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Harris Corp. and Cubic Developing Integrated System For Delivering Tactical Video To Battlefield

Harris Corp. and Cubic Corp. have conducted technology demonstrations that significantly enhance intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) situational awareness by distributing Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) video and targeting data across wideband ground tactical communication networks. The Harris/Cubic solution integrates Cubic's Common Data Link (CDL) transceiver technology for receiving video...
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Total Global DAS Revenue to Surpass 13 Billion in 2015

Cellular reception issues are becoming more acute as mobile access devices are designed to handle more data-rich applications. Adding new macro base stations has been the traditional way of creating new mobile capacity. However, cell tower locations are becoming harder to acquire, and the cost of new base stations...
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SHENTEL Deploys PROTEUS™ Spectrum Conditioning Solution from ISCO International to Increase Capacity and Improve 3G Network Performance and Coverage

ISCO International, LLC, a leading provider of flexible spectrum conditioning solutions for wireless service providers, today announced that Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel) has successfully implemented ISCO’s Proteus™ spectrum conditioning equipment in order to increase capacity, improve performance and provide a superior customer experience from Shentel’s PCS network. The implementation...
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Peregrine Unveils Digitally Tunable Capacitors

Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. announced availability of the RoHS-compliant PE64904 and PE64905 DuNE™ Digitally Tunable Capacitors (DTC). The new 5-bit, 32-state digitally controlled variable capacitors provide a monolithically integrated impedance tuning solution for demanding RF applications. These UltraCMOS™-based devices enable wide-band tunable networks, minimizing mismatch losses, improving system efficiency and...
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Active Spectrum Displayed the Latest High Performance Miniature Filters

Active Spectrum Inc. demonstrated the latest tunable filter technology for co-site interference mitigation in next generation cellular radio, wireless communication and radar systems at the 2011 International Microwave Symposium in Baltimore, MD. Next generation radar and wireless communication systems have stringent requirements for transmit and receive isolation, and future...
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TowerJazz Announces Agreement With Tecnopolis Del Sur

TowerJazz announced a signed agreement with Public and Private Consortium Tecnopolis del Sur (Tecnopolis del Sur) to help foster research and technological development in Argentina to enable product competitiveness in the international market. The terms of the agreement include training of the R&D groups of Tecnopolis del Sur by...
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Trends in Multi-functional MMIC Design

The age of single microwave components as the fundamental building blocks of microwave subsystems is rapidly coming to an end. Desires for smaller-sized systems, higher reliability, and most urgently, lower-cost systems, are driving an accelerating shi...
In the MMIC arena, microwave functions previously achieved with a chain of multiple single-function MMICs are being replaced with more highly integrated, application-specific, multi-function MMICs. As a result, functions recently requiring 10 to 15 individual MMICs are now being designed with as few as four MMICs. Similarly in the...
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New Generation High Linearity Navigation Front-end Devices Covering GPS and GLONASS

Receiver front-ends for Global Navigation Satellite Systems are required to provide the lowest noise figure, even in the vicinity of high power jammer signals. The design challenges are illustrated and solutions, which comply with the requirements of h...
Today, a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is much more than GPS, which was introduced for civilian use more than a decade ago. Nations around the world are working on their own navigation satellite systems for strategic reasons and also to offer improved user experience. Today, two GNSS systems...
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