Subsystems and Systems

Narda Introduces 40 Gb/s Modulator Driver

Narda Microwave-East , an L-3 Communications company, announced the FO-MDA-40-15D-1, a low cost, high performance EML driver for 40-Gb/s lightwave communication systems. The FO-MDA-40-15D-1 joins Narda's growing family of products for lightwave systems, including clock oscillators, phase-locked oscillators, lithium niobate and electro-absorptive modulator driver amplifiers and pulse carver drivers....
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Comtech Receives $6.4 M in MTS Contract

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corp. , received orders totaling $6.4 M under its Movement Tracking System, or MTS contract, with the US Army. Total orders received to date against the $605.1 M MTS contract increased to $139.9 M. The orders are for...
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NEC to Establish Technical Excellence Centre in Italy

NEC Corp. has agreed with Telecom Italia to cooperate on mutual development of global business, technologies and network improvement. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) reached between the two companies includes details on how the partnership may enable the Telecom Italia Group to capitalize on NEC’s leading broadband & wireless...
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Exalt Announces 5 GHz Microwave Radio

Exalt Communications , an innovator in next-generation wireless backhaul, introduced EX-r GigE series of microwave radios delivering a high-capacity Gigabit Ethernet microwave, covering all three 5 GHz bands in a single carrier-class system. With the introduction of the EX-r GigE series, wireless operators, enterprises and broadcasters now have a...
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Altitude Selects DragonWave to Support WiMAX Growth

DragonWave Inc. , a global supplier of next-generation point-to-point microwave radio systems, announced that Altitude Infrastructure , a subsidiary of Altitude Group, has selected DragonWave products to provide high capacity Ethernet backhaul as part of its rollout of WiMAX broadband services across France. Altitude has pioneered WiMAX service introduction...
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Dragonwave

MIC Technology Continues to Advance

While miniaturization in general and MMICs in particular get center stage these days, microwave integrated circuit (MIC) technology continues to offer inherent benefits that are unachievable and/or unprofitable to pursue within the confines of a completely monolithic design. In this interview, Joe Merenda, Vice President, Engineering, Narda Microwave-East, points out that Narda (which delivered its first MIC over 25 years ago) is continually increasing MIC performance and functional integration while also reducing size, cost and power consumption.
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NEC Secures Mobile Backhaul Project with Indosat

PT Indosat Tbk , Indonesia’s second largest mobile phone carrier, has selected NEC Corp. to implement a mobile backhaul IP migration project that utilizes existing networks to transfer systems into the latest IP structure. The project will utilize NEC’s ultra-compact PASOLINK microwave communications systems and CX2600 service consolidation switches....
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