Test and Measurement

Rohde & Schwarz has won a third consecutive contract with China Mobile for frequency scanners to assist in 5G deployments, and the test company is heading into Mobile World Congress …

6G isn’t even close to being standardized, but work is already underway to figure out what it might look like. And when it comes to what spectrum that future 6G …

Keysight Technologies reported this week that it saw all-time highs for its first-quarter revenues, earnings and orders, beating its own guidance. Among the highlights from Keysight’s results for its first …

Chinese over-the-air measurement company General Test Systems and Japanese test and measurement company Toyo plan to form a new U.S.-based company called AeroGT Labs. The board of both companies have …

Spirent CEO says that assurance, validation and testing are “the closest things our customers have to a crystal ball” Network testing, validation and benchmarking are taking on new urgency in …

Network testing company EXFO has announced a new collaboration with Red Hat, focused on adaptive service assurance for a 5G world. Specifically, EXFO’s Nova Active μ-Verifier service assurance solution is …

As the debate over whether terrestrial C-Band cellular networks can safely co-exist with aviation altimeters continues to play out — and carriers put off lighting up towers near some U.S. …

Charter has been granted permission by the Federal Communication Commission to test 5G New Radio with a combination of 37 GHz and CBRS spectrum, using CBRS as an anchor. The …

‘C-Band could change who’s going to be fastest in the U.S.,’ benchmarking company says The turn-up of C-Band spectrum by AT&T and Verizon is already having an impact on 5G …

Test company Rohde & Schwarz says it is offering the first system capable of testing the compliance of smartphones to provide location information for emergency calls to 112. A new …

Thailand, which has a long-standing relationship with Rohde & Schwarz to equip vehicles for mobile interference hunting, is expanding its use of the test company’s spectrum monitoring system. Since 2014, …

Netscout said this week that it will be handling end-to-end service assurance visibility for Southern Linc, the wireless service unit of Southern Company that provides private, mission-critical LTE for enterprise …

As the security of current and future 5G network implementations continues to be a top-of-mind issue for the industry, CTIA is launching a new security testing and validation initiative for …

The aggregation of 600 MHz + 2.5 GHz uses low-band, FDD spectrum to improve performance The aggregation of low and mid-band carriers in both Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) and Time …

Rohde & Schwarz recently announced that it has put together tailored test solutions for Broadcom’s Wi-Fi 6E chipsets, which operate in the 6 GHz band. In collaboration with Broadcom, R&S said that its …

Cellular technologies have advanced from first generation (1G) analog technologies to advanced high performance fourth generation (4G) and fifth generation (5G) systems in just four decades. Despite the increase in …

There was a point in early 5G development where 5G was practically synonymous with millimeter-wave spectrum: Super-fast, but assumed to be for short-range use only, with propagation issues and RF …

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is continuing its ongoing series of Plugtest events to test the interoperability of mission-critical communications services, including mission-critical push-to-talk (MCPTT), mission-critical data (MCData) and …

Starlink sees a 10 Mbps dip in median speeds for US users, compared to the second quarter of this year New data from Ookla shows a slight decrease in Starlink’s …

“Operators who have been rolling out 5G NR networks for some time have the coverage advantage,” SRG says For some time, Dish Network has been promising a beta launch of …

Keysight Technologies and Viavi Solutions touted their support of the most recent Open RAN Alliance global plugfest event, which was the third such event focused on testing the performance capabilities …

There has been a long-running debate in network testing that basically asks, which is better: Highly controlled and repeatable drive- and walk-testing with special test set-ups to get deep RF …

Ookla, known for its Speedtest product, is adding to its portfolio of network data with the acquisition of drive- and walk-testing specialist RootMetrics. Financial terms of the deal were not …

U.S.-based Transaction Network Services is working with Irish company Cellusys on research, development and testing of roaming and security solutions for 5G networks. The two companies will use TNS’ 5G …

The sixth generation of cellular technology has yet to be formally defined, and the official 3GPP release that is designated as “6G” is probably still several years away. But we …