Rohde & Schwarz SwissQual AG is a telecommunications company specializing in wireless network service quality

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and

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. The company is a contributor to

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standards for speech and video quality assessment.

Company history

Rohde & Schwarz SwissQual AG was founded in 2000 and was the first company to introduce specialized wireless network

equipment. In January 2006 the company was acquired by

Spirent Spirent Communications plc is a British Multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications testing company headquartered in Crawley, West Sussex, in the United Kingdom. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of t ...

for $65m. In 2007 the company was divested by

and acquired by a group of private investors. In March 2010 SwissQual announced they had carried out network quality

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on the world's first commercial LTE network,

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in Sweden. In July 2012, SwissQual became a wholly independent subsidiary of

Rohde & Schwarz Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co KG (, ) is an international electronics group specializing in the fields of electronic test equipment, broadcast & media, cybersecurity, radiomonitoring and radiolocation, and radiocommunication. The company provides ...

. R&S is a German testing equipment manufacturer. In July 2018, the company changed its name to Rohde & Schwarz SwissQual AG.

Speech and video quality algorithms

* In June 2010 SwissQual was one of three companies selected to provide the next generation high definition voice testing standard POLQA. * In January 2011 SwissQual was the only company selected to provide the next generation high definition video testing standard VQuad-HD / J.341. * In 2015 SwissQual in collaboration with Deutsche Telekom T-Labs in Berlin developed the standard J.343.1 "RS-T-VModel".ITU-T Recommendations
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External links

* Telecommunications companies of Switzerland {{Switzerland-company-stub