BROWSING: Global Certification Forum

The Global Certification Forum and mission-critical standards and interoperability group TCCA are jointly launching a task force focused on certification for 3GPP-based mission-critical services, including push-to-talk, video and data. The focus on cellular services delivered via mobile broadband networks is a shift for TCCA, which...

The Global Certification Forum serves as an independent device certification body for mobile network operators. Device certification is a major step in bringing a mobile device to market an ensuring that it will operate satisfactorily on a carrier network. Certification testing for devices broadly...

Smartphones accounted for 49% of certified devices last year, while IoT modules were the fastest-growing device segment Cellular devices are becoming more complex, supporting more bands than ever -- and the number of certified internet of things devices is booming, according to the Global Certification...

The Global Certification Forum is laying out its roadmap for 5G device certification, with a newly approved work item that will cover certification for early phases of both non-standalone and standalone 5G. With 5G chipset work well underway and network equipment already in the field-testing stage,...

In its second deal in two weeks, test company EXFO said that it has signed an agreement to purchase French optical test equipment supplier Yenista Optics, which serves the high-end lab and manufacturing markets. Details of the acquisition were not disclosed, although EXFO said it...