Viavi Solutions this week unveiled significant enhancements to its RF field test portfolio to enable service providers, network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) and contractors to accelerate the deployment and management of both 5G and legacy LTE radio access networks (RAN).
VIAVI said it has worked closely with service providers to help deliver wide-ranging enhancements for its industry-leading RF test portfolio, including the CellAdvisor 5G, OneAdvisor-800 and InterferenceAdvisor solutions.
The first field-portable base station test solution in the market, CellAdvisor 5G now supports Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) and Non-Stand Alone (NSA) functionality, delivering a single solution for deploying and maintaining 5G and LTE networks. Enhanced CellAdvisor 5G with DSS and NSA modes enables field engineers to quickly verify 5G and LTE signal performance against industry standards.
While NSA and DSS technologies allow service providers to increase 5G service speed, they also introduce new challenges in identifying the root cause of poor service quality, said Viavi. With the addition of DSS and NSA support on CellAdvisor 5G, spectral or signal quality issues can be quickly isolated with simple over-the-air measurements, offering one easy-to-use solution for validation of 5G and LTE performance, accelerating 5G-NR deployment in existing LTE bands.
Kevin Oliver, Vice President and GM, Converged Intruments and Virtual Test, VIAVI
Our robust portfolio of RF field test solutions leverages years of test and measurement expertise across the full network lifecycle, removing complexity from the troubleshooting process so that service providers can easily and confidently resolve performance issues for all types of cell sites.
