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Test and Measurement: Fortive expects strong growth in ’24

Testing company Fortive, whose T&M brands include Tektronix and Fluke, beat its guidance and saw fourth quarter 2024 revenue growth of 4% year-on-year. Net earnings for the fourth quarter were $265 million, and for the full year, net earnings were $866 million. The company...

Test and Measurement: Anritsu boosts NTN testing

Test company Anritsu said recently that the first Non-Terrestrial Network protocol conformance tests for narrowband IoT were validated on its 5G NR Mobile Device Test Platform ME7834NR, in conjunction with testing of Sony Semiconductor Israel’s Altair device. Those tests have been submitted to the...

Test and Measurement: SpaceX to test direct-to-cellular connections

SpaceX has been granted special temporary authority by the Federal Communications Commission for field testing of direct-to-cellular communications via its Starlink second generation satellites. The company said that it would be testing up to five devices at different power levels using T-Mobile US' spectrum in...

Anritsu White Paper: RedCap: The IoT Technology for 5G Networks

RedCap is poised to expand the NR device ecosystem, enabling growth and increased 5G use cases. But what exactly is it?RedCap, also called NR-Lite, is the 3GPP IoT wireless specification. Key features of RedCap are lower cost and longer battery life compared with legacy...

Test and Measurement: PCTel to be acquired by Amphenol

The purchase of all PCTel's outstanding shares will cost Amphenol about $140 million Test, measurement and antenna company PCTel has agreed to be acquired by global electronics tech company Amphenol, which focuses on interconnect, sensor and antenna solutions. Amphenol will acquire all outstanding shares of PCTel...

Test and Measurement: 5G Broadcast tested during emergency exercise in Estonia

Rohde & Schwarz, along with broadcaster Levira, supported a major government exercise in Estonia focused on training and testing of the country's nationwide emergency response capabilities, which included the first test of 5G Broadcast for emergency alerts to smartphones. The large-scale evacuation test exercise,...

Test and Measurement: A human safety benchmark for comparing autonomous vehicles

One of the mains goal for autonomous vehicles is to improve human safety, by reducing the number of traffic crashes. But how do you know if autonomous vehicles actually do so, under what conditions, and by how much? A benchmark is needed, and a...

Test and Measurement: Viavi notches a win with Philippine infra company

Viavi Solutions said this week that Philippine engineering and technology solutions provider Fiber Infrastructure and Network Services Inc. (FINSI) will be using Viavi's OneAdvisor 800 platform for testing as it serves the telecom, energy and infrastructure industries across the island nation with fiber and...

Test and Measurement: Digitalization driving expected increase in engineering, R&D investments

Engineering investments are expected to increase as a result of ongoing digitalization efforts, to the tune of an expected 10% compound annual increase through 2026, according to a new survey from Bain & Co. The survey said that despite economic uncertainty, businesses are planning to...

Anritsu Webinar: O-RAN: Evolution, Market Trends, Use Cases + Testing

This webinar presents key aspects of Open RAN technology and business needs on “why Open RAN”. It also discusses the main drivers in terms of use cases, and the market reality on Open RAN. While there may be challenges to full scale deployment of...

Test and Measurement: Greener RAN, Open RAN, NTN among the test showcases at MWC23

BARCELONA—It was a hectic week for test and measurement vendors at Mobile World Congress 2023, with a slew of announcements, and demonstrations across the Fira, that illuminate where the industry's attention and development efforts are focused. Power usage—specifically, telecom equipment that can use...

Anritsu White Paper: Introduction to 5G Positioning Technologies

5G is expanding into new industry segments, but also expanding into new technology areas, such as 5G positioning. Key concept of 5G precise positioning is to utilize 3GPP signaling in the 5G network to enhance the performance of position calculation. The eco-system for the...

Test and Measurement: Rohde & Schwarz breaks ground on €60m facility expansion

Munich-based test company expands facility in Germany Rohde & Schwarz broke ground this week on an expanded, 60-million-euro facility to be constructed in Memmingen, which is about 115 kilometers from Munich. Munich-based R&S already has about 1,800 employees working at its Memmingen location and the...

Editorial Report: The state of Wi-Fi 6, 6E and 7

When Wi-Fi 6 Extended, which refers to the ability to operate Wi-Fi in the 6 GHz band, was announced, the industry rejoiced for it was the first time in 20 years that Wi-Fi technology was allocated additional spectrum. Users are still in the process...

Editorial Webinar: The state of Wi-Fi 6, 6E and 7

When Wi-Fi 6 Extended, which refers to the ability to operate Wi-Fi in the 6 GHz band, was announced, the industry rejoiced for it was the first time in 20 years that Wi-Fi technology was allocated additional spectrum. Users are still in the process...

The top testing challenges in 6 GHz Wi-Fi operation: Part 1

'Wi-Fi 7 breaks most testing equipment out there': LitePoint exec Wi-Fi 7, designed with the 6 GHz band in mind, has a host of exciting new features that promise higher spectrum and power efficiency, better interference mitigations, higher capacity density and higher cost efficiency. But many...

Editorial Report: RF interference & optimization in 5G systems

C-Band deployment delays over interference concerns. Shared CBRS spectrum. Significant coordination zones for 3.45-3.55 GHz. Spectrum is a finite resource, and while regulators continue to make additional airwaves available, it's often not free and clear. What does this mean for the cost and utility...

Three RF issues in midband spectrum

When it comes to 5G, no band is perfect. In low bands, 5G coverage is maximized and cell sizes can be quite large, the performance of 5G New Radio is limited because of smaller available channel bandwidths. Meanwhile, high-band, millimeter-wave 5G deployments have a...

Test and Measurement: Tektronix unveils a new portable oscilloscope

Tektronix has launched a new oscilloscope series meant to "go seamlessly from the bench to the field and back", calling it the "first portable oscilloscope to offer benchtop performance." The 2 Series MSO instrument is 1.5 inches thick and weighs less than four pounds,...

Test and Measurement: Ookla breaks down a shifting carrier market

Midband spectrum has helped T-Mo with a 5G lead, but cellular service and device costs may be more important to growth than pending C-Band deployments, Ookla says in a new blog post. Ookla's Mark Giles, lead industry analyst at Ookla, wrote that by Ookla's...

Anritsu and Tech Mahindra launch IoT Experience Lab in California

Anritsu and Tech Mahindra have joined forces to launch an IoT Experience Lab at Tech Mahindra's Fremont, CA facility. IoT device manufacturers can use the lab to test 5G devices used in emerging IoT use cases, as well as validate device performance and design. "The...

Q&A: The basics of private 5G networks

Private networks are expected to be one of the primary ways in which 5G services are monetized. A recent IDC forecast estimated that on a worldwide basis, private LTE/5G wireless infrastructure revenues will reach $8.3 billion by 2026, compared to $1.7 billion in 2021...

Test and Measurement: Teledyne has a record quarter

Teledyne Technologies reported a record quarter, with sales up 64% compared to the first quarter of 2021, to $1.32 billion. Profits, meanwhile, jumped 151% year-over-year, from $84.7 million to $212.6 million. "We began 2022 with the greatest first quarter sales, earnings and adjusted operating...

Test and Measurement: Anritsu, MediaTek work on speeding up 5G handovers

It was a busy week for T&M announcements coming out of Mobile World Congress Barcelona, as well as vendors looking ahead to next week's OFC conference on optical communications. Here are some of the highlights: -Anritsu announced a demo this week focused on taking steps...