The First Responder Network Authority, or FirstNet, has put out 10 formal requests for information from stakeholders and vendors to gather input on technical aspects of the national LTE network …
Test and measurement company Anite plc announced its final results for its fiscal year, along with the news that it is acquiring one of its distributors, Genentel SAS. Genentel distributes …
Time Warner Cable is expanding its Wi-Fi network in New York to up to 10,000 hotspots across the city by the end of this year, and offering temporary free access …
FirstNet yesterday approved a spectrum lease with the Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications System (LA-RICS), the first of the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) grantees to reach agreement with the …
Carrier aggregation is picking up speed. Several test companies have now announced submissions for validation and other testing for the eagerly anticipated LTE-Advanced feature. The first LTE-A device supporting CA …
Qualcomm Technologies Inc. is enabling the industry’s first LTE-Advanced smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE-A, with its Snapdragon 800 processor. Qualcomm said that the new Galaxy S4 LTE-A will be …
As service providers struggle to cope with capacity issues in their networks, Broadcom is launching a new high-capacity network switch to support 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity in mobile backhaul networks. …
Cisco recently announced a new core router with 10 times the capacity of the original equipment in the series, aiming to support the traffic demands that operators are facing. The …
The Wi-Fi Alliance has begun its certification program for 802.11ac products, and said that more products with the certification will be available in the second half of the year. The …
Getting its ducks in a row for the holiday shopping season, Samsung is rolling out 1,400 “Samsung Experience Shops” in Best Buy stores nationwide this summer. All of the new …
Nearly two dozen companies and organizations announced the launch of the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance, which will promote regulatory policies that allow wireless technologies to address the digital divide between those …
Anite says it has submitted the first LTE carrier aggregation (CA) protocol test cases for verification to 3GPP’s RAN Working Group 5 (RAN5), key step toward validation that would lead …
Seven Networks announced that it is collaborating with Intel Corp. on mobile network technologies based on Seven’s Open Channel software that is designed to help operators reduce and manage app …
As existing TDM mobile networks give way to next generation networks of LTE, carriers are pushing IP, MPLS, CDN and traffic grooming functionality to the edges of the network. The …
A report released this week by network intelligence company Actix declared that there is “no safety net” for operators deploying LTE networks, with 35% of 3G data traffic generated by …
PowerCloud Systems, which provides cloud-based network management of what it calls “enterprise-Wi-Fi-as-a-service” without an on-site network controller, is ramping up its activities with a multi-tenant Wi-Fi solution and a new partner …
ABI Research released several recent reports on the Wi-Fi and in-building wireless space. The research firm estimated that Wi-Fi hotspots will reach a total of 6.3 million this year, from …
Welcome to this week’s look at news in network test & measurement. Ixia was named among the fastest-growing U.S tech companies by Forbes Magazine. The company came in at #14 …
Some interesting news came out of last week’s Small Cell Summit 2013: half a dozen companies have formed a small cell wireless backhaul ecosystem around Cisco’s unified RAN backhaul offering, …
Vodafone, SK Telecom and Cisco were among the operators and vendors honored for their small cell innovation efforts by The Small Cell Forum, an industry and operator association. Awards were …
Rohde & Schwarz has made a series of new additions to its portfolio recently, as well as some new customer wins. The company introduced a new signal and spectrum analyzer …
WESTMINSTER, Colo. — The FirstNet board met yesterday and approved an increased budget for 2013 to allow for hiring to shift ongoing management functions from board members and temporary consultants …
Enterprise Wi-Fi provider Aruba Networks announced three customer wins: Oil States International; two hotels in Seattle; and the Fashion Institute of Technology’s New York campus. In the case of FIT, …
Agilent Technologies opened two new offices in Vietnam, in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. This comes even as the company announced a 2% cut in its global workforce (about …
Home screen engagement company Mobile Posse is touting the results of a three-month Arbitron study on consumer use of the home screen on mobile devices, in the face of a …
