Rohde & Schwarz has won a contract with Swansea University to equip the College of Engineering’s electronic teaching laboratories at the new science and innovation Bay Campus and provide long term support. Rohde & Schwarz commitment to the University includes student visits to their state of the art factories, student awards, tuition and staff training in addition to a full warranty.

Following its debut in 2015, Rohde & Schwarz will be exhibiting again at the Sensor+Test exhibition in Nuremberg (May 10-12) with a stand featuring its oscilloscope families. The R&S Scope Rider is the first handheld oscilloscope for mobile use offering the functionality of a lab instrument.

Rohde & Schwarz has signed an agreement with China Mobile Research Institute to cooperate on the evolution from 4G towards 5G within the China Mobile 5G Innovation Centre project. As a new partner of the 5G Innovation Centre, Rohde & Schwarz will actively accelerate the progress of 5G standardisation and its infrastructure and foster 4G+/5G innovations for test solutions and industry ecosystem support.

The successful installation of a DVB-T2 receiver compliance test system has been announced by Rohde & Schwarz and Balai Besar Pengujian Perangkat Telekomunikasi (BBPPT) – the official test lab under the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT) in Indonesia. The test system consists of an R&S BTC Broadcast Test Centre, R&S AVBrun automation software, StreamSpark PSI/SI and early warning system (EWS) test suite,...

Equipped with the new R&S SMW-K75 option, the R&S SMW200A high-end vector signal generator from Rohde & Schwarz can generate complex scenarios of up to 4x8 or 8x4 MIMO as well as two MIMO systems with up to 4x4 MIMO. Multiple input multiple output transmission is used for a number of digital communications standards, including LTE, LTE-Advanced and WLAN (802.11n, 802.11ac).

5G, the next generation of wireless communications, should be operational by 2020. However, to make the planned, significant performance boost over today’s networks possible, extensive preliminary investigations are required. Finding and characterising suitable transmission channels will play an important role. Rohde & Schwarz explain more.

SmartMonitor is a versatile mobile network testing solution for realtime service quality monitoring developed by Rohde & Schwarz. It provides a combination of powerful network probes based on commercial smartphones and a smart web-application that enables seamless monitoring of quality of service and end-user experience based on realtime input.

The new R&S SMW-B9 wideband baseband generation option provides leading-edge baseband capabilities to Rohde & Schwarz’s R&S SMW200A high-end vector signal generator. The new option extends RF modulation bandwidth to 2GHz enabling R&D engineers to generate signals with extreme wide bandwidth up to microwave frequencies.

By combining two of its instruments, Rohde & Schwarz has produced a flexible solution that can test multiple antenna orientations simultaneously with high speed and measurement accuracy, repeatability and low energy consumption. The R&S TS7124 RF shielded box and the R&S CMW100 communications manufacturing test set can be configured to create customised radiation patterns and can be employed to test virtually any wireless communicatio...

The R&S ESW EMI test receiver from Rohde & Schwarz is designed for applications in manufacturers’ EMI labs and in test houses. It can carry out certification tests on modules, components and devices as well as on systems and technical facilities in line with all relevant commercial and military standards such as CISPR, FCC and military standards.

Rohde & Schwarz presents the R&S RTO2000, a compact lab oscilloscope for multi-domain applications. The company claims that, when using it to check advanced embedded designs, developers are able to analyse how sophisticated functional units such as power supplies, the processor system and the sensor technology interact. The R&S RTO2000 displays the correlations between time, frequency, protocol and logic analysis measurement results l...

Rohde & Schwarz and its subsidiary SwissQual AG introduce the latest R&S NORA software platform for mobile network optimisation. Based on over 20 years of experience in mobile network testing, the tool is suitable for mobile network operators, infrastructure vendors and their service providers, and also regulators. R&S NORA helps users measure, analyse and report the performance of mobile networks and the offered mobile services. Only...

The R&S CMW500 wideband radio communication tester from Rohde & Schwarz has a new option to support the EVS codec. EVS, which was specifically designed for broadband voice calls in mobile communications systems such as LTE, noticeably improves the audio quality of phone calls. In Barcelona, Rohde & Schwarz demonstrates a test solution based on the R&S CMW500 and the R&S UPV audio analyser.

Mobile network operators have to continuously optimise and troubleshoot their networks to ensure performance and to get the most out of their infrastructure. Drive tests are the most effective way to collect accurate location based information for this purpose, but they are a cost factor for network operation.

At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (Feb 22-25), Rohde & Schwarz will demonstrate RF tests for LTE-Advanced carrier aggregation with four component carriers in the downlink. The solution consists of the R&S CMWflexx setup, containing two R&S CMW500 and one R&S CMWC controller.

A successful verification of LTE FDD three component carrier (3CC) aggregation in the downlink, including 4x4 MIMO on each carrier has been completed by Rohde & Schwarz and Prism Telecom Testing. The companies will present the test setup to the public for the first time at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (Feb 22-25).

At Mobile World Congress, Rohde & Schwarz and Sequans Communications will showcase functional testing of LTE modules for IoT using the R&S CMW290 functional radio communication tester and an LTE IoT module based on the Sequans Calliope LTE Category 1 chipset. This joint demonstration highlights the companies’ commitment to the Internet of Things (IoT) market.

Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (Feb 22-25) will be the showcase for Rohde & Schwarz to present three test solutions for the next generation of wireless communications. These are generation and analysis of up to 2GHz broadband signals in the millimetre-wave range, generation and analysis of 5G air interface candidates and 5G channel sounding.

The R&S TS8980FTA-2 test system from Rohde & Schwarz is the only conformance test system that offers validated test cases in all relevant GCF TDD band combinations for Uplink Carrier Aggregation (CA UL). Manufacturers of mobile user equipment and chipsets as well as test houses can use this to verify their CA UL implementation in accordance with the test specification 3GPP TS 36.521-1.

At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Feb 22-25), Rohde & Schwarz will showcase its innovations at two booths. Solutions for device and infrastructure testing can be found at booth C40 in hall 6. At booth B50 in the same hall, Rohde & Schwarz and subsidiary SwissQual will present the latest developments in mobile network testing and also present cybersecurity solutions.