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WiMAX: A Fading Star?
As an article in The Wall Street Journal points out, the VHS-versus-Betamax
war may be a good analogy (in some respects) for WiMAX versus LTE, which the
latter is winning hands down. The article points out a good analysis of the
subject on the
TechRadar website, stating that that Intel (the original champion
of WiMAX) has changed its tune. There are currently 20 million WiMaX
subscribers throughout the world and in some places it may survive – but
probably not in a meaningful way in the U.S.
LightSquared Decision This Month?
LightSquared says it believes the FCC will allow it to become the first
wholesale provider of LTE services in the U.S. when it makes it decision
sometime this month, according toLightSquared's
executive vice president, Martin Harriman at the Mobile Future Forward
conference in Seattle, according to FierceWireless. Sprint has already lined
up journalists and analysts to hear its 4G roadmap on October 7, and in
July LightSquared
gave Sprint the option to purchase its wholesale LTE network. A week
later Sprint's WiMAX provider, Clearwire, declared plans to build an
LTE-advanced network if it can get the money. This would leapfrog LTE
and couldn’t be deployed until after LTE-Advanced becomes a standard. If the
FCC gives LightSquared the green light, Sprint could be launching
LightSquared's LTE network as early as next year. Regardless, LightSquared
still faces the core issue of interference to GPS, which seems almost insurmountable.
Dead Satellite to Fall Soon
A functionally dead satellite will fall back to Earth during the last week of
September, according to NASA. The spacecraft, an old NASA climate probe
called the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), was decommissioned in
2005 and has since been slowly losing altitude. The 6 1/2-ton satellite will
make a final uncontrolled plunge through Earth's atmosphere. The Department
of Defense is one of the organizations monitoring it.Pieces of it could land
from south of Juneau, Alaska to just north of the tip of South America. NASA
estimates a 1-in-3,200 chance a satellite part could hit someone. Most of it
will burn up after entering Earth's atmosphere. You can track the
spacecraft’s demise here.
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Greetings {FIRST_NAME},
A Message from Sam Benzacar
The Key Role of Multiband
Combiners and Band Separators
I've written a lot in this column about interference and for good reason:
it's a bigger issue now then ever for commercial and public safety wireless
systems -- and is getting worse. However, wireless carriers also face the
continuing challenge of reducing costs wherever possible, from the device
level straight through to the antenna. Multiband combiners and separators and
bandpass combiners are invaluable components that not only reduce costs but
reduce system complexity as well.
These versatile products allow the transmit and receive signals from several
wireless bands to be multiplexed into a single antenna, eliminating a variety
of components and helping to reduce the growing rat's nest of cables within
single-carrier or co-located sites. These bands can be either within a single
wireless frequency allocation, such as 700 MHz, or different bands, for
example GSM and PCS, including both uplink and downlink frequencies for each
network. As their core components are cavity filters, they retain the superb
performance of this filter type, including extremely high rejection and
isolation along with the ability to handle very high output power levels.
Anatech has been designing and manufacturing bandpass combiners and
separators for more than 20 years have met the most challenging requirements.
In addition to standard products available at AMCrf.com, we can quickly build
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frequencies, as well as weatherproofing for outdoor installations and other
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If you'd like to learn more about these capabilities, please give us a call
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GOING TO MILCOM 2011?
PLEASE STOP BY!
November 7 to 10
Baltimore Convention Center
With its list of exhibitors and attendees growing every year, it’s more and
more important to attend MILCOM so you can stay on top of trends from the
component through system and program levels. This year, we’ll be offering a
greater range of information and activities at our booth than ever before,
including demonstrations that show our products “in action”, so visitors can
visualize their performance and especially see how they solve interference
problems in the field. So please come visit us at Booth 800.
Dean Handrinos Joins
Anatech as U.S. Sales
Please join us in welcoming Dean Handrinos, our new director of U.S.
sales. He is responsible for developing new business and managing our sales
activities throughout the country, including working with regional sales
representatives. Dean was previously vice president at Stealth Microwave (a
division of Micronetics), where he handled business development and technical
sales of the company’s power amplifier products. Dean received his Bachelor
of Engineering degree from Stevens Institute of Technology and is currently
working toward his MBA degree from Lehigh University.
Answers to last month's Sports Trivia Questions
1. Who graciously switched to number 77 so Phil Esposito's number 7 could
be retired in Boston Garden? Raymond Bourque
2. What Red Sox catcher's erect posture earned him the clubhouse nickname
"Frankenstein"? Carlton Fisk's
3. What comic actor scored huge sales with his Bad Golf Made Easy
instructional videos? Leslie Nelson
Sports Trivia Questions!
1. What two players are tied for second behind Ty Cobb in total career
runs?
2. Who was the first athlete to rap at a Pro Bowl musical gala in 1995?
3. What racing competition became a best-of-nine series in 1995?
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