Communications

No one likes congestion. It’s no fun when you have it because of a cold or flu. And it’s no fun when it’s wreaking havoc in your wireless device networks. But the new version of Wi-Fi has a combination of features that will serve as a powerful decongestant for Wi-Fi networks. Andrew Ross, Senior Product Manager at Laird Connectivity further discusses.

Building on the market success of its existing radar transceivers, NXP’s next-gen RFCMOS radar transceivers are now in production.

Renesas Electronics, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, has announced that its 8A34001 System Synchroniser for IEEE 1588 is being used within the AMD Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC DFE ZCU670 Evaluation Kit and reference design for 5G Next-Gen Radio (5G NR).

LMT has launched an IoT-powered smoke and air quality sensor in collaboration with connectivity technology manufacturer MikroTik. The all-in-one device combines smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) detection with air quality monitoring.

CEA, a technology-research organisation, and Astrocast, a leading global satellite Internet of Things network operator, have announced their successful collaboration on a low-cost, bidirectional communication module that enables corporations to communicate with their remote assets in areas not covered by terrestrial networks.

Nokia and UR Group (UK) plan to use the former's private wireless networks and its fully integrated Edge-to-Cloud offerings, as well as the latter's vertical market expertise, to enable transportation, manufacturing, defence and energy organisations to transform their operations with 5G.

Mouser has announced the next episode of its award-winning Empowering Innovation Together eprogramm. The new instalment explores the business use case of non-public 5G networks for industrial IoT deployments, which can be independently owned, managed and secured through 5G New Radio (NR) Release 16.

Keysight has announced that the company's new 224G Ethernet test solutions enables SoC (system-on-chip) makers to validate next generation electrical interface technology, accelerating 1.6 terabit per second (Tbps) transceiver design and pathfinding.

Exobotics, the British satellite startup which offers low-cost space flight for missions to low Earth orbit and beyond, has announced a major expansion following record sales.

By 2022, the vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) market has almost doubled compared to 2018, reaching $840m.