Anritsu has expanded Forward Error Correction (FEC) analysis capability in its 116 Gbit/s PAM4 Error Detector (ED) MU196040B module for the Signal Quality Analyzer-R MP1900A series bit error rate testers (BERTs).
Tim Tang, Director of Enterprise Solutions for Hughes Network Systems
One industry among many that has been hard hit by the pandemic is the restaurant sector. For months, I have listened to brand after brand describe their journey this past year. Always, they stress that the stakes are high. Early on, they noted how customer traffic dried up overnight and they needed to implement online, mobile, and curbside service immediately. Some spoke of IT achievements, like rolling out these digital services in only a matter of weeks. Others had either already implemented those initiatives before the pandemic or had just started.
Philips TV Tuner History pt5
Competition and Growth
Introduction
We have reached the end of the 1980s, probably the turning point in the Philips Tuner history. On the one hand the business has been doing well: constant consolidation of (mainly European and US) competitors has substantially increased the market share and volumes, making it one of the global top3 tuner makers. However, in parallel the emergence of Japanese competition has made the business environment increasingly harsh, with a serious pressure on profitability and thus cost. Although Philips with its UV800 tuner family has probably made the best tuner ever in terms of robustness and performance, this model is clearly too big and expensive and in the coming two decades we will see a continuous drive for cost reduction and the associated size reduction. One of the most remarkable steps in this context is the move to the World Standard Pinning (WSP), with Philips agreeing with its main competitors Alps and Matsushita