How Satellite Communication Works: Key Concepts, Technologies, and Business Opportunities The first Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite launched in 1978, pioneering the concept of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). Twenty years later, Iridium launched a satellite-based telephony service, the first to use handsets the size of cell phones rather than briefcases. And in 2022, 3GPP Release 17 ushered in the era...

4G vs. LTE vs. 5G: How Mobile Technology is Evolving Every generation aspires to outdo its ancestors. That’s true for both people and cellular technologies. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) defines the criteria that each new technology must meet in order to wear the label of 3G, 4G, and now 5G. For example, 4G devices...

GNSS Antennas: How to Choose Between Directional and Omnidirectional Designs Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) antennas can be grouped into two types: directional and omnidirectional. They’re important concepts because they play a major role in the reliability and performance of the positioning and timing applications that use GNSS. One way to understand these concepts is in...

Antenna Integrator Expands with UWB Support and Enhanced Insights The Taoglas Antenna Integrator has been significantly upgraded – introducing new antenna options and deeper performance data to support more precise and efficient design. Now Featuring UWB Antennas Five new antennas have been added to the tool’s library, including two Ultra-Wideband (UWB) models – the first...

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...