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Magyar Telecom has selected HUBER+SUHNER as sole supplier for a special power to the antenna solution using the company’s SMART DC Kits. Magyar Telecom, which is 59 percent owned by Deutsche Telekom, is running a four year program for a mobile infrastructure generation and technology swap to remote radio...

Modelithics Inc. announces the addition of John Fisher , as member of the Modelithics management team. Fisher has more than 29 years of engineering and management experience, including an extensive background in international product development as well as in executive management roles. His experience in process and product management...

Richardson RFPD Inc. announces it is now providing full design-in support and logistics for the XD1008-BD medium power, distributed wideband amplifier from M/A-COM Technology Solutions . This GaAs PHEMT device provides exceptional performance and reliability characteristics beyond 40 GHz. This wideband device is designed to be used in many...

Anatech Electronics appointed Dean Handrinos as director of US sales, with the responsibility of developing new business and managing of the company’s sales activities throughout the country, including working with regional sales representatives. Handrinos comes to Anatech from Stealth Microwave (a division of Micronetics), where he was Vice President...

Hittite Microwave Corp. , supplier of complete MMIC based solutions for communication and military markets, has introduced their first GaN HEMT MMIC Wideband Power Amplifier that is ideal for test & measurement equipment and military EW and ECM applications up to 10 GHz. The HMC999 is a GaN HEMT...

RFMD 's new RFHA1023 is a 36 V 225 W high power discrete amplifier designed for L-Band pulsed radar, air traffic control and surveillance, and general purpose broadband amplifier applications. The RFHA1023 is a high terminal impedance matched power transistor providing 225 W with 55 percent drain efficiency, packaged...

According to IDTechEx research in the new report "Wireless Sensor Networks 2011-2021", WSN will grow rapidly from $0.45 B in 2011 to $2 B in 2021. These figures refer to WSN defined as wireless mesh networks, i.e. self-healing and self-organizing. Wireless Sensor Networks will eventually enable the automatic monitoring...

Euroconsult, the leading international research and analyst firm specializing in the satellite and space sectors, is forecasting that an estimated 1145 satellites will be built for launch during the next 10 years (2011-2020), 51 percent more satellites than the previous decade. These projections come from Euroconsult’s just-released “Satellites to...

M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc. introduced a 1-Bit digital attenuator for CATV and set-top box (STB) front-end applications. The MAAD-010305 is a 15 dB step GaAs MMIC digital attenuator. It is designed to condition cable input signals to the STB. The device is ideally suited for use where high accuracy,...

Mobile data consumption and next generation wireless network deployment are fueling increases in the number of base station cells and power amplifiers shipped each year. The recently released Strategy Analytics RF and Wireless Components (RFWC) Service report, “Radio Access Network RF Power Device Trends & Forecast: 2011 - 2015,”...