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RF Micro Devices Inc. announced the introduction of a new product family of high performance differential amplifiers for cable television (CATV) networks. The broadband CATV products leverage RFMD's product and technology leadership to deliver enhanced functionality and improved performance to CATV access networks worldwide. Specifically, RFMD's newest broadband CATV...

Aeroflex Ltd. , a wholly owned subsidiary of Aeroflex Holding Corp., announced that the TM500 LTE Test Mobile now supports enhanced Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (eMBMS) as defined in Release 9 of the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standard for Long Term Evolution (LTE). The TM500 Test Mobile platform...

Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced the enhanced version of Agilent VEE, an interactive graphical programming application for test and measurement. Enhancements include greater compatibility with the latest Agilent instruments, faster data analysis and a more versatile user experience. Agilent VEE 9.3 provides new sample programs with simple VEE programming for...

Guzik has developed the ADC 6000 series AXIe-based Digital Acquisition and Processing Module combines high-speed waveform digitizer with built-in digital signal processing hardware, which enables mixed-domain signal capture and analysis with high-speed data transfer link to a computer. The ADC 6000 Module comes in a space-saving display-less 1U 19”...

ClearCount Medical Solutions , a leader in patient safety solutions, announced that it has received approval to affix the CE mark to its SmartSponge and SmartWand-DTX products. The SmartSponge product line is the first and only RFID-based surgical safety and efficiency technology bearing a CE mark. The European Union...

Nitronex , a leader in the design and manufacture of gallium nitride (GaN) based RF solutions for high performance applications in the defense, communications, cable TV, and industrial & scientific markets, has successfully completed qualification of its NRF1 discrete process for volume production at Global Communication Semiconductors (GCS). Under...

Quarter over quarter subscriber increase for LTE and WiMAX was 250 percent and 12 percent, respectively, at the end of October 2011, according to the 16th issue of the 4GCounts Quarterly Report from Maravedis . At the end of Q3 2011, 35 operators had commercially launched FDD LTE. "LTE...

Chalmers University of Technology will receive the lion's share of a SEK 40 million Swedish research grant for the investigation of the "supermaterial" graphene. Following the new financing from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, a group of some 30 Swedish graphene researchers will be formed, in close collaboration...

Cambridge Broadband Networks Ltd. (CBNL) , the multipoint microwave network specialist for 3G and LTE backhaul, has opened a new Center of Excellence in Lagos, Nigeria as the company expands its operations and investment in the African continent. The center will be co-located with CBNL’s new Nigerian office and...

ASTRIUM , Europe’s leading space company, has been selected by DIRECTV to design and manufacture DIRECTV 15, a new high power telecommunications satellite to provide back-up capacity and fleet expansion for television services to US customers in homes and businesses. The satellite is scheduled for launch in 2014. Based...