Product category:
Communications ICs (Wireless)
News Release from: Acal Technology
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 09 January 2008
Pan-European deal boosts wireless
linecard
Acal Technology will support customers throughout Europe with design-in and concept-enabling using RFMD's complete product portfolio.
Acal Technology has been named by RFMD as its exclusive pan-European distribution partner in 13 European countries following RFMD's acquisition of Sirenza Microdevices/PDI/Microlinear The agreement covers the UK, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 30 Nov 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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RFMD's rationalisation of Sirenza's distribution network means that Acal Technology will support customers throughout Europe with design-in and concept-enabling using RFMD's complete product portfolio.
This includes RFMD's power amplifiers and wireless solutions for infrastructure and wireless local area networks (WLAN) as well as Sirenza/PDI's transceivers, signal source, signal processing and other RF components for multimarket applications.
Martin Kemp, European Product Manager, Acal RF and Wireless explains: "This agreement adds more than 75 new products to Acal's wireless linecard, including the world's leading power amplifiers in wireless LAN, WiMAX and new technology areas such as GaN.
RFMDs multimarket product group will allow Acal to further penetrate the broadband, consumer, CATV, aerospace and defence, test and instrumentation and wireless infrastructure markets".
"The combination of Acal's specialist engineering support with the strength of the RFMD product portfolios delivers a compelling mix for customers across a broad range of applications who want to reduce the form factor, overall cost and time to market of next-generation wireless systems", says Colin Hunt, European Sales Manager, RFMD.
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