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ASCOM is an international industrial group, headquartered in Switzerland’s capital Bern. It has subsidiaries in all major European, North American, and Asian-Pacific markets as well as companies in Latin America.

Ascom is active in selected segments of telecommunications and service automation. Ascom’s revenue for 2002 totalled CHF 2.07 billion. It has a staff of more than 5’000 employees worldwide. The holding is organised in 4 divisions: Security Solutions, Network Integration, Wireless Solutions and Transport Revenue.

The legal entity (Ascom division) relevant for the bid of concern is Ascom Security Solutions. The legal name of its Swiss part is Ascom Systec AG. Its main business is in delivering customer-specific telecom solutions for private and public customers with high security requirements. Applicable Research & Technology (AR&T) is a department of Ascom Systec AG consisting of 30 scientists, research engineers and project managers. Its mission is to maintain a leading edge competence in selected areas
of Wireless Communications, Satellite Communications and Powerline Communications.

AR&T’s Antenna and RF Design team are specialists in the design and implementation of custom solutions, with more than a decade of application proven experience. Its main capabilities in antenna design are antennas for mobile and fixed wireless applications, with a special emphasis on miniaturisation, efficiency and gain enhancement, broadbanding and multi-band coverage, cost reduction,
as well as smart antennas and antenna diversity. In the field of RF design
the focus is on analogue RF and microwave circuit design, with main strength
in the areas of custom radios, component parameter extraction
and component modelling.

- GPS antenna design, such as the antenna used in a miniature receiver
integrated into a wrist-watch;
- Implementation of a high-sensitivity, low-power GPS receiver module
for a portable receiver;
- Design and implementation of a high-sensitivity, low-power transceiver
for DSRC applications, including the antenna system, receive,
transmit and low-power wake-upcircuitry.