The overall theme of this year's APCO Australasian 2009 conference and exhibition, held at Australia's Technology Park in Sydney, earlier this month, was 'Leaders in Public Safety — When Every Second Counts'.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority’s third annual conference on the management of Australia’s radiofrequency spectrum, Radcomms09, will offer an opportunity to hear the latest developments, future trends and challenges in radiofrequency spectrum management.

RFS (Radio Frequency Systems) has developed a groundbreaking wideband diplexer technology that will assist carriers as they migrate their mobile network infrastructures to LTE — long term evolution.

Heliax 2.0 FXL, the aluminium RF cable manufactured by Andrew, has won the Golden Award for Green Communication Energy-Efficiency Technology in an industry contest held in China.

Visible Assets says that the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has approved RuBee, a long-wavelength, packet-based, magnetic transceiver protocol, as a new international standard designated IEEE 1902.1.

IMEC has presented a 60 GHz front-end receive chain and phase-locked loop.

New imaging and high-capacity wireless communications systems are one step closer to reality, thanks to a millimetre wave amplifier invented at the University of California.

Daniels Electronics has won a $2m contract with the Canadian government for coastal radio stations to be used by the Canadian coast guard at its marine communications and traffic services centres and associated remote sites in the Pacific region.

The relentless march of next-generation wireless data services is beginning to strain backhaul infrastructure, as high data throughputs — and subscriber demand — consume network capacity.

AWR and Mentor Graphics have announced AWR Connected for Mentor Graphics.

Research In Motion, the company behind the BlackBerry wireless solution, has opened a regional headquarters in Sydney to serve customers in Australia.

Berkeley Varitronics and EDX Wireless are providing compatibility between the YellowFin Mobile WiMAX analyser and EDX SignalPro software.

Beijing's latest landmark building and the workplace for implementation and management of the international environmental protection treaty in China is now supported by an indoor wireless communications network featuring Heliax FXL aluminium transmission cable from Andrew.

LPRS has provided ITV technical services with easy-Radio wireless modules to monitor the movements of cats for a US-based program maker.

ES&S has been awarded a major contract with the Defence Acquisition Program Administration of Korea.