Telecommunications

The telecom industry has made great advances in wireless technology during the past decade. The design engineer continues to face new challenges as development work continues on next generation wireless systems with improved functionality.  With shorter and shorter design cycles, the design engineer must use all of his tools to maintain a competitive edge in the marketplace. That is why the best engineers look to Emerson & Cuming Microwave Products for fast solutions for their RF interference problems.

 

Shorter Design Cycles
Whether you’re a seasoned engineer with years of experience or a new college graduate starting your first job, one fact rings true. Time is money!  That coupled with new technology pushing the envelope on miniaturization and higher performance, engineers have never faced more demanding schedules and deadlines than today. No one understands this better than the application engineers at Emerson & Cuming Microwave Products. 


The Problem
Design engineers often face interference problems in designing high frequency microwave equipment. These problems oftentimes don’t reveal themselves until the final stages of testing. The problem is even more common today in designing compact electronic systems due to close proximity of densely populated components.  One option facing the design engineer is to do another board design that may delay the project for weeks with no guarantee that the problem will be solved. 

 

The Solution
Often viewed by those unfamiliar with the technology as
a last minute Band Aid®, microwave absorber materials have established themselves as reliable, cost effective and quick solutions for EMI problems.  Check out the extensive list of microwave components and equipment using absorber technology. It’s clear to see that design engineers in the telecom industry see it as a mainstream solution.

 

Microwave Devices & EMI Control
 
An extensive list of components and equipment using microwave absorber technology is as follows:
  • Base Station
  • Mobile Phones
  • Driver Modules
  • Filters
  • Flat Panel Antennas
  • Grid Antennas
  • LNA’s
  • LNB’s
  • Long Haul Switches
  • Mixers
  • Optical Transceivers
  • Oscillator Modules
  • Parabolic Antennas
  • Point-to-Multipoint Antennas
  • Point-to-Point Antennas
  • Power Amplifiers
  • Sector Antennas
  • Step Attenuators
  • Synthesizers
  • Test Fixtures
  • Transceiver Modules
  • Transducers
  • Up/down Converters
  • Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT), is a two-way satellite ground station with a dish antenna that is smaller than 3 meters. VSATs access satellites in geosynchronous orbit to relay data from small remote earth stations to other terminals or master earth station "hubs". VSATs are most commonly used to transmit narrowband data (point of sale transactions such as credit card, polling or RFID data; or SCADA), or broadband data (for the provision of Satellite Internet access to remote locations, VoIP or video). VSATs are also used for transportable, on-the-move (with phased-array antennas) or mobile maritime (such as Vizada or Eutelsat services) communications.
    VSAT Terminals
  • Waveguides
  • Wi-Fi and WIMAX devices and the list goes on…

 

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Related Information

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ALMA Waveguide Application

Filter Cavity Application