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5G Open Innovation Lab: Relationships, resources and the road to innovation

For Jim Brisimitzis, the revelation came in the fall of 2018 when he read early iterations of the Third Generation Partnership Project's Release 15—the official documentation of the 5G New Radio standard. Brisimitzis, who has more than two decades of experience in enterprise software...

Northeastern University launches O-RAN testing center

The university noted that the new facility has been approved by the O-RAN Alliance The Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things (WIoT) at Northeastern University opened an Open Testing and Integration Center (OTIC) in Burlington, Massachusetts, to promote research, development and testing of next-generation...

Telecom supply chain fund receives nearly $1.4 billion in requests for testing, R&D support

"The overwhelming interest in this first round of funding shows the private sector is stepping up," says NTIA's Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications & Information The National Telecommunications and Information Administration said that it has received 127 applications asking for $1.39 billion in funding...

Five best practices for mobile testing success (Reader Forum)

Do you remember your first mobile phone? It may have been an old-school flip phone or one of those that had the slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The world’s first modern smartphone was launched in 1994 in the US and was called IBM Simon. It is...

Vodafone claims first urban deployment of O-RAN in Europe

Vodafone said that the O-RAN trial was carried out in Torquay and Exmouth, in the U.K. U.K. telecommunications group Vodafone claimed it achieved the first commercial urban deployment of Open RAN (O-RAN) in Europe, trialing the technology in two U.K. towns to provide mobile subscribers...

Telecom supply chain fund kicks off first funding opportunity

First funding opportunity focuses on testing The Biden administration is officially kicking off the first funding opportunity for the $1.5 billion Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund, which is part of the CHIPS and Science Act passed last year and focuses on federal government's efforts...

Spirent focuses on 5G visibility with Vantage launch

Service providers have to deal with increasing complexity in their networks and services, amid what have been highly manual and ponderous service assurance deployments that almost inevitably result in visibility gaps and too much data that needs highly skilled human interpretation to resolve issues. As...

NTT DoCoMo taps Viavi to ensure global access to its 5G Open RAN project

NTT DoCoMo will use Viavi’s TM500 Network Tester, TM500 O-DU Tester, the TeraVM O-CU Tester and the TeraVM Core Emulator NTT DoCoMo will use Viavi Solutions’ test suite for end-to-end testing for its 5G Open RAN Ecosystem (OREC), a project launched in 2021 that is comprised of 13 vendor...

GCF joins with 5G-ACIA to ‘investigate’ industrial 5G certification needs

The Global Certification Forum (GCF) and the 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA) have signed a cooperation agreement to jointly investigate industrial 5G certification needs. The pair said they will share information on industrial IoT use cases and related requirements for testing...

LoRa Alliance adds new self-test capabilities LCTT pre-certification tool

The LoRa Alliance has added a number of new testing capabilities to its LoRaWAN Certification Test Tool (LCTT), for device makers to pre-test the performance of IoT solutions before seeking formal certification from a LoRa Alliance Authorized Test House (ATH). New capabilities in the...

NEC, Fujitsu begin 5G base station O-RAN interoperability testing

Japanese companies NEC and Fujitsu have begun developing technologies for interoperability testing between 5G base station equipment conforming to O-RAN specifications at NEC's U.K. laboratories and Fujitsu's U.S. laboratories. Both companies are expected to build a verification environment using these technologies in their respective laboratories,...

Wi-Fi Alliance adds new, faster path to Wi-Fi Certified for vendors ‘in the middle’

There are now three ways for a product to become Wi-Fi Certified Wi-Fi Certified, the internationally recognized seal of approval for products indicating that they have met industry-agreed standards for interoperability, has been a foundational component to Wi-Fi global success, according to Kevin Robinson, SVP...

Nokia opens O-RAN test facility in Texas

Finnish vendor Nokia announced that it has opened its first Open RAN (O-RAN) Collaboration and Testing Center at its offices in Dallas, Texas. The new facility is designed to support the development of partnerships among O-RAN vendors that will help with the verification, introduction, and...

Qualcomm’s John Smee on 5G R&D: ‘If you build it, they will come’

Dr. John Smee, Qualcomm’s VP of engineering, says that one of the things that differentiates Qualcomm from other tech companies is its “if you build it, they will come” research mentality: Trying to envision and build technologies that will support what future applications could...

Bureau Veritas launches 5G device certification testing in the US

  Testing, inspection and certification company Bureau Veritas announced that its Silicon Valley laboratory in Sunnyvale is now fully equipped and ready to offer 5G certification service for Global Certification Forum, PTCRB and key carrier requirements. The new location in California extends Bureau Veritas' existing portfolio of 5G...

LoRa Alliance opens device certification programme to non-members

The LoRa Alliance has announced a certification programme for affiliate non-members to obtain LoRaWAN device certification. The new $10,000 affiliate programme covers full protocol testing, including of interoperability and radio performance. It will increase the volume and variety certified LoRaWAN devices available in the market,...

‘Throw out the existing rulebook’ when it comes to 5G testing

  Just how different is testing for millimeter-wave-based 5G compared to previous generations of cellular technology? According to William Graff, global TCB program manager for TÜV Rhineland, the old testing rules simply don’t apply. “In many ways, you have to throw out the existing rulebook that...

Electro Rent White Paper: 5 Steps to Coexistence Testing for IoT Devices

Managing power for the Internet of Things (IoT) devices can be complicated. Users expect full performance, even in the most challenging environments. Before any IoT device is deployed, however, coexistence testing is needed to ensure that all interference issues are resolved. There are many...

LoRa Alliance simplifies device testing for manufacturers and operators

The LoRa Alliance has expanded its LoRaWAN certification programme to simplify and reduce testing for device makers and network operators. A single certification process will cover conformance, interoperability, and radio-frequency testing, reducing time and expense for device manufacturers. Network operators will not be required to...

EXFO reports results, touts Orange’s ONAP integration

EXFO's sales up, profits down EXFO reported a quarter that its CEO described as disappointing, but promised that 2019 will be a year of renewed focus on execution by the test company, which has had a number of recent acquisitions. Sales for the company's fiscal...

Keysight Webinar: How will you handle the interference of things?

If you design IoT medical devices, you care about coexistence testing. EMI testing is essential, but it doesn’t guarantee your device will operate in the presence of competing signals. Watch Keysight’s webinar to learn how coexistence testing can make the difference between your device’s success...

5G NR: Massive MIMO and Beamforming – What does it mean and how can I measure it in the field?

  Massive MIMO (mMIMO) and beamforming are buzzwords widely used in the telecom industry when referring to 5G and latest advancements of LTE. The challenge is that MIMO comes in many different variants, some of them having been in use already for years in legacy...

Rohde & Schwarz first to release “comprehensive” C-V2X test suite for auto-makers

Munich-based test equipment supplier Rohde & Schwarz has updated its CMW500 radio tester and SMBV100A GNSS simulator to support cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) device certification. It is the first test equipment vendor to offer a “comprehensive” C-V2X test suite for the car industry, it said. 3GPP...

Using testing to bridge the 5G standards gap

Despite momentum, 5G standards work is not complete The past several months has seen an explosion in 5G momentum. It seems that every week brings another high-profile demonstration or an announcement of a new trial. The result of all this attention has dramatically shortened everyone’s...