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A Lockheed Martin Joint Air-to-surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) was successfully launched from a B-1B bomber October 30, 2003, over China Lake, CA, making it the first conventional guided missile launch from a B-1B. The separation test vehicle demonstrated successful operation of JASSM during captive carry, launch from the B-1B’s...

A major multi-year contract has been awarded to Alcatel by TELUS Mobility to provide the national wireless carrier with a cross-Canada communications backbone infrastructure. The turnkey solution includes microwave products, network design and installation services that will enable the company to dramatically reduce its operational expenses, increase backbone capacity,...

Telecommunication regulators from more than 80 countries delivered a powerful message to world leaders convening in Geneva for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) at the end of 2003. They identified a series of steps nations can take to bridge the digital divide and called upon countries...

Under an agreement worth A$75 M BAE Systems Australia has been awarded a contract to provide strategically important elements of the Advanced Satellite Communications Terrestrial Infrastructure System (ASTIS) within the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF’s) Military Satellite Communications Programme JP2008. The company, working in conjunction with partners Astrium, Sinclair Knight...

Economic downturn and inventory building have produced manufacturers in the highly competitive discrete power semiconductor market who are severely restrained by low prices and will continue to face difficulty in generating sustainable profits. A new analysis from Frost and Sullivan, “World Discrete Power Semiconductor Markets,” reveals that revenues in...

A breakthrough in Ka-band SSPA power is available for commercial and military applications. The Sophia Wireless model MPC4-2531 solid-state power amplifier (SSPA) provides 27 W of saturated power at 30 GHz and wideband coverage of 24 to 27 W at P3dB over 25 to 31 GHz. Linear performance is...

Communications services such as mobile phone and wireless LAN have increased the use of multi-bands while the terminals are becoming smaller. These trends have led to the widespread use of RF modules combining multiple functions. Along with this trend is the ability to make increasingly complex measurements more efficient....

A new family of low profile, high performance couplers has been introduced in a new easy-to-use, manufacturing friendly surface-mount package. These new couplers feature lower insertion loss, better phase balance, less amplitude imbalance, and higher isolation and directivity than previous offerings in this area. The new parts are much...

A new printed circuit board material has been developed to meet the demanding requirements for dielectric constant temperature stability and plated hole reliability for high temperature and varying environmental conditions. TSM-30 is based on a high temperature, low loss organic combined with ceramic. The material exhibits superior low loss,...

Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS)-based products run from the mundane of automobile air-bag sensors to the over-hyped optical switching fabrics of the recent telecommunications bubble. For some time now, design engineers have been waiting for the advantages of MEMS fabrication techniques to be successfully applied to the problem of RF and...