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Keysight Joins 5G Device Forerunner Initiative Led by China Mobile
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company
that helps enterprises, service providers, and governments accelerate
innovation to connect and secure the world, announced that it has signed
a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with CMCC (China Mobile (News - Alert)
Communication Corporation) in support of the 5G Device Forerunner
Initiative project. The program's large-scale 5G trials aim to
accelerate development and industry maturity of 5G devices.
The 5G Device Forerunner Initiative, established by CMCC at MWC 2018,
brings together more than 20 of the industry's most influential and
capable chipset manufacturers, component manufacturers and end-solution
providers to form a strong industry ecosystem, encouraging 5G device
innovation and accelerating 5G device commercialization. To address the
project's goal of delivering mature 5G chipsets, devices, components and
instruments that meet China Mobile's requirements, the large-scale 5G
trials rely on Keysight's
suite of industry-first 5G NR network emulation solutions to perform
device characterization, design validation and conformance verification.
"We are pleased to extend our close collaboration with China Mobile in
support of a connected ecosystem to realize the full potential of 5G
across a wide range of applications and devices," says Satish
Dhanasekaran, senior vice president of Keysight Technologies, and
president of the Communications Solutions Group. "Keysight brings
industry-leading 5G expertise and 5G test solutions to the project,
supporting China Mobile's strategic goals of promoting 5G development
towards 5G's commercialization in 2020."
The project aims to accomplish full protocol stack development based on
5G Non-Standalone (NSA) and Standalone (SA) 3GPP Release 15 as well as
complete interoperability tests with at least one chipset platform. The
project will also gain Global Certification Forum (GCF) approval for a
5G RF and protocol test platform and a majority of associated GCF
mandated test cases.
Keysight enables connected mobile device ecosystems to characterize and
validate new 5G products across workflow from early prototyping and
development to design validation, and maufacturing. By using the same
test capabilities and test cases specified by China Mobile, device
manufacturers can easily validate device performance, speed development
and achieve consistent results.
Kailash Narayanan, vice president and general manager for Wireless
Device and Operators at Keysight, also commented: "Our participation in
the 5G Device Forerunner Initiative showcases how Keysight is visibly at
the heart of 5G technology innovation. Keysight's industry-leading
end-to-end 5G design and test capabilities will enable China Mobile's 5G
mobile ecosystem to address new technical requirements and master the
complexities of 5G from L1 to L7."
About Keysight in 5G
The development of 5G depends on up-to-date tools that let designers
easily explore new signals, scenarios and topologies. Keysight's 5G
solutions are ready to enable deeper insights as development evolves
with the standard. In design and test, Keysight is helping industry
leaders innovate across new and existing technologies as they transform
ideas into reality. Additional information about Keysight's 5G design,
test and measurement solutions is available at www.keysight.com/find/5G.
About Keysight Technologies
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) is a leading technology company
that helps enterprises, service providers, and governments accelerate
innovation to connect and secure the world. Keysight's solutions
optimize networks and bring electronic products to market faster and at
a lower cost with offerings from design simulation, to prototype
validation, to manufacturing test, to optimization in networks and cloud
environments. Customers span the worldwide communications ecosystem,
aerospace and defense, automotive, energy, semiconductor and general
electronics end markets. Keysight generated revenues of $3.2B in fiscal
year 2017. In April 2017, Keysight acquired Ixia (News - Alert), a leader in network
test, visibility, and security. More information is available at www.keysight.com.
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