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A number of new technologies are being combined by the telecommunications industry as it prepares for the next generation of mobile services. One of the key changes is the choice of OFDM for the air interface. This paper will describe OFDM and show why it has the ability to...

C-MAC MicroTechnology has been awarded AS9100, the leading aerospace Quality Management Systems accreditation, for its site in Great Yarmouth, UK. The award recognizes the company’s continued commitment to excellence, quality and reliability across a wide range of technologies and the full range of design, manufacturing and test activities that...

Andrew , the CommScope Inc. division, and its representative in Chile, Raylex , have signed a broad cooperation agreement with Entel PCS , one of the mobile telephony leaders in Chile, with regard to expanding the operator’s cellular network in that country. Under the multi-year agreement between the companies,...

Nazish Aslam , a student from the Institute for System Level Integration (iSLI), has won Student Engineer of the Year at the Elektra Awards, which were presented recently in Munich, Germany. This is the second year in a row that a student from iSLI has won the prestigious award,...

Motorola Inc. has officially opened its Innovation Center inside the company’s Wangjing Campus in Beijing, China, to showcase its latest products, technologies and solutions. This center is the company’s second in the Asia-Pacific region following the first in Singapore, which was established in 2007. These centers reflect Motorola’s efforts...

Anaren Inc. announced, in unison with CSR , it has achieved a design win on CSR’s UniFi UF1050 b&g Wi-Fi chipset; optimized for the CSR application, the matched-balun approach results in a solution boasting 65 percent fewer discrete components even as it saves additional board space. Anaren’s “0404” balun...

While a large majority of owners use their mobile phones for voice calls and short message services (texting) only, a growing number are using bandwidth-hungry applications such as Web browsing, music downloads and streamed video. The current explosion in wireless data use has been fuelled partly by the introduction...

Ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless is a rapidly growing technology that promises to revolutionize low power, short-range wireless applications. UWB has quickly emerged as the leading technology for Wireless Universal Serial Bus (W-USB). UWB radios differ from conventional narrowband radios and have a variety of specialized test demands. Enormous signal bandwidths,...

With the current deployment of high-bandwidth access networks happening at an ever-increasing pace, the need for efficient, high-bandwidth backhaul infrastructure becomes more and more relevant. In fact, the construction of these new access networks depends upon the backhaul network for both technical and financial performance. Today’s cellular networks typically...

As consumers, we are used to the continual productivity enhancements derived from having ever-increasing, computer-like handsets at our disposal. For those of us lucky enough to have in-depth RF industry knowledge, we know full well the complexity of a system that can deliver this near desk-like performance in the...