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Remtec®, the leading manufacturer of substrates and packages with Plated Copper On Thick Film (PCTF®), has significantly expanded its activity in the design and fabrication of DBC ceramic products for military and commercial applications in small to medium production volumes with fast prototyping and economic pricing.

Teledyne Relays Europe announces the expansion of the role of Richardson RFPD as a Pan-European distributor of Teledyne Relays and Teledyne Coax Switches products. Richardson RFPD, a distributor for specialised products, brings the technical and applications support to the market needed by customers for Teledyne products.

Freescale Semiconductor introduces two 64-bit, multicore QorIQ™ P5 family control plane processors delivering 2.4 GHz of single threaded performance per core. The new quad-core QorIQ P5040 and dual-core P5021 products feature a robust mix of accelerators, high-speed interfaces and security features, resulting in advanced embedded solutions ideally suited for power-conscious control plane applications.

Spirent Communications, a leader in testing wireless networks, services and devices, announced that CETECOM will use Spirent’s LTE and CDMA test solutions to expand its operator acceptance testing services. As a respected industry-leading laboratory for LTE device certification, Spirent’s mobility, data, RF, and location test solutions now enable CETECOM to offer comprehensive acceptance testing for Verizon Wireless.

Cellphone-Mate, a provider of cell phone amplifiers and accessories, announced the introduction of the SureCall Force-5. This amplifier is the first self-contained, 5-band cellular amplifier on the market offering cell amplification bands for Verizon and AT&T LTE, T-Mobile AWS, and dual-band for 2G/3G/3G, and provides the highest-integrated cellular amplifier ever introduced. Combining emergent technology with lowered costs, the patent-pending Force-5 is the culmination of Cellphone-Mate’s first-to-market, economic innovations of LTE and HSPA+ amplifiers for each carrier, excluding Nextel and WiMax, and their recent linear 80dB amplifier introduction for enterprise solutions.

Dialogic Inc., a provider of communications technologies that power advanced networks, announced a public demonstration of a mobile video communication service featuring Dialogic® PowerMedia™ Software. The mobile video demonstration will showcase popular smartphone and tablet devices connecting to a video conference over a live 4G/LTE network, with the distinguishing and compelling option to stream video content into the conference. The streaming video element of PowerMedia Software readily lends itself to many social, business and vertical market-oriented applications. The demonstration, scheduled for May 8^th, will show that service providers can use SIP-based mobile apps to help deliver rich communication services today, including video calling, conferencing and collaboration. The service will be publicly demonstrated for the first time over a 4G/LTE network at CTIA Wireless 2012.

Thales Alenia Space Deutschland GmbH has signed a contract, worth up to €4 million, with Thales Alenia Space-France in the frame of the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) weather satellites. This contract includes the development and the validation of the operations Satellite Simulator (SATSIM), as well as the Payload Data Generator for all the satellites.