Test and Measurement

VMware bolsters its position in CSP service assurance with agreement to buy Dell EMC’s service assurance suite, team VMware has agreed to buy Dell EMC’s service assurance software for network …

  Mobile network operators are densifying their network infrastructure to both meet ever-increasing data demands and to lay the groundwork for 5G. While the importance of fiber, spectrum availability and …

Test company Spirent Communications is positioning itself as a player in network assurance, beyond its traditional base in lab testing. Spirent has launched a new initiative called “Promise. Assured.” and …

The regulatory process is (hopefully) nearing an end, trials are ongoing and commercial products are being put through their paces as the telecom industry preps for deployment of LTE in …

In a tucked-away corner of Verizon’s Fios network nerve center, there is a tween girl’s dream bedroom: a double bed with a posh gray-and-white bedspread, complete with a collection of …

Syniverse opens lab that leverages its secure network access service Network interconnect company Syniverse opened up a testing and development center at its headquarters in Tampa, Florida that will focus …

Boost in network speeds seen as ‘indication of network capabilities to come’ Mobile network operators are significantly boosting their network speeds, and T-Mobile US came out on top in speed …

Test lab certification puts CBRS one step closer to commercialization The first test labs have been certified for conducting testing of products utilizing the Citizens Broadband Radio Service shared spectrum. …

  The move to Internet Protocol Version 6 addresses has been underway for a number of years, as the world exhausted the supply of IPv4 internet addresses. The momentum in …

Trends include growing dependence on remote access, increased bandwidth demand and difficulty in troubleshooting Enterprise IT teams face substantial challenges in successfully managing hybrid networks, according to Viavi Solutions’s newly …

Dozens of companies have asked the Federal Communications Commission for special temporary authority (STA) to conduct testing in the CBRS band over the last few years. Here are some of …

ETSI plugtest event was the first to test mission-critical data, video interoperability More than 2,000 tests of LTE mission critical push-to-talk, MC data and MC video at a Texas plugtest …

P3’s crowdsourced data finds LTE coverage gaps Interstate highways are often one place where people assume they will have solid cellular coverage — and that’s mostly true, but there are …

5G NR is coming, and the physical layer specifications are shaping up. Designed to achieve faster data rates and ultra-low latency, these specifications present new measurement challenges because of mmWave …

Viavi Solutions has added the capability to emulate massive numbers of internet of things devices to its TeraVM offering, as the company continues to reap the benefits of its acquisition …

Verizon came out on top in nearly every category of network performance in the New York City metropolitan area and Los Angeles, California in the most recent round of testing …

Real-time analytics and network monitoring company LiveAction is diving deep with its acquisition of packet inspection company Savvius. The acquisition combines Savvius’ packet capture, deep packet inspection and analytics capabilities …

New handheld tester is aimed at fiber testing, service activation, network maintenance Viavi Solutions has introduced a new handheld network tester that it says is the smallest of its type, …

Testing company Intertek is boosting its network assurance portfolio with the acquisition of United Kingdom-based cybersecurity firm NTA Monitor. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. “An ever-greater emphasis …

Now that 5G is getting closer to deployment, what are the killer apps going to be that push 5G forward into broad deployment? It is said that 5G could be …

The MNO’s RAN performance team noticed that the operations support system (OSS) flagged the presence of an RF noise issue in the network based on high uplink (UL) received signal …

Keysight Technologies saw its revenues grow 31% year-over-year to $990 million, up from $753 million during the same period last year. Keysight President and CEO Ron Nersesian said that the …

A free-wheeling NI Week keynote panel discussed self-driving cars issues A physicist, a semiconductor salesman and a lawyer all met on a stage at NI Week — sounds like the …

Anritsu has added 2×2 multiple-input multiple-output testing capabilities for 802.11ac to its MT8862A test equipment and says that with new software, it can test 2×2 MIMO on Wi-Fi equipment under …

Network benchmarking company Rootmetrics has been going through data from its testing during the first half of 2018 and concluded that increasing network data speeds is a clear area of …