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NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES ANTENNAS L-com Supports Gigabit WiFi with 802.11ac Antennas L-com, Inc., a designer and manufacturer of wired and wireless connectivity products, has announced that it will support the latest IEEE wireless standard 802.11ac with a series of indoor ceiling mount and outdoor panel style WiFi antennas that feature 2.4 to 5.8 GHz operation. 802.11ac offers up to 1 Gbps wireless transmissions and the ability to support up to eight MIMO spatial streams as well as 80 MHz channel bandwidth. The HG2458-4SDC-6 series ceiling mount 802.11ac MIMO antennas feature 4 dBi of gain and six independent spatially diverse antennas in a single package. Three are designed to operate at 2.4 GHz and three are designed to operate at 4.9 to 5.8 GHz. The HG2458-3SDC-3 series ceiling mount antennas feature spatial diversity between three independent/integral antenna ports providing better wireless reception in areas susceptible to the affects of multi-path interference. The HG2458-14DP-3NF outdoor rated panel antenna features three Independent 14 dBi antennas with two vertical and one horizontally polarized element. Other features include a heavy-duty UV-resistant plastic radome well suited for all-weather indoor or outdoor operation and a tilt and swivel mast mount kit which allows for quick installation at various degrees of up/down tilt. Saelig Introduces Low Cost SMD Antennas Saelig Company, Inc. has released the Proant OnBoard SMD 2400 (2.4 GHz band) and SMD GPS (GPS and Glonass) miniature surface-mount antennas for mobile wireless products. The OnBoard series moves embedded antenna integration one step ahead by combining high performance and low cost in this new OnBoard SMD family. Traditionally, small low cost antennas for printed circuit board assembly have been manufactured with a dielectric substrate as the base for the radiating structure. With this approach, the antenna is normally a rectangular block, which means that the PCB area below the antenna is unavailable for mounting other components. Another drawback is that the substrate itself introduces dielectric losses to the antenna, reducing its total efficiency. Proant has taken the concept of small SMD antennas one step ahead by increasing both the antenna performance and design flexibility, and combining this with low cost and manufacturability. The result is the new OnBoard SMD antenna family that builds on previous OnBoard antennas, but in a surface mounted sheet metal solution, packaged in tape-on-reel and suitable for high volume manufacturing. One of OnBoard's key features, which eliminates the need of the dielectric substrate used in other SMD antennas, is the patent-pending capacitively-loaded footprint of the antenna's supporting pins, which reduces losses and increases the performance. The first two products to be launched in this 50 ohm RoHS-compliant family are OnBoard SMD 2400 (2.4GHz band) and SMD GPS (GPS and Glonass). Future variants will include WLAN dual-band, 868/915 MHz, and GSM versions. Made in Sweden by Proant AB, a widely respected specialist antenna company in the M2M and wireless market, providing a wide range of embedded and external antennas, OnBoard SMD 2,400 (2.4 GHz band) and SMD GPS (GPS and Glonass) are available now at under $1.00 (1,000 pcs) from Saelig Company, Inc., their USA technical distributor. A demonstration board is also available at $35.00. For more new products visit www.antennasonline.com/main/markets/antennas. 20 Antenna Systems & Technology Spring 2014 www.AntennasOnline.com http://www.antennasonline.com/main/markets/antennas http://www.AntennasOnline.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Antenna Systems & Technology - Spring 2014

Editor’s Choice
What's So Exciting About the Future of M2M? Everything
Antenna Design for LTE Enabled Tablets
Recent Progress on Plasma Antennas
Guest Column: Don't Let Your Choice of Tool Hinder Your Cable and Antenna Testing
Antennas
Components/Subsystems
Short-Range Wireless
Software / System Design
Test & Measurement
Industry News
Marketplace

Antenna Systems & Technology - Spring 2014