5G Fixed Wireless Access

OVERVIEW

Expanding 5G Revenue Streams with 5G FWA

Full life cycle testing to overcome network challenges and ensure reliable quality of experience.

Commercial and residential 5G Fixed Wireless Access deployments are gaining wider global adoption, offering new monetization opportunities. Realizing that promise requires end-to-end validation from lab to live.

5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) is helping telecom companies tap into new revenue streams worldwide and quickly gaining traction. Consumers are now open to speed-based pricing, where volume-based models once posed challenges. This growth is fueled by strong demand for reliable, high-speed connectivity.

Expanding 5G monetization requires focusing on reliability, quality of experience (QoE), and upsell opportunities. Each opportunity depends on telecom providers improving network performance and delivering consistent QoE. Surveys of FWA and cable-based high-speed broadband users reveal that customers care more about seamless streaming and gaming experiences than raw speed alone, making QoE a major factor in customer satisfaction and retention.

Spirent testing of 5G FWA networks reveals several vital challenges that must be addressed before additional monetization opportunities can be pursued. These include frequency band conflicts, equipment configuration gaps, frequency interference, and more. Testing in the lab, to rolling it out in live networks, is required for successful deployment of 5G FWA

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SOLUTION

Lab-to-Live: A Smarter Testing Approach

Lab-to-Live (L2L) testing integrates hardware and software validation, lab testing, network deployment, and ongoing operations into a streamlined, automated workflow. This continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) approach helps bridge the gap between controlled lab conditions and real-world network performance.

Supported by Spirent Managed Solutions, spanning from Network Digital Twin testing solutions in the lab, to Spirent’s comprehensive live testing solutions, with VisionWorks and Umetrix validation for QoE, Spirent testing solutions ensure 5G FWA success.

Expert Services

Leverage pioneering expertise in 5G testing.

Network Prototyping

Emulated replica in the lab of the 5G network.

UX Evaluation

State-of-the-art and comprehensive QoE testing.

Service Assurance

End-to-end network visibility to ensure QoE.

Spirent Managed Solutions

Spirent’s FWA Testing Solutions support the journey from Lab-to-Live (L2L) and delivers a sophisticated, proven program that delivers independent network performance analysis. Spirent has provided the world’s leading operators and OEMs with customized measurement and reporting to help meet research objectives, minimize network impact, improve products, optimize the subscriber experience, and build brands.Learn more Right arrow icon

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