Recent NI report identifies a performance gap between companies with "advanced" data strategies
Digital transformation as a concept has been floating around enterprise and industrial circles for some time. But it's still not necessarily a given that companies are successfully pursuing it and have a...
It isn’t too soon to start getting ready for 6G. Download the white paper that provides an inside look at how Keysight and Nokia are investigating the sub-terahertz spectrum to power the bandwidth needed to make 6G technology real. Ready to tackle 6G?
Keysight Technologies is looking to speed up semiconductor device design with some additions to its flagship Pathwave design suite. The company announced this week that it has bolstered automation in a new model generator environment aimed at semiconductor device modeling engineers, who put together...
The Open RAN RIC will bring CI/CD processes to telecom
Although 5G still has a long tail of innovation left as it advanced to 5G Advanced with Release 18, there’s already material work happening focused on framing what its predecessor, 6G, will look like. One...
155 megahertz of spectrum was aggregated in the tests on T-Mo's network in California
Three component-carrier TDD-FDD carrier aggregation (3CCA) results in better spectral efficiency in 5G, but there are some interesting anomalies in play in regards to devices and spectrum, according to recent testing...
Keysight beat the upper end of its revenue guidance
Keysight Technologies exceeded its own expectations on revenue during its fiscal third quarter, with company revenues up 10% year-over-year to $1.38 billion.
Profits for the quarter were $338 million, up from $254 million in the year-ago...
Amazon Prime Air has received permission from the Federal Communications Commission for drone testing over the next two years, using millimeter-wave spectrum. The company, which plans to launch drone delivery in two cities this year, wants to conduct testing at three other U.S. locations....
PCTel saw its revenues grow more than 15% compared to the same time last year, to $25 million, and the testing equipment and antenna company generated profits for the second quarter of $400,000.
David Neumann, CEO of PCTel, said that the company has expanded its...
The immersive lab, a partnership between the FirstNet Authority and NIST's PSCR, enables both training and tech R&D
During the Marshall Fire, which burned around 1,000 homes in small towns west of Boulder, Colorado in late December 2021, the First Responder Network Authority's technical quarters...
TCO reduction and vendor diversification are Open RAN deployment drivers
For part of the recent Open RAN European Forum, RCR Wireless News surveyed 100 members of our audience to gain a better understanding of how they’re thinking about Open RAN deployment. Top motivations include...
5G RF planning helps to drive Netscout's quarterly revenue
Network assurance and security company Netscout reported revenue gains of nearly 10% for the quarter ending June 30 and narrowed its net loss compared to a year ago.
President and CEO Anil Singhal told analysts on...
AT&T and Verizon both sees some improvement, but not enough to top Rootmetrics' rankings
Another round of Rootmetrics' analysis of 125 metro markets in the U.S. confirms that T-Mo continues to lead in 5G reach and speed, while Verizon landed its third consecutive win in...
5G is a "strong, enduring growth driver," Spirent says
Spirent Communications saw strong performance and record orders during the first half of the year, driven by 5G and its targeting of new customers such as hyperscalers with assurance solutions.
CEO Eric Updyke said in a...
You can’t feel, see, hear, touch, taste, or smell it, but the air around you is full of electromagnetic activity. These bursts of oscillating electric and magnetic fields are the carrier pigeons of the information age. They contain our voices, our faces, and our...
In its latest acquisition, Ookla has picked up a Swedish company, CellRebel, that specializes in measurement, analysis and visualization of network data for optimization purposes.
“The complexity of modern networks demands diversified streams of data to fuel holistic insights on performance, quality, and accessibility,” said...
Cable co. receives two-year FCC testing permission
Cable company Charter Communications is extending its testing of 5G using a combination of millimeter-wave spectrum and midband airwaves with CBRS as the anchor, according to a filing with the Federal Communications Commission.
The cable company had originally requested...
Japanese operators have deployed a significant amount of 5G millimeter wave coverage in Toyko with unobtrusive sites and are using carrier aggregation (2 x 100 megahertz) in the uplink to achieve speeds in the hundreds of megabits per second, according to a new Signals...
It's a time of transition for mobile network operators: LTE to 5G NonStandalone, then to 5G Standalone; from Voice over LTE to Voice over New Radio; implementation of mobile edge computing and dabbling in Open RAN, and a more complete realization of cloud-native network...
T-Mobile US continues to hold a dominant position in network performance over AT&T and Verizon on nearly every metric, according to Ookla's latest analysis of mobile networks.
For the second quarter of 2022, T-Mo landed the best numbers in download speed, upload speed, latency, performance...
iBwave, perhaps best known for its indoor network planning tools, is in the midst of widening its target market to focus on campus networks and public safety, as well as private networks, and move beyond the network planning market.
As part of those efforts,...
Service providers have to deal with increasing complexity in their networks and services, amid what have been highly manual and ponderous service assurance deployments that almost inevitably result in visibility gaps and too much data that needs highly skilled human interpretation to resolve issues.
As...
Test and measurement companies are highlighting their recent support of Open RAN testing and demonstrations, in the wake of the recent Open RAN global plugfest.
Viavi Solutions was among the vendors which enabled plugtest demos and testing around the world for the O-RAN Alliance...
umlaut CEO touts the 'perfect test environment'
German test and analytics company Umlaut has begun operating a private 5G Standalone Open RAN network, aimed at providing companies a place to test private 5G solutions without having to build their own private network or purchase spectrum...
The general-purpose test equipment market is expected to grow at nearly 6% per year through 2026, reaching $1.95 billion by the end of the forecast period, according to new numbers from TechNavio. This market segment includes oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, arbitrary waveform generators,...
