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While LTE is destined to become the dominant wireless airlink, several formidable challenges will make its widespread adoption slower than many expect. For starters, spectrum has to be cleared, licensed and either allocated or sold off before LTE takes hold. As every country has its own telecommunications regulations, these...

Capital expenditure on mobile backhaul varies greatly by region and by technology. While most countries face similar current or future struggles to reduce network congestion, the solutions being adopted differ according to existing infrastructure, network generations, and government mandates and incentives. One major division is whether to use optic...

A recent survey of 2,000 consumer technology users conducted by ABI Research in the United States has revealed that nearly half of smartphone users say they have already, or soon will, use their phones to do mobile shopping. Fifty-three percent also use, or intend to use, their smartphones for...

TiaLinx Inc. , a developer of miniaturized mm-wave radars with integrated radio and antenna arrays, announced the launch of the Cougar10-L. The all terrain mini-robot system is capable of performing dual functions as Sense-Through-The-Wall Imager as well as an underground UXO and cavity detection unit controlled at an extended...

Companies active in the defense industry must accurately identify technology trends for advanced defense systems, including radar, communications, electronic warfare and EO/IR. Analyzing the financial performance across a range of companies, Strategy Analytics analysis indicates that with defense budgets being cut, the defense industry was in the early stages...

I recently returned from the APMC event in Yokohama, Japan. Now I don’t mind travelling and I’m certainly used to the travails of business travel after all these years, but this was a particularly brutal journey. It basically took two days to get there with the flight and time...

The design of a highly integrated Ka-band TX front-end module is presented. The integration and packaging techniques, which combine the LTCC front-end module with the LO signal generation board, the IF distribution board and the cooling system are considered in detail. The efficient RF design process of the different...

The finite element method (FEM) has been widely adopted as an analysis and design tool in many electrical engineering disciplines such as antennas, microwave and signal integrity. An FEM solver offers several important advantages over other numerical methods, including method of moments (MoM) or finite difference time domain (FDTD)....

Figure 1 Reader-Transponder-reader link in the passive UHF RFID system. Radio frequency identification (RFID) is an automatic wireless technology for data transfer developed in the 1970s. This technology has been developing in recent years and has become popular in many service industries, purchasing and distribution logistics, industry, manufacturing companies...

Raytheon Co. has received a contract from Boeing for the production of advanced APG-63(V)3 Active Electronically Scanned Array radars. The US Air Force and the US Air National Guard will receive radars from the contract and deliveries will begin in the second quarter of 2011. The radars are intended...