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The future of wireless communications is about its evolution from a technology to a resource—as common to our experience as water and electricity. In order to get there, though, the industry has to overcome some significant design challenges in mobile devices, many of which will be helped by advancements...

Persistent surveillance, assuring identification and affecting the threat all sound like military terms in the protection of the free world. They are, of course, but they equally apply to other phenomena that affect the quality of life. The future pull and push of RF technology will continue to provide...

Company History Aethercomm was founded in June 1999 by Todd Thornton, Terri Thornton, Jim Daube, Ed Takacs, Dr. Larry Larson and Dr. Peter Asbeck in the Thorntons’ living room. We moved to our current facilities in January 2000. Aethercomm designs and manufactures RF and microwave systems and subsystems for...

In the following advertorial section, Microwave Journal presents the milestones and technical achievements of companies that have made and continue to make significant contributions to the microwave industry. Aethercomm Agilent Technologies AMC Anritsu Ansoft AR ARC Technologies AWR Daico Industries EADS North America HUBER+SUHNER IFI Tyco Electronics M/A-COM MECA...

We start this story of the microwave industry with the invention of the cavity magnetron in England under wartime pressures. By 1939, English scientists had already installed a coastal radar system. Based on the early success of radar, the British military now desired radar sets small enough to fit...

On October 21, 1805, flying splinters of wood wreak carnage in the battle of Trafalgar as the final and perhaps greatest sailing ship battle of all time is fought to its gory end. Twenty-seven of Lord Nelson’s British battle ships with 2150 cannon face Napoleon’s fleet of 33 French...

Note From The Editor: Then --> An early editorial column from Ted Saad, Microwave Journal ’s first editor, originally published in September/ October of 1958. One of the most important policies of "the microwave journal" is to strive for balance of content without diluting the quality of the magazine....

William Bazzy’s introductory message from the publisher, from the July/August 1958 issue of Microwave Journal. This is the first issue of "the microwave journal." Our objective is simply to offer a forum to the industry and be the means of communication for the people in this segment of the...

Company History Agilent Technologies, a spin-off of Hewlett-Packard Co., broke records on Nov. 18, 1999 as the largest initial public offering (IPO) in Silicon Valley history. The US $2.1 billion raised from that IPO was a sharp contrast to the $538 in working capital that founders Bill Hewlett and...

Company History In 1978, Mr. Raymond L. Sicotte founded American Microwave Corporation (AMC). Originally AMC manufactured ferrite products and eventually expanded and developed complete product lines of solid state microwave switches, voltage variable attenuators operating up to 18 GHz. AMC has been dedicated to providing state of the art...