Industry News
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.
[ + ]Mobile control tower for RAAF
Rohde & Schwarz (Australia) and the Ground Telecommunications Equipment Systems Program Office have signed a contract to supply three transportable air operations towers for use by the RAAF.
[ + ]Baseband team formed
Octasic has formed a Software Defined Radio (SDR) development group to provide wireless solutions based on its low-power, OpusDSP technology.
[ + ]Radio probes vehicle waves
Connectivity Lab researchers at the University of California, Berkeley are delving deeper into the channel characteristics of vehicles in motion communicating via dedicated short-range communications based on IEEE 802.11p.
[ + ]New managing director to join Tait
Tait Electronics has named Frank Owen as its new Managing Director to replace Michael Chick when he retires from the company in 2009.
[ + ]China standardises
MTNet, the CDMA Certification Forum accredited conformance test lab established within the Ministry of Information Industries in China, has standardised on the Aeroflex 6402 AIME CDMA test platform for 1cEV-DO Rev A and A-GPS testing.
[ + ]Defence contract awarded
The Bridge Networks has been awarded the Interim Anchoring contract for the JP2008 Phase 4 program by the Defence Material Organisation.
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