Articles by Microwave Journal

Harris Stratex Networks has opened its newest office in Sydney, Australia. The company will supply operators with cost-effective wireless transport solutions to enable customers to transport high-speed, carrier-class Ethernet data, alongside traditional TDM traffic, to support network migration to next-generation IP services. Harris Stratex will also be able to...

TDK Corp. , a leading electronics company headquartered in Japan, and EPCOS AG , a leading manufacturer of electronic components, modules and systems headquartered in Germany, have signed a Business Combination Agreement (BCA). The purpose of the agreement is to combine EPCOS with TDK’s activities in the electronic components...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced shipment of its Genesys 2008.07 release. The new Genesys release contains improvements to the reliability of artwork masks for electromagnetic (EM) verification and RF board manufacturing, along with modeling and user interface improvements. This functionality results in shorter design cycles with fewer iterations for RF...

Anritsu Co. , as part of its commitment to developing next-generation technologies, introduces the EDGE evolution test solution. Two new measurement software packages can be incorporated into the MS269xA series that allow the signal analyzers to support 2.5G GSM/EDGE and G EDGE Evolution (EGPRS2) mobile phone systems, giving design...

GeneSiC Semiconductor Inc. , a key innovator of novel Silicon Carbide (SiC) devices for high temperature, high power, ultra-high voltage and detector applications, announced that it has been selected by the US Navy for two Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) awards. These awards will allow GeneSiC to develop high...

The Strategy Analytics annual five year outlook for the Gallium Arsenide microelectronics industry, “GaAs Industry Forecast 2007-2012,” predicts that year-on-year growth in the GaAs industry will slow to 9 percent in 2008. However this study maintains previous guidance on long-term growth and the market will break the $5 B...

The latest study from Strategy Analytics, “Point-to-Point Radio GaAs Market 2007-2012,” predicts that point-to-point radio shipments will increase at a compound annual average growth rate (CAAGR) of 8 percent, to exceed 1.5 million units in 2012. Radio cellular backhaul will continue to be the primary market for point-to-point radios,...

According to the story told in 1968 by a senior citizen of Salvan, in 1895 Guglielmo Marconi carried out some of his earliest wireless experiments in the vicinity of this picturesque village of the Swiss Alps. The IEEE duly acknowledged this event, and granted a “Historical Milestone in Electrical...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corp. , received orders totaling $7.6 M under its Movement Tracking System, or MTS contract, with the US Army. Total orders received to date against the $605.1 M MTS IDIQ contract increased to $133.6 M. The orders are...

Endwave Corp. announced the release of three new high-linearity broadband low noise amplifiers (LNA) that preserve signal purity by minimizing the nonlinear contributions. These amplifiers simultaneously achieve several high performance characteristics in a unique wideband design, and are available in three frequency bands of 0.5 to 2 GHz (JCA02-4000),...