BROWSING: Anritsu

Chinese over-the-air measurement company General Test Systems and Japanese test and measurement company Toyo plan to form a new U.S.-based company called AeroGT Labs. The board of both companies have approved the plans, and the new company will combine products, market knowledge and sales...

Keysight Technologies and Viavi Solutions touted their support of the most recent Open RAN Alliance global plugfest event, which was the third such event focused on testing the performance capabilities of O-RAN-compliant systems and interoperability across the O-RAN ecosystem. "Rigorous testing under real-world conditions...

T-Mobile US and AT&T are duking it out over performance honors in recently released network testing. Global Wireless Solutions, which released its annual national report that included testing in nearly 500 markets across 50 states, concluded that AT&T had the best national network, followed...

Amid an evolving carrier perspective on leveraging the public cloud for telecom networks, Anritsu is deploying its mobile network service assurance solutions on AWS' public cloud. The AWS news comes after Anritsu announced in June that it had landed 5G SA service assurance contract wins...

Test company Anritsu said this week that it has verified protocol conformance tests on its 5G NR Mobile Device Test Platform ME7834NR for Dual Connectivity in 5G New Radio Standalone mode, which it says is an industry first. The system uses Qualcomm's Snapdragon...

Anritsu and InterDigital have combined on a new smart factory demo to showcase the “feasibility and readiness” of carrier-led 5G and multi-access edge compute (MEC) for Industry 4.0 use cases.  The setup, to be streamed as part of Anritsu’s virtual activity at Mobile World Congress...

WLAN is a cable-less technology for data communications typically using Ethernet over a local area. The first IEEE 802.11 standard regulating WLAN technology, released in 1997, supported only the 2.4 GHz band, but in 2020 the WLAN technology has begun supporting the 6 GHz...

Anritsu has teamed up with simulation company Orolia to put together Assisted-GPS (A-GPS) testing that meets 5G New Radio carrier acceptance requirements for multiple North American operators. The strategic partnership means that Orolia's GNSS/GPS simulation capabilities are supported on Anritsu's MR7834NR 5G mobile device...

U.K. network provider Openreach is using Viavi Solutions' Optical Network Monitoring System (ONMSi) to speed up its ambitious Full Fibre broadband deployment through remote validation and monitoring. Under the Full Fibre initiative, Openreach has committed to building out millions of new fiber-to-the-premise locations to expand broadband...

After its unprecedented debut, 5G is now well poised to not only improve its already supercharged performance but also adopt new enhancements and techniques that enable it to expand its reach beyond traditional broadband services. 3GPP Rel. 16 brings new concepts such as Integrated...

After its unprecedented debut, 5G is now well poised to not only improve its already supercharged performance but also adopt new enhancements and techniques that enable it to expand its reach beyond traditional broadband services. 3GPP Rel. 16 brings new concepts such as Integrated...

UL Ventures, the investment arm of testing and certification company UL, contributed to a $23 million Series B funding round for start-up Aurora Labs, which has developed an embedded software management platform for connected vehicles and IoT. "There is a growing need to continuously improve...

The use of millimeter-wave spectrum has evolved in the 5G era, and these high-band airwaves are playing significantly different roles in current networks than they have in previous generations of cellular technology. High-band frequencies used to primarily appear in mobile networks as point-to-point backhaul links,...

Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) is a key feature existing 4G LTE cellular operators can utilize to augment their migration to 5G NR. Learn about the key concepts of DSS including the benefits and trade offs it brings. Learn about the critical need for testing...

Keysight Technologies this week announced what it is calling the industry's first cloud-native distributed network performance and security test software for characterizing user experience and validating network performance of hybrid networks, services and security devices. The solution, called CyPerf, is aimed at meeting the need...

EXFO is in the process of acquiring Taiwan-based InOpticals, which specializes in ultra-high-speed test instruments for the laboratory and manufacturing markets with particular strength in 400G/800G transceivers, active and passive components and integrated test systems. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed, although EXFO...

5G technology has introduced some exciting possibilities for in-building functions. The “smart” buildings and manufacturing facilities of tomorrow will include new functions such as IoT, factory automation, machine learning devices, and cloud compute applications. To handle these new features, network architectures will change, frequency...

Test equipment company PCTel saw its revenues drop 16% year-over-year, but overall profits were  up compared to the same period in 2019, the company reported this week. Total company revenues for the second quarter were $19.8 million, compared to nearly $23.4 million during the same...

Open RAN player Mavenir will be using Keysight Technologies' testing tools to support development of software for its 5G RAN and core platforms. Mavenir will leverage Keysight solutions including its 5G user equipment emulation (UEE) capabilities, to emulate a "massive number of subscribers and numerous...

EXFO saw its sales drop 10% year-over-year, but the financial impact of the global coronavirus pandemic was blunted in part by cost-cutting and a Canadian government program for wage subsidies. "Despite constraints and restrictive measures in many countries, EXFO navigated through the coronavirus pandemic with...

Keysight Technologies has acquired digital automation company Eggplant from The Carlyle Group for $330 million. Keysight described Eggplant as a "software test automation platform provider that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics to automate test creation and test execution" and said that the company's Digital...

  Diagnosing and troubleshooting PIM problems is an expensive and time consuming exercise. It not only requires hours of resources but also degrades QoS since the site has to be shut down. The problem is exacerbated by new bands such as FirstNet introduced into LTE...

Verizon's network has provided it a consistent advantage over its competitors over the years. The differences are narrowing, according to data from RootMetrics, but the carrier still shows "consistent and excellent performance across the board" and has been stepping up its network speeds in...

Analyst firm Frost & Sullivan released a new report examining the impact of autonomous and electric vehicles on the test and measurement market, and found that if solutions offered by pure-play test and measurement OEMs and third-party testing and certification service providers are combined,...