Keysight Receives 2026 GTI Innovative Technology Breakthrough Award for AI and 5G-Advanced Convergence

As AI becomes integral to next-generation wireless systems, the industry faces a growing challenge: validating AI-driven device behavior under real-world network conditions before commercial deployment. Field testing can be expensive, time-consuming, and difficult to repeat. At the same time, traditional lab testing often cannot capture the complexity of dense urban networks, high-speed mobility, multipath propagation, and interference. Without a scalable and repeatable validation method, manufacturers and operators struggle to benchmark performance, compare approaches, and build confidence ahead of deployment.

Keysight’s AI Device Testbed addresses this gap by bringing complex, real-world 5G-Advanced conditions into a controlled laboratory environment. It enables customers to reproduce diverse deployment scenarios, run objective benchmarking of AI-driven capabilities, and scale evaluation across large datasets and iterative model development. With automated analysis of key performance indicators such as throughput, mobility, battery efficiency, and user experience, the testbed helps customers shorten development cycles, reduce research and development costs, and accelerate delivery of reliable AI-optimized 5G-Advanced devices, while preparing for the industry’s shift toward AI-native 6G systems.

Peng Cao, Vice President and General Manager, Wireless Test Group, Keysight, said: “This award recognizes a major shift in wireless. AI is moving from the application layer into both the network and the device. Keysight’s AI Device Testbed gives the ecosystem a repeatable way to validate AI-driven performance under realistic 5G-Advanced conditions, helping customers reduce risk, improve confidence, and bring innovation to market faster.”

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