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Anritsu Corp. and SATIMO (a Microwave Vision company) announce that the Anritsu MT8820C One-Box Tester has been selected by SATIMO as a supported test solution for OTA LTE testing, including MIMO. Based on this selection, the MT8820C is being integrated into the SATIMO SAM OTA performance test software. "We...

Custom MMIC Design Services Inc. (CMDS) announced it was awarded a 2011 Army Achievement Award in recognition of its innovative work on high efficiency, low power, low noise MMIC amplifiers for SATCOM applications. Paul Blount, President and CEO of CMDS, accepted the award on behalf of the company at...

Harris Corp. has received a $9.4 M order from the US Air Force for additional Falcon III® AN/PRC-117G multiband manpack radio systems. The Air Force is acquiring the AN/PRC-117G in support of emerging applications in situational awareness, intelligence and analysis and real-time battlefield collaboration. The field-proven AN/PRC-117G will provide...

Toshiba Imaging Systems Division , a supplier of high definition camera technolgy for industrial, machine vision, diagnostics, military, microscopy, R&D and broadcast applications, announced the appointment of Gary Pitre to the position of National Sales Manager. Pitre has served as the Eastern Regional Sales Manager for Toshiba America Information...

L-com Inc. , a global leader in the manufacture of wired and wireless connectivity products, has partnered with Bertek Import e Com. Ltda. from Vitoria, Brazil, a division of Stile Comercial, a trading company. The partnership allows L-com greater distribution of both wireless and wired products in Brazil. “We...

Custom MMIC has been awarded its second Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II contract from the United States Army to develop millimeter-wave, high linearity, high power amplifiers on Gallium Nitride (GaN) for satellite communication systems (SATCOM). “We are excited to be working with the...

China Mobile Research Institute and SkyCross announced a demonstration of a tunable, MIMO antenna design for multimode, multiband handsets in LTE deployments around the globe. The world’s first compact, tunable MIMO antenna covers 12 frequency bands ranging from 700 MHz to 2.7 GHz for TD LTE/LTE FDD/TD SCDMA/GSM EDGE/WCDMA...

RF Micro Devices Inc. unveiled the highly integrated RF6555 ZigBee® front-end module (FEM). The RF6555 is RFMD's newest ZigBee FEM and is optimized for smart energy/advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) applications providing utilities and consumers more control over how they monitor and save energy. ZigBee is a global low power...

GigOptix Inc. , a supplier of semiconductor and optical components that enable high speed information streaming, announced that at a special Endwave Corp. stockholders meeting, the stockholders voted to approve the acquisition of Endwave by GigOptix Inc. At the meeting, holders of more than 55 percent of the outstanding...