Scottish photonics start-up Optoscribe gets £1.2m funding
Edinburgh-based photonics start-up company Optoscribe has secured £1.2m in venture capital investment to fund its manufacturing plans. Optoscribe was founded in 2010 as a spin out business from Heriot...
View ArticleSequans to bring LTE access to European aircraft
Sequans, the French LTE specialist, is to enable LTE in European aircraft by having its LTE chip-set inside European aeroplanes as part of the European Aviation Network (EAN) high-speed in-flight...
View ArticleRohde & Schwarz says LTE-Advanced uplinks ready for the network
Rohde & Schwarz claims its TS8980 RF conformance test system has been used in the first validation for both LTE-Advanced uplink carrier aggregation (UL CA) and LTE-Advanced Pro uplink 64QAM (UL...
View ArticleITF2016: Imec, Infineon team for 79GHz CMOS auto radars
This morning, in Brussels, at Imec’s ITF2016, Imec and Infineon announced a cooperation in CMOS sensor chip development. Infineon and Imec are working on highly integrated CMOS-based 79 GHz sensor...
View ArticleAUDS – US evaluates UK anti-drone seek and stun system
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has selected a UK-developed system that can detect and disable unwanted drones near airports. Known as AUDS (anti-(UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle)) defence...
View ArticleBristol team competes with Facebook for 5G download record
Bristol-based design consultancy, Kinneir Dufort has worked with the University of Bristol to achieve a new world record for wireless spectral efficiency using prototype antenna arrays. According to...
View ArticleIQD wideband clock meets 100G Ethernet jitter spec
A range of low jitter clock oscillators from IQD cover a frequency range from 1MHz up to 1.5GHz and can be used for high speed serial interfaces such as Ethernet and PCI Express. The devices, IQXO-940,...
View ArticleWeightless SIG joins ETSI
The Weightless SIG is partnering with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). In a move to consolidate the LPWAN space the Weightless SIG will offer its Weightless-N standards...
View Article5G goes to 60GHz and multiport, testers need to adapt
With 5G mobile communications expected to run on networks operating in the 60GHz millimetre-wave band, Jean Pierre Guillemet describes a technique for testing multi-port broadband components up to...
View ArticleOrange builds IoT smart cities in France
Orange has decided to use the IoT wireless technology, known as LoRa, to connect “smart city” deployments across France. This is one of the largest IoT connected city deployments to be announced and...
View ArticleIreland is Sigfox-enabled for IoT
Sigfox and Irish telecoms firm VT Networks have rolled out a long-range low data rate IoT network in less than eight months. The two companies expect to connect over a million devices by 2017. Remote...
View ArticleBluetooth 5 standard promises to quadruple range, doubles speed
The next version of Bluetooth has been announced. As well as increasing the range and speed of transmissions, the next release – dubbed simply Bluetooth 5 – will also increase its broadcast messaging...
View ArticleInsight SIP launches low cost BLE module
Insight SIP l, the wireless RF module specialist, has packaged the nRF51822 chip from Nordic Semiconductor (running Bluetooth 4.1), a 32-bit ARM Cortex CPU, 128 kB flash memory, analogue and digital...
View ArticleQualcomm goes big on sat nav with Galileo support
Qualcomm is supporting the European Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) with its chipsets and Snapdragon mobile processors. Until now Qualcomm’s hardware support for Galileo was in...
View ArticleUS to take global lead on 5G spectrum
US telecoms commission, the FCC will decide next month (14 July) on which frequency bands in the radio spectrum will be used for 5G in the US. After considering spectrum population from low bands below...
View ArticleFTDI Chip adds to support for USB implementation
FTDI Chip has introduced two new board level products and a new IC to support engineers with comprehensive support when implementing USB into their embedded systems. The UMFTPD3A programmer module is...
View ArticleARM and Marvell develop ARMADA networking board
ARM and Marvell have developed the ARMADA 8040 networking community board, targeting OpenDataPlane (ODP), OpenFastPath (OFP) and ARM network functions virtualization (NFV) ecosystem communities. The...
View ArticleQualcomm offers 6GHz radio chips for early 5G launch
Qualcomm has developed a prototype radio system for 5G mobile communications research and first network trials. Interestingly, this latest 5G prototype system from Qualcomm operates in the sub-6GHz...
View ArticleEurope goes for IoT network technology without UK
LoRa, which is bidding to be an IoT wide-area wireless network technology, is being adopted across Europe, but not yet in the UK. Gothenburg in Sweden is the latest city to see a deployment of LoRa...
View ArticleSmall cells will give London data capacity it needs
London is to get a small cell backhaul network which will provide businesses in the city with up to 1Gbit/s internet access. The network will be created and managed by Luminet and will deploy small...
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