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In recent years, advances within two fields have had a major impact on how filters are designed today. One is the advent of powerful electromagnetic (EM) software, which provides results that are close to measurements. However, analysis and optimization of complete filters is often too resource and time consuming...

Blogging: My first experience at blogging came with an invitation from editor David Vye to contribute a guest blog on the Microwave Journal website. It was like a jump into the deep end of the pool! I had never blogged prior and certainly not imagined such a prominent place...

Welcome to the April edition of The WaveGuide . Here in New England, the sun is shining, the flowers are blooming and spring is in the air. The Boston Marathon is around the corner and the baseball season marathon has just begun. The MTT-S IMS is rapidly approaching and...

Few people have more IMS exhibition experience than Microwave Journal ’s Marketing and Event Coordinator, Kristen Anderson (nee Dednah). Kristen helped manage the exhibition for over a decade. Think the logistics for your booth are complicated? Try multiplying those challenges by the total number of IMS exhibitors, year-in and...

TECOM Industries Inc. , a Smiths Interconnect business, announced the opening of a new manufacturing facility dedicated to commercial SATCOM antenna systems. The new facility is located at 951 Lawrence Drive, Newbury Park, CA 91320, six miles from the company’s main facility in Thousand Oaks, CA. In early 2009...

Figure 1 Basic components of a transceiver front end. Modern communication systems need new filters, diplexers and multiplexers to meet electrical performance, size and manufacturing cost requirements, which are difficult to achieve using classical topologies. Diplexers are widely used in communication systems for reducing mass and volume of the...

The number of mobile operators who have committed to deploy LTE advanced mobile broadband systems has more than doubled in the past year, according to the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) as confirmed in the April 2010 update of its Evolution to LTE Report . There are now 64...

The Netherlands Defence Materiel Organization and Thales Nederland have signed a contract for the delivery and installation of an Integrated Mast that is to be installed on the Joint Logistic Support Ship (JSS). This Integrated Mast is an I-Mast 400, identical to those that are to be installed on...

Alcatel-Lucent has enhanced its microwave packet radio portfolio for the North American market with additional features and support for additional frequency bands to better address the needs of mobile service providers as they deal with the data increase caused by the rapid growth of high-bandwidth interactive consumer applications. The...

The LTE Forum 2010 will take place in Stockholm, Sweden, on April 27 to 28. It will bring operators, vendors, end-users, regulators, experts, analysts and the media together to discuss, debate and discover trends and strategies of the Next Generation Mobile technology, LTE. According to the latest studies, the...