Automated Remote Monitoring Improves QoS in Public and Private 5G Networks

Dec. 13, 2022

This Industry 4.0-compliant active monitoring suite enables network operators to remotely monitor and visualize key network performance indicators.

David Maliniak

Related To: Microwaves & RF

The Overview

Keysight Technologies has launched a set of 5G solutions for automated service assurance, end-to-end quality-of-experience (QoE) and quality-of-service (QoS) verification, and active testing in private and public 5G networks.

Who Needs It & Why?

Many private 5G networks depend on continuous ultra-reliable QoS to maintain targeted levels of operational efficiency twenty-four hours per day, seven days a week (24/7). Factories, ports, smart warehouses, and energy utilities are examples of industries that deploy private 5G networks to wirelessly manage a complex web of interconnected sensors, robots, and instruments, collectively referred to as the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).

Under the Hood

This suite of products for maintaining QoE and QoS in 5G networks begins with the new Industry 4.0-compliant Nemo Industry Probe, which supports early detection of issues such as interference originating from multiple sources. Accumulated, these interferences in the network lead to QoS issues that adversely impact the efficiency of an operation.

Keysight combines the new Nemo Industry Probe with Nemo Cloud and Nemo Analyze to provide advanced capabilities that enable network operators to remotely monitor and visualize key performance indicators (KPIs) such as latency, data connection quality, voice and video quality, and data throughput. These measurements consider issues such as interference introduced by wideband noise from machinery and other RF signals that user equipment (UE) may encounter in highly complex environments.

Also included in this launch is the new Nemo Active Probe, an advanced 5G active remote-monitoring solution that's suited for large-scale deployments in fixed and mobile locations such as airports, stadiums, shopping malls, and train stations. The monitoring solution enables wireless service providers and national regulators to assure 24/7 operational network service, meeting service-level agreements (SLAs) established to ensure adequate 5G connectivity levels.

In addition, Keysight offers a cohesive, software-focused portfolio of private 5G network lifecycle management solutions for advanced network visibility, end-to-end performance, and security assurance, as well as network optimization across the protocol and application stack.

About the Author

David Maliniak | Executive Editor, Microwaves & RF

I am Executive Editor of Microwaves & RF, an all-digital publication that broadly covers all aspects of wireless communications. More particularly, we're keeping a close eye on technologies in the consumer-oriented 5G, 6G, IoT, M2M, and V2X markets, in which much of the wireless market's growth will occur in this decade and beyond. I work with a great team of editors to provide engineers, developers, and technical managers with interesting and useful articles and videos on a regular basis. Check out our free newsletters to see the latest content.

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In his long career in the B2B electronics-industry media, David Maliniak has held editorial roles as both generalist and specialist. As Components Editor and, later, as Editor in Chief of EE Product News, David gained breadth of experience in covering the industry at large. In serving as EDA/Test and Measurement Technology Editor at Electronic Design, he developed deep insight into those complex areas of technology. Most recently, David worked in technical marketing communications at Teledyne LeCroy, leaving to rejoin the EOEM B2B publishing world in January 2020. David earned a B.A. in journalism at New York University.