Case Study: Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) manufacturer achieves first-to-volume 5G NR mmWave device with Keysight

Delivering First 5G NR Device Technology for Volume Shipments

Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) Manufacturing Company needed to move a first-to-market 5G NR mmWave CPE into volume shipments but faced major OTA test challenges: validating multi-element, dual‑polarized antenna arrays and hundreds of beam indexes across sub-6 GHz and mmWave bands. They turned to Keysight — specifically Keysight’s 5G Network Emulation Solutions (UXM 5G Wireless Testset, 5G RF DVT Toolkit, TAP automation platform and CATR OTA chamber) — to address both protocol and RF manufacturing test requirements.

Keysight implemented an automated OTA test solution that simulated 5G base stations with beamforming and beam‑tracking, ran RF DVT test cases in a compact antenna test range, and provided services to develop factory-ready test procedures. Using Keysight’s solution and jointly developed Qualcomm test cases, the CPE manufacturer reached volume manufacturing several months earlier, validated hundreds of beams across 6 GHz, 28 GHz and 39 GHz, and reduced test times by 20%.