Industry News
Conference focuses on public safety
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'.
[ + ]Spectrum management under discussion
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.
[ + ]Diplexers help system longevity
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.
[ + ]Aluminium wins gold award
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.
[ + ]RFID alternative is new standard
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.
[ + ]Silicon amplifier for millimetric frequencies
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.
[ + ]Coast guards win radios
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.
[ + ]Microwave will ease '4G' backhaul strain — RFS
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.
[ + ]BlackBerry picks Sydney
Research In Motion, the company behind the BlackBerry wireless solution, has opened a regional headquarters in Sydney to serve customers in Australia.
[ + ]WiMAX testing partnership
Berkeley Varitronics and EDX Wireless are providing compatibility between the YellowFin Mobile WiMAX analyser and EDX SignalPro software.
[ + ]Aluminium cable for Chinese ministry
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.
[ + ]Cat watch
LPRS has provided ITV technical services with easy-Radio wireless modules to monitor the movements of cats for a US-based program maker.
[ + ]Satellite project in Korea
ES&S has been awarded a major contract with the Defence Acquisition Program Administration of Korea.
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