Keysight, Marvin Test Solutions come together to speed manufacturing of mmWave semiconductors

Keysight Technologies announced this week that its collaboration with Marvin Test Solutions Inc. (MTS) – a supplier of functional test solutions – has resulted in the development of a fast and accurate 5G semiconductor manufacturing test platform.

The two parties focused on advancing beamformer integrated circuit (IC) test technology to help manufacturers of semiconductors accelerate the production of high performance 5G integrated ICs. Marvin integrated Keysight’s PXIe-based Vector Network Analyzer (VNA) to achieve accurate and fast measurements in its TS-960e-5G mmWave Test System.

The Keysight M980xA PXIe Vector Network Analyzer (VNA) meets the most demanding multiport challenges with a true multiport architecture that offers exceptional performance no matter how many ports you use. Gain deeper insights into devices with the widest available line of measurement applications for PXI VNAs, including spectrum analysis and noise figure measurements.

The M980xA Series offers the performance required for testing passive components, amplifiers, mixers or frequency converters. It provides key PXI VNA specifications such as dynamic range, measurement speed, trace noise and temperature stability. 

Keysight’s recently introduced M980xA Series network analyzers offer the scalability required to test multi-port components, front end modules (FEMs) and base stations that rely on beamforming technology. Mobile operators are deploying beamforming technology to extend cellular coverage and deliver higher data rates, leading to improved mmWave 5G network reliability and efficiency. 

To ensure reliable and efficient 5G mmWave communications, the performance of critical elements that form part of the beamformer IC need to be rigorously tested under linear and nonlinear conditions across the entire workflow from design, validation to manufacturing.

“Our collaboration with Marvin Test Solutions demonstrates that scalable production testing of beamformer solutions can be achieved with Keysight’s PXI VNAs,” said Kailash Narayanan, vice president and general manager of Keysight's wireless test group. “We’re excited to help shape the future of 5G mmWave production testing with our beamformer IC test solutions using integrated component and system-level simulation tools to deliver high precision measurements at mmWave frequency bands.”

Mushroom Networks comes together with Aethra Telecommunications to provide SD-WAN for service providers, system integrators

Mushroom Networks and Italian telecom firm Aethra Telecommunications, jointly announced their partnership to provide universal-CPE (uCPE) based SD-WAN solutions for service providers and system integrators worldwide.

The uCPE, with integrated fiber and copper ports, embedded VDSL2 modems and an embedded LTE modem, is capable of running VNFs (Virtual Network Functions) on VMs (Virtual Machines). When combined with Mushroom Networks' SD-WAN software, this creates an ideal platform for service providers and integrators. 

The SD-WAN solution enables intelligent management of the application traffic flows and the orchestration of the WAN connections to optimize end-user experience both for inter-office communications as well as Internet applications served by private, public or hybrid clouds. 

The combined solution enhances the performance of the network and increases network reliability by dynamically steering packets based on advanced algorithms that learn and adapt depending on network conditions. This cognitive and adaptive approach to SD-WAN facilitates setting the networks on autopilot to work around and shield network problems without any human intervention.

The uCPE with SD-WAN solution is now available in Europe, Central America, the Middle East and Northern Africa regions.

RoboMQ announces availability of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Business Central API integration on Connect iPaaS platform

RoboMQ announces general availability of Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM and Business Central API connectors on its Connect iPaaS platform. This collaboration makes Connect iPaaS a very useful tool for integration and business process automation to the users of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Business Central.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 provides CRM and ERP capabilities to businesses providing a complete suite of products covering sales, marketing, service, operations, finance, commerce, and HR. Business Central provides the same capabilities to the small and medium businesses (SMB) to run their business operations on this comprehensive solution. 

RoboMQ is a Message Queue as Service platform hosted on cloud and also available as an Enterprise hosting option. This Software as a Service platform is an integrated message queue hub, analytics engine, management console, dashboard and monitoring & alerts; all managed and hosted in a secure, reliable and redundant infrastructure.

Businesses often use processes that are accomplished by multiple systems and applications in addition to Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Business Central. Connect iPaaS fills the gap by offering data and API connectors to several SaaS, cloud, and enterprise applications. 

Some of the widely used applications on Connect iPaaS are Salesforce, ServiceNow, SAP, SmartSheet, Workday, Magento, Nexmo, Coupa, Office 365, SharePoint, PagerDuty, QuickBooks, Slack, Twilio, analytics and databases, and more. 

With Connect iPaaS users can build complex value-creating business workflows using the data and API from many of these systems. Common use cases include supply chain automation, sales automation, employee on-boarding, and revenue enablement and reconciliation.

With its modern, intuitive, no-code user experience (UX), Connect iPaaS provides the line of business users and citizen integrators a platform to build business processes by integrating SaaS, cloud, on-premise and IoT applications. Common application integration workflows that solve everyday challenges faced by enterprises can be deployed in a matter of minutes using a simple drag-and-drop interface.