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Cassidian has opened a new Engineering Centre in Bengaluru, India, which is the first defence oriented engineering centre operated by a foreign company in India and also a landmark in the company’s strategic goal to establish a long-term partnership with India. The new centre is staffed almost entirely with...

Millimeter-wave links at E-band frequencies can be deployed with minimal interference, allowing more efficient spectrum re-use, reducing coordination requirements, and allowing regulators to adopt a "light licensing" scheme at a fraction of the cost of "traditional" licenses, which has a number of backhaul equipment manufacturers touting its usage. Millimeter-wave...

According to a report recently released by Engalco, multi-billion dollar global markets for ground-based broadband satellite communications transceivers are expected within this decade. A series of spacecraft are being launched with highly broadband throughput capabilities. Hylas1 and Ka-SAT are already in orbit and Ka-SAT’s total throughput is 70 Gbps....

Although spending on RF power semiconductors in wireless infrastructure markets has continued to stagnate, other markets—notably the military—are seeing increased activity. Also, according to a new study from ABI Research, Gallium Nitride—long seen as a promising new “material of choice” for RF power semiconductors—is continuing to gain some market...

LTE equipment expenditure is expected to ramp up quickly in 2011. ABI Research estimates that LTE equipment spending will grow 120 percent in 2011 to reach almost $1 B. This increase is supported by more than 185 deployments and trials around the world. But despite the hype and rhetoric...

Industry News Ceragon Networks Ltd . has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Nera Networks AS (NAS), headquartered in Bergen, Norway, from Eltek ASA. The consideration for the acquisition is approximately $48.5 M on a cash-free/debt-free basis. Both companies’ assets and core...

Software-defined radios (SDR) utilize a combination of FPGAs, DSPs and analog/RF designs to achieve the radio’s system performance. The mixed-signal nature of these SDR designs can introduce system integration testing complexities when the baseband hardware and RF hardware are integrated and tested together. This testing complexity presents itself because...

Cobham has received a five-year, US $45 M long-term agreement from Pratt & Whitney , a United Technologies Corp. company, to manufacture advanced composite products for multiple military aircraft engine applications. Cobham will produce advanced, medium and high temperature composite structures for both the F135 and F119 engines at...

Teledyne Technologies Inc. announced that its subsidiary, Teledyne Brown Engineering Inc. (TBE), Huntsville, AL, has teamed with Lockheed Martin Corp. and Raytheon Co. to pursue the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Objective Simulation Framework (OSF) contract. OSF will provide a modular, reconfigurable system that joins digital and hardware in the...

There are many applications that are presently being researched in the high millimeter-wave/low terahertz frequency range. These applications are supporting many areas, including astronomy, remote sensing, communications, radar systems and homeland security. This standard is being developed to make sure that all of these applications have a commonality and...