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Alpine Investors , a middle-market private equity firm based in San Francisco, CA, announced that it has acquired Linx Technologies , a provider of cost-effective wireless modules, antennas, connectors and wireless design services. Linx enables Wireless Made Simple® by providing design engineers with robust easy to implement wireless control...

Anritsu Co. (CTIA Booth #2234) introduced the MS2711E Spectrum Master, a handheld spectrum analyzer designed for technicians, installers, field RF engineers, and contractors responsible for monitoring the growing number of interfering signals, as well as assessing signal quality on a wide range of increasingly complex signals. Easy to use,...

An innovative combination of DragonWave high capacity packet microwave backhaul and backbone networking solutions will enable KeyOn Communications Holdings Inc. to bring unprecedented services to rural communities across Nevada. The Horizon Compact and Horizon Duo high-capacity packet microwave solutions from DragonWave Inc. are being deployed to anchor the “middle...

Aeroflex Ltd. , a wholly owned subsidiary of Aeroflex Holding Corp., announced the addition of critical voice and data testing capability for the 7100 LTE Digital Radio Test Set. The Aeroflex 7100 Option 104 now has added test capability for simultaneous emulation of LTE data and 1X CDMA voice,...

Crystek has released a line of high performance RF connectors to its distribution network, making these durable, precision connectors available to the open market. The company supports a full line of passivated stainless steel RF connectors – SMA, TNC, N-Type, 2.4 mm, 2.9 mm (K) – in jack, plug...

The first LTE-FDD and TD-LTE networks are being rolled out in Europe, the USA and in Asia. These new wireless communications standards have extremely high data rates – up to 100 Mbit/s – that allow high-speed mobile internet access. Rohde & Schwarz offers the T&M equipment to ensure the...

Richardson RFPD Inc. announced the launch of a new "microsite" to help design engineers incorporate Freescale’s rugged 50 V LDMOS technology into either new or existing designs. The microsite contains a broad array of technical support material, such as white papers, reference designs, and links to ADS/AWR models. Please...

The R&S TS8950G and R&S TS8980S RF test systems from Rohde & Schwarz now allow conformance and precompliance testing for VAMOS. Using VAMOS, network operators can double the channel capacity of GSM base stations. To ensure that the introduction of VAMOS runs smoothly, the 3GPP standardization committee will adopt...

Agilent Technologies Inc. enhanced its N5971A CDMA Interactive Functional Test (IFT) software, introducing the N5973A IFT automation for LTE to CDMA Inter-RAT compliance test plan. This solution enables developers and operators to quickly and repeatedly generate measurement reports in accordance with leading operators’ LTE-CDMA handover test plan. Testing handover...