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Under a three year agreement, Andrew Corp. , a global leader in communications systems and products, will provide a variety of wireless products and services to support Arqiva’s deployment of its CityCell neutral-host network coverage system in up to 40 city locations across the UK. Arqiva, a UK-based infrastructure...

Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials will invest $60 M in leading-edge lithography equipment to support its extensive research and development of advanced 193 nanometer (nm) photoresist and anti-reflective coatings used in the manufacture of semiconductor devices. “As a leading material supplier to the semiconductor industry, our ability to deliver...

Freescale Semiconductor and Mocana have formed a relationship to offer Freescale's networking customers exceptional encryption performance. Freescale plans to integrate Mocana's Device Security Framework with most PowerQUICC® II, PowerQUICC II Pro and PowerQUICC III encryption enabled products. Mocana's solution is a high performance, small footprint, security framework specifically designed...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the industry’s first integrated verification toolkit for signal integrity design. Intended for use with Agilent’s industry-leading Advanced Design System (ADS) EDA software platform, the new toolkit identifies and analyzes sources of performance-degrading jitter in multi-Gigabit communication link designs. It helps designers find and remove the...

EMS Technologies Inc. announced that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire DSpace , Adelaide, Australia, for (US) $5.7 M. The acquisition will enable EMS to build on the strength of its SATCOM business, which grew approximately 40 percent last year, and to exploit rising demand for Inmarsat’s BGAN...

CommScope Inc. and Andrew Corp. announced that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement, unanimously approved by their respective Boards of Directors, under which CommScope will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Andrew for $15.00 per share, at least 90 percent in cash, creating a global leader...

The WiMAX Forum® announced the first North America-based certification test lab during the opening address at the WiMAX Forum Member Conference in Madrid, Spain. Established and operated by the WiMAX Forum’s lead certification testing partner, AT4 wireless Inc., the lab will be located in Virginia and is due to...

Harris Stratex Networks Inc. has opened its international headquarters (IHQ) in Changi Business Park Central, Singapore. Heading up the new entity, Harris Stratex Networks (S) Pte. Ltd., is vice president and general manager, Asif Rahman. The headquarters begins operations with 12 employees, with plans to capitalize on the facility’s...

e2v , a designer and manufacturer of components and subsystems, has announced the renewal of its established agreement with Freescale Semiconductor to develop and supply extended reliability versions of its microprocessors. In addition, the two companies are exploring the expansion of their existing relationship to include Magnetoresistive Random Access...

Following the relocation of Vitelec Electronics Ltd. to Midwest Microwave International Ltd. at Chelmsford, UK, Emerson Connectivity Solutions has made a number of investments aimed at increasing the group's presence in the European RF connector and cable assembly market. The developments further enhance the newly merged company's capability, product...