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Advantech Wireless Inc., a privately-held Canadian corporation and manufacturer of satellite, RF equipment and microwave systems announced the release of the new 2.5 kW TROPO C-Band modular GaN based solid state power amplifier.

Fractal Antenna Systems, Inc. announced it has received a second patent notice of allowance (NOA) on invisibility cloaks. Upon issuance the new patent will secure rights on methods to make cloaks, fractal resonator (metamaterial) systems and cloaks of different shapes, among other claims. The new patent will further expand the firm’s pioneering and proprietary position in the emerging and fascinating world of making things disappear.

Mandated by the European Commission and supported by the dynamic railway industry in the region, the GSM-R system has established a significant market in Europe. Over the past few years the market extended to regions outside Europe including Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa. Led by Nokia, Kapsch CarrierCom and Huawei, GSM-R track coverage is growing to 190,000 km by 2020.

Innovative Integration, a trusted supplier of signal processing and data acquisition hardware and software solutions, announced the FMC1000. The FMC-1000 is a high speed digitizing and signal generation FMC I/O module featuring two, 1250 MSPS A/D channels and two 2500 MSPS D/A channels supported by sample clock and triggering features.

Anritsu Co. introduces an option for its MT8852B Bluetooth test set that supports the Data Length Extension associated with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) as part of the latest Bluetooth Core Specification version 4.2.

M/A-COM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. (MACOM), a leading supplier of high-performance RF, microwave, millimeterwave and photonic products, today announced that it has successfully completed its previously announced acquisition of BinOptics Corp., a leading merchant provider of Indium Phosphide lasers for data centers, mobile backhaul, silicon photonics and access networks, in an all-cash transaction valued at $230 million.

AtlanTecRF demonstrates how the company is able to optimise, customise or design a specific solution with the release of over 120 drawings across 19 component categories via an online Engineering Library on its website.

Orange and Ericsson have successfully used the 3.4-3.6 GHz (3.5 GHz) frequencies for testing data speeds, coverage and FDD carrier aggregation.

Empower is pleased to be releasing additional, industry leading power amplifier models that compliment the frequency coverage and power level “footprint” of their next generation, high power PA product family.

 With its R&S RTE and R&S RTO oscilloscopes, Rohde & Schwarz is one of the first suppliers to offer analysis solutions for the CAN flexible data (CAN FD) interface protocol. A new option enables design engineers to analyze CAN interfaces that support the high speed CAN FD bus protocol. These interfaces are seeing increased use in automotive and industry applications due to rising data rate requirements.