Keysight’s E7515W lets you test Wi-Fi 7 chipsets and systems. As Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) chipsets, routers, access points, and mobile devices come into production, engineers need to test them for RF conformance and for protocol functionality. Keysight automates those tasks by adding Wi-Fi 7 testing with the E7515W. A variant on its UXM test platform,…
10BASE-T1S brings a single pair of wires to the network edge
The 802.3cg Ethernet standard uses a single pair of wires, and it manages data flow without switches, making it suitable for industrial networks at a lower cost than traditional Ethernet. Industrial plants have long used digital data to monitor and control their production facilities. Networks in factories, data centers, and commercial buildings push the edges…
How do you test an Open RAN installation?
Open RAN telecom networks need testing for each disaggregated component, but that’s not enough. End-to-end testing is also necessary. In How do Open RAN interfaces work?, we covered how Open RAN redefines traditional RAN architecture by disaggregating it into three primary components: the radio unit (RU), distributed unit (DU), and centralized unit (CU). This paradigm…
PAs, LNAs boost cellular signals inside vehicles
Guerrilla RF, Inc. announces the formal release of two ¼ W linear PAs and two LNAs earmarked specifically for the automotive market. All four devices were qualified to meet rigorous AEC-Q100 quality standards – a critical benchmark for semiconductor devices used within automotive applications. These new PAs and LNAs are used primarily in cellular compensators (essentially…
Simulate 5G physical uplink shared channel designs
AccelerComm announced the general availability of its physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) Channel End-to-End Simulator, a configurable tool that lets telecoms equipment vendors evaluate the company’s IP components. The simulator lets AccelerComm’s own engineers and its customers comprehensively analyse the detailed behaviour of the PUSCH processing components relative to the Matlab 5G Toolbox, a recognised…
Mulitband cellular antenna designed for IoT applications
The Antenna Company announced customer sampling and availability of its AC97002 multiband cellular antenna designed for ease of installation with indoor smart meter gateways and other IOT applications. The AC97002 antenna highlights the following benefits: Reliable radio coverage over frequency bands of 698-960 MHz and 1700-2690 MHz, with efficiencies up to 75% in sub-GHz bands;…
What is a private 5G network? How does it work?
Private networks have the potential to change many industries and become the primary application for 5G. Processes and protocols make them work.
GPS at 50: Now what?
EE World interviewed Microchip’s David Chandler and Duke Buckner on the status and future of GPS, a technology we rely on for location tracking and network timing. Ethernet isn’t the only ubiquitous technology invented in 1973. GPS, the network of satellites that provide location and timing information, was also born that year. GPS has come…
Ethernet turned 50 in 2023, what’s next?
EE World interviewed John D’Ambrosia, who told a few stories from earlier times and gave a peek at what’s coming next from the IEEE 802.3 set of standards.
Next-gen Ethernet switches incorporate TSN, port bandwidths from 46 to 102 Gbps
Microchip Technology today announces its next-generation of LAN969x Ethernet switches with Time Sensitive Networking (TSN), scalable bandwidths from 46 Gbps to 102 Gbps, and a powerful 1 GHz single-core Arm Cortex-A53 CPU. For applications that require greater redundancy, the LAN969x Ethernet switches can be configured with High-availability Seamless Redundancy (HSR) and Parallel Redundancy Protocol (PRP).…