Advantech Wireless Broadband Launches High-Density Power Amplifiers With GaN Technology
New extremely small, lightweight and reliable power amplifier solutions

MONTREAL, QC, April 16, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Advantech Advanced Microwave Technologies Inc. ("Advantech Wireless Broadband"), a Quebec-based corporation, announced today that it has launched its new range of solid state power amplifiers (SSPAs) and Block-Up Converters (BUCs or SSPBs) taking advantage of GaN (Gallium Nitride) technology. Feedback from the first customers for the products, known as Advantech's G series, is extremely positive as they take advantage of the compact size and lightweight solutions that this technology enables.

Advantech believes that the Ku-band products that it can now offer in 50W, 100W and 250W are the World's smallest. Due to the margins that their designers have been able to reserve between the operational and maximum specified parameters for the core devices (such as operating temperature and voltages) the reliability of the new products is also extremely impressive. The MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures), when compared to equivalent GaAs (Gallium Arsenide) products, is greatly increased to over 80,000 hours.

"Advantech prides itself on bringing the latest technologies to market," stated Vagan Shakhgildian, President and Chief Operating Officer of Advantech, "after much research and development, we can now say that we have harnessed the power of this technology and can deliver the benefits to our customers."

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