Keysight, Ixia team up on integrated cellular, Wi-Fi protocol verification

“User experience testing in mobile devices requires evaluation of application performance under real world conditions,” said Satish Dhanasekaran, president, Communications Solutions Group, Keysight Technologies. “This solution combines the technologies of Keysight and Ixia to provide deeper understanding of coexistence challenges as devices interoperate across LTE and Wireless LAN systems.”

“Customers can view the performance of the complete protocol stack with the end-to-end performance verification needed for emerging and demanding applications such as IoT, connected-car, and 5G,” said Bethany Mayer, president, Ixia Solutions Group. “With the T5510S system, Keysight now offers industry-leading test capabilities to address interoperability challenges for multi-mode devices.”

The T5510S also includes Keysight’s flexible Test Automation Platform and ready-to-use built-in test cases. This complete system delivers capabilities for testing with the latest cellular standards (LTE/LTE-Advanced/NB-IoT/Cat-M) as well as all WiFi protocols (802.11a/b/g/n/ac) under a wide range of traffic and RF emulation conditions. By combining the best-in-class capabilities from Keysight and Ixia, the T5510S helps customers improve performance and time-to-market by prototyping, evaluating and diagnosing complex interoperability environments.

For more information visit T5510S Cellular + WiFi Emulation System.

Keysight collaborates with Sequans to provide NB-IoT, LTE-M test

In related news, Keysight announced an agreement with Sequans Communications whereby Keysight will use Sequans’s Monarch LTE for IoT chip platform to provide support for NB-IoT and LTE-M customers using Keysight’s E7515A UXM wireless test set. The integration assures customers that they have their test needs covered for IoT deployments and are in compliance with 3GPP standards.

Keysight and Sequans are developing products and solutions that are tailored for the IoT ecosystem, and the companies are now working closely together to accelerate the deployment of IoT technologies in the industry.

“Keysight is excited to collaborate with Sequans and assist them with their test needs for NB-IoT,” said Dhanasekaran. “Our network emulation solutions provide scalability and the capabilities needed to support design and test from initial requirements to formal conformance.”

“Our work with Keysight gives our customers assurance that our Monarch platform can fully support the NB-IoT and LTE-M 3GPP narrowband IoT technologies,” said Danny Kedar, vice president of Sequans’ IoT business unit. “While the two technologies are deploying at different rates around the world, with LTE-M a priority in the USA and NB-IoT the priority in Europe and Asia, it’s important that testing solutions support both, and our collaboration with Keysight enables this.”

For more information visit www.keysight.com/find/UXM