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Reliance Infocomm, a subsidiary of the Reliance Group, has chosen Alvarion of Israel, along with Siemens Public Communication Networks, India, as the suppliers of an LMDS solution for an access network that it is building throughout India. In accordance with the contract, they will take responsibility for design, supply...

EADS Astrium has awarded EMS Technologies’ Space & Technology/Atlanta Division two contracts valued at $6.1 M for key hardware on the United Kingdom’s next-generation military communications satellite system, Skynet 5. It is the first UK satellite programme to be funded through an innovative private finance initiative and is providing...

Alcatel has signed a contract for the supply of a complete solution, including GSM/GPRS/EDGE infrastructure and services, to Investcom in Cyprus. Through Scancom, the local Cypriot company owned by Investcom, the system will become operational on May 1, 2004. Under the terms of the contract, the Evolium solution will...

West technology Research Solutions LLC, a market research firm focusing solely on emerging technologies, announced the availability of the new edition of its ultra-wideband market report that includes an in-depth analysis of the two groups vying for the IEEE UWB specification. “Our analysis demonstrates that the Multiband OFDM Alliance...

Tough competition and the battle for network supremacy are two drivers that will push the market for in-building cellular networks north of $1 B by the end of the decade, according to a new study by research firm ABI. However, limiting further growth in this market are two other...

The enterprise IP-PBX market has moved well beyond the days of protracted testing in enterprise IT labs, and into substantial numbers of user deployments. While businesses are still not likely to upgrade their legacy systems to IP-based systems, nearly all new developments have some degree of IP components. More...

As supply-chain-based RFID tags, readers, software and electronic product code (EPC) guidelines rapidly adapt to meet large retailer mandates, tying together the increasingly complex solutions becomes a larger challenge. Larger hardware and software spends require heavy reader, software and system integration service investments. To date, integration has been a...

Software Defined Radio Architectures, Systems and Functions M. Dillinger, K. Madani and N. Alonistioti, Eds. John Wiley & Sons Inc. 456 pages; $155, £85 ISBN: 0-470-85164-3 For a software defined radio (SDR) system to be useful as an adaptable future-proof solution and to cover both existing and emerging standards,...

As cellular system manufacturers begin to roll-out advanced transceiver and multi-channel power amplifier (MCPA) designs destined for the emerging 2.5G and 3G markets, a new series of robust driver power amplifiers is introduced offering users a lower cost, high performance platform approach to base station infrastructure amplification needs. The...

Modern wireless transmitters generally incorporate circuitry that directly or indirectly measures and regulates transmitted power. There are a number of reasons for this. Cellular standards such as WCDMA, CDMA2000 and GSM/EDGE demand that both base station and handset power be tightly controlled so that spectral leakage into adjacent channels...