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Case Studies 2021.07.28

Photonic Systems Group at McGill University Overcomes Test Limitations in Optoelectronic Research

McGill University is known for their state of the art optical communications research. Read this case study to learn why McGill researchers selected the Keysight UXR oscilloscope and M8190 Series arbitrary waveform generator for their lab, and how those instruments improved their test accuracy.

2021.07.28

Case Studies 2021.07.26

Shorten Dynamic Frequency Selection Test Time from Days to Hours

Modern requirements in wireless regulatory compliance tests are challenging because they require significant behavior sequences and timing. A leading wireless networking company in the United States specializing in servers, storage, and networking services was having trouble running these tests. This case study highlights how Keysight's IOT0047A regulatory test solution and IoT regulatory compliance software help shorten the DFS test time.

2021.07.26

Case Studies 2021.07.01

Accelerate the Development of Advanced Wearable Devices

A world-leading multinational semiconductor company chose Keysight CX3300 Series Device Current Waveform Analyzer to accelerate the development of advanced wearable devices with high performance, high reliability, and long-life batteries.

2021.07.01

Case Studies 2021.06.25

Moving from Static Limits to Dynamic Part Average Test (PAT) Limits

The current chip shortage in 2021 is expected to continue to put a strain on semiconductor and IC manufacturers despite them investing more in capital expenditure to increase manufacturing capacity, and which may, in the best case, take a few years to stabilize. There has already been challenges meeting customer demands and deliveries and those delays have caused further problems downstream with at least one car manufacturer temporarily shutting down car production lines due to part shortages. The challenge now is to deliver more components with the existing fully utilized equipment until that new capacity comes online. The successful and fast deployment of PathWave Manufacturing Analytics into production had helped them improve not only their overall equipment efficiencies, with a higher overall throughput, but also maintained the quality of the device test process and further reduce the extremely costly scrap due to false failures and retest. Using the PathWave Manufacturing Analytics solution was a transparent change to the production process that lead to tangibly significant business outcomes, such as cost savings and a lower cost of poor quality.

2021.06.25

Case Studies 2021.06.10

Test Automation Software Accelerates Enterprise Digital Transformation

Automating test functions using Keysight's Eggplant software helped Keysight compress the ERP stabilization period by 80%.

2021.06.10

Case Studies 2021.06.08

5G NR Device Manufacturer Doubles Test Capacity with Zero Additional CapEx

This paper shares how one company went to market six months faster with immediate access to test assets with KeysightAccess.

2021.06.08

Case Studies 2021.05.26

Power the Future with Biofuel Cells

As IoT goes mainstream, powering devices with biofuel cells which are sustainable and eco-friendly is the way to go. Learn how BeFC accelerated their innovation in biofuel cells to power the future.

2021.05.26

Case Studies 2021.05.06

Software Enables New-Age, Flexible Test Solution for Analog and Digital Radios

The case study highlights how PathWave Test Automation plug-ins with Keysight M8920A radio test solution offers the flexibility to Naval lab for testing analog and digital radios.

2021.05.06

Case Studies 2021.04.22

Leading University Maintains Application Performance and Defends Against Hackers

One of the world's leading universities improves their security posture and resolves application performance issues after deploying Keysight visibility fabric featuring Vision X network packet broker.

2021.04.22

Case Studies 2021.04.22

Driving Innovation Shortens Design Cycle by 65% for First-to-Market MEMS RF Switch

Menlo Micro’s MEMS RF Switch uses a novel MEMS cantilever switch built with proprietary technology. Learn how they used Keysight PathWave ADS, RFPro and VNA to significantly reduce their design cycle and demonstrate performance.

2021.04.22

Case Studies 2021.04.21

Extending the Life of IoT Devices with Energy–Harvesting Solutions

STMicroelectronics and ESEO chose Keysight ADS and its co-simulation capabilities to design and simulate the rectifying circuit for energy harvesting solutions.

2021.04.21

Case Studies 2021.03.25

Leading Pediatric Hospital Addresses Ongoing IT Growth with Keysight Visibility Fabric and Vision X

In order to address ongoing IT growth, a leading US Pediatric hospital redesigns their DC with Keysight Visibility Fabric featuring Vision Edge Packet Brokers and the flagship Vision X.

2021.03.25

Case Studies 2021.03.24

New IoT Test and Certification Lab in Spain

With IoT devices in the billions, creating a future that is sustainable and safe demands a more mindful approach to designing and testing these devices. Learn how TECNALIA created their new IoT test and certification lab and increase market share by 15%.

2021.03.24

Case Studies 2021.03.22

Reducing the Complexities Associated with Multiport Component Characterization

The case study from one of the space customers highlights how PathWave test automation software with modular network analyzer offers a compact, innovative solution for multiport component characterization.

2021.03.22

Case Studies 2021.03.18

Bank Cuts Response Time by 30% With Lossless Visibility

As remote banking from smart phones and other devices increased, this large regional bank struggled to maintain quality of service. See how network visibility reduced response time and support cases.

2021.03.18

Case Studies 2021.03.17

Accelerating 400GE Adoption with IxNetwork

As explosive growth drives a technology refresh cycle for network operators in Brazil, WZTECH needed a way to validate 400GE deployments for their ISP customers. Building on a solid relationship established with success in 100GE testing, Keysight worked with WZTECH to develop a cost effective, field upgradable solution to meet both challenging business and technology requirements.

2021.03.17

Case Studies 2021.02.22

Automotive Electronics Manufacturer Revs Up Yield by 5%

Manufacturers now have more data to process, analyze, and interpret, making data analytics software a necessity on the manufacturing floor. One automotive electronics manufacturer quickly discovered the importance of analytics software when faced with unexpected challenges.

2021.02.22

Case Studies 2021.02.17

Leading Healthcare Provider Eliminates Millions in HIPAA Compliance Fines with Keysight Security Visibility Fabric

A large regional healthcare provider was able to use Keysight Secruity Visibility to help provide them the data access and protection needed to avoid $1.5 Million in Annual HIPAA compliance violation fines.

2021.02.17

Case Studies 2021.02.15

Large Retail Pharmacy Uses Keysight Visibility to Help Secure and Optimize Its Network

Keysight Visibility helps optimize tool utililization, and reduced MTTR at large retail pharmacy chain.

2021.02.15

Case Studies 2021.02.04

Top Research Lab Solves Measurement Challenge in Hours Despite Tight Security

A top research lab made their required measurement the same day and saved potentially $500,000 in lost productivity with committed access to technical experts.

2021.02.04

Case Studies 2021.02.03

Fast Technical Support Helps Automation Company Return to Testing in an Hour

A test engineer at a leading automation company needed to get past a technical issue and make measurements immediately. With committed technical response, he returned to testing within the hour.

2021.02.03

Case Studies 2021.01.26

IIT Delhi Professor Automates Reliability Characterization

Semiconductor technology continues to evolve towards miniaturization and improved performance. The demand for accelerated and accurate testing is becoming critical. The case study highlights how IIT Delhi Professor Dixit has automated reliability characterization of RF-CMOS circuits thereby reducing the manual intervention and decreasing test times.

2021.01.26

Case Studies 2020.12.22

Virtual Insights with CloudLens

Proximus, the largest ISP in Belgium, faced challenges with visibility into east-west traffic in an increasingly virtualized/NFV environment. Learn how they leveraged CloudLens, Keysight's virtual packet broker, to maintain single pane of glass visibility into even these challenging virtualized environments.

2020.12.22

Case Studies 2020.12.14

Fast-Start Engineering Training with Keysight U3800 Series IoT Applied Courseware

Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) faced pressure to offer comprehensive, timely training on new and emerging technology trends and concepts such as IoT, artificial intelligence (AI), and big data to its engineering students. Keysight’s U3800 Series IoT Applied Courseware enabled POSTECH to incorporate the new training into its existing curriculum in just one month.

2020.12.14

Case Studies 2020.12.08

Keysight’s BreakingPoint Equips US Army National Guard's Cyber Shield 2020 Cyber Training For Defending Nation's Information Infrastructure

The US Army National Guard’s largest yearly event is called ‘Cyber Shield’. More than 800 National Guard soldiers and airmen from more than 40 states signed in for the virtual training to sharpen their skills as network defenders. Keysight’s BreakingPoint traffic generators were used in the exercise to provide realistic and random background traffic generation meant to obfuscate cyberattacks.

2020.12.08

Case Studies 2020.12.01

Waseda University Combats Hardware Trojans by Monitoring Abnormalities in Current Waveforms

Hardware Trojans are a significant concern to the overall security of any electronic system. Trojans are a malicious modification of circuitry designed to alter the intended behavior of the system. It can either change the functionality of the target device, downgrade its performance, leak sensitive information, and physically destroy or alter a device’s configuration. See how Professor Togawa from Waseda University in Tokyo combats hardware trojans by monitoring abnormalities in current waveforms.

2020.12.01

Case Studies 2020.11.16

University of Houston Enhances eLearning with Real-World Labs

Discover how the University of Houston used Keysight solutions to help get their Remote Engineering Labs online during the pandemic. Using a combination of hardware and software, Professors are still able to give their students industry-ready engineering skills on real equipment with this unique setup.

2020.11.16

Case Studies 2020.11.10

Altum RF Gets Its Prototype Right the First Time, Shortens Design Process by 30%

Read how PathWave ADS helps to get first-time-right prototype on a challenging GaN amplifier design. Using one common tool for modeling, design and layout with integrated features, like electromagnetic simulations and design rule checking, shortens the design process dramatically.

2020.11.10

Case Studies 2020.09.10

Personalized Support Helps 5G Device Team Master New Tests in Hours

A leading 5G application development team reduced learning-related delays by > 2 days and avoided $200,000 in lost productivity with committed access to technical experts.

2020.09.10

Case Studies 2020.09.03

Wolverines Don’t Usually Run This Fast

"Keysight automotive test solutions improve performance and safety of electric race car." - See how the Michigan Electric Racing team helped improve its race car’s performance and electrical safety using Keysight’s power and battery test solutions.

2020.09.03

Case Studies 2020.08.17

Monitoring and Security of Distributed Networks

A European financial institution faced with challenges around compliance, tool utilization and a lack of centralized network visibility was able to address these concerns by deploying a centrally managed fleet of network packet brokers and fiber taps.

2020.08.17

Case Studies 2020.08.10

SLA Verification of WAN Links

A large European bank was deploying a new global WAN across multiple sites in a variety of countries across many different service provider networks. They needed to make sure that not only were their service providers hitting target SLAs, but also that their internal customers were having a good user experience with challenging applications like video and voice. Learn how Hawkeye helped them achieve their goals.

2020.08.10

Case Studies 2020.07.29

Federal Agency Fortifies Its Network Against Cyberattacks

US federal agency fortifies its network with Vision ONE NPBs, Flex Taps and AppStack.

2020.07.29

Case Studies 2020.07.21

Global Biotech IT Group Ensures Telecommuter Productivity

This company relied on VPN-gateway vendor data sheets to size their new capacity provisioning, however their confidence on their plan was shaken as some of the remote users experienced inconsistent VPN quality of experience. Keysight's SSL VPN Assessment Service testing revealed trouble spots and actionable steps to improve capacity and save costs.

2020.07.21

Case Studies 2020.05.31

Cook Children’s Healthcare System Improves Application Experience Using Network Intelligence

Cook Children's Health Care System is a not-for-profit, nationally recognized pediatric health care organization that operates a medical center, physician network, hospital, pediatric surgery center and health plan. Founded in 1918 and based in Fort Worth, Texas, the integrated system has more than 60 primary and specialty care offices throughout North Texas. They needed to improve their network visibility and monitoring practices to solve application performance and SPAN port contention issues. Read this case study to learn how they reduced their mean time to repair for network issues from days to hours and increased monitoring tool efficiency.

2020.05.31

Case Studies 2020.05.31

Cloud Visibility Overcomes Security Limitation of Turnkey Private Cloud

For government entities, network security is mission-critical and subject to strict regulations. That is why this customer, who was deploying a turnkey private cloud platform, was concerned when they realized their provider could not supply the data needed by their threat detection and security analytics solutions. Without the ability to examine packets for potential threats, their new private cloud would present a considerable risk to their network. In search of a solution to provide access to packet data, this government customer turned to Ixia, who worked alongside their security solutions provider to deploy a total cloud visibility solution and eliminate this serious security issue.

2020.05.31

Case Studies 2020.05.30

BYD Plans For Growth With Faster Automotive Ethernet Testing

BYD, one of the largest automobile manufacturers in China, needed to upgrade to Ethernet for the communication technology in their car network. This modernization shift would connect essential components like the digital instruments, driving data recorder, the panoramic ECU, and the AVB switch allowing faster testing when new capabilities are added. The customer was using an older, but well known, controller area network (CAN) for their system bus. The move to Automotive Ethernet provided higher-quality, lower latency, time synchronization of audio and video in Ethernet standard format to transmit realtime audio and video streams. The upgrade resulted in a reduction of test time by 50% with a Layer 1-7 end-to-end solution.

2020.05.30

Case Studies 2020.05.29

Ensure Wireless Deployment Quality

Conduct wireless network assessments with Hawkeye by deploying wireless-enabled endpoints in different locations on campuses; or between different sites with software endpoints deployed on Android, iOS, MS Windows, or Linux devices.

2020.05.29

Case Studies 2020.05.29

High Traffic and Need for Security and Visibility Spur 100GE Redesign

The University of Texas at Austin must monitor and manage traffic to guard against increasing cyber threats. Ixia provided a solution that will save the university 20–30% on IDS capacity and improve end-to-end network visibility and security.

2020.05.29

Case Studies 2020.05.29

De-Risk your Migration to Data Center or Cloud Hosting

Using the Ixia Hawkeye solution, you can ensure the new hosting location’s reachability and quality of access from all your remote sites and validate that the network transport will offer the same or better quality for your end-users.

2020.05.29

Case Studies 2020.05.28

Ixia and Alcatel-Lucent Validate IEEE1588v2 Performance for Mobile Backhaul

Ixia and Alcatel-Lucent have engaged in rigorous test exercises to validate the performance and robustness of 1588v2 boundary and transparent clock implementations under traffic load, network failover, and scaled mobile backhaul network conditions.

2020.05.28

Case Studies 2020.05.28

Validating Automotive Ethernet Conformance and Performance

Using Ixia’s IxNetwork and IxANVL products, customers like the BMW Group are successful in validating their automotive Ethernet toolchain, getting visibility into the performance and robustness of the switches integrated into ECUs. Read about how Ixia’s L2-3 test solutions helped the BMW Group ensure delivery of the premium-quality vehicle communications that their car owners expect from the BMW brand.

2020.05.28

Case Studies 2020.05.28

Keysight Streamlines SD-WAN Adoption with Hawkeye Monitoring from Ixia

Software-defined wide area networks, or “SD-WANs,” can reduce telecom costs, lessen the burden on operations teams, and improve application performance — if deployments go according to plan. Several challenges came into play when test and measurement market leader Keysight Technologies embarked on a global initiative to replace leased lines with broadband service from three global Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Read the case study to learn how Keysight used the Hawkeye monitoring solution from Ixia to overcome initial and ongoing SD-WAN challenges including: - Qualifying ISP circuits on a global basis - Ensuring application quality before and after migration - Managing new vendor relationships and SLAs - Proactively monitoring voice and video quality Learn more about SD-WAN adoption and why Keysight’s Senior IT Systems Architect Joe Giegel says, “Other monitoring solutions that are deployed centrally can monitor what’s happening at other locations, but they don’t give us the same insight into the actual user experience with applications.”

2020.05.28

Case Studies 2020.05.27

Keysight Optimizes Massive Network Security Infrastructure Upgrade

Keysight’s infrastructure upgrade was a massive and costly endeavor, so the IT team was alarmed when, midway through a worldwide embedded data center firewall deployment, they ran into unexpected issues with the vendor of choice. They used BreakingPoint to figure out why the firewall wasn’t operating as promised and decided to check the performance of the second-choice firewall concurrently. This resulted in a proper bake-off where the two firewall vendors were placed side by side and tested with traffic patterns that closely simulated Keysight’s production traffic flow. This case study describes three days of testing that resulted in an unexpected next-generation firewall (NGFW) purchase decision.

2020.05.27

Case Studies 2020.05.26

Boosting Singapore's Cyber Security Skills

Organizations around the world may be heading toward a cyber security skills crisis with over 50% of security managers reporting a problematic shortage. Singapore is no exception with its Cyber Security Agency projecting a 34% increase in demand for cyber security professionals from 2018 to 2021. We applied our portfolio of technology and expertise to offer a hands-on approach to stay current, upskilled, and updated on the latest tools and technologies: the first Ixia Cyber Combat competition in Singapore.

2020.05.26

Case Studies 2020.05.26

Network Emulation: Remote Storage and Disaster Recovery Performance Validation

Open the document referenced here to understand how Ixia's Network Emulator solved a large US auto insurance company's remote storage array test challenges.

2020.05.26

Case Studies 2020.05.26

Bank Reduces Security Threats by Using SSL Decryption

Financial institutions like banks are high profile targets for security attacks. Network security is mission-critical as any breach can be a public relations nightmare. To reduce the risk of security threats entering the customer’s network, one of Ixia's customers chose to deploy inline Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) decryption so they could inspect incoming traffic for various types of malware.

2020.05.26

Case Studies 2020.05.26

Analyzing Virtual Healthcare Data at Full Network Performance

This large health insurance provider uses server virtualization to achieve scale and efficiency. They needed a visibility solution to secure network traffic between virtual machines while filtering out personal data to maintain compliance. Read how Ixia helped them find a solution that saved them 11 months and $300k.

2020.05.26

Case Studies 2020.05.25

Manufacturer Chooses Bypass for Deployment of Next Gen Firewall

Standalone bypass supports fail-safe operation of Cisco Security Appliance.

2020.05.25

Case Studies 2020.05.25

Service Provider Maximizes Visibility in Mobile Networks

This mobile service provider was introducing new services on the network to grow subscriber base. A key challenge was monitoring performance to ensure delivery in accordance with the company's goals for service assurance and quality of experience. Another challenge was to find an improved solution for correlating session data, which provides a complete picture of the subscriber's activity across the radio access and core networks. As the network had grown, the existing solution--performed by monitoring probes--was not able to keep up with the traffic. The network team decided to conduct a proof of concept with several vendors' solutions. Ixia's solution complemented the monitoring architecture and provided the data needed to ensure service assurance and big data analysis.

2020.05.25

Case Studies 2020.05.21

Samtec Reduces R&D Lab Test Time from Four Hours to Five Minutes

Learn how Keysight helped Samtec reduce instrument setup and test time of their next-gen 112 Gbps PAM4 interconnect solutions from four hours to five minutes.

2020.05.21

Case Studies 2020.05.11

First-to-Market Radio-Wave Breast Imaging System Achieved with Network Analyzer

Patients can, from a young age, frequently undergo breast imaging technique based on radio-wave technology. This method offers new diagnostic information in dense tissue while requiring no breast compression or ionizing radiation exposure to the patient. Recognizing the potential impact of such a technology on breast cancer detection and mortality rates, Micrima’s founders decided to develop a radio-wave breast-imaging system using Keysight solutions.

2020.05.11

Case Studies 2020.04.16

The University of Leeds Showcases Two Engineering Research Labs

See how the University of Leeds advances research in high-frequency and terahertz electronics, and ensures graduating students are industry ready.

2020.04.16

Case Studies 2020.04.16

Northeastern University Paves the Way for Novel Safety Mechanisms for Counterterrorism and Health Screening

See how Northeastern University advances research in real-time imaging for security threats and health screening with Keysight network analyzers

2020.04.16

Case Studies 2020.04.14

Box Hill Institute’s Cyber Range Lab Arms Students with Industry-Ready Security Skills

Keysight’s BreakingPoint solution is core to Box Hill Institute’s state-of-the-art cyber range lab, providing tools and simulation environments to arm students with industry-ready security skills.

2020.04.14

Case Studies 2020.03.27

Semiconductor ATE Vendor Prepares for 5G

A supplier of semiconductor automated test equipment integrated a Keysight vector transceiver into its new system design to give it a roadmap to 5G.

2020.03.27

Case Studies 2020.03.26

Case Study: Multicast Gap Detection

In this case study, you will read about the impact that the deployment of Keysight's TradeVision had and the unexpected benefits it brought to the data provider.

2020.03.26

Case Studies 2020.03.23

Acceptance Testing Helps Mobile Network Operator Grab Early Leadership in 5G

A major mobile network operator (MNO) chose Keysight to help create device acceptance tests for the launch of its 5G network. After a successful launch, the MNO was the first to reach 1 million 5G mobile subscribers just a few months later.

2020.03.23

Case Studies 2020.03.10

Simulation Drives mmWave Design Flow

Nokia Bell Labs Leverages End-to-End Keysight Ecosystem to Develop W-Band Phased-Array System with First-Pass Success

2020.03.10

Case Studies 2020.03.04

University of Notre Dame Strikes a Balance Between Research and Teaching

University of Notre Dame’s EE Department has well-equipped classrooms to teach future engineers and labs that pave the way for future breakthroughs. See how Keysight research/teaching solutions helped.

2020.03.04