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The third test stand at CERN, Xbox-3 is introduced and designs for the LLRF and control systems are pre-sented. The first of the modulator/klystron units from Toshiba and Scandinova is tested. CLIC will require crab cavities to align the bunches in order to provide effective head-on collisions. An X-band travelling wave cavity using a quasi-TM11 mode for deflection has been designed, manufactured and tested at the Xbox-2 high power test stand. The cavity reached an input power level in excess of 50 MW, at pulse widths of 150 ns with a measured breakdown rate (BDR) of better than 10-5 breakdowns per pulse (BDs/pulse). At the nominal pulse width of 200 ns, the cavity reached an input power level of 43 MW with a BDR of 10-6 BDs/pulse. These parameters are well above the nominal design pa-rameters of an input power of 13.35 MW with a 200 ns pulse length. 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