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TECOM Industries Inc. , a Smiths Interconnect business, announced the opening of a new manufacturing facility dedicated to commercial SATCOM antenna systems. The new facility is located at 951 Lawrence Drive, Newbury Park, CA 91320, six miles from the company’s main facility in Thousand Oaks, CA. In early 2009...

Figure 1 Basic components of a transceiver front end. Modern communication systems need new filters, diplexers and multiplexers to meet electrical performance, size and manufacturing cost requirements, which are difficult to achieve using classical topologies. Diplexers are widely used in communication systems for reducing mass and volume of the...

The number of mobile operators who have committed to deploy LTE advanced mobile broadband systems has more than doubled in the past year, according to the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) as confirmed in the April 2010 update of its Evolution to LTE Report . There are now 64...

The Netherlands Defence Materiel Organization and Thales Nederland have signed a contract for the delivery and installation of an Integrated Mast that is to be installed on the Joint Logistic Support Ship (JSS). This Integrated Mast is an I-Mast 400, identical to those that are to be installed on...

Alcatel-Lucent has enhanced its microwave packet radio portfolio for the North American market with additional features and support for additional frequency bands to better address the needs of mobile service providers as they deal with the data increase caused by the rapid growth of high-bandwidth interactive consumer applications. The...

The LTE Forum 2010 will take place in Stockholm, Sweden, on April 27 to 28. It will bring operators, vendors, end-users, regulators, experts, analysts and the media together to discuss, debate and discover trends and strategies of the Next Generation Mobile technology, LTE. According to the latest studies, the...

TDK-EPC , a group company of the TDK Corp., claims to have introduced the world’s first thin-film common mode filter (TCE1210 from TDK) with both high-speed differential transmission common mode noise suppression and ESD protection in a single component. Mass production is scheduled to begin this month (April 2010)....

Cobham 's Mission Equipment strategic business unit has been awarded further production contracts by The Boeing Co. to supply more than 500 BRU-61/A carriage systems for the Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) program. The BRU-61/A is a pneumatic multi-store system designed for carriage and release of Boeing's SDB weapon system,...

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The underlying theme for Microwave Journal ’s editorial this year is the “microwave supply chain”. This theme is exemplified in part (at least the component and design support side) by the annual International Microwave Symposium (IMS) coming May 23-28 th in Anaheim. To preview the show and give the...