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The Fleetwood Group, a US-based designer and manufacturer of RF audience response keypads and voting systems, has standardized on Nordic Semiconductor ’s nRF24L01+ 2.4 GHz transceivers in its latest Ativa® audience voting system. Fleetwood currently ships around one million RF keypads a year to some of the world's largest...

Celcite Management Solutions , a provider of network optimization tools for wireless networks, is expanding its activity in the rapidly-developing African markets, focused on the deployment of Customized Optimization and Self Performing Solutions (COPS), the company’s flagship, multi-suite, multi-technology, vendor agnostic, network optimization solution. To facilitate this expansion, the...

NXP , the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips , and STMicroelectronics , a leader in secure smart card chips, have announced a global strategic licensing agreement for NXP’s MIFARE™ technology. This agreement enables STMicroelectronics to integrate the entire MIFARE family into its security solutions for mobile phone and...

Narda , an L-3 Communications company, introduced the Model FO-MDA-20-25DD-1, a dual-channel DQPSK modulator driver for 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s optical transponder applications that has been tested at data rates as high as 113 Gb/s, demonstrating excellent performance even at the highest data rates. The FO-MDA-20-25DD-1 is designed...

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD®), a leader in the design and manufacture of high performance semiconductor components, announced RFMD has received its first purchase order from a tier-one wireless base station original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for a product featuring RFMD's state-of-the-art gallium nitride (GaN) process technology. The purchase order...

Radiall USA Inc. expands its EPXB and QM connector insert arrangements with the release of two new configurations. These two high density inserts, 48 (48 size 22 contacts) and 69 (69 size 24 contacts), offer optimized space for signal contacts, a gain of 20 percent more contacts for the...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corp. , received orders totaling $7.6 M under its Movement Tracking System, or MTS contract, with the US Army. Total orders received to date against the $605.1 M MTS contract increased to $589.8 M. The orders are for...

Because of the unique characteristics of the specification, LTE mobile infrastructure will require components with high linearity and low loss in very small form factors; they must also operate with low power consumption. Manufactured using UltraCMOS, the Peregrine PE43204 digital step attenuator (DSA) meets these complex demands. It is...