Rohde & Schwarz at MWC Barcelona 2026: Enabling connections, empowering innovations

02/20/2026

Rohde & Schwarz invites attendees to Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelona to stop by the company’s booth to connect with its experts and to explore solutions for the next generation of wireless technologies. The company’s portfolio will be on display under the motto “Enabling Connections, Empowering Innovations” at Fira Gran Via, hall 5, booth 5A80 from March 2 to 5, 2026.

For a seamless evolution from 5G to 6G, Rohde & Schwarz offers future-ready test solutions for mobile devices and networks. Among the many innovative solutions, the CMX500 stands out throughout multiple demos addressing today’s and tomorrow’s testing challenges.

Paving the way for 6G, Rohde & Schwarz showcases carrier aggregation combining FR1 and FR3 frequency ranges with its CMX500 one-box signaling tester. The demonstration validates end-to-end device behavior across aggregated spectrum. FR3 (7.125 to 24.25 GHz) has been identified by industry and research as a "sweet spot" for combining wide-area coverage with high capacity. Equipped with the new, upgradeable RFU18 board for the CMX500, the tester covers up to 18 GHz, giving users enough headroom for FR3 evolution and a future-ready path for testing next-generation networks.

Another setup addresses virtual signaling testing. Based on the CMX500, Rohde & Schwarz demonstrates a new approach of shift-left testing, allowing R&D engineers to find design flaws early in their mobile radio modem chips before costly silicon fabrication. This early SDR-based validation will significantly cut time-to-market for 6G devices.

Ray tracing simulates real-world signal propagation environments, making it a valuable technique for AI receiver testing for future 6G devices. Rohde & Schwarz will showcase the CMX500 as it creates a digital twin of signal propagation within its test environment by leveraging the VIAVI™ ray tracing engine. This enables controlled and reproducible validation of complex scenarios with high measurement precision, facilitating site-specific optimization of radio links and reducing the need for tedious field tests…

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