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The AXIe Consortium announced a new specification, Optical Data Interface, suitable for high-speed instrumentation systems addressing challenging applications in 5G communications, mil/aero and advanced communication research. The AXIe Consortium was joined by Conduant Corporation, Guzik Technical Enterprises, Intel Corporation, Keysight Technologies, Samtec Incorporated and Xilinx in endorsing the standard and stating their plans to offer components or instrumentation products compliant with the new standard.

Keysight Technologies, Inc. announced the successful completion of the interoperability development tests (IoDT) of phase 2 of China’s IMT-2020 5G trials.

In collaboration with Filtronic Broadband, Plextek RFI has developed a multi-chip module to cover the European ‘Pioneer Band’ for millimetre wave 5G around 26 GHz.

Pickering Interfaces to showcase their broad range of PXI and Ethernet LXI RF and microwave switching solutions, at EuMW 2017 at Hall 7A, Stand 141 on 10-12 October.

Join the API Technologies team 10-12 October 2017 at the 20^th European Microwave Week (EuMW) in Nurnberg Germany.

Plasma Antennas today unveiled the mmWave Plasma Silicon Antenna (PSiAN); that offers huge improvements in performance for 5G base stations compared to the current generation of technology. Based on the company’s patented Plasma Silicon technology, the antenna reduces the cost of a 5G base station by up to 50% by eliminating phase shifters, reducing and consolidating amplification and reducing computation.