OFS has released a new aerospace cable under the tradename FlightLink. The product was first shown in the US in April at the SPIE Defense, Security & Sensing show.

FlightLink cable is a 62.5 µm fiber in a lightweight, 1.8mm outer jacket construction. It meets or exceeds the ARINC 802 standard, an extensive set of requirements and testing for commercial aircraft.

Please contact your local BFi OPTiLAS Sales Office in UK, Spain, Sweden and The Netherlands for additional technical and commercial information.

BFi OPTiLAS announced today that it has signed a pan-European distribution agreement with Connect One Ltd.

Under the terms of this agreement, BFi OPTiLAS will distribute Connect One's complete range of embedded chips, modules and device servers, which IP-enable any device over wired and wireless LANs.

Connect One creates innovative, cutting edge iChip™ updateable Internet Controller™ chips and iChip based Embedded Modules that dramatically reduce time-to-market for wired and wireless systems designers and simplify the inclusion communication into a customer's design. Typical design time is one man-month for the iChips, and the embedded modules products are fully certified and plug & play.

"BFi OPTiLAS offers a superb combination of industry knowledge and local presence, and hence was the natural choice for us", said Mr. Amir Friedman, Connect One' CEO.
"We are pleased to distribute the Connect One's product portfolio in the European marketplace. Connect One products are cost effective, and have the high-end performance that customers are looking for in today's competitive market conditions", said Mr. Ernesto Prestifilippo, European Business Development Director of BFi OPTiLAS.

About Connect One
Established in 1996, Connect One Ltd. is widely regarded as the device networking authority, with many innovative firsts to its credit. The company manufactures semiconductors and device servers that facilitate secure, reliable and robust Internet Protocol-based communication for everyday devices. Connect One is privately owned, with offices in San Jose, CA, and Kfar Saba, Israel.

BFi OPTiLAS, a pan-European RF distributor in Evry France, today announced that it has signed an distribution agreement with Melexis, a leading designer and manufacturer of advanced Mixed Signal semiconductors, sensor ICs, programmable sensor IC systems, Wireless ICs.

BFi OPTiLAS will market the Wireless IC product line throughout Europe.

"In our opinion, BFi OPTiLAS offer the best combination of industry knowledge and local presence in the areas of interest, and hence were the natural choice for us", said Dr. Andreas Laute, Business Unit Manager RF at MELEXIS.

"We are pleased to distribute the Wireless IC product portfolio of MELEXIS in the European marketplace", says Ernesto Prestifilippo, Business Development Director at BFi OPTiLAS.

"The MELEXIS products have the cost effective, high-end performance that customers are looking for today."

BFi OPTiLAS is pleased to announce it has extended its partnership with Anaren, Inc. for the distribution Anaren's wireless consumer electronics component line in most European countries. Anaren is a world leader in microwave/RF-based technology for the wireless infrastructure, satellite communications, defence, medical, and consumer-products sectors.

This agreement covers Anaren's range of miniature components designed for wireless consumer electronic applications such as laptop chipsets, handheld devices, among others; the product family includes such products as baluns, cross over / jumpers, couplers, and power dividers.

"BFi OPTiLAS is well-positioned to support these products based on their industry knowledge and local presence in these geographic areas,"says Mr. Kevin Maher, Corporate Sales Manager of Anaren. "As such, they are a natural choice to partner with us and help serve our addressable customer base there."
"In addition to infrastructure components we have long distributed for Anaren in Europe, we are pleased to also distribute Anaren's growing portfolio of consumer-sized components in most of the European marketplace. These products have the cost effectiveness and high-end performance that customers are looking for today," said Mr. Philippe Gruson, President of BFi OPTiLAS.
About Anaren: An innovative leader in microwave and RF technology, Anaren designs and manufactures complex components and subsystems for defence, satellite, wireless, and consumer electronics markets.

Power Module Technology, LLC. is pleased to announce it has entered into a Pan-European exclusive distribution agreement with BFi OPTiLAS.

Power Module Technology, LLC. (PMT) design, develop, manufacture broadband pallet/module amplifiers to the FM Radio Broadcast, VHF TV/UHF TV transmitter integrators, military and commercial/Industrial communications manufacturers in both domestic and foreign markets.

This agreement covers the complete range of RF & Microwave PMT product portfolio.

"In our opinion, BFi OPTiLAS offer the best combination of industry knowledge and local presence in Europe, and hence were the natural choice for us", said Mr. Bob Todd, VP Sales & Marketing of PMT.

"We are pleased to distribute the product portfolio of PMT in the European marketplace. The PMT products have the cost effective, high-end performance that customers are looking for today", said Mr. Philippe Gruson, President of BFi OPTiLAS.

About Power Module Technology, LLC.
Power Module Technology, LLC is focusing on the following key markets: Television and FM broadcast, military, commercial, industrial, and medical markets with products ranging from 200 KHz to 3.0 GHz. For additional information please visit PMT Web site

Fully Matched Compact Module Solution Provides Great Linearity and Superior Dynamic Range.
Avago Technologies are pleased to announce a new fully matched wideband variable attenuator module for use in a wide range of broadband system applications.

The ALM-38140, which is a 50MHz to 4 GHz PIN diode attenuator module, is a fully integrated solution that uses Avago’s low distortion silicon PIN diodes housed in a miniature 3.8 mm by 3.8 mm by 1.0 mm multiple-chip-on board (MCOB) package with 6-pin configuration pads.

This module is ideal for use wireless infrastructure applications such as CATV, WCDMA, VSAT, WiMAX and cellular base station applications.

Designed with broadband input and output match, Avago’s ALM-38140 does not require any external RF matching component to operate. Additionally, narrow band performance enhancement can be easily achieved by applying a single external inductor. The ALM-38140 also features high power handling capabilities (P1dB>30dBm @ 1,900 MHz), great linearity performance (IIP3: 60 dBm @ 1,900 MHz) and superior dynamic range (35 dB @ 1,900 MHz). With broadband coverage, this miniature variable attenuator module is ideal for use in automatic gain control (AGC) and temperature compensation circuitry applications which operate within the 50 – 4,000 MHz frequency range.

Ultra-Low Noise, High Linearity Matched Pair LNAs Are Economical, Easy to Install and Supports All Major Cellular Bandwidths Avago Technologies, today announced two ultra-low noise, high gain, high linearity Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) balanced low noise amplifiers for cellular infrastructure applications. Avago’s MGA-16516/17516, which are the latest additions to its family of economical, easy to use LNAs, helps to significantly improve the sensitivity and dynamic range of cellular infrastructure applications.

Typical applications include cellular base station transceiver radio cards, tower mounted amplifiers, combiners, repeaters and remote/digital radio heads.

Avago’s MGA-16516/17516 LNAs are housed in a 4 mm by 4 mm by 0.85 mm surface mount 16-lead QFN package, and were developed using Avago’s proprietary 0.25 µm GaAs enhancement-mode pHEMT process. The MGA-16516 operates from 500 to 1,700 MHz, while the MGA-17516 operates from 1,700 to 2,700 MHz. These new LNAs will enable Avago to provide support for GSM, CDMA, UMTS and next generation LTE cellular bandwidths. The MGA-16516/17516 have been designed to be used with 3dB hybrid couplers at the input and output of LNAs typically found in the front end of cellular base stations, combiners and transceiver radio cards.

In a typical operating environment of 5-Volts and 50mA per channel, the MGA-16516 delivers a 0.45 dB noise figure, 17.5 dB gain, 11.5 dBm input Third Order Intercept Point (IIP3), and 18 dBm output power at 1 dB compress point (P1dB) at 850MHz. Under the same operating conditions, the MGA-17516 delivers enhanced performance of 0.52 dB noise figure, 17.2 dB Gain, 13.7 dBm IIP3, and 21.5 dBm output power at P1dB at 1,850 MHz.

Inphi Corporation, a high-speed analog semiconductor company, today introduced its 4336TA Transimpedance Amplifier (TIA) for next-generation Small Form-Factor 40 Gbps Very Short Reach (VSR) transponder modules. The new 4336TA is a high-gain TIA that enables transponders to achieve high-sensitivity and high-overload performance over a wide range of temperatures and supply voltages. As a result, Inphi helps its customers simplify the design, production and installation of 40 Gbps serial components and equipment. The new 4336TA component will be shown at OFC/NFOEC 2010 in San Diego, March 23-25. Engineering samples of the 4336TA are available immediately.

"Networking and data centers play a vital role in the delivery of cloud services, which require more speed and scale than ever before. We are seeing more organizations and service providers rapidly moving from 10 Gbps to 40 Gbps core and backbone networks to handle the rising video and mobile data traffic,"; said Young Sohn, President and CEO, Inphi. "Our new 4336TA will enable customers to better manage the increasing 40 Gbps data traffic on the network, while providing improvements in signal integrity, capacity and power."
"Over the next two years, service providers worldwide will either plan to use or already are using 40 Gbps serial technologies for router connections," said Andrew Schmitt, Directing Analyst, Optical, Infonetics Research. "Due to the rapid growth of the 40 Gbps optical market in 2009, with port shipment roughly doubling when compared to 2008, companies like Inphi that have a strong technology and market position will be able to take advantage of the expected expansion of 40 Gbps serial deployments."
4336TA Improves Link Margins; Leapfrogs Competition Innovative analog integrated circuit design techniques from Inphi are enabling the rapid growth of 40 Gbps serial deployments. The 4336TA delivers the highest gain, highest sensitivity and excellent optical overload performance for an unparalleled dynamic range, which improves link margins and leapfrogs the performance of other products offered today. "One of the most challenging 40 Gbps issues is to connect routers-to-routers and core routers-to-DWDM systems at the native 40 Gbps serial bit rate, while maintaining performance over wide dynamic range of optical power, temperature, and supply voltage conditions,” said Loi Nguyen, Vice President Networking, Communications and Multi-Market Products, Inphi. “Customers have asked that we build a TIA solution to solve this technical challenge. We are pleased to introduce the new 4336TA to address our customers’ problems and enable them to quickly develop SFF 40 Gbps VSR transponder modules for SONET/SDH as well as for future 40 Gigabit Serial Ethernet applications."

The new 4336TA is designed to meet the demanding signal integrity requirements of 40 Gbps serial connections over diverse environmental conditions. Inphi's new 4336TA offers exceptional performance margin in terms of sensitivity and overload. The high-gain functionality eliminates the need for external limiting amplifiers and other integrated circuits. The new 4336TA helps reduce the complexity of 40 Gbps serial components and equipment with the following features:

• Wide dynamic range
• Best optical overload, > +6 dBm
• Highest gain 40 Gbps TIA, 3.5 KΩ
• Stable bandwidth and signal integrity over operating conditions

Economical, Easy to Use InGaP HBT Gain Block Amplifiers Ideal for WiMAX, Wireless Base Stations, Satellite TV, and Set-Top Boxes Avago Technologies, a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, today announced two new economical, easy to use general purpose InGaP Hetero-Junction Bipolar Transistor (HBT) MMIC gain block amplifiers for use in a variety of wireless applications. Avago’s AVT-51663/53663 gain blocks, which operate within the DC to 6000MHz frequency band, can be used as either a broadband gain block or driver amplifier. These gain blocks target designers of cellular infrastructure applications, but can be also be used in a variety of other wireless applications such as Base Stations, WiMAX, WLAN, CATV, Satellite TV and set-top boxes.

Avago's AVT-51663/53663 gain block amplifiers, which are internally matched to 50-Ohms, were designed in Darlington configuration housed in an industry standard six-lead SOT-363 surface mount plastic package. The Darlington feedback structure provides inherent broad bandwidth performance resulting in a useful operating frequency range of up to 6 GHz making the AVT-51663/53663 ideal for small-signal gain cascades or IF amplification. Moreover, these new gain blocks feature easy installation and only require DC blocking capacitors, RF choke, biasing resistors and bypass capacitors for operation. Additionally, no additional RF matching components are required to achieve broadband performance.

These new gain block amplifiers were developed using advanced InGaP HBT technology that offers state-of-the-art reliability, temperature stability and consistent performance. At a typical operating condition of 5V and 37mA, the AVT-51663 delivers performance of 19.0dB gain, 24dBm Output Third Order Intercept Point (OIP3) and 12.5dBm Output Power at 1dB Gain Compression (P1dBm) and 3.2dBm noise figure at 2000MHz. The AVT-53663 operates at 5V and 48mA to deliver a performance of 19.5dB Gain, 5dBm OIP3, 15dBm P1dB and 3.2dB noise figure at 2000MHz.

Key Features: Small signal gain amplifier 50 Ohm input and output Broadband high linearity No RF matching components required

Flat broadband frequency response up to 2GHz Single, fixed 5V supply Industry standard SOT-363 package Lead-free and RoHS compliant

BFi OPTiLAS to Market, Sell, and Support E-Band’s GigE Broadband Wireless Products BFi OPTiLAS, a value-added pan-European distributor with headquarters in Evry, France, today announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with E-Band Communications Corp., a leading developer of multi-gigabit capacity wireless communication systems based on 70/80GHz millimeter wave radio technology. BFi OPTiLAS will market E-Band Communications’ line of Gigabit Ethernet wireless products throughout the United Kingdom and Europe.

"E-Band has the highest performance 70/80GHz GigE product on the market, with GigE all the time and a 10dB larger link budget than the nearest competitor," said Ernesto Prestifilippo, Business Development Director of BFi OPTiLAS’ Communications business unit. "Our channel partners are looking for the best wireless products available, and E-Band’s GigE all the time and low latency certainly meets that requirement."

E-Band’s technology provides solutions for interconnection and backhaul of 4G, WiMAX, LTE, and other mobile networks as well as Gigabit Ethernet last mile access, fibre backup, and network extension applications.

E-Band’s Layer-1 system fits easily into existing networks because E-Link acts more like a piece of fibre than a complicated network element. This allows the end customer to have a common network architecture whether they are using their own fiber, someone else’s dark fiber or E-Band’s GigE wireless links. This approach also allows for quick and easy installation into any existing network, which makes this product highly suitable for emergency and disaster recovery applications.
"BFi OPTiLAS has a proven ability to expand the GigE wireless market throughout the UK and Europe" said Kirk Byles, Vice President of Global Sales at E-Band. "Their focus on providing the right wireless product coupled with in-house design services and a history of providing outstanding pre-sales and post-sales support represents considerable value to E-Band as we welcome BFi OPTiLAS to be part of our team."

About E-Band Communications
E-Band Communications Corporation (EBCC) is a developer of ultra-high capacity wireless communications systems for the 70/80 GHz E-band spectrum. Our products use leading-edge RF MMIC technology and provide best-in-class link performance.

Avago Technologies' MGA-633P8 is the latest addition to the family of ultra low noise, high gain, high linearity Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) Active Bias Low Noise Amplifiers (LNA). Leveraging Avago’s proprietary 0.25um GaAs Enhancement-mode pHEMT process, the device achieves Best in Class NF (0.38dB @ 900MHz) performance and is designed to be used as first stage LNA within cellular base station transceiver radio cards, tower mounted amplifiers (TMA), combiners, repeaters and remote/digital radio heads.

The MGA-633P8 is an Active Bias LNA which operates from 450MHz to 1500MHz. Additional products will be released later in the year that support frequencies within all major cellular bands: GSM, CDMA, UMTS and the next generation LTE (700MHz band in North America and 2.5GHz band in Europe and Asia). Since all of the devices will share a common footprint, pin-out, and external matching network, they provide a common PCB design to customers when used at different frequencies and therefore simplifying the PCB layout.

MGA-633P8 is housed in a miniature 2.0 x 2.0 x 0.85 mm surface mount 8-lead QFN package.

Target markets/segments are Wireless Infrastructure (LTE, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, WiMAX and etc…), and other wireless systems from 400-1500MHz that requires Ultra low NF and high linearity LNA.