http://www.radio-electronics.com/magazine Fri, 01 May 2009 16:30:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en WIMA NFC conference and exhibition took place in Monaco between 22 and 24th April 2009. Our editor, Ian Poole looks at the latest developments in NFC, Near Field Communications technology. The importance of NFC is growing rapidly. Its importance is beginning to be felt in many areas of the electronics industry as it ... http://www.radio-electronics.com/magazine/radio-cellular-and-wireless/wima-forum-for-nfc-near-field-communications/ Mike Powell, Senior Product Line Manager at Broadcom investigates the advantages of using a single or unified topology for all wireless services.   Wireless access is quickly becoming an essential function of the enterprise network.  With the arrival of 802.11n and its capacity of hundreds of megabits per access point, the value ... http://www.radio-electronics.com/magazine/radio-cellular-and-wireless/moving-to-a-unified-wireless-switch-topology/ The Mobile World Congress, MWC (formerly 3GSM World Congress) took place this year between 16th and 19th February 2009 in Barcelona and provided a unique shop window for the mobile telecommunications industry. The Mobile World Congress, MWC, combines the world's largest exhibition for the mobile industry with a congress providing keynote and ... http://www.radio-electronics.com/magazine/radio-cellular-and-wireless/mobile-world-congress-mwc-2009/ Steve Shaw of Kineto Wireless looks at the requirements for the perfect femtocell and how to achieve the goal. The mobile world is buzzing about femtocells.  The concept of a small, low-cost, customer-deployable home cellular base station that leverages a subscriber's existing broadband connection for backhaul is an incredibly compelling proposition ... http://www.radio-electronics.com/magazine/radio-cellular-and-wireless/designing-the-perfect-femtocell/ Hans Juergen Rauscher of Wind River (www.windriver.com), looks at the ongoing development of Carrier Grade Linux. The promise of Linux that is robust enough to be used in telecoms networks has been a long time coming, but the fourth generation of specifications for Carrier Grade Linux is now becoming well-established. The future ... http://www.radio-electronics.com/magazine/electronics-design/carrier-grade-linux-comes-of-age/ Rainer J Koll, Owner of Rainer J Koll Consulting and expert in Aviation Telecommunications looks at the way in which better data links and communications will result in greener airlines. Aviation has understood the message to become more efficient and cleaner loud and clear.  Much can be done by improving engine ... http://www.radio-electronics.com/magazine/radio-cellular-and-wireless/better-data-communications-make-greener-airlines/ Simon Saunders, Chairman of The Femto Forum (www.femtoforum.org) explains the compelling reasons for the deployment of femtocells. The founding function of cellular communications was to extend the reach of the phone outdoors into the wider world - so one could always be in touch. But over the past few years the ... http://www.radio-electronics.com/magazine/radio-cellular-and-wireless/femtocells-turning-cellular-communications-inside-out/ Glenn Seiler, Director of Product Management for Linux Platforms, Wind River explains how the new Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) Specification Aligns with industry needs, and accelerates standards-based COTS adoption Standards-based technologies are rapidly being adopted by the telecommunications industry, and for good reason. Leveraging standards-based solutions allows telecom equipment manufacturers (TEMs) ... http://www.radio-electronics.com/magazine/electronics-design/carrier-grade-linux-cgl40-raising-the-bar/ Ian Poole reports on how the economic downturn is affecting the electronics and communications industries and the measures some smaller electronics companies can take to weather the storm. In recent weeks the news has been filled with the gloom of the economic downturn, and now many are openly talking of recession. This ... http://www.radio-electronics.com/magazine/news-and-comment/how-will-the-downturn-affect-the-electronics-industry/ Evan Gray of the Wireless Division, Aeroflex Test Solutions describes how testing LTE and the test solutions that are available will play a key part in the development of LTE by feeding back vital information into the development.  GSM/3GSM radio access technology dominates today's global cellular landscape with over 2.5 billion users ... http://www.radio-electronics.com/magazine/test-and-measurement/3g-long-term-evolution-testing-times/