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Delta Electronics Mfg. Corp. welcomes Tom Barron as new market and new product development manager. Barron has spent over 25 years marketing RF/microwave and multi-pin interconnect solutions within the medical, mil/aero, telecom, data infrastructure, broadcast and test & measurement markets.

Qorvo® introduced a complete system on chip (SoC) for smart home devices that delivers multi-protocol support with best-in-class power consumption. The GP695 integrates IEEE 802.15.4, ZigBee® 3.0, Thread and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) for sensors and actuators throughout the home.

TRAK Microwave, a microwave brand of Smiths Interconnect, announced the addition of a GPS time and frequency clock to its range of products. The 8835 GPS clock offers power and interoperability options, while maintaining industry-leading GPS accuracy and reliability.

Microwave Journal editors Pat Hindle and Gary Lerude combed the video library to create this list of the top ten most watched videos of 2016, courtesy of our Microwave Media platform.

QinetiQ has acquired Meggitt Defence Systems Ltd. and Meggitt Holdings Canada Inc. from Meggitt for £57.5 million.

Saab has signed a support agreement with the United Arab Emirates regarding an airborne surveillance system.

BAE Systems announced that it is currently training an unprecedented 2,036 apprentices across its UK-based defence and security businesses.

Here is a look at the most popular technical articles (by number of page views) for 2016. About half are cover stories but several are older, classic articles from many years ago (including #1).

5G Americas, the industry trade association and voice of 5G and LTE for the Americas, has published a technical whitepaper titled Network Slicing for 5G Networks and Services that details network slicing implementation for 5G technologies. Network slicing, simply described, is the ability to tailor a set of functions to optimize use of the network for each mobile device; it is considered to be key for meeting 5G's diverse use cases and requirements, including future-proof scalability and flexibility.

ABI Research forecasts non-cellular LPWA technologies from INGENU, LoRa Alliance, SIGFOX, SENSUS, and Telensa will command the leading share of LPWA connections, which see non-cellular LPWA endpoints outnumbering their cellular LPWA counterparts by more than 12% in 2021. Both cellular and non-cellular LPWA markets benefit from a growing base of connections in smart meters and emerging IoT applications, such as in street lighting, parking, environmental monitoring, and asset tracking.