Keysight Technologies attributes its recent better-than-expected results for its latest quarter to growth in demand for testing around 3GPP Release 16 accelerating faster than had been anticipated. The company also singled out growth in demand for testing of Open RAN components and non-terrestrial 5G networks as factors behind its 10% year-on-year revenue rise, in its fiscal third quarter, to $1.38bn. Profits for the quarter rose at a higher rate of 33% from $254m to $338m over the year. While Satish Dhanasekaran, Keysight’s president and CEO, was naturally keen to associate the performance with having the right strategy and effective execution of it, the company’s SVP of global sales Mark Wallace admitted it was also down to those specific 5G-related factors.…