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Roke Manor Research claims to have developed the world’s first 3G Wide Area Coverage Femtocell capability. Using picoChip ’s technology as the development platform, Roke’s reference design has a 40 km range, which delivers more than 40,000 times the area covered by most other femtocells. It is also said...

NEC Corp. will provide Norkring Slovenia, a Slovenia-based commercial broadcaster, with PASOLINK NEO, NEC’s ultra compact microwave communications system, through NEC Eastern Europe. As a result of this agreement, the company now provides the PASOLINK system to 16 countries throughout Eastern Europe, in addition to the systems it has...

Cobham plc announced that its Cobham Defence Communications business has received further contract releases valued at US $26 M from Northrop Grumman Corp. for the ongoing supply of its ROVIS (AN/VIC-3) digital vehicular intercom systems in support of US Army Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS) requirements....

Giga-tronics Inc. announced that more than 100 of the company's 8000 series RF Switch Interface Units (RFIU) are being supplied to contract manufacturers in Asia to increase throughput and improve test asset utilization in mobile phone and other wireless device production. This is part of the growing market for...

Astrium has announced that the second dedicated military communications satellite for the German armed forces is now operational, following the latest series of tests that covered the satellite platform, the payload, and the components of the satellite’s secure control system. With this final milestone, the conditions for in-orbit delivery...

Orbit Technologies and SpeedCast Ltd. have partnered to deliver uninterrupted global marine communications services across all major maritime routes. After conducting exhaustive tests of global marine antennas, SpeedCast selected Orbit Technologies’ OrSat-G (AL-7103) marine antenna to optimize its continuous Ku-band coverage. SpeedCast worked together with Orbit to help integrate...

Cobham Antenna Systems, Microwave Antennas has designed a miniature multi sector antenna in the 2.0 to 2.7 GHz band for use with COFDM radios. The new model, MSA6-2.4V/1795, has six antennas. It is unusually small for this type of antenna, being contained within a rugged housing measuring just 300...