AVX Unveils Off-the-Shelf Embedded Antennas for CAT-M & NB-IoT Applications
AVX Corporation has released off-the-shelf embedded, universal broadband, LTE/LPWA antennas designed for maximum versatility. The 1004795 and 1004796 are compatible with all major worldwide wireless carriers and a variety of common communications protocols. The new antennas meet the steadily increasing cross-market demand for smaller and thinner antennas with high-reliability, ultra-wideband performance capabilities and help OEMs reduce both costs and time-to-market by eliminating engineering fees and extended cycles times associated with custom solutions.
The new universal broadband antennas have a small, low-profile, FR4 form factor that employs patented Isolated Magnetic Dipole (IMD) technology to achieve reduced ground plane size requirements and a small keep-out area for greater design flexibility, independent tuning capabilities for application-specific performance optimization, and high performance and isolation characteristics for better connectivity and minimal interference. The antennas also exhibit high-efficiency, high gain, and high isolation characteristics from 600 - 2700 MHz and, although they are ideally suited for use in applications that leverage CAT-M and Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) communication protocols — including wearables, smart meters, medical, industrial, and IoT devices, machine-to-machine and FirstNet communications systems, point-of-sale terminals, tracking systems, and automotive electronics — they also support Sigfox, LoRa, Cellular LPWA, RPMA, and Broadband LTE (OCTA-BAND) protocols. Click here to read more.
