Giga-tronics Establishes United Kingdom R & D Facility.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN RAMON San Ramon (Spanish for "Saint Raymond") may refer to one of the following places:
Giga-tronics Incorporated (Nasdaq/NMS:GIGA) announced today the establishment of a United Kingdom development center for microwave instrumentation, Giga-tronics Instruments Ltd. The facility is located at Luton, Bedfordshire, England. Mr. Guy Purchon, recently an engineering manager with IFR IFR abbr. instrument flight rules Systems in Stevenage (formerly Marconi Instruments Marconi Instruments was a British company, one of the Marconi group of companies, formerly part of GEC. The company was based in St Albans, Colchester and Stevenage (where it eventually consolidated). Ltd.) has joined Giga-tronics as manager of the Luton facility. "Giga-tronics has set me a very exciting engineering challenge. It is very significant to the UK electronics industry that a California company, from the heart of the instrumentation industry, has decided to set up a microwave development unit in the UK. It is a great complement to the skills and abilities of the UK electronics engineering community." During the course of 2001, Giga-tronics Instrument Division will be making a significant investment in the new design center. The unit will assume responsibility for the worldwide engineering support of the Division's Power Measurement Products, especially the new 8650 Universal Power family of products. It will also be responsible for developing new products in the power measurement market sector focusing on the wireless industry. Jim Koehn, President of the Instrument Division and the Managing Director of Giga-tronics Instruments Ltd said, "We challenged our Engineering organization to set up a design center to develop instrumentation for the new wireless technologies of '3G' and beyond. After several months of investigation it was concluded that the U.K. had the infrastructure and proven expertise in wireless technology to carry our projects forward. We are now in the process of attracting the best industry talent available to carry out our new product development strategy for this important growth sector." Giga-tronics Inc. develops and manufactures components, subsystems and support equipment for the wireless telecommunications industry addressing broadband wireless See wireless broadband. data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. , internet telephony, mobile cellular systems and satellite earth station uplinks. Its Instrument Division (www.gigatronics.com), in San Ramon, California San Ramon is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States. It is a part of the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 1980, the population of San Ramon has increased by over 128% from 22,356 to 51,027 in 2005. , U.S.A., supplies microwave instrumentation for the cellular, PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. , and satellite telecommunications. It is one of four Giga-tronics Inc. operating divisions. Headquartered in San Ramon, California, Giga-tronics is a publicly held company, traded over the counter on NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on National Market Systems under the symbol "GIGA". |
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