s MC2830A spectrum and signal analyzer was part of a recent demonstration at IMS 2023 in Eravant‘s booth, combining an Eravant downconverter, synthesizer and noise source to showcase measurements on milllimeter-wave 5G and emerging 6G designs in high frequency spectrum.
-Panelists at RCR Live Telco Reinvention in London offered their thoughts on how the industry is working to ensure interoperability in an Open RAN architecture, from the chipsets up. More details on the conversation are in this story.
