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Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that it has been awarded a $35 M contract by the US Army. Under the terms of the contract, Agilent will deliver up to 1,600 MXG microwave analog signal generators over seven years to the Army as part of its Test Equipment Modernization (TEMOD) program....

Paradigm Services , part of Astrium Services’ Telecoms division, has entered into a 15-year contract with Telesat , the world’s fourth largest fixed satellite services operator, for the full X-band payload on Telesat’s Anik G1 satellite. Demand for X-band services from civil and military agencies around the world is...

Sarantel Group PLC , a manufacturer of high-performance, miniature antennas for mobile and wireless devices, will outsource its manufacturing operations to Elcoteq 's Tallinn factory in Estonia, with production expected to begin in November 2010. Elcoteq SE provides Sarantel with a respected electronics manufacturing service partner that has already...

Alcatel-Lucent has opened a new regional delivery center (RDC) in Bangalore, India, intended to provide services to manage, operate and maintain multi-vendor fixed and mobile telecommunications networks based in India or anywhere around the world. This is the first center of its kind for the company in the Asia...

AMO GmbH , a private research service provider in the field of nanofabrication, and SUSS MicroTec AG , a supplier of equipment and process solutions for microstructuring in the semiconductor industry and related markets, are working on the development of applications for Substrate Conformal Imprint Lithography (SCIL) with UV-curing...

Rohde & Schwarz has launched a new version of R&S ROMES, a comprehensive drive test solution for LTE. The software accesses data from the R&S TSMW LTE scanner and the LTE USB test terminal. When performing drive tests for network optimization, test engineers are able to measure the transmission...

Astrolab President, Stephen Toma, was presented the SHARP award from New Jersey Commissioner of Labor and Workforce, Harold J. Wirths. Commissioner Wirths commended the management and workers of Astrolab Inc. for their successful and cooperative commitment to workplace safety and presented the company’s safety team with the prestigious Occupational...

Cellular M2M (machine-to-machine) connections continue to show steady growth, and are expected to exceed 297 million in 2015. In the latest update to ABI Research’s forecasts, the 2009 forecast of about 225 million connections by 2014 has also been raised to 232.5 million. Within this worldwide picture, however, are...

Provigent , a provider of System-on-a-Chip (SoC) solutions for the broadband wireless transmission market, announced the development of a 4G backhaul SoC solution for microwave systems. The new solution will enable wireless backhaul systems to support the demanding requirements of 4G backhaul networks. Provigent’s new SoC will enable point-to-point...

Led by Canada and Latin America, regional mobile operators’ spending on backhaul services is expected to show moderate to strong growth to 2015. However, with the exception of the Asia-Pacific region, capital expenditure on microwave backhaul infrastructure will decline—in some cases sharply—after 2010. CAPEX peaked in Western Europe early...