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As one of the most important instruments for electrical test in a lab or in
the field, signal and spectrum analyzers
serve multiple purposes across a range of
applications, from communications, to
radar, to manufacturing and designing
purposes in the field. Their features have
grown alongside the advancement of digital technologies, and combined with the
rise in adoption of portable and hand-held
signal/spectrum analyzers, their demand
is poised to surge over the next decade.
Various recent market reports all
show strong growth for spectrum
analyzers. On May 13 of this year,
MarketResearchFuture shared a forecast of the market growing by 8.2%
CAGR from 2018 to 2023, at which
point its value will be $1.758 billion1. A
day later, ResearchAndMarkets.com
shared a report that valued the global
spectrum analyzer market at U.S. $1.13
billion in 2017 and will reach $2.475 billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 9.1%2 .
Comparatively, Transparency Market
Research reported in January of this year
that the global market was worth $1.208
billion in 2017 and will hit $2.440 billion
by 2026 at a rate of 7.8% in that span3. As
one can see, forecasts vary some, but they
all agree that spectrum analyzers will be
a strong growth market for years to come.
Asked what technology trends he's seen

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lately, Anritsu senior product marketing
manager Philip Belleau led off telling
Evaluation Engineering in June, "Demands
for data exponentially are growing with
seemingly no end. Sub 6 GHz spectrum
is somewhat overcrowded currently and
is unable to provide sufficient bandwidth
required for increasing data demands.
Thus, mmWave is seen as the only viable
solution as there are adequate blocks of
available wide bandwidth spectrum."
"We've seen that more markets are
opening up in mmWave-automotive
radar, for example-and point-to-point
radio links," added Anritsu product
marketing manager Angus Robinson.
"There is a movement toward wider vector signal analyzer (VSA) bandwidths,
especially to support 5GNR measurements. Bandwidths of 100 MHz are now
common, including greater than 400 MHz
on premium benchtop instruments.
We're starting to see real-time signal
analysis (RTSA) being offered as
an option in regular SPA/VSA for
interference hunting."
To look more closely into
what's driving developments in
this signal/spectrum analyzers,
we at Evaluation Engineering
asked vendors to tell us what
they're seeing as far as technology trends, vendor challenges,

and customer demands, as well as what
new solutions they've recently made available. Here's what they told us.

What's trending?
What technology or market trends are
vendors seeing in the area of signal and
spectrum analyzers?
Belleau, Anritsu: "Semiconductor technologies have continuously evolved and
today are able to meet the requirements
for efficient & cost-effective components/
systems required to utilize the mmWave
spectrum. This trend toward mmWave
usage creates needs for cost-effective
mmWave test equipment. New coaxial
connectors have already been developed
to support measurements >110 GHz,
Anritsu's MS269xA signal analyzer.


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