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Nokia and Qualcomm have entered into a new agreement covering various standards, including GSM, EDGE, CDMA, WCDMA, HSDPA, OFDM, WiMAX, LTE and other technologies. Under the terms of the new 15-year agreement, Nokia has been granted a license under all Qualcomm’s patents for use in Nokia’s mobile devices and...

RF & Wireless Technologies: Know it All Newnes, an imprint of Elsevier 846 pages; $55.95, £29.99 ISBN: 978-0-7506-8581-8 Few areas of technology are as dynamic and fast-growing as RF and wireless. Recent years have seen myriad new technologies and devices introduced, with many more on the way. Keeping fully...

TECOM Industries , a Smiths Interconnect company that is part of the global technology business Smiths Group, and German antenna developer QEST Quantenelektronische Systeme GmbH announced a teaming agreement to jointly produce and market airborne broadband antennas for in-flight connectivity. In response to the growing market demand, the partnership...

PT Indosat Tbk , Indonesia’s second largest mobile phone carrier, has selected NEC Corp. to implement a mobile backhaul IP migration project that utilizes existing networks to transfer systems into the latest IP structure. The project will utilize NEC’s ultra-compact PASOLINK microwave communications systems and CX2600 service consolidation switches....

As part of its work for the Advanced Materials for Ubiquitous Leading-edge Electromagnetic Technologies (AMULET) research project, Vector Fields , a part of Cobham plc, has released practical design tools to help RF designers exploit the properties of metamaterials. Metamaterials can provide a means to enhance the performance and...

SUSS MicroTec Test Systems has received an order from a major Asian semiconductor memory manufacturer for its PA300PS with ProbeShield® Technology, the 300 mm wafer-level probe system for device characterization and reliability test. The decision follows a six-month, head-to-head comparison against the incumbent and major competition for wafer-level test...

Ericsson has signed the largest single contract in Vietnam, amounting to $450 M, to develop and modernize Hanoi Telecom 's nationwide mobile network. The strategic partnership, a first in Vietnam, will also see the company managing and operating the network under a full-scope managed three-year services contract. Under the...

As the second decade of the twenty first century approaches, the digital frontier continues to encroach on what was once considered to be the bastion of the analog domain. There is still, however, a critical need for microwave and RF high-power and low-noise amplifiers for the transition between the...

The demand from the microwave and space industry for a drastic reduction in the time-to-market for new components and systems requires fast CAD tools, yielding reliably accurate, optimized designs within extremely short response cycles. Common electromagnetic (EM) simulation using single global three-dimensional (3D) solvers—mostly based on finite element (FE)...

Terabeam/HXI , also known as the Harmonix Division of Terabeam Corp. , was sold by its parent company, Proxim Wireless , to Renaissance Electronics Corp. (REC) of Harvard, MA. Going forward, the new company name will be HXI LLC and HXI will be a wholly-owned subsidiary of REC. Proxim...