The July 6, 2006 issue of PlanetEE's  Microwaves and RF UPDATE e-newsletter contained the following article by Jack Browne, Technical Director.  We appreciate Jack's encouraging remarks as we head into a marketplace served with excellence by longterm players.

The microwave industry can safely be called a "mature" industry, with many businesses exceeding 50-year lifetimes. This magazine itself will be celebrating its 45th year of operation. In all that time, one might think that the number of competitors in a given part of the microwave marketplace would diminish or at least remain stable. But in this newsletter, for example, several new companies (Keragis Corp. and PrecisionWave Corp.) have announced offerings in their respective parts of the industry, broadband amplifiers and test equipment.

This industry has grown and matured because of this entrepreneurial spirit and the willingness of clever engineers with good ideas to take a chance on a new business. Sometimes they have invested with their own funds, sometimes with help from a bank or investors, but the risk of starting a company is always great. And the industry has always shown that it can support good products and good ideas, no matter how many suppliers were competing previously in that space. For a good microwave engineer, there's always room for one more company.