Abstract

Canada's large landmass and the remote locations of many of its communities have placed great importance on long distance and high speed communications. Satellite communications continues to provide links to remote communities but the growing demand for bandwidth is leading the drive towards higher frequency bands and there is also an increasing emphasis on communication to personal mobile terminals. Today, new terrestrial wireless systems are also appearing to meet the human desire for high speed digital communications from the home, car, office or even golf course. This article presents an overview of some of the more significant GaAs IC developments achieved in Canada for commercial communications in the last few years.