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LTE equipment expenditure is expected to ramp up quickly in 2011. ABI Research estimates that LTE equipment spending will grow 120 percent in 2011 to reach almost $1 B. This increase is supported by more than 185 deployments and trials around the world. But despite the hype and rhetoric...

Industry News Ceragon Networks Ltd . has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Nera Networks AS (NAS), headquartered in Bergen, Norway, from Eltek ASA. The consideration for the acquisition is approximately $48.5 M on a cash-free/debt-free basis. Both companies’ assets and core...

Software-defined radios (SDR) utilize a combination of FPGAs, DSPs and analog/RF designs to achieve the radio’s system performance. The mixed-signal nature of these SDR designs can introduce system integration testing complexities when the baseband hardware and RF hardware are integrated and tested together. This testing complexity presents itself because...

Cobham has received a five-year, US $45 M long-term agreement from Pratt & Whitney , a United Technologies Corp. company, to manufacture advanced composite products for multiple military aircraft engine applications. Cobham will produce advanced, medium and high temperature composite structures for both the F135 and F119 engines at...

Teledyne Technologies Inc. announced that its subsidiary, Teledyne Brown Engineering Inc. (TBE), Huntsville, AL, has teamed with Lockheed Martin Corp. and Raytheon Co. to pursue the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Objective Simulation Framework (OSF) contract. OSF will provide a modular, reconfigurable system that joins digital and hardware in the...

There are many applications that are presently being researched in the high millimeter-wave/low terahertz frequency range. These applications are supporting many areas, including astronomy, remote sensing, communications, radar systems and homeland security. This standard is being developed to make sure that all of these applications have a commonality and...

Against a background of expansion of the LTE network, worldwide operators are increasingly relying on amplifiers installed close to the antenna, known as remote radio heads (RRH), especially for smaller antenna systems mounted in towers or on roofs. Previously, the transmission distance between the RRH and the antenna was...

Competition in the cellular industry continues to drive the need to not only attract but keep subscribers. However, subscribers increasingly view cell service as a commodity driven in part by laws requiring cell phone numbers to be portable. Providers attempt to differentiate themselves with new services, but poor call...

W.L. Gore & Associates has introduced a new, lighter-weight RG coaxial cable for aircraft communication and navigation systems, providing significant weight savings without compromising performance. When compared to standard RG coaxial cables, these new cables reduce operating costs because they are over 25% lighter and the diameter is more...

Crystek has ruggedized its LL142 low-loss RF cable assemblies by incorporating a spiraled stainless steel casing, along with extra fortification provided by heavy-duty adhesive strain relief with a Neoprene jacket. This added measure of protection eliminates the failures commonly caused by cable flexion and compression. At 18 GHz, the...