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The market for wireless infrastructure has been under constant pressure to adapt to new markets, technologies and changing standards. The base station plays a key role in these cellular networks and is under extreme pricing pressure and market competitiveness. Vendors and suppliers to the wireless base station market are...

For what will be the first LMDS network deployment in Southern Africa, Alcatel has signed a contract with Telecom Namibia, the national telecommunications operator, to deliver its high performance Local Multipoint Distribution Service (LMDS) solution and high capacity urban microwave radio systems. The move will allow end users to...

The first commercial Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution (EDGE) project in Asia has resulted from the decision by the Malaysian mobile operator DiGi Telecommunications, a subsidiary of the Norwegian telecom company Telenor, to commission Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group to equip its network with GSM, GPRS and...

In support of the draft IEEE 802.15.4 standard being driven by the ZigBee Alliance - an association of companies working together to enable reliable, cost-effective, low power, wirelessly networked, monitoring and control products based on an open global standard - Motorola Inc. is delivering hardware and software samples to...

The Department of Defense's Advanced EHF satellite system, which will provide secure, high speed communications to the US and allied forces worldwide, is a step closer to reality, following EMS Technologies' successful demonstration and delivery of the engineering model of the beam-forming network (BFN) for the satellite's sophisticated antennas....

Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Co. have formed Netfires LLC, a limited liability company to pursue missile and launcher development and production for the Non Line of Sight - Launch System (NLOS-LS), also known as Netfires. Products under development include a Loitering Attack Missile (LAM), a Precision Attack Missile (PAM)...

Northrop Grumman Corp., The Boeing Co. and Raytheon Co. officials agreed to work together in developing the US Air Force's E-10A Multi-sensor Command and Control Aircraft (MC2A). This innovative teaming agreement covers the Weapon System Integration (WSI) efforts for the E-10A, which provides an enhanced airborne ground surveillance and...

Harris Corp., a leading supplier of satellite communications systems for government and commercial applications worldwide, announced that it has been awarded a one-year, $2.3 M follow-on contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Special Projects Office, Washington, DC, and the US Air Force Research Lab's (AFRL) Sensors...

Two decades ago, RF/microwave system designers had to live with connectorized RF/microwave components (passive and active) from specialized component manufacturers, often ending up with a bulky and lossy system with lengthy interconnecting cables (flexible and semirigid). The interconnecting cables made the system unreliable over time. To compensate for the...

COMPONENTS Radial SP8T Switch The model MSR-8DR-STD options 50M105, 3SS, 45060, is a reflective SP8T switch, that is surface-mountable, miniature and slim in size. It works from 10 MHz to 5 GHz. Insertion loss is 90 dB at 10 MHz, > 75 dB at 2 GHz and > 65...