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2011 will be the year when LTE goes live in a big way, as Verizon in the United States and DoCoMo in Japan will begin wide-scale roll-outs by the end of 2010. ABI Research Analyst Bhavya Khanna reports, “132 networks have reported trials or plans to launch LTE commercially,...

Electro-Metrics introduced the all-new EM-6003 antenna kit. This complete antenna kit covers the broadest frequency range available in a small, rugged, deployable package. The EM-6003 kit features three all new passive antennas that set standards in the field. The EM-6857 "Club" provides omni-directional coverage over a frequency range greater...

Next year will be my 30 th anniversary of active duty as a marketer in the high technology world – much of it in the arena of communications technologies. I have served enterprises large and small, start-ups to international conglomerates – connectors, test equipment, synthesizers, filters, antennas, complex packages...

Summertime is associated with big blockbuster movies and beach reading material. Hollywood moguls and book publishers recognize that summer is the time to kick back and let others entertain us. In that vein (and assuming that microwave engineers aren’t the only professionals who take busmen holidays), the MWJ editorial...

On the heels of a recent announcement of its collaboration with IBM , WiSpry Inc. , a leader in tunable RF semiconductor products for the wireless industry, announced that it has won, along with key partners, a four year, $48 M DKK ($8 M USD), Smart Antenna Front End...

EADS Defence & Security (DS) and Atlas Elektronik (AE) have consolidated their position in the maritime safety and security market by merging their subsidiaries Sofrelog , acquired by DS in 2006, and Atlas Maritime Security , a spin-off of AE. Named Sofrelog Atlas Maritime Security, this joint venture will...

EB has announced the availability of the EB Propsim F8 Aerospace and Satellite channel emulation Option (ASO) for the aerospace and defense markets. This new option enables realistic, reliable and repeatable end-to-end testing of airborne and aerospace wireless communication links in laboratory conditions. With EB Propsim F8, the developers...

Defence and security company Saab has received an order worth MSEK 190 from the Australian Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) for provision of the Giraffe AMB radar system and related services. Giraffe AMB is a flexible series of modular surveillance systems. Fully fitted, the system includes capabilities for simultaneous air...

Indra has concluded the modernization of the first two radar stations of the air traffic surveillance network in Turkey. Bahçe station will serve the control center of Ankara, the country’s capital; the station located in Antalya will serve the control center located in this region, which is an important...

NEC Corp. has launched the ePASOLINK compact wireless transmission system, which enables mobile network operators to build a cost-effective, IP-based mobile backhaul network that meets the high-capacity data demands of mobile broadband technologies such as HSPA, WiMAX and the anticipated LTE. "We expect that as mobile operators deploy 4G...