SHENZHEN, China — ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”), clinches another major customer win in one of the fastest growing markets in Europe. The company today announced that AVEA, one of the Top 3 largest telecom operators in Turkey, has awarded ZTE a WCDMA commercial contract. In line with the company’s strategic plan to expand its WCDMA coverage, ZTE will [...]

Light Reading Europe reports Just last month the company announced a $15 billion credit line that will be used to help fund further R&D and international expansion. The company also outlined its key areas of technology development, including: PON (Passive Optical Networks); IMS (IP Multimedia Susbystem); next-generation mobile technologies such as LTE-Advanced and SDR (software-defined [...]

Thales Communications, Inc., develops, manufactures, and supports multiband, software-defined radio (SDR) equipment, announces that its LibertyTM multiband land mobile radio (LMR) has received U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) certification. Having successfully passed all required tests, the Liberty radio is the first FCC-approved multiband radio covering the entire public safety spectrum. The Liberty radio, introduced in early 2008, [...]

Harris announced the acquisition of Tyco Electronic Wireless Systems. “The combination of RF Communications and Wireless Systems creates a powerful supplier in the global land mobile radio systems market,” said Howard L. Lance, chairman, president and CEO of Harris. “With an 80-year heritage in providing communications for the public safety market, Wireless Systems has established a large [...]

The talk is being held at the SDR Forum’s European Reconfigurable Radio Technologies Workshop and Product Exposition on Thursday, 23 April (09.30 hours) in Madrid.

PoliceOne.com has an article on the benefits of SDR designs in public safety applications. During emergency situations — whether a natural disaster like Katrina, large transportation accident, or terrorist attack—public safety officials from different agencies (in some cases, different counties and States) must be able to effectively communicate with each other. If they cannot share information quickly, [...]

The Hindu reports Sloka Telecom’s 5.8GHz suite of WiMAX (Worldwide Inter-operability for Microwave Access) products caters for the unlicensed frequency spectrum allowing wireless Internet service providers (WISPs) to deploy wireless broadband access networks without having to obtain frequency licences. Sloka’s 5.8GHz suite of WiMAX products includes base stations, subscriber stations, the authentication, authorisation and accounting [...]

EDA announces Interoperability of communications between military of different nationalities, but also between military and civil operators is essential. Increasingly, the military and civilians are operating side-by side in ESDP crisis management operations. Also in support of civilian security operations (such as police, border control, disaster relief) interoperability between both user communities is needed. Software Defined Radio (SDR) technologies [...]

Cambridge Consultants announced a Novel GSM/GPRS/EDGE/E-EDGE PHY reference design offers potential to narrow the digital divide in developing world markets by enabling ultra-low cost 2G / 2.75G base-stations and femtocells

ZTE USA announced with a Software Defined Radio (SDR) platform-based UMTS solution already developed and devices expected in the next 12-18 months, ZTE is positioned to provide end-to-end solutions for North American operators looking [...]