With first quarter results starting to come in, National Instruments had a record quarter and reported its highest-ever first quarter revenues of $312 million. That number is an increase of 4% year-over-year and continues the company's recent trend toward record numbers. Profits were up...
Designing for 5G New Radio (NR) means dealing with new technologies, as they’re being defined. It's easy to get lost in the buzz words as you try to focus--beamforming, over-air-testing, mmWave, numerology, and on and on. Keysight’s poster focuses on 7 things you need...
Why have one robotic arm to test 5G antennas, when you can have two?
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has outfitted a test chamber with two robotic
arms to research new methods for antenna testing, particularly for 5G antennas, according to NIST. The agency says...
Networks are "not as static" as they used to be
Fresh off its $455 million purchase of Cobham's test and measurement business, Viavi Solutions is touting its expanded position in 5G testing as a result of the purchase.
Viavi Solutions acquired Cobham's test and measurement operations...
In a promising sign for an equipment ecosystem for Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum, CommScope and Ericsson said this week that they successfully completed interoperability testing of Ericsson's equipment with CommScope's Spectrum Access System. This is the third SAS compatibility testing under Ericsson's belt;...
EXFO cited seasonal softness for performance in the second quarter of its fiscal 2018, reporting a net loss for the quarter of $4.66 million as it also digested the impact of a major acquisition.
The test company said that sales were up 7.8% year-over-year to...
New York City and Salt Lake City will both become large-scale testbeds for smart city and 5G technologies, having won funding from the National Science Foundation and a consortium of wireless industry companies under the Platform for Advanced Wireless Research program.
PAWR provides $50 million...
3GPP brought us a step closer to achieving the ambitious vision of 20Gbps data rates for mobile wireless with the completion of the non-Standalone (NSA) part of Release 15 in December last year. The systems that mobile operators will need to use to realize...
Keysight Technologies' Ixia Solutions Group collaborated with networking company Innovium to validate terabit-speeds on an Innovium switch for supporting large-scale data centers.
The Innovatium Teralynx Ethernet switch line was able to achieve 12.8 Tbps in a single chip, as validated by Keysight's K400 400 gigabit...
Although the standard for the next generation of Wi-Fi technology hasn't been officially finalized, that hasn't stopped chipsets, reference designs and test equipment from making it to the market to support the transition to 802.11ax.
The 802.11ax ecosystem has begun picking up steam, with products...
Each step in the evolution of radio access networks (RANs) brings unique opportunities and challenges for mobile network operators. Today, fiber has mostly replaced coaxial cables in new mobile fronthaul builds, otherwise known as fiber-to-the-antenna (FTTA). The next technological innovation in mobile fronthaul is...
Rohde & Schwarz said it is the first test company to validate Rich Communications Services conformance tests, amid growing global momentum for RCS.
RCS is a set of IMS technology features that seeks to enable mobile operators to compete with over-the-top messaging services such as...
Uber has pulled its self-driving vehicles from the roads after one of its autonomous vehicles struck and killed a pedestrian in Arizona, according to published reports. This is believed to be the first pedestrian fatality associated with an autonomous vehicle.
The crash occurred in Tempe,...
Millimeter wave signals were more found to be more robust than expected and provided high speeds -- although not gigabit speeds -- at distances of several thousand feet from a node, Signals Research Group found in recent testing of Verizon's 28 GHz fixed wireless...
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Sherif Hanna, Director of Product Marketing at Qualcomm Technologies explains the path Qualcomm is taking for the x50 modem to get data over mmWave spectrum.
While T-Mobile US came out ahead of Verizon by a hair on LTE availability on a national level in OpenSignal's most recent round of app-based testing, regional battles have heated up in the past year, according to the company.
Verizon came out in top in...
In the three years since Keysight Technologies' last investor day, the company has been working on one theme: transformation. From being part of Agilent to charting its own path as an independent company; from hardware to software; from boxes to services.
"It's pretty amazing to...
System-in-package technologies are making a significant impact on the electronics supply chain as the semiconductor industry strives to meet the perpetual demand for higher performance, smaller size, and lower cost.
Learn how automated test strategies must evolve to keep pace.
Millimeter-wave chip company Maja Systems and Presto Engineering said this week that they have successfully collaborated on high-volume, automated production testing for Maja's AirData products.
Michel Villemain, CEO of Presto Engineering, said in a statement that the company "developed custom solutions that allow us to...
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Sophie Legault, Director of Product Management at EXFO discusses and demonstrates EXFO's SkyRAN solution while at Mobile World Congress 2018.
For the test industry, this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC) came down to two major themes: 5G and the internet of things, with a little virtualization thrown in just to keep things lively.
So who was doing 5G test demos at MWC? The real question...
Rohde & Schwarz and Chinese chip company Unigroup Spreadtrum & RDA signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a joint operator test lab in China as well as extend their existing test relationships to include 5G work.
The two companies said that at the new...
EXFO has achieved its takeover of French performance monitoring and analytics company Astellia for about $31.6 million.
EXFO said today that it has acquired 97.44% of Astellia's share capital and at least 95.07% of voting rights, after a second phase of a public offer. Now...
As we enter the early stages of the “5G era,” new technologies are deploying to cover use cases around Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMMB), Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC), and Massive Machine Type Communication (mMTC). These use cases are not served by a single discrete...
