by Barry Manz | Sep 30, 2026 | From the Editor
by Barry Manz, Editor The controversy surrounding automated license-plate reader networks has focused almost entirely on privacy, data retention, and law-enforcement access. For RF engineers, however, there is another story to tell. An automated license-plate reader,...
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 Microwave Product Digest | Jul 24, 2026 | From the Editor
by Barry Manz, Editor If you’re as old as I am you have a vivid impression of CB radio, the lexicon of 10-codes and handle names, the cultural moment in the mid-1970s when “10-4, good buddy” entered the national vocabulary and antennas sprouted from...
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...
by Barry Manz | Apr 20, 2026 | From the Editor
The Internet of Things spent its early years proving that devices could be connected to networks. That work is largely done. Today, the harder questions involve scale, reliability, and responsibility. IoT systems are no longer isolated experiments or pilot programs;...
