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Auriga Measurement Systems LLC announced the addition of Ted Lewis as director of global sales. Lewis has over 20 years of experience of growing sales and building strong customer relations. Previous to Auriga, Lewis was self-employed as a consultant providing specialized services in the development of sales and customer-centered...

Alcatel and Runcom Technologies Ltd. have announced that commercial ready products will be available for early adopters of universal WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e-2005) technology. Enhancing Alcatel's Open Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) Policy, the two companies actively collaborate in different areas such as the development of end to end solutions including...

Agilent Technologies Inc. and AT4 Wireless (formerly known as CETECOM Spain) announced that Agilent's Measurement Systems Division and Wireless Business Unit have won a contract valued at more than US$1 M jointly with AT4 Wireless for fixed and mobile WiMAX conformance test and regulatory test systems with Telecom Technology...

At first glance, China Unicom looks to be in an enviable position. It is one of only two mobile operators – the other, of course, being China Mobile – that covers the world’s largest cell phone market. In August, there were 437.5 million cell phone users in China and...

Following a recommendation by the Foreign Investment Review Board, Australian Treasurer Peter Costello has approved the application by Thales Australia Holdings to acquire the remaining 50 percent of the shares in ADI Group Holdings Pty Ltd. from Transfield Holdings. Thales and Transfield bought ADI in a joint venture from...

The RF to Light 100 rose 3% last week, YTD +14% at 2421. There is a growing feeling among investors that the bull market has caught a second wind. Oil, earnings and speculation fueled the equity markets while US economic growth indicators didn't change. Fading chance of US rate...

Coaxial open-circuit standards are found in many of today’s commercially available vector network analyzer (VNA) calibration kits. 1,2 They are most commonly used as standards in calibration schemes such as short-open-load-through (SOLT). In this capacity, they are assumed to have known characteristics, that is, they are assumed to provide...

The vector signal analyzer (VSA) has several measurement advantages over a spectrum analyzer in the acquisition of bandpass RF signals, including its time-domain capture, which enables measurement of both magnitude and phase information, and its ability to display data in the time and frequency domains. 1,2 The highly sampled,...

Instrument Portfolio This short form catalog includes the company’s complete spectrum of test and measurement solutions and systems. The catalog carries a range of products for the testing of PMR, cellular mobile, cellular network, cellular interoperability, military communications, avionics, signal sources, manufacturing, R&D and parametric. Further product sections include...

IKE Micro , a build-to-print contract manufacturer serving the defense and commercial markets, announced that it was awarded a large order from a division of Tyco Electronics. IKE Micro received an order from M/A-COM , Lowell, MA, for 13,500 amplifier assemblies to support a military radar program. The order...