Test and Measurement

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

  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 …

The pace of 5G trials has “rapidly accelerated during the past six months,” according to new information from Viavi Solutions on the state of 5G trials. Viavi said that 72 …

5G fixed wireless access use case brings new set of testing challenges With the 5G non-standalone (NSA) specification set for completion later this year along with the 3GPP tracking to …

Viavi Solutions said this week that it is collaborating with the China Mobile Research Institute on network slicing support for a 5G launch by the end of 2019, following “strategic …

  It’s now possible to solve interference and other issues without spending countless hours on the road. Interference has always been a curse for the cellular industry. It degrades network …

AT&T wins out in GWS mobile video tests Global Wireless Solutions put the four national mobile networks through their video streaming paces and the results put AT&T on top. AT&T …

Both Viavi Solutions and Siemens are making acquisitions to augment their position in 5G test. Viavi will pay $455 million to pick up Cobhams’ test and measurement business. Viavi said …

Keysight Technologies has made its choice for the new president of its Ixia Group, and interim group President Mark Pierpoint will officially take the role of president for the long …

Keysight Technologies has introduced a software platform aimed at integrating the test process from design and characterization to optimization, in order to speed up product development and deployment. PathWave “combines …

Mobile carriers are bringing Midwestern cities up to speed in network performance, making noticeable improvements in speed and capacity available to consumers in both large and mid-sized markets outside the …

Test company EXFO said this week that its test solutions were used by China Mobile for a major assessment of performance capabilities for the core networks of four “major vendors” …

The University of New Hampshire’s InterOperability Lab recently expanded its automotive Ethernet testing capabilities, and UNH-IOL says that it is the first lab to offer 1000BASE-T1 physical medium attachment testing …

The rapid adoption of gigabit LTE on the path to 5G is one of several mega-trends shaping the way carriers plan, deploy, monitor and manage networks. The telecom industry is …

The Global Certification Forum is laying out its roadmap for 5G device certification, with a newly approved work item that will cover certification for early phases of both non-standalone and …

Benchmarking and engineering company P3 Communications is expanding its working relationship with InfoVista. The two companies have been working together for nearly a year on some joint services on benchmarking …

Verizon and AT&T both saw big dips in network speeds after introducing unlimited plans, according to OpenSignal, but those impacts have largely been mitigated and speeds are improving as the …

A new certification program for power over Ethernet has produced the first 37 certified products, aiming to boost multi-vendor interoperability in PoE. Craig Chabot, manager for wireless and power over …

Two test companies have announced the expansion of their labs: Spirent Communications and Germany-based international testing and certification company TÜV SÜD. Spirent is expanding its facility in Paignton, England and …

LoRaWAN radio technology offers powerful and flexible capabilities making it attractive for many IoT applications. The long-range communications, flexible hardware, open source software, and other LoRaWAN features must be thoroughly …

Test company Tektronix touted its support of an international research team which demonstrated the first transmission of two real-time video signals through a terahertz multiplexer that reached an aggregate data …