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As the demand for energy efficiency increases, more electronics are being designed with switching regulators in place of linear regulators. Power systems with multiple switching regulators are becoming commonplace; as the number of regulators increases, the impact of electromagnetic interference (EMI) also grows. One of the simplest, most cost-effective...

Online marketing has been the buzz for many years now. Websites, webinars, whitepapers, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, LinkedIn. I could go on. And at MWJ, we embrace the web and all that it offers for information gathering, networking and lead generation. It’s a vital component of any integrated marketing program....

The Boeing Co. and Northrop Grumman Corp. announced a strategic partnership in pursuing the competitive development and sustainment contract for future work on the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system for the US Missile Defense Agency. "Boeing takes great pride in supporting the Missile Defense Agency on GMD, providing 24/7/365...

ThalesRaytheonSystems has been awarded a $21.8 M contract by the US Army to upgrade multiple AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel air defense radar systems. This award is an option to the existing upgrade contract originally awarded in June 2007. The contract will upgrade the US Army Sentinel radar transmitters, receivers and exciters,...

Lockheed Martin has delivered the first satellite in the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) program to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, where it will be prepared for a July 30 liftoff aboard an Atlas V launch vehicle. The AEHF system will provide the US military and national leaders...

A group of 15 leading telecommunications service providers, component and infrastructure vendors, and academic institutions have launched Energy Aware Radio and Network Technologies (EARTH), a consortium whose goal is to achieve a 50 percent reduction in the energy consumption of 4G mobile wireless communication networks within the next two-and-a-half...

ETSI and NGMN have announced the creation of the ETSI Industry Specification Group on Open Radio equipment Interface (ISG ORI) that will specify an open interoperable interface for radio equipment in distributed mobile cellular base stations--GSM, UMTS and LTE. ISG ORI is a direct result of requirement work undertaken...

Thirteen leading UK universities have joined with British Design Innovation (BDI)—the trade organisation for leading industrial design, service design and innovation consultancies—to form a national University Design Industry Partnership Scheme (UDIPS), in a bid to create world-changing innovations, products and processes. The scheme underscores the value private sector industrial...

The Hyderabad Action Plan, adopted by the ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC-10), outlined a road map to foster the global development of information and communication technology (ICT) networks and services over the next four-year cycle. The roll out of next-generation networks (NGN) and increased access to broadband services,...

The escalated Radio Access Network (RAN) data rates for 4G networks are placing new demands on infrastructure and supporting hardware, requiring significant bandwidth upgrades (anywhere from 50 to 200 Mbps) to base stations and the backhaul layer. Aside from capacity, another less apparent impact relates to the shift to...