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As mobile data traffic exceeds 3.67 exabytes, operators are gearing up to prepare for 4G services as a means to manage that growth, reduce OPEX and stimulate new revenue opportunities. According to ABI Research Vice President for Forecasting Jake Saunders, “We estimate that mobile operators could well be writing...

API Technologies Corp. , a provider of highly engineered products and services to the global defense sector, announced the availability of the API™ CFT synthesizer. With a fast switching speed of 2 microseconds, this compact synthesizer has a frequency of 1.60 to 18 GHz in a single, ruggedized package...

The classification “ultra-mobile device” (UMD) in this case encompasses media tablets, netbooks, mobile Internet devices (MID) and eBook readers, and together they comprise one of the fastest-growing consumer product markets in the world. All these products need ICs, and according to the latest ABI Research forecasts, this demand could...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that its IC-CAP Wafer Professional (WaferPro) software has been successfully deployed at STMicroelectronics . WaferPro adds new capabilities to Agilent’s Integrated Circuit and Analysis Program (IC-CAP) software platform to enable efficient, automated on-wafer measurements for device modeling applications. STMicroelectronics uses IC-CAP as a device modeling...

Freescale Semiconductor unveiled three advanced industrial RF power transistors at an ideal price/performance ratio for original equipment manufacturers (OEM). The enhanced rugged capability combined with leading-edge RF performance enables OEMs to realize significant cost savings at the system level for industrial and commercial aerospace designs. Freescale’s MRFE6VP5600H/S and MRFE6VP61K25H/S...

Model 1179 from Empower RF Systems is a recent addition to the company’s portfolio of building block designs incorporating the latest GaN device technologies and control functionality. The module delivers 100 W PSat over 500 to 2500 MHz at typical efficiencies of 45 percent. The new smaller size (8...

Plessey Semiconductors and the University of Sussex, UK, have announced a new, innovative and disruptive technology called the Electric Potential Sensor (EPS). This is a completely new area of sensor technology that measures changes in an electric field in a similar way to a magnetometer detecting changes in a...

NEC Corp. is participating in KDDI Corp. ’s field trials of Long Term Evolution (LTE), which is scheduled for commercial operation from 2012. The trial started in October 2010 from an urban area featuring high population density, a wide range of buildings and using a 1.5 GHz band, the...

Wired and wireless connectivity product manufacturer, L-com Inc. , has announced the completion of its new sales, manufacturing and administrative facility near Shanghai, China. The new facility is the company's fourth full-service business location, with the others located in Massachusetts, Florida and at its global headquarters in North Andover,...

Direct On PC Limited , a leading Internet Service Provider in West Africa, has chosen to deploy Aviat Networks’ StarMAX™ WiMAX Broadband system including base stations, Wireless Services Gateway (WSG) and end-user devices in order to provide broadband services to underserved areas of Nigeria. The wireless infrastructure equipment and...