In order to meet the ever-increasing needs for bandwidth in mobile networks, regulatory agencies often reallocate or "refarm" spectrum which had previously been used for other communications services. In many cases this refarmed spectrum must be cleared of both existing users and sources of...
Signal Hound reported this week one of their customers, Australian company Innovative Drone Solutions, is using Signal Hound's compact signal analyzer with an airborne drone to characterize the radiation patterns of tower antennas – it takes about 25 minutes of drone flight time and up...
Operators now have multiple technology options available when it comes to deploying in-building wireless services. Options include passive Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS), active DAS, Distributed Radio Systems (DRS) and Distributed Small Cells (DSC). When multiple operators / multiple technologies are deployed indoors sharing common...
SAN DIEGO--The technology and use cases associated with 5G will be as different and exciting as comparing today to a decade ago, Jay Alexander, SVP/CTO of Keysight Technologies said during an IEEE Globecom keynote presentation. And that means the test and measurement field needs...
5G caught telecom's imagination in 2015, as the wireless industry began chasing its dreams of what next-generation networks will look like. 5G technologies aren't expected to be in commercial deployment until at least the 2020 timeframe, but significant progress is expected to come in 2016 to begin...
Indoor video performance on mobile devices requires a dramatic shift in benchmarking and network optimization
The current carrier landscape is marked by price wars aimed at giving customers new devices and more monthly data for far less money. From a consumer point of view, what...
Both Rohde & Schwarz and Keysight Technologies announced 5G testing advancements this week, reflecting the industry's increased push toward research and development of the technology as operators and equipment vendors experiment with new capabilities and speeds for the next generation of wireless networks.
Keysight and...
ITU harmonizes 700 MHz for global mobile broadband
The International Telecommunications Union is wrapping up its month-long World Radiocommunications Conference in Geneva this week and has officially harmonized the use of 700 MHz spectrum for global mobile broadband use.
The ITU works on global spectrum issues and satellite orbits...
Keysight Technologies beat analysts' expectations when it posted fourth-quarter and full-year results this week, with what company officials described as "strong profit in a soft market." In terms of quarterly Keysight results, revenues were down 1% year-over-year and net income was $277 million. Net...
New solutions launched this week take test company Spirent Communications from its traditional focus on simulation in the lab into monitoring and insights into live networks, as well as customer experience analytics.
Spirent is taking its flagship Landslide product, which is used in the lab to...
The increasing reliance on wireless technologies makes it vital for spectrum users to monitor and control the RF operating environment. Interfering signals can degrade the capacity of communications networks, and illicit transmissions in the vicinity of prisons, national borders and critical infrastructure may represent...
Variables such as cable performance, throughput levels, connectivity and passive intermodulation are key indicators of network functionality. Contractors must test and measure all these factors in order for carriers to sign off on a site activation. With the growth of small cells and distributed...
Measurement Computing, which produces hardware and software for data acquisition and logging for test and measurement, acquired competitor Data Translation for an undisclosed sum.
Data Translation focuses on PC-based data acquisition and designs modules compatible with a range of technologies, including USB, PCI, LXI and Ethernet as...
Walk test measurements are needed in most cases to verify in-building deployment. In-building measurements are time consuming and expensive. In order to be efficient, both the data collection and following analysis needs to be executed professionally to ensure the number of visits to the...
As Keysight Technologies' first year as an independent company comes to a close, it has announced a new organizational structure that divides the company into three business groups focused on different customer bases, and another group for corporate leadership and technology.
"The changes that we’re announcing...
NetScout financial results
NetScout Systems reported its first quarter of results since its massive network monitoring and security acquisition from Danaher. Company president and CEO Anil Singhal said the company is pleased with its initial progress and integration work is proceeding according to plan.
Earnings per share...
The connected car opens many topics related to testing. Simulating safety systems, checking for interference, looking at the safety from malicious external influences. This report will look at the challenges at hand and highlight some of the key players working to solve them.
What you...
Fluke Networks added new testing support for deploying 802.11ac networks in the enterprise, launching a tablet solution aimed at network engineers, and a handheld tester, the OneTouc AT Generation 2 Network Assistant, for technicians.
Between the two options, Fluke (now part of NetScout Systems) is staying...
Traditionally, line sweep, PIM, and OTDR traces have been individually processed in stand-alone PC based programs that work with one trace at a time. This repetitive, labor intensive process worked well in the past, but with the coming of market price pressures, LTE, and...
The NFC Forum has released one new and three candidate specifications for near-field communications, which target improved radio frequency support, better interoperability and a new tag operation format that opens up new use cases, according to the organization.
The new NFC standard deals with NFC...
EXFO optimistic about 2016 revenue despite FY 2015 declines
EXFO reported that its quarterly and full-year fiscal 2015 results saw significant currency rate impacts affecting its sales numbers.
Sales for the fourth quarter were $56.6 million, compared to $59.7 million during the same period last year. Quebec City,...
Spectrum monitoring is a powerful tool that can be used to ensure that the RF communications we all depend on for both civilian and defense applications work, and work well. The need to make more effective use of our RF spectrum comes from a number...
As industry interest and exploration of "5G" deepens, Tektronix announced this week it has a new feature capable of ultra-wide signal analysis for 5G backhaul arrangements.
The company said the implementation of its SignalVu software on the company's DPO70000SX ATI performance oscilloscopes will simplify multi-instrument test set-ups that...
Federated Wireless is pilot-testing a new Spectrum Access System sensor in partnership with the National Advanced Spectrum and Communications Test Network to accelerate the development of a system supporting spectrum sharing with multiple access types.
The company focuses on sharing licensed spectrum and has a...
