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The uptake of Wi-Fi within healthcare has grown at more than 60 percent over the past 12 months in both wireless local area network and Wi-Fi RTLS (Real-Time Locations Systems) deployments, and high double-digit growth is expected to continue for at least the medium term. Other wireless technologies being...

Polaris Wireless , a leader in high accuracy, software-based wireless location solutions, and Globecomm Systems Inc. , a provider of satellite and terrestrial communications infrastructure solutions and services, announced a partnership designed to enable US wireless operators to more quickly, easily and cost effectively meet Federal Communications Commission (FCC)...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the addition of two source measure units (SMU) to its N6700 Series Modular Power Systems -- the N6781A 2-quadrant source measure unit for battery drain analysis and the N6782A 2-quadrant source measure unit for functional test. The new SMUs offer advanced sourcing and measurement capabilities...

NEC Corp. has established its new Middle East and Africa business operations in Turkey. The new entity, NEC Telecommunication and Information Technology Ltd. (NECTIT), is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Europe Ltd. With this new facility NEC will provide wireless communication hardware...

RF and microwave component specialist Link Microtek has been appointed as the UK and Ireland representative for Scottish manufacturer MESL Microwave . Serving the radar, communications, defence, aerospace and space industries, MESL Microwave produces a wide variety of ferrite-based devices and subsystems, including isolators, circulators, SAW pulse compression products,...

Orbit Technologies Ltd. , a supplier of satellite communications, tracking antennas and audio inter-communication management systems, has received additional orders from large satellite communications companies in Brazil for its OrSat satellite communications systems, to be installed on offshore Oil and Gas platforms. These latest additions bring the total worth...

Lime Microsystems’ single-chip multi-band multi-standard RF transceiver has been selected by Global Wireless Technologies (GWT) for the latest version of its Universal Access Point (UAPTM) femtocell, the UAP106/232. The UAP106/232 is a configurable platform for femtocells supporting WCDMA and CDMA2000 standards and is software upgradeable to support 4G LTE....

TowerJazz , a specialty foundry leader, announced it was selected by Toppan Technical Design Center Co. Ltd. (TDC) as its preferred specialty foundry supplier. TowerJazz has successfully engaged in multiple specialty design projects in Japan with TDC in the area of Silicon Germanium (SiGe) BiCMOS technologies used for high...

Ducommun Inc. announced that its Ducommun Technologies Inc. subsidiary, a current supplier of lighted push button switches, time delay relays and TCAS switches to The Boeing Co. , has been awarded a contract to deliver the Next-Generation 737 engine start switches. These rotary switches, currently being designed and qualified...