National Instruments saw flat revenue year-over-year, with net income plunging from $26.4 million to $14.4 million. The company cited industry weakness in giving a lackluster estimate for its third quarter revenues.
Revenues for the second quarter edged up just 1% year-over-year. NI said its orders...
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 power consumption and increased interconnect reach, many new network interface standards are emerging, along with...
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 Positioning Protocol defined by the 3GPP for LTE networks."
The tests have been available on...
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 issued June 13 and announced today. PTCRB is a device certification group that serves mostly...
Anritsu has received confirmation from the Global Certification Forum of protocol test cases for LTE-Advanced, and the company is aiming at the test market for China with its ME7834 Mobile Device Test Platform with validated protocol conformance test cases for TD-LTE, including interoperability tests.
TD-LTE...
Cell towers are starting to reap the benefits of the technology they enable, thanks to new software developed by test and measurement leader Anritsu. Anritsu's wireless remote tools for its handheld instruments allow technicians to stay on the ground while conducting field measurements like...
Test and measurement company Anite plc announced its final results for its fiscal year, along with the news that it is acquiring one of its distributors, Genentel SAS.
Genentel distributes Anite's wireless testing software to French-speaking markets including France and North Africa, and is focused...
Carrier aggregation is picking up speed. Several test companies have now announced submissions for validation and other testing for the eagerly anticipated LTE-Advanced feature. The first LTE-A device supporting CA was announced this week, when Qualcomm revealed that its Snapdragon chip is powering the...
Anite says it has submitted the first LTE carrier aggregation (CA) protocol test cases for verification to 3GPP's RAN Working Group 5 (RAN5), key step toward validation that would lead to the test cases being included in both the Global Certification Forum and the...
Welcome to this week's look at news in network test & measurement.
Ixia was named among the fastest-growing U.S tech companies by Forbes Magazine. The company came in at #14 on Forbes' list.
National Instruments announced that it is working with Anteverta Microwave, Focus Microwaves, Maury...
Mobile operators are looking for ways to provide a remarkable and differentiated user experience. Maintaining an accurate frequency and phase synchronization between radio access and mobile core network is an easy way to achieve this objective. For more information, download Juniper's White Paper about LTE-Advanced...
Agilent Technologies opened two new offices in Vietnam, in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. This comes even as the company announced a 2% cut in its global workforce (about 450 employees) earlier this month.
In Hanoi, a new repair and calibration center for electronic...
Telecom analytics is one of the most exciting areas in the wireless business. In a very competitive environment, carriers have to give a deeper look at how they manage all data they have in order to give them advantages and monetization opportunities. Information without...
Microwave Vision Group launched a new antenna measurement test system for "4G" devices, with up to three-times faster measurement capabilities and a broader dynamic range in passive antenna measurement mode.
The new SG 24 system is compliant with CTIA OTA performance specs, for testing mobile...
Anritsu Co. is giving the first ever single-instrument radio frequency testing of carrier aggregation at CTIA 2013, the company said. Carrier aggregation is one of the most highly anticipated features of LTE-Advanced, and allows wireless operators to make more efficient use of their spectrum.
The...
The Global Certification Forum and the CDMA Certification Forum announced that they are working together to offer a single certification process for mobile devices that incorporate any combination of 3GPP and 3GPP2 wireless technologies.
CCF is the official authority for certifying devices that use CDMA2000,...
Agilent Technologies (A) reported flat net revenues and a 35% year-over-year drop in net income for its second fiscal quarter ending April 30, and announced a restructuring program that will result in 450 eliminated positions.
That figure reflects a cut of about 2% to Agilent's...
Ixia announced new products for validating and testing the resiliency of enterprise networks, including the ability to simulate a data center rack of virtualized servers.
The company's new RackSim is an industry first, according to Ixia, and simulates all the complexities of a rack of...
Rohde & Schwarz has launched a new flagship test product, the R&S SMW200A high-end vector signal generator.
The box combines a baseband generator, RF generator and MIMO fading simulator, with the options of hooking up an additional RF path for frequencies up to 6 GHz,...
National Technical Systems, which provides testing and engineering services to the telecom industry among others, had a record quarter of growth. Revenues were up almost 19% to $184.5 million for its fiscal 2013.
Revenues for its fiscal fourth quarter jumped almost 9% year-over-year, to $43.8...
As part of quarterly results, we're getting a few different takes on the market this week.
Texas Instruments' results came in at the high end of its guidance, with first quarter revenue of $2.89 billion and net income of $362 million.
That net income figure was...
LTE-Advanced will be here sooner than you think, according to test equipment company Anite.
According to comments from Paul Beaver, products director at Anite,"With LTE-A, services and applications such as HD streaming, online gaming and video conferencing will become standard offerings. Mobile operators will finally...
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Welcome to this week's round-up of news, products, and analysis in the network test and measurement space.
Chinese test system provider Tri-L Solutions integrated Agilent Technologies' PXT wireless communications test set with some of its own test systems for over-the-air LTE device and antenna testing...
