Test & Measurement

Within the past 15 years, standard precision GPS technology has found its way into countless devices you probably own. Your smartphone, your car navigation system, and your smart watch all use it to tell you where you are to within a few meters. Mostly, that’s been good enough, and for many use cases, higher accuracy would simply not have been affordable. The high cost of centimetre‑level positioning technology has limited its use to professional niche applications, from construction and professional surveying to precision agriculture.  

Daily updates to the Application and Threat Intelligence (ATI) coverage in BreakingPoint are now being delivered as a result of a collaboration between Ixia, a Keysight Technologies Business, and Reversing Labs. Organisations can now validate their security posture with 20 times more relevant active threat vectors to minimise attack exposure and maximise attack readiness.

Advanced threat insights have been added to Ixia solutions including Vision One and Vision 7300 network packet brokers (NPBs) and CloudLens Private, Ixia’s cloud visibility solution. The new capability recognises malware, botnet, intrusion attempts, hijacked IPs and phishing activity.

An NFC oscilloscope unveiled by Comprion offers a selection of NFC and ISO triggers, individual envelope signal calculation. The NFC/ISO measurement features facilitate the evaluation of analogue NFC signals and consequently the development and integration of NFC-enabled devices

VIAVI Solutions has announced that its Wireless Business Unit, formerly the network validation division of Cobham Wireless, is now able to offer RANtoCore, a full suite of end-to-end mobile network testing capabilities. The solution can validate mobile network performance from the RAN to the core, via the mobile edge. It offers operators and NEMs the most realistic test environment for optimising 4G and 4.5G, while enabling the development of 5G technology and the shift of core functionality to the network edge.

Five 5G measurement software options have been released by Anritsu for its MS2850A Signal Analyser. The five new software options are compliant with the 3GPP 5G standards (5G NR hereafter) and used for measuring the RF Tx characteristics of next-generation 5G base stations and mobile terminals.

Huawei has endorsed Anritsu’s MT8870A high-speed wireless test platform for its RF calibration and validation tests. The Test Set provides support for the Hi2110 and Hi2115 NB-IoT chipsets designed for IoT use cases. Anritsu’s MT88xx series long-established connectivity and cellular test methodologies provide Huawei with improve product quality and manufacturing efficiency.

Multiple software packages for its Radio Communications Analyser MT8821C that support emerging LTE Category M1 (LTE Cat-M1) and Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) designs have been released by Anritsu. The LTE Cat-M1 and NB-IoT support expands the test capability of the MT8821C, and provides IoT-terminal and chipset manufacturers as well as communications operators with an all-in-one solution that can speed development of IoT devices.

To simplify network testing, IDEAL Networks has released free software updates for the SignalTEK NT network transmission tester, SignalTEK CT cable transmission tester and the NaviTEK NT Plus and Pro network troubleshooters. For significant enhancements, such as improved wiremap and port discovery information, users can download the free updates from the IDEAL Networks website.

The MS2850A Signal Analyser from Anritsu with 5G analysis software has been chosen by Samsung to support its 5G system developments. Samsung unveiled its end-to-end 5G product portfolios including 5G home routers (CPEs), 5G Access Unit (AU) last year under development for commercial grade products.