Test and Measurement

Self-organizing network is a promising new feature defined by the 3GPP standard to help mobile network operators to automate several recurring tasks required for activities such as cells deployment,

Anite announced two recent firsts, one of which is support for commercial LTE-A and carrier aggregation testing for mobile network operators and infrastructure vendors using its Nemo Outdoor testing platform. …

Agilent‘s SystemVue platform for communications, aerospace and defense system design now supports high-performance distributed computing. Agilent said that allows next-generation system performance to be verified up to 64 times faster …

Test equipment company Anritsu announced that its equipment now supports TD-LTE carrier aggregation (CA) testing, claiming the slot as the first LTE network simulator that supports CA for Time Division …

Anite says it now has PTCRB validation for the highest number of LTE-Advanced carrier aggregation (CA) protocol tests in the industry, after working closely with chipset and device manufacturers in …

Spirent Communication‘s equipment was used to support China’s first public OpenFlow interoperability test event in China at the Global SDN Certified Testing Center (SDNCTC), a subsidiary of the Beijing Internet …

Spirent Communications says that the launch of Voice over LTE service is “imminent,” and has integrated its field testing solution with lab systems for call quality and device testing, so …

Tektronix Communications says its new Spectra2 XL3 test solution can test more than 400,000 simultaneous, bi-directional G.711 IP-based calls while taking up only a single, two-unit rack space. The company …

Anite has announced that it is the first to release a device testing solution for enhanced Inter-Cell Interference Coordination, or eICIC, an LTE-Advanced feature that deals with interference issues in …

Ixia saw its revenue for the second quarter grow 28% to $115.9 million, with much of the increase attributed to two acquisitions rather than its core products.  Revenues for the …

Agilent Technologies Inc. launched a 28.4 Gb/s multiplexer this week for characterizing receivers for next-gen servers, storage systems and data-center networks. “To manage the increasing demand for higher bandwidth, lower …

Testing for LTE devices continues to evolve, with Spirent Communications’ announcement of the availability of validated LTE location conformance tests for GCF certification for “every mobile device that supports LTE …

Intertek received accreditation from PTCRB and can now conduct testing under “any industry certification scheme for all 2G, 3G and 4G wireless technologies,” the company said. The PTCRB accreditation was …