RF & Microwave Industry News

China Mobile Research Institute and SkyCross Demonstrate Tunable MIMO Antenna for Multimode, Multiband Handsets

China Mobile Research Institute and SkyCross announced a demonstration of a tunable, MIMO antenna design for multimode, multiband handsets in LTE deployments around the globe. The world’s first compact, tunable MIMO antenna covers 12 frequency bands ranging from 700 MHz to 2.7 GHz for TD LTE/LTE FDD/TD SCDMA/GSM EDGE/WCDMA...
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GigOptix Completes Acquisition of Endwave Corp.

GigOptix Inc. , a supplier of semiconductor and optical components that enable high speed information streaming, announced that at a special Endwave Corp. stockholders meeting, the stockholders voted to approve the acquisition of Endwave by GigOptix Inc. At the meeting, holders of more than 55 percent of the outstanding...
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Vislink Acquires Gigawave

Vislink plc , a global technology business specialising in secure communications products and services for the news and entertainment and law enforcement and public safety markets, announced that on 2nd June 2011 it acquired the entire issued share capital of Gigawave Ltd. for a cash consideration of 3.75 M...
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Military Microwaves Newsletter - June 2011

Monthly Military Update: Expert Insights View in Web browser June 16, 2011 Get Agilent's free application notes focused on antenna and RCS measurements, radar signal simulation, advanced analysis techniques and more As technology evolves so do the challenges in detection, avoidance, electronic warfare and countermeasures. Testing today's systems benefit...
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3G Femtocells Now Outnumber Conventional 3G Basestations Globally

Operator deployments grow 60% in last quarter to 31 including eight of the top 10 global mobile operator groups
Informa Telecoms & Media issued its latest femtocell market status report which revealed that there are now in excess of 2.3 million 3G femtocells globally compared to 1.6 million 3G macrocells, highlighting the growing popularity of the technology. There are now 31 commercial femtocell services worldwide which represents over...
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