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Company History As early as 1932, Dr. Lothar Rohde and Dr. Hermann Schwarz, the company’s founders, developed their first measuring instrument, an interference wavemeter. In 1933, they set up shop under the name ‘Physikalisch-Technisches Entwicklungslabor Dr. L. Rohde und Dr. H. Schwarz’ in Munich (renamed Rohde & Schwarz in...

Company History Remcom has been a pioneer in the field of electromagnetic simulation since it was founded in 1994, introducing the first commercial FDTD solution. Raymond Luebbers and his graduate students H. Scott Langdon and Christopher Penney formed Remcom as an extension to the research that they were conducting...

In an effort to reinforce NEC Corp. ’s PASOLINK ultra-compact microwave communication services and wireless business in Eastern Europe, one of its subsidiaries, NEC Europe , has acquired Linecom Kft. , a Hungarian engineering company that has assisted NEC for more than 15 years. This acquisition represents the company’s...

Labtech Microwave , one of the UK’s leading designers and manufacturers of standard and bespoke microwave component technology, has invested in new machinery at its Presteigne microwave printed circuit board production facility, with the aim of improving processes, efficiency and manufacturing capability. This latest investment consists of a March...

Micronetics Inc. announced that its New Jersey-based subsidiary, Microwave Concepts , has received $4 M of advanced funding from a major defense OEM for highly integrated microwave subassemblies. These subassemblies are used as part of a complex jamming system. In addition to this advanced funding, full funding of production...

Last week’s microwave news included a healthy number of contract and agreement type announcements, but was pretty light with new product releases. Here are some of the announcements: Micronetics Inc. announced that its New Jersey-based subsidiary, Microwave Concepts , has received $4 M of advanced funding from a major...

Intelsat General Corp. , a wholly-owned subsidiary of Intelsat Ltd., announced that it has achieved a number of key milestones with the satellite payload that will demonstrate Internet routing in space (IRIS) for the US military. Intelsat General is teamed with Cisco Systems and SEAKR Engineering Inc. to create...

The Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) and the Next Generation Mobile Network (NGMN) Alliance have announced that the two organizations will work together to enhance the cooperation between commercial development and ongoing research activities. The two industry groups have committed to collaborate to ensure that the dialogue between all...

Heathrow Airport, London, the world’s busiest international airport, has invested in a state-of-the-art radar system to further improve safety by continuously sweeping its runways for foreign objects and debris (FOD). Supplied by QinetiQ , the Tarsier system is being used to detect FOD on the southern runway at Heathrow...

LGS , a subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent dedicated to serving the US government community, has announced that the Defense Information System Agency (DISA) has chosen Alcatel-Lucent’s WiMAX wireless broadband technology after a rigorous technical and interoperability analysis under its Tactical Service Providers (TSP) Joint Capabilities Technology Demonstration (JCTD). The JCTD’s...