by Barry Manz | Aug 14, 2026 | Perspectives
Editor’s note: In 1972, Murray Pasternack founded Pasternack Enterprises in a 140-square-foot bedroom with $600. In an RF and microwave business built on custom work and weeks-long lead times, he did something no one else would: stocked standard components and...
by Barry Manz | Aug 14, 2026 | From the Editor
Few concepts in wireless infrastructure have been promoted as confidently as Open RAN. The pitch was straightforward: break the radio access network into interoperable components, define open interfaces between them, and operators would no longer be tied to a single...
by Barry Manz | Aug 12, 2026 | Feature Article
European grocers pioneered electronic labels, but Kohl’s brought wireless signage to U.S. department stores at scale. More than 15 years ago, shoppers walking through Kohl’s stores encountered something remarkably advanced for its time. Mounted above clothing...
by Barry Manz | Jun 8, 2026 | Feature Article
The 6G community has effectively settled the spectrum question, and the answer is the 7 to 24 GHz range. 3GPP calls it Frequency Range 3 (FR3), while marketing departments have taken to calling it the “golden” band, which says more about the marketing departments than...
by Barry Manz | Jun 8, 2026 | From the Editor
Every new generation of Wi-Fi arrives carrying higher data rates than the last. Wi-Fi 5 hit 1 Gb/s, Wi-Fi 6 pushed into the high single digits, and Wi-Fi 7 now advertises a peak near 46 Gb/s. That’s more than an order of magnitude in a decade. But a data rate is...
