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TECOM Industries Inc. announced that it has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) in China Lake, CA, to develop and qualify the next generation instrumentation antenna for a Navy missile. The conformal, dual-band antenna provides GPS and...

A timely and unique debate on the growing battle between two dominant global visions of Fourth Generation wireless technology – WiMAX and Long Term Evolution (LTE) – will be held next week at WCA 2008, the annual convention of the Wireless Communications Association International (WCA). Following the record-breaking $19...

Skyworks Solutions Inc. , an innovator of high performance analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling mobile connectivity, congratulates Samsung on recently winning two prominent FEMTO cell awards. Jang Young Shil, presented by the Maeil Business Newspaper – the most influential economic daily in Korea, and the Korea Industrial Technology...

Jacket Micro Devices Inc. (JMD) announced that laminate-based radio frequency system-in-package (RF SiP) products made with its patented Multi-Layer Organic (MLO) process have passed JEDEC reliability qualification testing. The MLO substrates, and modules assembled using them, are lead (Pb) free and RoHS-compliant. WLAN front-end modules using HDI 6-layer MLO...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that Universal Scientific Industrial Co. Ltd. (USI) will use Agilent's WiMAX™ manufacturing networking test set for its Mobile WiMAX test needs. The company chose Agilent because of its ability to deliver fast measurement time for USI's Mobile WiMAX module test plan requirements. USI is a...

While third-generation wireless communication systems based on W-CDMA are being deployed all over the world, the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) has initiated a project for the long-term evolution (LTE) of this cellular technology to ensure its competitiveness well into the future. This white paper describes the physical layer...

For us wireless geeks, what could be better than attending the largest wireless show in the US in glitzy Las Vegas? Whether you are into broadband convergence, enterprise, advertising, social networking or entertainment, CTIA is the global marketplace for connecting Wireless and You (as their theme goes this year)....

There may have been one less acronym this year as the 3GSM World Congress dropped its familiar 3GSM moniker to become the Mobile World Congress, but there was no lack of technical shorthand. The likes of LTE, WiMAX, MiMo, Dig-RF, HSPA+, etc., not to mention 3GPP and NMDG, jostled...

The past year has seen a flurry of activity related to bringing the next generation of broadband wireless technology, commonly referred to as Mobile WiMAX, to the market. Based on the IEEE 802.16e standard for local and metropolitan area networks, released in 2005, Mobile WiMAX promises wireless data connections...

This month, Microwave Journal talks with Bryan Sayler, Senior Vice-President and General Manager at ETS-Lindgren Test and Measurement Division, about his company’s membership in the WiMAX Forum. We also discuss the company's new WiMAX™ RPT Test System designed to provide detailed information on the radiated transmit and receive performance...