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TRAK Microwave announced the award of a contract valued at over $4 M for a high performance Integrated Microwave Assembly (IMA) from a customer located outside the United States. "This recurring contract award from a most valued US-Allied customer demonstrates that TRAK's investments in factory automation and process controls...

Sypris Test & Measurement Inc. , a subsidiary of Sypris Solutions Inc., relocated its Burlington, MA Testing Laboratory to an existing site in Billerica, MA as of Monday, July 16, 2007. The consolidated and expanded operations in Billerica will serve to solidify Sypris Test & Measurement as the preferred...

ViaSat Inc. , a producer of innovative satellite and other digital communication products, has agreed to acquire privately-held JAST Antenna Systems . JAST develops microwave circuits and antennas for terrestrial and satellite applications, specializing in small, low-profile antennas for mobile satellite communications. Terms of the transaction include an initial...

The Ethernet Alliance announces the recent decisions by the IEEE 802.3 working group to forward project authorization requests (PAR) for the next generation of Ethernet technologies. The Higher Speed Study Group (HSSG) was formed in July 2006, and its proposal envisions a single project encompassing a 40 Gigabit Ethernet...

WiMAX is licensed spectrum; the WiMAX Forum is working to complete interoperability tests and prove out equipment and networks for 2.5 GHz spectrum; Sprint and Clearwire dominate 2.5 in the U.S. Problem or opportunity? Potentially both. “Does it retard it or does it support it?” asked Peter Jarich, principal...

Based as it is on licensed spectrum, Mobile WiMAX is bittersweet. Vendors know operators have spectrum to use equipment they’re developing, but licensed spectrum closes the door on those who don’t have it. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission could change that when it auctions some of the last available...

In a deal estimated to be worth an estimated $2 B, Ericsson and Bharti Airtel have signed a state-of-the-art network expansion deal that will help the service provider offer world class and cost-effective products and services to its customers, and help it expand its reach in rural India. In...

NTT DoCoMo Inc. has begun testing an experimental Super 3G system for mobile communications, which will seek to achieve a downlink transmission rate of 300 Mbps over a high speed wireless network. Super 3G features low latency data transmission and improved spectrum efficiency. It is a highly advanced version...

RF Engines Ltd. (RFEL), the specialists in high performance signal processing design, has won a UK Government research grant from the South East Development Agency (SEEDA), whereby it is to undertake research into a novel and flexible receiver architecture that is reconfigurable 'on-the-fly'. The architecture will be used to...

Keithley Instruments and CEA Leti have entered into a Joint Development Partnership (JDP) centered on semiconductor device material testing technology. The JDP calls for Keithley and CEA Leti, one of the world's most sophisticated semiconductor development laboratories, to research methods for characterizing advanced semiconductor materials and devices that support...