Richardson RFPD, an Arrow Electronics company, announced that it has entered into a global franchise agreement with MixComm Inc.

MixComm is a New Jersey-headquartered start-up that bases its technology on RFSOI and mmWave breakthroughs developed at Columbia University’s CoSMIC lab led by Dr. Harish Krishnaswamy, MixComm’s co-founder and CTO. MixComm’s products address the critical challenges that currently constrain 5G mmWave success including limited range that increases cost and diminishes customer satisfaction,excessive thermal and electrical power consumption budgets and low integration and excessively large antenna arrays that drive high module cost.

Under the new agreement, Richardson RFPD will distribute MixComm’s upcoming mmWave products to customers worldwide. MixComm’s first production device is a 5G 28 GHz beamforming “SUMMIT 2629™” front-end IC.

“MixComm is delighted to partner with Richardson RFPD,” said MixComm CEO Mike Noonen. “No other distributor offers the RF credibility, technical expertise, global reach and logistics scale that Richardson RFPD does.”

“We are excited to take MixComm’s first product to market,” said Rafael R. Salmi, Ph.D., Richardson RFPD’s president. “SUMMIT 2629 integrates novel power amplifiers, low noise amplifiers, beamformer, calibration and control for a front-end module with optimal partitioning for 5G infrastructure, and we are confident that this debut is indicative of the innovation our customers will come to expect from MixComm.”