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Local testing of network gear will disrupt India’s 5G timeline
Indian telcos say 5G rollouts will be delayed unless mandatory local testing of imported network gear is pushed back until 2023. Read more…
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Indian telcos hate government’s mandatory 5G phone testing plan
Indian telcos say the government’s plans to impose mandatory local testing and certification on 5G smartphones will impact service rollouts. Read more…
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ITU standards combat soft errors caused by cosmic rays
The ITU-T has approved new standards to mitigate ‘soft errors’ in terrestrial telecoms equipment caused by cosmic rays. Unlike a hard error, which is a fault that causes permanent malfunctioning of a semiconductor device, a Read more…
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Ericsson taps WNC to supply 5G hotspots for customer trials
Ericsson says it has contracted Taiwan-based ODM Wistron NeWeb (WNC) to deliver 5G mobile hotspot routers to be used in customer trials starting this month. The device is based on a Qualcomm Snapdragon X50 5G Read more…
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Keysight provides 5G network emulation tech to DoCoMo
Keysight Technologies announced it has extended its collaboration with NTT DoCoMo by providing 5G network emulation solutions for characterizing and validating new 5G NR mobile devices intended to operate on DoCoMo’s 5G network. The 5G Read more…
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Keysight and KT to collaborate on 5G NR test methodologies
Keysight Technologies says it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with KT Corporation to work together to accelerate validation of test methodologies for 5G NR technology and advanced 4G to speed up commercial deployment Read more…
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Don’t rush 5G standards – especially when you don’t have to
The current momentum of 5G is leading to mounting pressure to rush the standards process, which isn’t complete. Here’s why that would be a huge mistake – and why it’s unnecessary. The past several months Read more…
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EXFO wants to help transform your network, not just test it
The rise of 5G, IoT and digital transformation in general is good news for the test and measurement sector for fairly obvious reasons. T&M will be crucial to mobile operators making sure that their networks Read more…
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Huawei and Intel launch 5G NR interoperability development testing
Huawei announced a partnership with Intel and launched 3GPP 5G New Radio (NR) based interoperability development testing (IODT) to verify 5G technologies. Based on Huawei’s 5G base station prototype and Intel’s third-generation 5G mobile trial Read more…
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Huawei unveils SDN/NFV testing-as-a-service solution
Huawei has released a testing-as-a-service (TaaS) solution called TestCraft to accelerate SDN/NFV deployment. Announced at Huawei’s 2017 Operations Transformation Forum in Hong Kong Monday, TestCraft [PDF] provides a variety of automated test models and professional services Read more…
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New ETSI QoS test specs combat background noise for HD voice
ETSI’s technical committee on Speech and multimedia Transmission Quality (TC STQ) has published testing methods to objectively evaluate the performance of super-wideband and full-band terminals for voice communications in the presence of background noise. Background Read more…
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ITU-T SG12 standardizes measurement of adaptive-bitrate video stream quality
The ITU-T SG12 has approved recommendation P.1203, which describes algorithms (“models”) that estimate the end-user media quality for adaptive bitrate video streaming services. P.1203 was approved by ITU-T SG12 in December last year, according to Read more…