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India has doubled its financial contribution to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to CHF 3.18 million per annum. This is an endorsement of the ITU's management and the launch of new global initiatives, including the initiative to Connect the World . The decision also recognizes that Information and Communication...

A major milestone was reached when Acorde took delivery of the first batch of custom MMIC components — LNA, I/Q down converter, dual frequency synthesizer and IF section (separate low pass filter and VGA) — for its RF subsystem, which is being developed as part of the Galileo REceiver...

Avnet Memec , the specialist semiconductor distributor of Avnet Electronics Marketing EMEA , has extended its distribution agreement with Wavecom SA. The company originally received the Wavecom distributorship through the acquisition of ESCO Italiana in October 2006. The strategic partnership is now extended to Germany, France, Austria and Switzerland,...

Harris Stratex Networks Inc. has announced the opening of a new Mexico City office, which will help the company better serve its customers in the rapidly growing wireless transmission market in Latin America. The new office will serve as the company’s regional headquarters, under the direction of Armando Trejo,...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its Melville, New York-based subsidiary, Comtech PST Corp. , has received $8.7 M of orders from a domestic prime contractor to supply broadband, solid-state, high power radio signal jamming amplifiers and switches. These amplifiers and switches, which include the latest solid-state transistor and switching...

TelASIC Communications , supplier of Remote Radio Head (RRH) products for HSDPA/WCDMA, announced the closing of a $12.5 M round led by ATA Ventures. The current TelASIC investors, including Mission Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and The IPO Group, also participated in the round. TelASIC sells Remote Radio Head products to...

Tyco Electronics and OATSystems announced an alliance to offer a RFID solution targeted for industrial manufacturers to quickly realize the business benefits of RFID by automating asset management processes. Asset management across multiple facilities and trading partners has never been more complex. RFID is an obvious solution to automate...

For many years, wireless local area network (WLAN) technologies have worked impeccably when they have an unimpeded path from transmission to reception. The real world is neither flat nor empty, however, and physical barriers have long been the nemesis of WLAN performance. Walls, people and other objects routinely impede...

Introduction Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is not a new technology, with the initial application being IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) used by aircraft during World War 2. Since that time it has found a variety of uses including key fobs, contactless payment, proximity cards for building security, and toll...

IC packaging has become a critical bottleneck to achieving further reductions in the size of wireless products. While Moore’s law provides a continuous increase in the density of digital silicon components with each new process node, there is no Moore’s law for the RF components used in today’s broadband...