IOL News Articles

By Lincoln Lavoie, Broadband Forum Technical Chair

Poor signal, coverage, and performance – these Wi-Fi ‘experience killers’ within the subscriber network have been exacerbated over the past year or two with the switch to home working and schooling.

A common view is that these components are part of the overall broadband offering. Take slow loading time and the speed of access – the common perception amongst customers is that, when these components fail or falter, it means that...

Developing and implementing testing for Wi-Fi shares many of the same challenges you would expect in testing any wireless or RF technology. With the new TR-398 Issue 2 test plan, a strong focus has been on creating a repeatable set of test procedures, setup, and configurations. It’s been necessary to ensure the testing can produce repeatable pass or fail results from absolute performance requirements.

This focus sets the TR-398 testing apart from much of the other...

To deliver on the promise of 5G, which sometimes seems like everything to everyone, network operators will need to augment their existing network architectures, addressing some flexibility brought into existence with the new 5G technologies and designs. Overall, 5G brings numerous changes to the mobile network, its architecture, and the equipment used to construct it. 5G is so much more than a wireless technology. Indeed, it’s producing significant changes on the wired network, particularly in the fronthaul, the portion of...

Ensuring the health and safety of our colleagues, guests, and employees is our highest priority. Due to new recommendations the UNH-IOL will now be limiting the number of personnel in our facility. As interoperability testing of some physical devices require hands on set-up and interaction, this poses a challenge with a significantly reduced workforce. All testing and services provided to our customers will continue, however there will be delays in our typical turnaround time due to a reduced workforce....