Vector Network Analyzers Catalog

The Keysight Vector Network Analyzers Catalog provides a comprehensive overview of VNAs designed for passive component testing, active device measurements, and next-generation design and complex active device development. Organized into Essential, Expert, and Pro performance grades, the catalog covers benchtop, modular, USB, and handheld VNAs that span frequencies up to 67 GHz. These instruments deliver wide dynamic range, measurement precision, and robust software to support testing both passive and active components ranging from materials and high-speed serial interconnects to amplifiers, frequency converters, and beyond.
 

Explore the vector network analyzer performance grades:

• Essential benchtop vector network analyzers come in one class, the XN3-class, and include the E5063A and E5061B ENAs. Essential VNAs leverage Pro model technology optimized for passive component testing. You can quickly get valuable measurement insights with automated testing and optional measurement software ranging from impedance analysis to basic pulsed-RF measurements. Our affordable, Essential model offers frequency coverage down to 5 Hz, ideal for testing devices like DC-DC converters and power-line electromagnetic interference filters. They offer >100 dB dynamic range and support measurements including S-parameters, phase response, group delay, and time-domain reflectometry (TDR). Our top Essential model leverages the consistent measurement framework of our Expert models to boost efficiency and productivity.
  
  
• Expert vector network analyzers come in two classes. The XN5-class includes the ENA-X, PNA-L, and E5080B ENA. The XN7-class includes the PNA and N5264B PNA-X. They build upon our Essential VNA’s passive component test capabilities, adding active device measurements and offering metrology-grade performance in our top Expert models. With more than 120 software options available, you can characterize the nonlinear behavior of devices like RF power amplifiers, mixers, and modulators quickly and accurately. Plus, the direct digital synthesis (DDS) sources in our top Expert models provide up to 10 times faster phase and group delay measurements than our Essential VNAs. Expert VNAs also support active device testing for 5G New Radio FR2 / FR3 applications across the millimeter-wave spectrum, enabling validation of very high frequency and data rate performance. Enhanced signal analysis capabilities include built-in spectrum analysis, error vector magnitude (EVM), and adjacent channel power ratio (ACPR) measurements. With compatible compact frequency extenders, Expert VNAs can also perform sub-THz measurements up to 250 GHz.
  
  
• Pro vector network analyzers come in one class, the XN8-class, and include the N5241B-N5249B PNA-X and PNA-X Pro. Pro VNAs are our highest-performance benchtop models, ideal for next-generation design and complex active device development. Expanding beyond our Advanced model capabilities, our Pro models deliver built-in measurements such as intermodulation distortion, power compression, and wideband active load pull for complete active device test, along with a configurable architecture and up to four integrated sources in our top Pro model. Simplify and automate testing with the widest variety of passive and active device measurement software applications.
   

Modular vector network analyzers provide you with Essential benchtop grade performance in a compact, flexible form factor, helping you scale your multiport and multidevice testing needs. While the dynamic range of conventional switch-based systems limits measurement speed, modular VNAs allow wider intermediate frequency bandwidths to test faster. These VNAs deliver maximum frequency ranges from 4.5 GHz to 53 GHz and support up to 50 ports in a single chassis.
 

USB vector network analyzers come in one class, the XN4-class, and include the Streamline Series VNAs. They provide high performance in a lightweight, portable form factor — ideal for labs with limited space. Unlike benchtop vector network analyzers, which are standalone instruments, USB VNAs connect to a host PC to handle data processing and analysis. Transfer your component characterization data across the workflow easily using the same user interface, measurement capabilities, and automation code as our benchtop and modular vector network analyzers. Get the same measurement reliability as our Essential benchtop VNAs in a portable unit offering up to 53 GHz of frequency coverage and up to 6 ports.
 

Handheld vector network analyzers are rugged, portable tools designed for RF field testing. They offer comprehensive capabilities in cable and antenna testing, spectrum analysis, power measurements, and pulse generation. Handheld VNAs support S‑parameters, time-domain reflectometry (TDR) for cable fault detection, interference analysis, gapless IQ capture, and 5G NR quality metrics. They are ideal for installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of RF networks and components in field environments.
 

Power your VNA with a wide range of specialty software for time‑domain analysis, impedance analysis, noise figure, modulation distortion, intermodulation distortion, gain compression, and signal analysis. Accessories such as calibration kits, adapters, attenuators, cables, power sensors, terminations, and frequency extenders further enhance VNA capabilities.
 

Keysight Support Services can reduce your learning curve, enhance your uptime, guarantee the accuracy of your testing equipment, and provide the expertise you require, precisely when and where you need it. Maximize your instrument uptime, quickly optimize your test measurements, and get the answers you need at our fastest available times. KeysightCare curated support plans bundle critical services with prioritized response and turnaround times. High-performance instruments include one year of KeysightCare Assured.
 

Overall, the Vector Network Analyzers Catalog serves as a guide to selecting the right VNA for passive and active component testing, high‑frequency characterization, and system‑level validation. With Essential, Expert, and Pro benchtop models, plus modular, USB, and handheld options, Keysight VNAs offer scalable performance, flexible architectures, and a broad suite of measurement applications for RF engineers performing fundamental RF measurements and passive component validation to R&D teams working on next-generation RF systems and active circuits.