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DragonWave Inc. , a global supplier of packet microwave radio systems for mobile and access networks, and Himachal Futuristic Communications Ltd. (HFCL), one of India's leading telecommunication equipment manufacturers and turnkey service providers, are undertaking a joint venture to provide leading packet microwave solutions to the Indian market. DragonWave...

picoChip claims to be the first baseband company to support the newly announced Femto Forum LTE application programming interfaces (API). The new APIs help developers of LTE femtocells integrate subsystems from different suppliers, reducing integration cost and time and accelerating development of femtocells and other ‘small cell’ base stations,...

Microwave backhaul specialist, Cambridge Broadband Networks , has entered into a comprehensive framework agreement with MTN Group , one of the world’s largest mobile operators, for the provision of microwave backhaul and access equipment. The framework agreement, covering all 21 countries served by MTN, follows the successful deployment and...

Avago Technologies has announced new power amplifier modules (PAM) that extend handset talk time for GSM/EDGE communication. The new ACPM-7868 PAMs are fully compatible with Qualcomm’s newest generation of chipsets that support linear quad-band GSM/EDGE operation, enabling improved power efficiency for the world’s most widely-used cellular standard. The new...

Harris Corp. and ITT Corp. are collaborating to accelerate the fielding of the Soldier Radio Waveform, a central piece of the US Department of Defense vision for a networked digital battlefield. Harris and ITT have successfully exchanged voice and data between the Harris Falcon III® AN/PRC-117G manpack and ITT's...

Improvised explosive devices (IED) have been brutally effective weapons for insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan, and increasingly, in other parts of the world. IEDs have been blamed for thousands of deaths of military personnel and also civilians. The US and its allies have responded to the IED threat by...

LBA Technology has designed, built and delivered to Taiwan an advanced technology medium wave triplexer system for the Broadcasting Corp. of China (BCC). This is the second successful multiplexer project undertaken by the North Carolina company for the BCC. The project is especially notable because the tower site posed...

PCTEST Engineering Laboratory , an accredited laboratory in Columbia, MD, is fully operational and testing LTE UEs utilizing the Rohde & Schwarz TS8980FTA. Scope of testing includes LTE RF, RRM and Protocol Conformance as well as operator test plans covering all aspects of LTE and LTE-CDMA InterRAT operation. "Working...

Focus Microwaves Corp. , a device characterization solutions provider, announced the introduction of its iMPT-C-Lite load-pull tuner. Targeting applications where space is limited, but still requiring the need for harmonic load-pull, such as on-wafer environments, the iMPT-C-Lite brings all of the performance benefits of the iMPT-Lite in a package...

Wireless Telecom Group has signed a service agreement with Electroservices (Midlands) Ltd. , Telford, UK, to become a fully authorized Wireless Telecom Service center for the EMEA region. Electroservices is well established and has been in business for nearly 30 years providing calibrations and repairs for RF and MW...