Get Out of a Jam: How GNSS Antennas Help Thwart Jamming Attacks Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are a fundamental part of thousands of consumer, government, and business applications ranging from aviation to navigation to time-stamping transactions. That makes GNSS an attractive target for hackers, rogue nation states, industrial espionage, and other attackers that want...

Understanding Antenna Spatial Diversity and How It Affects Device Performance Do more antennas increase a cellular device’s performance? Yes — but with a few important considerations.With 2G and early 3G, phones and other cellular devices used a single antenna for transmitting and receiving. As 3G technology matured, devices began adding a second antenna strictly for...

How the GNSS Evolution Enables Future Proofing If you could go back in time and change your product to increase its performance, reliability, and competitiveness, what would you do? If it’s used for navigation, fitness tracking, autonomous vehicles, and other location-based applications, you’d probably upgrade its Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) capabilities to support multiple...

The Era of 5G-Powered Physical AI is Here All artificial intelligence (AI) applications have one thing in common: They need a reliable, high-performance network connection. Sometimes it’s for downloading the AI software that runs on the device, such as Apple Intelligence on the iPhone. In other cases, the connection facilitates uploads to the cloud, where...

With 5G RedCap, Less is More for IoT With peak download speeds of 20 Gbps and latencies as low as 1 millisecond, there aren’t many fixed or mobile applications that 5G can’t handle. But not every application requires that kind of extreme performance. Enter RedCap, which strikes a balance between affordability and longevity. Introduced in...

Taoglas' Invisible Antenna® Series Now Available with SMA Connectors Options for IoT and Smart Applications Taoglas, a specialist in designing and manufacturing advanced RF components and solving complex connectivity problems in an array of IoT industries, expands its Invisible Antenna series with industry-standard SMA connectors. Originally designed with FAKRA connectors for automotive use, these ultra-low-profile, transparent antennas are now optimized for ease of integration into a...

TFX257.B Antenna by Taoglas The TFX257.B from Taoglas is an Invisible Antenna that covers 2.4, 5.8, and 7.125 GHz bands and is compatible with Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi standards. It is an alternative to standard flexible PCB antennas where the user may want to install an antenna in a covert area or on a surface, they may want...

Selecting the Right Bands and Antenna for Your Cellular Device Between 4G and 5G, there are over 36 bands, which can make choosing the right ones for your product feel as overwhelming as going to a restaurant with a book-length menu in a foreign language. One tip is to start by identifying the country or...

Best Practices for GNSS Antenna Integration Integration is more than just connecting a GNSS antenna to a device so it can receive signals. Done right, the integration process optimizes the antenna’s capabilities and, in turn, helps ensure that the device provides the performance and reliability that end users expect. There are five types of GNSS...

A Crash Course on RF Cables Radio Frequency (RF) cables carry signals between the antenna and the transmitter and/or receiver for technologies such as cellular, Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. That means they play a critical role in the performance and reliability of the application that uses those signals. An obvious example of this...