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The Wi-Fi Alliance and the Wireless Gigabit Alliance (WiGig Alliance) announced a cooperation agreement for multi-gigabit wireless networking. The Wi-Fi Alliance and the WiGig Alliance will share technology specifications for the development of a next-generation Wi-Fi Alliance certification program supporting Wi-Fi® operation in the 60 GHz frequency band. This...

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI), a leader in high-performance semiconductors for signal-processing applications and a provider of radio frequency integrated circuits (RF IC), announced the availability of new RF prescaler circuits for a variety of applications, including point-to-point radios, very small aperture terminals (VSAT) and microwave communication systems. A prescaler...

ITT Corp.’s Microwave Systems will be on hand to showcase its current technology offerings that include FPGA-based Direct Digital Synthesis (DDS) LO synthesizers and its wide-band waveform signal generation and chirp capabilities. ITT’s DDS technology features specifications of 20 nsec switching speed,...

IMS 2010 Pre-show Coverage: General Chairman Welcome If this page does not display correctly, go to www.mwjournal.com May 10, 2010 Welcome to the 2010 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium J.K. McKinney, IMS2010 General Chairman Welcome and greetings from the entire IEEE IMS2010 Steering Committee. We look forward to seeing...

Peregrine Semiconductor and IBM have teamed up to develop and manufacture future generations of Peregrine’s patented UltraCMOS™ silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) process technology. When fully qualified, the next-generation UltraCMOS RF ICs will be manufactured by IBM for Peregrine in the jointly-developed 180-nanometer RF CMOS process at IBM’s 200 mm semiconductor manufacturing...

Freescale Semiconductor has entered the gallium arsenide (GaAs) Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) marketplace with the introduction of four new devices designed and optimized specifically for high performance in macro base stations, repeaters and femtocells employed in wireless networks. The devices address low-noise amplifiers and transmit power amplifiers –...

With great CRM and sales practices, tracking the return on investment (ROI) of any lead-generating strategy is as simple as pressing the big red ‘report’ button on your dashboard. One problem: Has anybody actually seen this magic report button? The nature of our industry can make tracking difficult, which...

Alcatel-Lucent and EADS Defence & Security (DS) have signed an agreement in principle to jointly develop and offer a powerful mobile solution designed specifically to address the public safety market in the United States. The solution, based on Long Term Evolution (LTE) and on the public safety Project 25...

The President of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Professor Christopher Snowden, and Chief Executive, Nigel Fine, have visited India to forge and further relations with India’s premiere engineering institution and strengthen the IET's presence in South Asia. At the first ever meeting of the IET’s South Asia...

IntelliNet Technologies , Melbourne, Australia, has announced that it has completed interoperability testing between its own Femtocell Gateway and femtocell access points based on picoChip ’s industry-standard picoXcell™ platform. The testing validates products against the newly adopted 3GPP standardized Iu-h interface, which allows mobile operators to select customer premise...