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Iridium Satellite LLC has appointed Cambridge Consultants as a strategic wireless technology development consultant, charged with helping the company to evolve the design of its ground-based terminal equipment. The consultancy has assembled a multi-disciplinary engineering team with expertise in satellite communications to work on the multi-million dollar program. Specifically,...

A significant European strategic alliance has been agreed between Hellenic Aerospace Industry S.A. (HAI), the largest defence company in Greece operating in the field of aerospace, electronic and satellite communication systems, and INDRA Espacio SA, the leading defence electronics and information systems company in Spain. This co-operation is the...

Brazil’s wireless broadband market is being addressed with the launch by Motorola of a new version of its Canopy portfolio, authorized for sale by Anatel, the National Telecommunications Agency, in the 5.4 GHz band. In point-to-multipoint networks, Canopy’s Advantage 5.4 GHz solution offers aggregate data transmission rates up to...

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced its intent to work with the developers of the wireless technology commonly known as ultra-wideband (UWB) to combine strengths of both technologies. This decision will allow Bluetooth technology to extend its long-term roadmap to meet the high speed demands of synchronizing and...

Chase card services announced that it is introducing “Blink,” a new faster, easier way to pay, using RFID chips and contactless payment systems. With the Chase Blink announcement, the North American contactless payment market-starting gun has sounded and the race to redefine cashless payments is on. Erik Michielson, ABI...

While SOHO/home WLAN equipment shipment volumes have increased strongly since Apple first launched its AirPort line of 802.11b-compliant consumer WLAN gear in 2000, prices have eroded sharply over the past several years, and few vendors are making much money in the market segment at present, reports In-stat. The SOHO/consumer...

The WiMedia Alliance and the MultiBand OFDM Alliance Special Interest Group, or MBOA-SIG, recently announced the two groups’ merger. Although the entity will often be referred to as WiMedia-MBOA, the entity will operate officially as the WiMedia Alliance Inc. The merged group is designed to take advantage of the...

Digital Communication Over Fading Channels, Second Edition Marvin K. Simon and Mohamed-Slim Alouini Wiley-Interscience 934 pages; $195 ISBN: 0-471-64953-8 Like its predecessor, this second edition discusses in detail, coherent and non-coherent communication systems as well as a large variety of fading channel models typical of communication links found in...

Product Catalog This product catalog features the company’s advanced antenna systems. It highlights new products including the Phased Beamer;™ modular phased array panels, Edge-of-Space Gateway;™ SatCom antenna system with orbital down conversion and UniScan Direct;™ and a real time airport security RF imaging scanner, all based on the company’s...

CRO/SAW (coupled-resonator oscillator/surface acoustic wave) resonator-based oscillators are widely used as reference sources in phase-locked loop (PLL) applications, since the technology features very low phase noise at fixed frequencies to beyond 3 GHz. CRO/SAW oscillators are also known for high quality factor (Q) and low phase-noise performance. Unfortunately, CRO/SAW...