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Lightwave Catalog This catalog provides detailed product and application information on Agilent’s latest solutions for photonic testing of next-generation low cost optical devices and digital microwave solutions (BERTs, DCAs) for high speed devices. It covers photonic and transceiver measurement solutions that offer industry-leading performance for fastest time-to-market in next-generation...

RFID: A Guide to Radio Frequency Identification V. Daniel Hunt, Albert Puglia and Mike Puglia Wiley Interscience • 238 pages; $60 ISBN: 978-0-470-10764-5 Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is a wireless communication technology that enables users to uniquely identify tagged objects or people. This book provides a broad overview...

A new series of L-band (1200 to 1400 MHz) and S-band (2700 to 3100 MHz and 3100 to 3400 MHz) power solution modules (PSM) has been introduced by Microsemi PPG for pulsed radar applications. These PSMs offer two to three times more output power over the single transistors currently...

The 10 th European Microwave Week in Munich, Germany, in October commemorated and celebrated the past, while looking forward and heralding the future. To mark its first decade, EuMW lauded the RF and microwave industry’s camaraderie, endeavour and achievements, while focussing on the efforts needed to further technological and...

Mobile WiMAX promises to be fast, cheap and, if Sprint Nextel Corp. keeps its word, available nationwide by 2009. 3G service, while slower than mobile WiMAX, is already widely available. Both technologies are designed to cover wide areas. By contrast, public Wi-Fi hot spots require you to go to...

Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance has granted membership to Anritsu Corp., making it the first test solutions vendor to become a member of this key industry alliance. The company’s technology experts will help the Alliance devise strategies for maximizing the availability and service quality of the new mobile...

The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) has renamed and expanded its leadership council for Europe. The new name is the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Leadership Council, which reflects the multiple countries within EMEA that are playing a more significant and growing role within the industry. The Council, which...

Nokia has announced that it will make approximately $75 M of fresh investments in its manufacturing plant in Sriperumbudur, Chennai, India, in 2008. This investment is geared towards enhancing the capacity of the manufacturing plant to cater for the burgeoning need of the Indian and other emerging markets. Raimo...

Geensys , a specialist provider of embedded development tools, value-added embedded engineering and consulting services and embedded software IP, has expanded into Germany with the opening of a new direct sales and support office in Munich. Formed recently from the merger of TNI-Software and Ayrton Technology and with well...

Bidders in the upcoming US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) auction of 700 MHz spectrum can arm themselves with a valuable advantage - the new 700 MHz AuctionPlanner product from Comsearch, an Andrew Corp. company. AuctionPlanner provides the critical information that spectrum bidders need to assess the incumbent environment both...