Communications

Würth Elektronik has launched a product family of GNSS modules. The Elara line represents some of the smallest GNSS modules on the market - both with and without integrated antenna. For sophisticated navigation tasks, the Erinome series uses all four global navigation satellite systems at top speed: GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou.

Pasternack has introduced a new line of GPS timing antennas, vehicular antennas, and a 118 to 174MHz tunable, telescopic antenna to address mobile wireless, portable instrumentation and wireless monitoring applications.

Z-Communications has announced a new high performance, RoHS compliant VCO (Voltage Controlled Oscillator) model CRO3700K-LF. The CRO3700K-LF covers the frequency range of 3600 to 3800 MHz within a tuning voltage range of 0.5 to 18Vdc.

A range of Tower Top Amplifier (TTA) systems designed for use in two-way radio networks, particularly for public safety systems such as P25 has been announced by Filtronic.  

Cobham SATCOM and Inmarsat have announced the type approval of two new land satellite terminals. The low-profile vehicular Cobham EXPLORER 323 BGAN terminal and the auto-point ‘fly-away’ Cobham EXPLORER 6075LX VSAT terminal are now fully operational on the Inmarsat network with commercial shipments of each beginning immediately.

CYSEC SA, a cyber security company from Switzerland has been awarded a contract by the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop a solution mitigating the cyber risks related to ship tracking comms using satellite communications.

Suprema has announced Suprema Mobile Access, a new mobile contactless solution and complete platform for managing, issuing and tracking access credentials using smartphones.

The UK’s independent network sector has been praised for its significant contribution as the country was revealed as one of the fastest growers in Europe for delivering fibre networks to homes and businesses.

The KaStream 5000 MK II antenna system from Smiths Interconnect has received Inmarsat type approval for use over the Inmarsat Global Xpress network.

Catalyst Communications Technologies and Softil have jointly announce that Softil's BEEHD technology has been selected to build Catalyst's IntelliLink Interworking solutions as well as Dispatch Consoles for FirstNet and other standards-based MCX networks around the world.