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Mandated by the European Commission and supported by the dynamic railway industry in the region, the GSM-R system has established a significant market in Europe. Over the past few years the market extended to regions outside Europe including Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa. Led by Nokia, Kapsch CarrierCom and Huawei, GSM-R track coverage is growing to 190,000 km by 2020.

Orange and Ericsson have successfully used the 3.4-3.6 GHz (3.5 GHz) frequencies for testing data speeds, coverage and FDD carrier aggregation.

Azimuth Systems, Inc., a leading provider of comprehensive real-world wireless test solutions for LTE-Advanced and beyond, announced general availability of the ACE™ RNX radio network emulation platform.

Siklu has signed an agreement with TESSCO Technologies Inc., which will offer Siklu’s full line of EtherHaul millimeter-wave systems for high capacity rooftop and street level connectivity.

The mobile Tetra LTE system from Airbus Defence and Space has passed further functional tests as part of the HochZeN highly mobile cellular networks study, conducted by the German Armed Forces.

 ABI Research estimates that 676 million 4G LTE handsets will be shipped in 2015, growing 204 million units from 2014. Furthermore, ABI Research estimates that the total number of LTE connected devices shipped worldwide will exceed 1.89 billion units by end 2019, demonstrating the need for infrastructure and spectrum to support the stellar growth in the industry. 

 Analog Devices Inc.  introduced the AD9528 JESD204B clock and SYSREF generator defined to support the clock requirements for long-term evolution (LTE) and multicarrier GSM base station designs, defense electronics systems, RF test instrumentation, and other emerging wideband RF GSPS data acquisition signal chains. 

Airtel has partnered with Ericsson to deliver a new, nationwide LTE 800 MHz network to meet growing customer demand for mobile broadband services while delivering superior network performance.

ABI Research expects the small cell backhaul equipment market to exceed $5 billion in 2019, which aligns with operators’ deliberate approach to small cell deployments.

ANADIGICS Inc., a world leader in radio frequency (RF) solutions, announced that the company is shipping production volumes of its AWL9281 front end integrated circuit (FEIC) to Huawei for the new Ascend Mate 7.