Antenova, the integrated antenna and RF solutions company, and INPAQ Technology, a leader in circuit protection components and antenna products, announced the companies have entered into an agreement to co-development multi-band antennas for smart phones and notebook computers based on Antenova’s patented antenna technologies.

Greg McCray, CEO of Antenova commented, "INPAQ has as strong position and relationships in the Taiwanese and Chinese markets for low cost manufacturing and delivering ceramic single-band cellular antennas and GPS patch antennas for mobile devices. They recognized Antenova’s leadership in providing innovative multi-band antennas and RF Antenna Modules for the global mobile device markets. This partnership allows both companies to exploit our strengths with specific projects in mobile handsets and notebooks while still affording us the opportunities to leverage each other's capabilities on future customer projects."

For more information please visit http://www.antenova.com

Polatis, the manufacturer of high performance and low loss optical switches, today announced the introduction of its ExpressLightTM wavelength selective switch (WSS) family of products, believed to be the industry's lowest loss WSS system. The ExpressLight WSS is integrated with optical channel monitoring and channel equalization functions in a small form factor 1RU shelf, and enables rapid time-to-deployment for operators and network equipment manufacturers in core and metro DWDM networks.

Polatis has worked closely with carriers in developing the ExpressLight WSS product, including undertaking a London Regional Network Study to quantify the impact of lower WSS loss.

"We have conducted studies for our operational networks that clearly demonstrate the advantages of low loss optical switching components," explained Andrew Lord, who leads BT's Optical Core R&D. "Ultimately, what is preventing us from rolling out many more WSS is the entire network cost. A WSS with half the loss of traditional technologies can save thousands of dB in optical amplification, avoiding unnecessary regenerations throughout our network, and hence reducing significantly those costs."

The ExpressLight WSS product has been developed as a core component of a carrier ROADM strategy, providing the ability to remotely reconfigure any or all wavelengths, and enable a cost-effective means of remote optical network management. The entire family of products offers up to 50% the loss of competing technologies, at less than 3 dB of express or drop loss. Operators can manage up to 42 wavelengths at 100 GHz channel spacing, provide colorless and hitless add/drops, and manage the network through the integrated channel monitoring and equalization capabilities of the shelf. The combined ultra-low loss, wide passband, and high OSNR ensure maximum ability to cascade network nodes.

"The Polatis WSS serves an unmet market need in the DWDM ROADM network today," stated David Lewis, Polatis Chief Executive Officer. "The dramatically lower loss solves the 'pinch points' in the network where low loss is critical, and enables new architectures for active add/drop, ring-to-ring and multi-degree transparency in the network.

"With our integrated shelf product, we deliver an immediate solution to those operators requiring the addition of remote wavelength management in a new or existing DWDM network."

The ExpressLight WSS shelf product, which leverages the Polatis proprietary piezoelectric beam-steering engine, is designed to allow easy integration into existing DWDM transport systems, or as a managed element in an operator network. The WSS is ideal for the following applications:

• Dynamic wavelength switching and service provisioning
• Ring-to-ring and multi-degree network connectivity
• Scalable wavelength cross-connects
• Network restoration
• Adding remote reconfiguration to existing point-to-point fixed DWDM networks

Polatis is releasing its first ExpressLight WSS product in a compact 1RU passively cooled shelf, offered as a 1x9 configuration (one common line, 9 add or 9 drop paths). The core technology is scalable, and will allow for 1x5 through 1x20 configurations. Polatis has integrated real time optical channel monitoring and power equalization of the downstream wavelengths. Interfaces include SNMP, Telnet, and a Graphical Element Management Interface. All products will provide less than 3 dB express or add/drop loss, and are protocol & bit rate independent up to 40 Gb/s and beyond.

A live demonstration of the ExpressLight 1x9 WSS product will take place on the Polatis booth (#SL1306) at NXTcomm 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada, Tuesday June 17 through Thursday June 19.

For more information please visit http://www.polatis.com

As a European law firm with offices in Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Paris and Turin, SJ Berwin has more than 170 partners and 500 lawyers. The firm advises on a comprehensive range of legal services including Corporate Finance, Commercial, Real Estate, Finance, Reconstruction & Insolvency, Financial Services, Litigation, Intellectual Property, Employment & Pensions, EU & Competition and Tax.

“We were looking for a solution to issues raised by the 3rd Money-Laundering Directive in relation to risk assessment and ongoing monitoring and we were pleased to find that Datanomic had a well thought through process for helping us to deal with those issues,” said Kate Scott, Head of Practice Protection at SJ Berwin LLP.

“Operating in the European and international market place in today’s commercial environment requires compliance with supervisory regulations and legislation. This includes having the proper systems in place to ensure that you are not unknowingly facilitating money laundering,” said Terry Lawley, Project Delivery Manager for SJ Berwin LLP.

SJ Berwin embarked on an initial scoping exercise with Datanomic in early January 2008 before full deployment in house that month. Datanomic is now used in conjunction with World-Check’s Data File across the firm.

Regulatory initiatives, such as Basel II, MiFID and the 3rd EU Money Laundering Directive, have placed stringent information management requirements on organizations within the regulated sector. MLROs face increasing Know Your Customer challenges. The scale, complexity and cost of screening customers against published sanctions lists (‘Watch Lists’) and named Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) lists is becoming a major administrative burden for compliance departments. The legal requirement to continually and accurately screen their customer base presents organisations with new operational challenges. Traditional matching methods require a smarter, more sophisticated approach.

Datanomic’s Sanctions/PEP Screening solution enables organisations to rigorously and accurately identify heightened risk entities within their customer bases(s). It relieves the burden of manual or semi-automated client screening by enabling automated screening in an easy-to-use/easy-to-implement solution designed for both the Compliance team and IT.

Inadequate information exposes organisations to both financial and reputational risk. Datanomic includes best-practice rules templates for matching against a variety of different lists, including World-Check and has worked with leading financial institutions to deliver a highly intelligent client screening solution that is designed for ease of use by non-technical users.

“One of the things that impressed me with Datanomic was how fast the solution is,” concluded Lawley. “We were surprised at how easy it was to implement.”
In addition to significantly reducing complexity and administrative overhead, Datanomic’s Sanctions/PEP Screening solution delivers industry best practice, providing a base from which management can develop tailored policies and procedures appropriate to their business. By reducing the amount of manual matching required, Datanomic’s solution frees up resources to focus manual effort on more complex tasks. Moreover, improving the effectiveness of enterprise data applications further enhances corporate performance and competitive advantage.

Datanomic’s Sanctions/PEP Screening solution delivers a rapid return on investment and fast implementation. The solution can be acquired either on an annual subscription basis or via outright purchase.

For more information please visit http://www.datanomic.com