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Intercellular Nigeria Ltd., a private telecommunications operator in Nigeria, has selected Harris Corp. to provide microwave radio links for a multi-million dollar network expansion. Taking advantage of the rapid and easy deployment of the company's family of digital PDH microwave radios, the Harris line of radio systems will enable...

Scandinavian train operator, SJ, has awarded Icomera the €11 million contract to equip its fleet with the company’s Wireless Onboard Internet Service. Under the terms of the contract Icomera will deliver its Intercity Edition for the current X2000 train type and Commuter Edition for the new X40 fleet. Significantly...

Three factors will conspire to put progress in RFID implementation on ice for the immediate future, according to ABI Research. Erik Michielsen, director of RFID and Ubiquitous Wireless at the technology analyst firm, says that “by themselves, none of the three situations is a deal-breaker, but their cumulative effect...

The ZigBee standard has arrived. Just as ABI Research forecast earlier this year, the ZigBee standard was ratified recently. ABI Research has based its ZigBee shipments and ASP forecasts on the assumption that the ZigBee ratification would take place at the end of 2004. The recent ratification by the...

2005 will witness two major commercial telematics developments across multiple continents, according to ABI Research. United Parcel Service (UPS) will introduce the first of 70,000 new Delivery Information Acquisition Devices (DIAD) it intends to deploy over the next three years, starting in the US and Europe (DIADs are the...

RF and Microwave Power Amplifier Design Andrei Grebennikov McGraw-Hill 432 pages; $99.99 ISBN: 0-07-144493-9 The main objective of this book is to present all the relevant information required for RF and microwave power amplifier design, including well-known and novel theoretical approaches and practical design techniques as well as to...

One hundred years on from the invention of radar the 7th European Microwave Week (EuMW) fittingly marked the anniversary with the birth of a new conference (EuRAD) that ran alongside the existing three conferences and industrial exhibition. Naturally, the event, held at the RAI Centre in Amsterdam last October,...

Enhanced performance is needed from antennas, radomes and other microwave components to support ever-increasing functionality for military communications, electronic warfare (EW), electronic intelligence (ELINT), signal intelligence (SIGINT) and electromagnetic interference (EMI) measurement applications. There is a continuing demand for antennas with broader bandwidth and better controlled radiation patterns while...

Micro-Ant Inc. is an innovative antenna design, development and manufacturing company whose engineers have extensive experience with reducing complex, sophisticated antenna systems to robust, low cost commercial, military, government and consumer products. The company recognizes the ever-growing need for new antennas to meet the changing requirements of the communication...

Teledyne Relays transformed the industry in 1961 by introducing the TO-5 relay. Today, an equally innovative step has been made with the introduction of the Series RF522 relay, a compact, double-pole, double-throw (DPDT), surface-mount latching device for applications up to 10 GHz. The new relay is an extremely small...