SDR platform accelerates development of 3GPP LTE products
Mar 27, 2008
CTIA Wireless will demonstrate its end-to-end LTE software solution for development of mobile infrastructure and client devices using software-defined radio (SDR) platform...
Science fiction writer passes away at 90
Mar 20, 2008
British science fiction legend and inventor of the idea of communications satellites Sir Arthur Charles Clarke has passed away in his adopted home of Sri Lanka...
New instrument offers 12 GHz wireless test solution
Mar 20, 2008
Teradyne Inc.’s new test instrument UltraWave offers wireless customers 12 GHz source and measurement performance, with greater parallel test efficiency to ultimately lower the cost of test...
RTSA aids in fight against corporate espionage
Mar 20, 2008
Due to globalization, decreased employee loyalty and the increasing value of information, corporate espionage is on the rise...
Online subleasing for efficient use of the spectrum
Mar 13, 2008
By Ashok Bindra, Editor The Federal Communications Commission is permitting spectrum owners to sublicense their spectrum and facilitate an open market for spectrum brokering....
Certified module features ZigBee PRO technology
Mar 6, 2008
Engineering services provider National Technical Systems, Inc. said that it has successfully completed certification testing of Telegesis’ ZigBee PRO compliant module ETRX2...
Class A and B instruments gain prominence at PlugFest
Mar 6, 2008
The increase in adoption of LXI (LAN eXtensions for Instrumentation) compliant instruments for Ethernet was evident at this year’s PlugFest, hosted by LXI Consortium...
UDCast, Xpertia create learning environment for mobile TV
Mar 6, 2008
Wireless IP broadcast solutions provider UDcast and Spain’s Xpertia Soluciones Integrales have teamed to create an environment to improve and strengthen DVB-H implementation and study IP generation within DVB-H standards...
Symmetricom's CEO joins ATIS board of directors
Feb 28, 2008
Symmetricom, Inc. has announced that its president and CEO Thomas Steipp has joined the board of directors of the Alliance of Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS)...
WPI Professor gets NSF award for new concepts in wireless networking
Feb 28, 2008
Wenjing Lou, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has received a five-year, $450,000 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF)...
Arcadian Networks gets new CEO
Feb 28, 2008
Arcadian Networks, a wireless communications carrier for energy companies with dispersed assets (electric, gas and water utilities, and oil and gas companies), has promoted Ed Solar as the new chief executive officer (CEO) of the company...
HEDGE transceiver supports multiple radio bands
Feb 19, 2008
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Sequoia Communications displayed HEDGE transceiver’s capability to support HSUPA, TD-SCDMA, S-Band and GMR satellite specifications via extensive testing...
Software tunes baseband chip to multiple radio standards
Feb 19, 2008
Leuven, Belgium based microelectronics research center IMEC has completed design and tape-out of a flexible-air-interface (FLAI) baseband platform for software-defined radio (SDR)...
SP4T antenna tuning switch delivers unparalleled IMD performance
Feb 19, 2008
RF CMOS and mixed-signal communications ICs supplier Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation has released the UltraCMOS based PE42641 SP4T antenna tuning switch delivering an unparalleled IMD performance of -110 dBm...
WiMAX Forum selects conformance test systems
Feb 19, 2008
Aeroflex and AT4 wireless have announced that the WiMAX Forum has selected the Aeroflex/AT4 wireless MINT223X system and the AT4 wireless MINT T2110 system as the official test equipment for WiMAX certification...
R&S joins LTE initiative LSTI
Feb 19, 2008
Last week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain test and measurement instruments supplier Rohde & Schwarz announced that it has joined the LTE/SAE Trial Initiative (LSTI)...
Frequency control supplier eyes mil/space markets
Feb 14, 2008
While continuing to grow in the test & measurement, medical imaging, process control and industrial applications, Vectron International has announced strategic realignment of its business...
Canadian manufacturer acquires L-3’s microwave passives
Feb 14, 2008
Cambridge, Ontario, Canada based COM DEV USA, LLC, a subsidiary of COM DEV International Ltd., has reached an agreement with L-3 Communications to acquire its passive microwave devices product line for $12.2 million...
THOR 5 communications satellite successfully launched from Kazakhstan
Feb 13, 2008
On Monday a Proton launch vehicle successfully lifted a THOR 5 satellite into orbit marking the first mission of the year for the International Launch Services (ILS) of McLean, Va., who managed the mission.
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