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 software-defined networking and the internet of things is driving faster adoption of IPv6 -- and...
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 released 2018 State of the Network report. For the second year in a row, IT...
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 the STA permissions granted by the FCC in 2018 for testing CBRS:
- CDE...
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 event resulted in a 92% test success rate, according to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute....
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 still "white spots" where coverage isn't available or where only devices will only have weak...
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 frequencies and over-the-air testing. Keysight’s new 4-part white paper will help you take the...
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 of Cobham's test and measurement operations. The new offering enables operators to investigate how their...
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 by Rootmetrics. Rootmetrics recorded a median download speed of more than 40 Mbps for...
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 for network performance monitoring with LiveAction's monitoring and network visualization expertise. Financial terms of the...
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, aimed at deployment and maintenance for mobile, cable and power utility networks. The T-BERD/MTS 5882...
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 is now placed on robust security assessment and compliance, with new and evolving data protection...
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 next “General Purpose Technology”, but will 5G influential enough to push the technology...
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 strength indicator (RSSI) levels.
In order to take a closer look and attempt to diagnose...
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 growth was "driven by broad-based core order strength as customers accelerate development in our...
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 beginning of a bad joke involving a bar. Instead it was National Instruments’ keynote panel...
Anritsu has added 2x2 multiple-input multiple-output testing capabilities for 802.11ac to its MT8862A test equipment and says that with new software, it can test 2x2 MIMO on Wi-Fi equipment under "actual operating conditions," along with output signal quality, transmit power and receiver sensitivity.
Two of...
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 focus for all of the major U.S. carriers.
Rootmetrics dove into its data for the...
Zinwave CTO says OnGo is 'the space to watch'
The 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band is poised of offer both operator and other market entrants prioritized access to valuable new spectrum in support of private LTE, the internet of things (IoT) and...
The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab has expanded its Wi-Fi testing capabilities to include Broadband Forum testing that quantifies Wi-Fi access point performance.
The testing is in line with Broadband Forum's WT-398 test plan for benchmarking consumer customer premise equipment, which UNH-IOL said "represents...
How will you know if a wireless device is using the Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum at 3.5 GHz and interoperates with other such devices? It will be OnGo certified.
CBRS Alliance, taking a page from the interoperability and functional certification that is conducted as...
In a series of hallways made up of orange, grid-patterned walls and white floors with boxy fluorescent lights on the ceilings, virtual flames crackle and smoke. Suddenly, down another corridor, flames explode out of nowhere. The fire looks and sounds quite real -- but...
As quarterly numbers continue to come in from network testing and monitoring companies, Viavi Solutions reported revenues up 11.9% year-over-year to $219.4 million, driven by strength in its network and service enablement unit and its optical, security and performance unit -- however, the company...
A team of researchers from KU Leuven created a network of software defined radios that can simultaneously transmit and detect harmful interference using in-band full duplex technique which results in an ultra-efficient network with double the throughput. Read the case study and download the...
As Boston Marathon runners coped with bad weather on the course during the recent race, there was an invisible competition going on among wireless carriers -- and one of the (legal!) performance enhancers in use was carrier aggregation.
Benchmarking company Global Wireless Solutions reported that...
