| Skyworks New Family of Antenna Switches Supports Carrier Aggregation May 13, 2013...Skyworks Solutions, Inc. of Woburn, Massachusetts USA has introduced RF
switching technology that is enabling early adopters to implement carrier
aggregation solutions. Carrier aggregation allows mobile service providers to
use utilizing two or more bands simultaneously instead of the single band
method used currently to combine spectrum and increase data rate throughput for
an enriched data experience regardless of location. As an increasing amount of
data... Avago Technologies to Acquire CyOpticsApril 15, 2013...Avago Technologies of San Jose, California USA, a supplier of analog interface components for communications, announced the execution of a definitive agreement to acquire CyOptics Inc. CyOptics produces indium phosphide (InP) optical chip and component technologies for the data communications and telecommunications markets.
Aggregate compensation for acquisition of CyOptics, which had revenues of $210 million in 2012, will be about US$400... OTEGLOBE Doubles International TransBalkan Network Capacity Employing the Infinera DTN-X PlatformApril 8, 2013...Infinera of Sunnyvale, California, a provider of digital optical networks,
reportedly helped complete the upgrade of OTEGLOBE’s international
TransBalkan Network (TBN). OTEGLOBE, the leading international
telecommunications provider in Greece and the Balkans, deployed 500 Gigabit
per second (Gb/s) super channels with the Infinera DTN-X platform in OTEGLOBE's
TransBalkan network which stretches more than 8,000 km from Greece to Germany. It is designed to offer multi-Terabits... Mitsubishi Electric to Launch 40Gbps Driver-In EML-TOSA Compliant with Miniature Device Multi-Source AgreementMarch 18, 2013...Mitsubishi Electric Corporation of Tokyo, Japan announced today that it will
begin shipping a compact 40Gbps Electro-absorption Modulator with Laser
diode-Transmitter Optical Sub Assembly (EML-TOSA) for optical transmissions on
June 1. As of March 1, the FU-695REA became the world's first EML-TOSA to
comply with the 40Gbps Miniature Device Multi-Source Agreement (XLMD2-MSA)
specification, which was made effective March 13. Mitsubishi Electric, LAPIS
Semiconductor Co., Ltd., Oclaro,... Infinera's DTN-X Solution Deployed for the Delivery of 100Gb/s Services Across MediterraneanMarch 11, 2013...Infinera, a provider of digital optical networks based in Sunnyvale,
California USA, and Telecom Italia Sparkle Group, announced the
MedNautilus’ deployment of the Infinera DTN-X platform across the
Mediterranean to increase capacity up to 100Gb/s international connectivity
services. MedNautilus, the Mediterranean operations of the Telecom Italia
Sparkle Group, operates the largest protected submarine cable network in the
Mediterranean connecting Italy, Greece, Turkey, Israel and Cyprus, and... Cree and Eta Devices to Demonstrate the Most Efficient Power Amplifier for Mobile Base StationsFebruary 25, 2013...Cree, Inc. and Eta Devices, Inc. will demonstrate what the company's claim
to be the world's most efficient power amplifier for mobile base stations at
the 2013 Mobile World Congress, February 24-28 in Barcelona, Spain.
While current generation mobile base station amplifiers using silicon LDMOS
transistors can provide amplifier efficiencies up to 45 percent, Eta Devices
says its next-generation power amplifiers can deliver greater than... M/A-COM Technology Solutions Announces New X-Band Low Noise Amplifier for V-Sat, Radar, and Microwave ApplicationsFebruary 11, 2013...Lowell, Massachusetts-based M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc., a
supplier of analog semiconductor solutions, announced an X-Band
extension to its Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) family. The gallium
arsenide MAAL-010528 MMIC is designed as a quick LNA solution for
V-Sat, radar and microwave applications. This LNA boasts higher gain
and linearity performance over the 8.0- 12.0 GHz frequency band than
many competing components. Packaged in a small 3x3mm PQFN... Nujira Releases New 16-band ET RF Front-End for Global LTE HandsetsFebruary 11, 2013...Nujira Ltd of Cambridge, UK, a maker of Envelope Tracking (ET)
technology, released its new “Woodstock” 16-band Multi-Mode,
Multi-Band (MMMB) ET reference design for 4G smartphone RF Front
Ends. The new reference design uses the company's NCT-L1200 ET chip.
It covers up to 16 frequency bands from 700MHz to 2.7GHz in a PCB
area of less than 200 mm2. The company claims that it provides
multi-band...
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... IQE of Cardiff, UK announced the launch of gallium nitride based, high electron mobility transistor (GaN HEMT) epitaxial wafers on 150mm diameter semi-insulating silicon carbide (SiC) substrates. The SiC substrates are supplied by the WBG Materials subsidiary of II-VI Inc., a provider of optoelectronic components. IQE says that GaN power amplifiers offer superior power capability, efficiency, bandwidth and linearity... 
