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Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its New York-based subsidiary, Comtech PST Corp. , received a $2 M contract for broadband, solid-state, high power RF microwave amplifier system spares from an international original equipment manufacturer (OEM). These spares are being provided in support of previously-fielded communications jamming high power amplifier...

Radio Waves Inc. has announced that a North American wireless communications carrier has selected its high quality microwave antenna systems. Both Radio Waves SP standard performance and HP high performance products as well as Radio Waves newest UHP ultra high performance models will be utilized by the carrier. These...

Agilent Technologies has launched the N5106A PXB MIMO Receiver Tester for quicker, more accurate testing of Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) receivers earlier in the design cycle. In supporting 2 by 2, 2 by 4 and 4 by 2 MIMO with a bandwidth of 120 MHz the tester delivers up-to-date, versatile signal...

Agilent Technologies announced that TSMC has certified the accuracy, performance and compatibility of Agilent’s GoldenGate RFIC circuit simulator for baseband designs targeting TSMC’s 65LP nanometer (nm) and 40LP nm processes. The TSMC SPICE Tool Qualification Program targets TSMC’s 65/40 nm and smaller geometry process technologies, delivering improved device model...

WiMAX service providers have a rich environment to create real business, not only providing services to traditional customers, but also to developing a solid ecosystem with other technology developers which are seeking for enhancing their WiMAX-based developed products. This developed ecosystem facilitates certain advantages for all ecosystem partners and...

Characterization of digital communication systems and related RF hardware relies on complex test systems. These systems play a critical role in design and production performance evaluation. The building blocks of a digital communication system often require simultaneous time and frequency domain analyses, blurring the lines between the dedicated functions...

Any reader who believed all the recent headlines would feel confident that the WiMAX market is being crushed by LTE. Nortel has left the WiMAX market and Alcatel-Lucent has “backed off” from WiMAX; and these developments supposedly dealt a blow to Clearwire, which had so far chosen neither as...

LTE is continuing to gain momentum, and for some operators it cannot come soon enough, states the latest report from Analysys Mason entitled Operator strategies for network evolution: the road to LTE, which details how wireless data traffic will increase tenfold in developed markets in the period to 2015....

At the end of 2008, only 11 percent of worldwide wireless subscriptions were 3G. By the end of 2013, the percentage of 3G and 4G subscriptions will reach 30 percent, reports In-Stat. This trend is reflected in fourth quarter 2008 wireless infrastructure contract awards. Looking forward, WiMAX will have...

As one of the first major global events of the year the 2009 GSMA Mobile World Congress was not only eagerly awaited for the technology and evolutionary clues that it would divulge, but also as a barometer of the impact of the global downturn on an industry that has...