Industry News

RSS

The UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) has earmarked £236.5 M for investment to develop large-scale research facilities and projects in its science portfolio. The investment, which was announced by the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS), is being made available through the UK Government’s Large Facilities...

EADS Defence & Security (DS) will modernize the identification systems of the German Armed Forces and of NATO’s early warning aircraft in order to meet the latest air traffic control standards and to increase safety in air traffic. Defence Electronics (DE), an integrated activity of DS, has been awarded...

In a contract worth £100 M, the UK Ministry of Defence has selected the Advanced Radar Target Indication Situational Awareness and Navigation (ARTISAN) 3D radar to provide the next generation of medium range radars (MRR) for the majority of the current Royal Navy (RN) surface fleet and for the...

Nokia and Qualcomm have entered into a new agreement covering various standards, including GSM, EDGE, CDMA, WCDMA, HSDPA, OFDM, WiMAX, LTE and other technologies. Under the terms of the new 15-year agreement, Nokia has been granted a license under all Qualcomm’s patents for use in Nokia’s mobile devices and...

RF & Wireless Technologies: Know it All Newnes, an imprint of Elsevier 846 pages; $55.95, £29.99 ISBN: 978-0-7506-8581-8 Few areas of technology are as dynamic and fast-growing as RF and wireless. Recent years have seen myriad new technologies and devices introduced, with many more on the way. Keeping fully...

TECOM Industries , a Smiths Interconnect company that is part of the global technology business Smiths Group, and German antenna developer QEST Quantenelektronische Systeme GmbH announced a teaming agreement to jointly produce and market airborne broadband antennas for in-flight connectivity. In response to the growing market demand, the partnership...

PT Indosat Tbk , Indonesia’s second largest mobile phone carrier, has selected NEC Corp. to implement a mobile backhaul IP migration project that utilizes existing networks to transfer systems into the latest IP structure. The project will utilize NEC’s ultra-compact PASOLINK microwave communications systems and CX2600 service consolidation switches....

As part of its work for the Advanced Materials for Ubiquitous Leading-edge Electromagnetic Technologies (AMULET) research project, Vector Fields , a part of Cobham plc, has released practical design tools to help RF designers exploit the properties of metamaterials. Metamaterials can provide a means to enhance the performance and...

SUSS MicroTec Test Systems has received an order from a major Asian semiconductor memory manufacturer for its PA300PS with ProbeShield® Technology, the 300 mm wafer-level probe system for device characterization and reliability test. The decision follows a six-month, head-to-head comparison against the incumbent and major competition for wafer-level test...

Ericsson has signed the largest single contract in Vietnam, amounting to $450 M, to develop and modernize Hanoi Telecom 's nationwide mobile network. The strategic partnership, a first in Vietnam, will also see the company managing and operating the network under a full-scope managed three-year services contract. Under the...