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By the end of 2013, global LTE-related cellular subscriptions surpassed 230.9 million, 3.3 percrent of mobile subs, and will continue to grow at a CAGR of 36.6 perent between 2014 and 2019, exceeding 2 billion. The extensive presence of LTE networks is also stimulating the deployment of VoLTE. By the end of 2014, there are expected to be 59.6 million VoLTE subscriptions in place, and it is expected that nearly 56 percent of LTE-related cellular subscriptions will be using VoLTE services by the end of 2019.

Towerstream Corp., a leading 4G and small cell rooftop tower company, announces a small cell services teaming agreement with Alcatel-Lucent, enabling a one-stop solution for carriers to deploy small cell wireless infrastructure.

SenarioTek, a leading designer and manufacturer of RF and microwave products, announced the expansion of the FlexMatrix RF switch matrix family, which delivers off-the-shelf performance up to 40 GHz. FlexMatrix offers test engineers a high performance RF switching capability over the broadest range of standard input and output configurations for applications such as radar, military communications, consumer wireless and signal integrity.

Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. debuts its new line of UltraCMOS® Monolithic Phase & Amplitude Controllers (MPAC). Designed for wireless infrastructure applications, MPAC improves system performance, lowers costs, increases reliability and provides maximum tuning flexibility.

Based on its recent analysis of the PXI instrumentation market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Agilent Technologies with the 2014 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Growth Excellence Leadership. The company's strategy of offering customer-centric, market-specific solutions, built upon its expanding modular product portfolio, has driven its success.

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc., is adding to its QUAD HIFREQ series of high-power surface-mount multilayer ceramic chip capacitors (MLCCs) with a new device in the quad 2525 case size. Designed for high-frequency RF applications in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) coils and generators, RF instrumentation, telecom base stations, lasers, and military communications systems, the QUAD HIFREQ 2525 case device features an ultra-high Q (> 4000 at 10 MHz, 1 pF), ultra-low ESR down to 0.018 Ω, and DC voltage ratings up to 3600 V.

AWR Corp., the innovation leader in high-frequency EDA software, and ANSYS, Inc., a global leader and innovator of engineering simulation software, announced that they have integrated ANSYS HFSS™ into AWR’s Microwave Office high frequency circuit design software. This integration unites the industry standard for full-wave electromagnetic (EM) field simulation and NI AWR Design Environment™/Microwave Office to quickly and accurately simulate microwave circuits.

Comtech PST proudly introduces a new high power density solid state RF module. Comtech’s latest development continues to expand on its proven innovative integrated RF GaN power amplifier designs by further increasing the RF power density. Consistent with its planned technology development roadmap, Comtech proudly introduces the latest in GaN-based 6-18 GHz RF amplifier. This highly integrated design is ideal for use in communication, electronic warfare, and radar transmitter systems where space, cooling, and power are limited.

Modelithics and Passive Plus, a valued Modelithics Vendor Partner (MVP), are pleased to announce the availability of high-accuracy simulation models for a number of Passive Plus capacitor families.  The Modelithics COMPLETE Library, now contains microwave Global™ models  for Passive Plus 0505C and 1111C Low ESR capacitors, and the 0201N, 0402N, 0603N, and 0805N ultra-low ESR capacitor families. A Passive Plus broadband capacitor model (0201BB104) has also been added, and features validation up to 65GHz. 

Avago Technologies, a leading supplier of analog interface components for wireless, wireline, and industrial applications, announces four new RF power amplifiers (PAs) for small cell base transceiver station (BTS) applications and a full spectrum of LTE/WiFi coexistence FBAR filters for mobile and wireless infrastructure applications.