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In-Stat believes that because of the clarity of the ZigBee standard, the organizational strength of the ZigBee Alliance and the involvement of several of the world’s largest semiconductor companies, ZigBee will emerge as the dominant wireless mesh networking technology. Wireless mesh networks are a mosaic of proprietary and non-proprietary...

According to Strategy Analytics’ recent report, “Beyond 3G: Looking for True Mobile Broadband,” new alternative technologies will contribute just six percent of the forecast 500 million mobile broadband users globally by 2010. Despite all the hype surrounding alternative technologies, like WiMAX, it is iterations of existing technologies which will...

Industry News Kulicke & Soffa Industries Inc . closed the previously announced purchase of Alphasem , a supplier of die bonder equipment, from Dover Technologies International Inc., a subsidiary of Dover Corp. The purchase price was $27.1 M in cash, after a working capital adjustment and subject to further...

The 2007 IEEE Radio & Wireless Symposium and Exhibition (RWS), held January 7-12, in Long Beach, CA, featured over 60 exhibitors, many of which introduced new products or new product-related announcements. To conclude our Online Show Daily for RWS 2007, we have compiled a collection of some of the...

Ericsson has signed a supply and delivery contract for PDH microwave radio, MINI-LINK, with Ranks Telecom (RanksTel), a PSTN operator in Bangladesh. The equipment will be used in the expansion of the operator's transmission network across the country, with particular focus on the areas around Comilla, Khulna, Bogra and...

The next generation of mobile communication systems will provide a wide variety of new services, from high quality voice to high definition video and high data-rate wireless channels. Moreover, the systems will provide combined services, including the established wire and wireless communications and broadcasting networks. In order to support...

Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced a new Time Division - Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA) measurement capability for its PSA Series high-performance spectrum analyzers--a test and measurement solution for analysis of HSDPA/8PSK signals over TD-SCDMA. This measurement capability enables R&D engineers to quickly and efficiently troubleshoot and analyze complex...

The industry's most comprehensive development platform utilizing Power Architecture™ technology for the creation of WiMAX base band applications is available now from Freescale Semiconductor . Incorporating high performance PowerQUICC™ communication technology, StarCore™ digital signal processors and a field programmable gate array (FPGA), the WiMAX base band platform works together...

The dynamics of the RF mobile communications market is continuing to pressure engineers to pack more data into a limited spectrum. Ever increasing data rates mean the life span of modulations schemes is shortening. Wide band arbitrary or flexible waveform creation and analysis is fast becoming a key requirement...

M/A-COM , a business unit of Tyco Electronics and a provider of wireless radio frequency (RF), microwave and millimeter-wave components, announced a new low cost RoHS compliant 2.4 GHz linear power amplifier for 802.11b/g Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) WLAN applications that require high gain, high efficiency and small size. The...