New Stuff 10/26/12

FTR Energy Services, a cost-effective, clean energy service offering electricity and natural gas, now is available from rural operator Frontier Communications. To do this, the operator partnered with Crius Energy, a renewable energy provider with retail energy companies in 10 states and the District of Columbia…PCTEL Inc. beefs up its Clarify Interference Management System with the Clarify NGx. Users can conduct enhanced-performance Clarify measurements of UMTS and GSM networks simultaneously with traditional scanning receiver measurements of any technology, including LTE FDD, TD-LTE, CDMA, and EV-DO, the company says. Clarify measurements are also available on PCTEL’s SeeGull MX and EX scanners, allowing existing SeeGull users to add Clarify capabilities to current scanners. The Clarify NGx is compliant with 3GPP and 3GPP2 specs…The MxL500 family of Full-Spectrum Capture (FSC) tuner-demodulators for DVB-S/S2 satellite-TV systems is available from MaxLinear Inc. The six SoCs in the MxL500 family reportedly are the first single-chip FSC satellite front-end devices on the market, supporting between one and four RF inputs and up to eight DVB-S/S2 demodulator outputs. They target next-gen satellite gateways and set-top boxes that support multi-screen viewing, personal video recorder (PVR) functionality, emerging “catch-up television” features and fast-channel-change capability. They also support the needs of next-gen digital satellite antenna Low Noise Block (LNB) applications…TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. will intro 12 new products at European Microwave Week in Amsterdam, set for Oct. 29-31. The solutions include RF GPS diplexers that reduce PCB space nearly three times compared to ceramic filter products, the company says, and new packaged transistors and amplifiers include four based on gallium nitride (GaN) and four based on gallium arsenide (GaAs) technology.