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It’s officially earnings season again, and this week, the spotlight is on Bureau Veritas. The French giant specializing in testing, inspection, and certification, reported its third-quarter 2025 earnings last week. BV beat market estimates, raking up a total revenue of 1.6 billion euros in the third-quarter — in line with its previous two quarters’ performance. The strong growth was driven by initiatives around portfolio expansions and forays into new strongholds.
In Munich, their next-door neighbor, Rohde & Schwarz, too is optimizing its product line with new additions. The German tech company released new high-frequency vector network analyzers, the ZNB3000 series, for characterizing high-speed interconnects, cables, and boards in AI applications.
Close by, a new coalition is taking shape between Nvidia and Deutsche Telekom. Bloomberg reported that the tech giant and the German carrier are in talks about co-financing a new $1.2 billion data center in Germany, their latest initiative for expanding AI infrastructure across Europe.
As global demand for connectivity and infrastructure continue to mount in the wake of AI, new testing solutions will determine the efficiency of these underlying hardware.
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Bureau Veritas’s robust Q3 earnings, amid portfolio shifts: French testing, inspection, and certification giant, Bureau Veritas, reported Q3 revenue consistent with previous quarterly earnings, as it continues to optimize portfolio through fresh acquisitions and new market captures.
The fiber playbook: “When you’re doing fiber expansion, the smart way to do it is to go where the customers are telling you to go,” said Bill Long, chief product officer at Zayo, at the latest episode of Unmuted, pointing to the company’s strategy to navigate a highly competitive fiber market.
Need for testing secondhand devices: A new RCR case study dives into how device identification and testing using GSMA Device Check and NSYS’s testing software is helping resellers in Colombia provide confidence in second-hand devices.
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Forecasts for spectrum analyzers: A market research report projects the global spectrum analyzer market to hit $1,762 million in 2025. As electronic devices continue to proliferate, portable analyzers are increasingly being used in research labs, telco companies, and defense organizations for testing.
A space experiment: Engineers at the University of Florida launched a stack of photonic AI chips into the space on a spacecraft. The mission is to study the hardware’s ability to operate in harsh conditions.
Testing interconnects for AI: Rohde & Schwarz unveiled a high-frequency model of its ZNB3000 vector network analyzer for the purpose of testing reliability of ultra-high-speed interconnects including PCIe Gen 7 for AI-driven workloads.
New imperative in semiconductor testing: A growing trail of cybersecurity breaches prompts manufacturers to adopt more aggressive methods of protection for semiconductor manufacturing and testing environments. It’s time to establish true zero trust in test facilities.
RIGOL oscilloscopes at Saelig: New York-based electronics distributor, Saelig, now sells RIGOL oscilloscopes. In its 8th generation, the RIGOL DS80000 series of oscilloscopes offers up to 13 GHz analog bandwidth for high-performance, high-speed signal capture and analysis.
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