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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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 custom designs to handle any
wireless band from VHF through microwave frequencies, as well as weatherproofing for outdoor installations and
other special requirements.
If you'd like to learn more about these capabilities, please give us a call
at (973) 772-4242 or send us an e-mail to
sales@anatechelectronics.com..
Some of Our Standard Combiner Products
Bandpass Combiner for 700 MHz
800 MHz Bandpass Combiner for GSM
876-915 MHz/1710-1785 MHz Multiband Combiner
1215.6-1239.6 MHz/1563.42-1587.42 MHz Multiband Combiner
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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 had Stealth Microwave (a division of
Micronetics), where he handled business development and technical sales of the company’s power amplifier
products. Dean received his received his 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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