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Motorola Inc. has agreed to supply Wateen Telecom-Pakistan with 198,000 end-user WiMAX customer premises equipment (CPE) devices for both indoor and outdoor use. Complementing the company’s nationwide WiMAX network, which is built using Motorola’s 802.16e WiMAX and IMS solutions, the CPE units will provide subscribers in Pakistan with unprecedented...

Tektronix Inc., a provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, announced the addition of DPX™ waveform image processor technology to the mid-range RSA3000B Series Real-Time Spectrum Analyzers that transforms volumes of real-time data and produces a live RF spectrum display that reveals previously unseen RF signals and signal anomalies....

Recent European regulations — the CEPT channel plan [ECC Recommendation (05) 07] for 71-76 GHz and 81 to 86 GHz frequency band radios — has opened up European Union wireless fronthaul, backhaul and network extension markets for point-to-point fixed wireless systems. Consequently, ELVA-1 Millimeter Wave Division has begun offering...

Labtech Microwave, one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of microwave solutions, has attained ISO 14001 reaccreditation, with the aim of continuously developing the company’s environmental working practices. ISO 14001 specifies the requirements for an organization’s environmental management system and applies to those aspects over which it has control and...

The four founders of TTPCom have joined forces with Professor Rick Hillum to form Camitri, a new venture, backed by Imprimatur Capital, that will market intellectual property from world leading universities and research institutes to the communications industry. Gordon Aspin, Mark Collins, Richard Fry and Tony Milbourn were the...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that its N6705A DC Power Analyzer has been awarded four prestigious industry awards: •Test & Measurement World's 2008 Best in Test •Electronic Products' 2007 Product of the Year •Design News' 2007 Golden Mousetrap Award •International Engineering Consortium's 2008 Design Vision Award Finalist The awards recognize...

Avnera™ Corp., a fabless semiconductor company specializing in wired-quality wireless audio, used Jazz Semiconductor's® 0.18-micron RFCMOS process (CA18) to develop its semiconductor chip technology for wireless speakers, microphones, headphones and headsets that solves many interference problems. Avnera’s products include the AudioMagic™ chip, which enables uncompressed CD-quality sound for music...

Acceleware Corp., a developer of high-performance computing (HPC) applications, and Synopsys Inc., a developer of software and IP for semiconductor design and manufacturing, announced a new hardware solution that enables up to 20-times faster electromagnetic simulation of optoelectronic devices such as CMOS image sensors. The solution, which links Synopsys’s...

As the wireless handset market surpasses one billion units shipped per year, application processors are an increasingly important enabler of multimedia capabilities in high-end smartphones and feature phones. However, according to a recent study from ABI Research, this growing market will face several key challenges over the next several...

The US National Football League (NFL) has awarded Anritsu Co. a $500,000 contract to supply it with 36 MS2721B Spectrum Master™ handheld spectrum analyzers. The NFL’s Game Day Frequency Coordinators (GDC) will use the MS2721B spectrum analyzers to research, troubleshoot and analyze the RF spectrum at the league’s 32...