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Setting a world record, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) successfully demonstrated 100 Gbps wireless transmission using orbital angular momentum (OAM) multiplexing. NTT is developing the technology to enable terabit-class wireless transmission, to support the demand for wireless communications expected in the 2030s.

Production has begun for the Sea Fire digital radar, a naval sensor designed to track new weapons including supersonic missiles, Thales said.

CommScope is making the most comprehensive upgrade to its microwave antenna portfolio in decades. The leader in microwave antennas is overhauling its entire long haul antenna portfolio to significantly improve the coverage, capacity and cost-effectiveness of wireless backhaul for all applications.

u‑blox and Qianxun Spatial Intelligence Inc. have announced that they are joining forces to deliver high precision positioning solutions to the Chinese market.

ZTE's main business operations have ceased due to a ban imposed by the U.S. government, but China’s second biggest telecom equipment maker is trying to have the ban modified or reversed, it said on Wednesday. ZTE was hit by a ban last month from Washington, forbidding U.S. firms from supplying it with components and technology after it was found to have violated U.S. export restrictions by illegally shipping goods to Iran.

AVX Corporation has released a new series of low profile, high performance bandpass filters based on AVX’s patented and proven multilayer organic (MLO^®) high-density interconnect technology.

T-Mobile US and Sprint Corporation announced they have entered into a definitive agreement to merge in an all-stock transaction at a fixed exchange ratio of 0.10256 T-Mobile shares for each Sprint share or the equivalent of 9.75 Sprint shares for each T-Mobile US share.

Market analyst Earl Lum forecasts macrocell radio transceiver (TRx) shipments will more than double this year (2018), reflecting initial 5G massive MIMO deployments. TRx shipments supporting all wireless standards grew 24 percent in 2017.

Thales Alenia Space and SWISSto12 entered into agreement during the Satellite 2018 show in Washington, D.C. Both companies will work and innovate together by setting up a novel supply chain of spacecraft waveguides.

Keysight Technologies Inc. announced that working with Qualcomm Technologies Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Inc., has achieved 2 Gbps LTE download data speeds using Keysight’s 5G Protocol R&D Toolset and Qualcomm Technologies’ mobile test device, powered by the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ X24 LTE modem.