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Smiths Microwave Unites Key Global Brands

Thursday, September 3, 2015

Smiths Microwave today announced the combining of its’ telecommunications focused brands under a common leadership team: Kaelus, PolyPhaser, Transtector Systems and RadioWaves will become a unified group of solutions-driven brands committed to ensuring reliable communications network performance from the tower to the core.

Each of these well established brands provides a unique set of capabilities and product offerings deployed in critical communications networks worldwide, while also setting global standards through innovation and customer service.

“Uniting these leading brands under a single management structure provides our customers with an innovative range of products used on the tower, for backhaul, and in the network’s core,” said Brian DuPell, President, Smiths Microwave (Telecoms). “Our global sales teams will provide solutions from all four brands to a worldwide customer base, creating user benefits in technical support, customer service and distribution.”

Key product lines being offered by the four telecoms focused brands within Smiths Microwave include:

•   Passive intermodulation (PIM) analyzers used in test and measurement
•   High-performance combiners and RF interference filters
•   Coaxial RF protection and conditioning components
•   Tower-mounted amplifiers (TMAs)
•   AC, DC and data line surge protection solutions
•   Innovative microwave backhaul parabolic, sector and flat panel antennas
•   EMP and EMI filters

The overarching goal of all these solutions is to help network administrators minimize downtime, maintain reliable service, and eliminate the loss of revenue due to problems with information delivery. Specifically, each group of products plays an important role in signal management and ensuring quality and protection in communications networks.

About Smiths Microwave
Smiths Microwave is a leading provider of components, sub-assemblies, antennas and system solutions that test, filter, protect, and process high-frequency signals primarily for defense, aerospace, test and measurement, and wireless telecommunications applications.

As a family of brands, TECOM, TRAK, LORCH, Millitech, EMC Technology, Florida RF Labs, TRAK Limited, Kaelus, PolyPhaser, Transtector Systems, and RadioWaves provide exacting solutions for antenna systems for the military and commercial aerospace, transceivers, frequency sources, timing systems, component applications and a wide range of innovative RF, microwave and surge protection solutions for the wireless telecommunications sector.

Alongside Smiths Connectors and Smiths Power, Smiths Microwave is part of the Smiths Interconnect divisions of Smiths Group,www.smiths.com, a global leader in applying advanced technologies for markets in threat and contraband detection, energy, medical devices, communications, and engineered components. Smiths Group employs more than 23,500 people in over 50 countries.