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Professor J. David Rhodes, CBS, FRS, FR Engineering Emeritus Professor at the University of Leeds, will be the plenary session speaker on Monday, June 6 at the IEEE MTT-S 2011 International Microwave Symposium (IMS). Since founding Filtronic more than 30 years ago, Rhodes has received the OBE (the Officer...

Booming bandwidth demand for backhauling major wireless carriers 3G, 4G and Long-Term Evolution (LTE) services has turned FiberTower , one of the largest alternative backhaul providers in the United States, to DragonWave Inc. products for high-capacity packet microwave. DragonWave’s Horizon Compact is being deployed to support FiberTower’s microwave-based packet...

The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) announced the results of its quarterly Wafer Fabrication and Back-End Pricing Survey, analyzing prices paid per wafer and mask set and for outsourced assembly services by fabless semiconductor companies and integrated device manufacturers (IDM). The results of the Q1 2011 Wafer Fabrication & Back-End...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced shipment of the latest release of its flagship RF and microwave design and simulation platform, Advanced Design System 2011. As the industry's most comprehensive multi-technology design platform, ADS 2011 represents a significant breakthrough in electronic design automation. Agilent also announced that its work with GaAs/GaN...

After several years of intensive technical development, Protium Technologies Inc. is shipping the P6010 tuner, an advanced yet inexpensive component from the company’s growing SIGINT receiver product line. The SDR/FPGA-based modular design covers the 20 to 6,000 MHz frequency range in a small brick package specifically designed for cost-sensitive...

Alcatel-Lucent has been selected by China Mobile to participate in the world's largest 4G TD-LTE trial network deployment in China. This qualification follows successful completion of various interoperability tests that are required by the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information (MIIT) and China Mobile. Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell is one...

In a contract worth more than €4 M, Thales Alenia Space España , has provided Orbital Sciences Corp. with advanced telecommunications systems for Telemetry, Tracking and Command (TTC) data for the Cygnus unmanned cargo resupply vehicle. The contract covers the design, manufacturing, and supply for three TTC telecommunication systems...

Luso Electronics , a supplier and installer of microwave systems and components, has introduced a low-loss alternative to standard WR75 and WR62 for cross-site runs between switching networks and antennas. The Signal Wave System (SWS), which also offers increased power handling capability over traditional waveguides, gives worthwhile savings on...

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is relying on Cadence Design Systems to create and maintain design environments for internal design teams as well as for design teams in a number of collaborating physics institutes throughout Europe and the United States. The company helps CERN by leveraging the...

TowerJazz , a global specialty foundry leader, announced its Aerospace and Defense Business Unit has expanded its multi-project wafer (MPW) services to include CMOS image sensors (CIS) in addition to high-speed SiGe and SOI RF CMOS. These offerings will be available for on-shore or ITAR controlled prototype and manufacturing...