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The Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6™ certification program from Wi-Fi Alliance^® is available, helping deliver the best user experience with devices based on IEEE 802.11ax.

Optoelectronic industry designers have traditionally used discrete optical devices for transceiver designs. The process requires manual integration of discrete free-space optical components such as lasers, modulator, photo detectors, isolators, MUX/DE-MUX, lenses in the form of optical gold box sub-assemblies such as transmit optical sub-assembly (TOSA).

3D printing manufacturer SWISSto12, announced the closing of a series B financing round, raising CHF18.1 million ($18.5 million) to fund the company’s industrialization and commercial deployment of antenna products for communication satellites. SWISSto12 also plans to extend its business by developing advanced communication payloads for the SmallSat market and exploring opportunities in terrestrial communications, such as 5G.

Avanti’s latest high-throughput satellite will provide flexible and quick-to-deploy Ka-Band communications across EMEA. Launched at 20:30 GMT on  August 6, 2019 from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana, HYLAS 3 is Avanti Communications Group’s latest satellite deployment, and one of its most ambitious to date.

For smartphones and tablets, Skyworks Solutions has introduced an integrated front-end module for the 5 GHz Wi-Fi and licensed assisted access (LAA) protocols. The SKY855774-11 integrates a PA with a coupler at the output, an LNA that can be bypassed and a SPDT transmit/receive switch.