Industry News

Microwave News: July 7-11, 2008

Last week’s microwave news included a healthy number of contract and agreement type announcements, but was pretty light with new product releases. Here are some of the announcements: Micronetics Inc. announced that its New Jersey-based subsidiary, Microwave Concepts , has received $4 M of advanced funding from a major...
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A Test and Measurement Retrospective — 75 Years of Rohde & Schwarz

This is the story of how a two-man laboratory grew into a global group of companies
This is the story of how a two-man laboratory grew into a global group of companies, how international success was achieved and how it is all connected to the history of microwaves. Even before starting their company, Dr. Lothar Rohde and Dr. Hermann Schwarz jointly developed their first measurement...
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Smiths Goes Down Under to Acquire Triasx

Smiths Group , the global technology company, has acquired Triasx Pty Ltd. , a wireless communications components manufacturer based in Brisbane, Australia. With a total of approximately 160 employees located in Brisbane and Suzhou, China Triasx posted estimated sales of £12.5 M for the 12-month period that ended on...
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Company Profiles: Then

In the early years of Microwave Journal , the editors ran a monthly series focused on the pioneering companies of the industry, highlighting their technical achievements and formulas for growth. We have featured several of them in the following pages. Company Profile: Hewlett-Packard (PDF download - 7.9 MB) Company...
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Catalog Update

Demonstration Guide A new technical overview with a self-guided demonstration is now available for WiMAX test developers and application engineers. The guide shows how the Agilent N8300A wireless networking test set can be used with the Agilent N6301A 802.16 OFDM and OFDMA measurement applications and the Agilent N7615B Signal...
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New Waves

Components SP32T Switch with Decoder The model MSN-32DT-05-DEC-MP is a port-to-port phase matched, SP32T switch, with options 100M20, PM10 that operates within a frequency range from 100 MHz to 20 GHz. The switch offers an amplitude balance of ±1.2 dB maximum and is phase matched to ±10° maximum. The...
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The Book End

History of Wireless T.K. Sarkar, R.J. Mailloux, A.A. Oliner, M. Salazar-Palma and D.L. Sengupta, Eds. 674 pages; $59.95 • Wiley-Interscience ISBN: 978-0-471-71814-7 Traditionally used to transmit radio signals, wireless technology has experienced explosive growth in recent years and now comprises a large share of the telecommunications industry. Challenging traditional...
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Career Corner

The June Career Column discussed the job market as a resource for companies’ marketing. This month we will demonstrate how to increase the return on job postings by handling them as act of sales and employing marketing communication disciplines. The idea that attracting talent is “selling” the position is...
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Comtech Awarded $2.5 M for SATCOM High Power Amplifiers

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its Melville, New York-based subsidiary, Comtech PST Corp. , has received $2.5 M of orders for high power amplifiers from a provider of aviation electronics and communication systems. These amplifiers are utilized as part of satellite communications systems that provide commercial mobile airborne-to-satellite-to-ground communications...
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