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Nokia Siemens Networks and Motorola Inc. have entered into an agreement under which Nokia Siemens Networks will acquire the majority of Motorola’s wireless network infrastructure assets for $1.2 B in cash. The companies expect to complete closing activities by the end of 2010, subject to customary closing conditions including...

Roke Manor Research claims to have developed the world’s first 3G Wide Area Coverage Femtocell capability. Using picoChip ’s technology as the development platform, Roke’s reference design has a 40 km range, which delivers more than 40,000 times the area covered by most other femtocells. It is also said...

NEC Corp. will provide Norkring Slovenia, a Slovenia-based commercial broadcaster, with PASOLINK NEO, NEC’s ultra compact microwave communications system, through NEC Eastern Europe. As a result of this agreement, the company now provides the PASOLINK system to 16 countries throughout Eastern Europe, in addition to the systems it has...

RF Engines Ltd. (RFEL) has extended the range of its Digital Down Converter (DDC) technology so that it can now process up to 1 GHz of bandwidth (2 Gsps ADC rate) input and provide a narrower band output. This technology can operate with fixed frequencies and bandwidths or be...

Avago Technologies , a supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, has announced the availability of its MGA-634P8 ultra LNA for base station (BTS) RF front-end design. With the addition of the 1500 to 2300 MHz MGA-634P8, the company expands its LNA series to cover...

AML Communications Inc. , a designer, manufacturer and marketer of microelectronic assemblies for the defense industry, announced it has received a $3.7 M order for integrated microwave assemblies to be deployed in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, also known as UAVs. AML has developed the assemblies exclusively for this specific UAV...

Cobham plc announced that its Cobham Defence Communications business has received further contract releases valued at US $26 M from Northrop Grumman Corp. for the ongoing supply of its ROVIS (AN/VIC-3) digital vehicular intercom systems in support of US Army Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS) requirements....

Giga-tronics Inc. announced that more than 100 of the company's 8000 series RF Switch Interface Units (RFIU) are being supplied to contract manufacturers in Asia to increase throughput and improve test asset utilization in mobile phone and other wireless device production. This is part of the growing market for...

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