JDSU's CellAdvisor JD780A Base Station Analyzer series now supports LTE-Advanced with the ability to analyze up to five
component carriers for carrier aggregation, and MIMO with up to four transmitting branches.
JDSU has also added basic PIM detection, so that a tech can tell whether interference is...
Welcome to our weekly collection of all the top cell tower news stories, where we cover global, national, regional, local and distributed antenna system stories. While hoopla surrounding the "polar vortex" may have subsided, we're still in the dead of winter in many parts...
Agilent Technologies will name its spin-off electronic measurement company Keysight Technologies. The separation of the company's test and measurement business is expected in early November. Keysight will be headquartered in Santa Rosa, Calif., and have about 9,500 employees in 30 countries.
Agilent has struggled with profits...
With voice over LTE is expected to be rolled out soon and gain momentum in networks through 2016, testing will be critical to its success, according to a new report by Heavy Reading.
Experts across the ecosystem agree that the quality of VoLTE must be...
Anite has launched full support for Global Certification Forum requirements on LTE data throughput testing, allowing mobile operators and device OEMs to put devices through their paces in real-world conditions.
Anite noted that operators are eager to verify the data performance of new mobile devices...
Spirent Communications' 8100 Mobile Device Test System has been chosen by test lab SGS to expand its Voice over LTE/IMS and TDD-LTE testing.
“We view the goal to successfully rollout LTE as setting a new bar for us in supporting the wireless network operators and...
Ercom said it recently sold its Mobipass network emulation solution to a major Korean player, with Mobipass deployed in the Korean customer's labs for LTE.
The Korean customer was unnamed, but described as "always at the cutting edge of technology".
"They were looking for a network...
Azimuth Systems Inc. introduced a new over-the-air mobile device testing platform this week. The Intelligent Over-the-Air (iOTA) platform has already been accepted in a Tier One operator's mobile device test plan and in OEM labs, according to the company.
The iOTA does traditional throughput tests,...
Ixia continues to deal with the fallout of its former CEO falsifiying his credentials. The company is going over its recent financials with a fine-toothed comb -- although it says it has so far found no impact on its financial statements. Victor Alston resigned...
Spirent Communications said that independent lab Intertek's wireless device testing business has chosen its 8100 Mobile Device Test System for Voice over LTE/IMS testing as operators prepare for the roll-out of VoLTE. The company's portfolio includes test solutions for areas including IMS, RCS, audio quality,...
The Wireless Research Center of North Carolina is newly certified as a CTIA Authorized Test Lab – the only one in the state. AT4 Wireless' lab in Herndon, Virginia received the accreditation from CTIA this week as well.
Wireless devices on all national cellular networks...
Agilent Technologies has launched new software options for two of its T4000S test systems for user equipment developers that support LTE-Advanced carrier aggregation test cases defined by 3GPP.
The options for the T4010S LTE RF and T4020S LTE RRM test systems provide coverage for assessing...
Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of everything in the world of telecom software. It was a week of reflection on past victories and financials, as well as looking toward to the future with new codec standards and IPOs. The top story this week was...
Ixia announced that Vic Alston resigned as its president and CEO after a company audit committee found that he had lied about his credentials. Alston had attended Stanford University as he claimed, but falsely stated that he had received a B.S. and M.S. in...
Anite gave a trading update this week that included reducing its expectations for its full-year results. An anticipated second-quarter uptick in handset testing didn't pan out, and the company said it is also being affected by projects taking longer due to reorganizations and consolidations among...
Anritsu Webinar: Distance-to-PIM™ (DTP) is an important feature to help identify the location of Passive Intermodulation (PIM) faults both inside the feed system as well as beyond the antenna. When used correctly, this feature will help technicians quickly and efficiently locate PIM sources at a...
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,
Agilent Technologies has added new functionality and options to its M9703A AXIe eight-channel wideband digital receiver/digitizer (pictured at right), which is used for measurements in communications and the aerospace/defense industry. The equipment is designed for wide analysis bandwidth on up to 40 phase-coherent channels,...
Service assurance and network management company Empirix will be acquired by private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo LLC.
The transaction is expected to be finalized by early November. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Empirix serves mobile operators, service provides and enterprises with network optimization...
The future of network validation and optimization is in the lab. Think about the plane industry: 100 years ago no one was using flight simulators to build and fly planes. Try for a minute to
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.
Carrier aggregation allows operators to combine spectrum resources in order to increase network speeds. Anite's...
Intel has generated a lot of publicity for its mobile processors of late, but mobile connectivity chipsets are also a major focus for the world's largest chipmaker. The company says its communications systems have already shipped inside more than a billion mobile phones. It...
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 using Linux-based grid computing managers like the IBM Platform Load Sharing Facility.
The SystemVue 2013.08 version...
Fluke Networks is aiming to shake up the test and measurement space with a new, very small in-building wireless test solution designed to make spectrum analyzers more widely available and cheaper for the testing of distributed antenna systems and small cells.
Fluke launched the AirMagnet...
