SAF Tehnika
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SAF Tehnika is a designer, producer and distributor of digital Microwave
Data transmission
equipment. SAF Tehnika products provide wireless backhaul
solutions for digital voice and data transmission to mobile and fixed network operators, data service providers, governments and private companies. The Company offers 3 product lines: CFM family – low to medium capacity radio equipment PDH
, CFQ family – high capacity radio equipment (SDH) and the CFIP family – with up to 366Mbit/s capacity radio equipment.
In 2004 SAF Tehnika acquired a Swedish company, - SAF Tehnika Sweden, a fully owned subsidiary, based in Gothenburg
, however in 2008 it was bought out by its management, changing the name to "Trebax AB". In May 2004 the Company launched a successful IPO with initial market capitalization of more than €50 million, with substantial subscriptions from institutional investors. The Company is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Riga under the symbol SAF1R.
and ACM
. In comparison to that CFIP Phoenix is a split mount system with indoor and outdoor unit. In addition to ethernet this IP based system also offers 20E1 connections.
as the primary traffic interface and enhanced data transmission capacity - up to 108Mbit/s. In addition, CFIP is capable to deliver up to 4E1
interfaces for legacy connectivity or any other use. Apart from the full system capacity of 108Mbit/s, it is possible to configure the radio to any of 7 MHz, 14 MHz and 28 MHz channel bandwidths as well as to any of QPSK, 16APSK and 32APSK modulations, thus providing various capacities. This product family provides a solution for users looking for higher than PDH E3 capacity without need for STM-1
capacity.
. CFQ family is composed of an Indoor Unit (SD-IDU) and Outdoor Unit (ODU). Indoor Unit is designed to be frequency independent, but ODU - capacity independent. CFQ-SD-IDU is based upon a common platform to support wide range of network interfaces and configurations, including 16xE1, 21E1, 32xE1, 42E1, 63E1, E3, 1 or 2x100Base TX
Ethernet, or combination of these interfaces, and 1xSTM-1. One of recent case studies has showed that CFQ equipment is reliable also as a long range solution, connecting sites of 40km distance in New Zealand
.
Microwave
Microwaves, a subset of radio waves, have wavelengths ranging from as long as one meter to as short as one millimeter, or equivalently, with frequencies between 300 MHz and 300 GHz. This broad definition includes both UHF and EHF , and various sources use different boundaries...
Data transmission
Data transmission
Data transmission, digital transmission, or digital communications is the physical transfer of data over a point-to-point or point-to-multipoint communication channel. Examples of such channels are copper wires, optical fibres, wireless communication channels, and storage media...
equipment. SAF Tehnika products provide wireless backhaul
Backhaul (telecommunications)
In a hierarchical telecommunications network the backhaul portion of the network comprises the intermediate links between the core network, or backbone, of the network and the small subnetworks at the "edge" of the entire hierarchical network...
solutions for digital voice and data transmission to mobile and fixed network operators, data service providers, governments and private companies. The Company offers 3 product lines: CFM family – low to medium capacity radio equipment PDH
Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy
The Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy is a technology used in telecommunications networks to transport large quantities of data over digital transport equipment such as fibre optic and microwave radio systems...
, CFQ family – high capacity radio equipment (SDH) and the CFIP family – with up to 366Mbit/s capacity radio equipment.
In 2004 SAF Tehnika acquired a Swedish company, - SAF Tehnika Sweden, a fully owned subsidiary, based in Gothenburg
Gothenburg
Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...
, however in 2008 it was bought out by its management, changing the name to "Trebax AB". In May 2004 the Company launched a successful IPO with initial market capitalization of more than €50 million, with substantial subscriptions from institutional investors. The Company is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Riga under the symbol SAF1R.
Key Company Milestones
- 1999 SAF Tehnika company establishment
- 2000 Introduction of PDH (CFM) product line
- 2003 ISO 9001 certification, Member of ETSI
- 2004 Acquisition of the Swedish company “Viking Microwave” developing SDH radio systems.
- 2004 Public company, listed on Riga Stock Exchange (now NASDAQ OMX Riga) after a successful IPO
- 2006 SDH (CFQ) product line launch in the market
- 2006 Sales growth up to 62 markets.
- 2006 Implementation of a new automated modern manufacturing line. Release of CFQ-RG-IDU – the latest addition to SAF CFQ product line
- 2008 Launch of 100Mbit/s radio - SAF CFIP product line
- 2008 Buyout of SAF tehnika Sweden, which changes the name to "Trebax AB"
- 2009 Launch of 2 new 366Mbps systems - CFIP Lumina and CFIP Phoenix
- 2010 Sales growth up to 99 markets
- 2011 Launch of 2 new products - CFIP Marathon 1.4 GHz and CFIP Phoenix Modular
CFIP Lumina and Phoenix
CFIP Lumina and Phoenix are two newest products by SAF Tehnika launched in late 2009. CFIP Lumina follows the success of CFIP 108, providing full IP traffic of up to 366Mbps and offering a powerful full outdoor solution, working in 20 MHz, 28 MHz, 30 MHz, 40 MHz, 50 MHz and 56 MHz channel bandwidths. It is also offering important features as Automatic transmit power controlPower control
Power control, broadly speaking, is the intelligent selection of transmit power in a communication system to achieve good performance within the system. The notion of "good performance" can depend on context and may include optimizing metrics such as link data rate, network capacity, geographic...
and ACM
Link adaptation
Link adaptation, or adaptive coding and modulation , is a term used in wireless communications to denote the matching of the modulation, coding and other signal and protocol parameters to the conditions on the radio link Link adaptation, or adaptive coding and modulation (ACM), is a term used in...
. In comparison to that CFIP Phoenix is a split mount system with indoor and outdoor unit. In addition to ethernet this IP based system also offers 20E1 connections.
CFIP 108
SAF CFIP is a microwave radio system with EthernetEthernet
Ethernet is a family of computer networking technologies for local area networks commercially introduced in 1980. Standardized in IEEE 802.3, Ethernet has largely replaced competing wired LAN technologies....
as the primary traffic interface and enhanced data transmission capacity - up to 108Mbit/s. In addition, CFIP is capable to deliver up to 4E1
E-carrier
In digital telecommunications, where a single physical wire pair can be used to carry many simultaneous voice conversations by time-division multiplexing, worldwide standards have been created and deployed...
interfaces for legacy connectivity or any other use. Apart from the full system capacity of 108Mbit/s, it is possible to configure the radio to any of 7 MHz, 14 MHz and 28 MHz channel bandwidths as well as to any of QPSK, 16APSK and 32APSK modulations, thus providing various capacities. This product family provides a solution for users looking for higher than PDH E3 capacity without need for STM-1
STM-1
The STM-1 is the SDH ITU-T fiber optic network transmission standard. It has a bit rate of 155.52 Mbit/s. Higher levels go up by a factor of 4 at a time: the other currently supported levels are STM-4, STM-16, STM-64 and STM-256...
capacity.
CFQ
CFQ digital radios provide high capacity (up to 310Mbit/s) transmission, flexibility, features and convenience for wireless communications networks operating over 6, 7, 8, 13, 15, 18 and 38 GHz frequency narrow and wide bandsWideband
In communications, wideband is a relative term used to describe a wide range of frequencies in a spectrum. A system is typically described as wideband if the message bandwidth significantly exceeds the channel's coherence bandwidth....
. CFQ family is composed of an Indoor Unit (SD-IDU) and Outdoor Unit (ODU). Indoor Unit is designed to be frequency independent, but ODU - capacity independent. CFQ-SD-IDU is based upon a common platform to support wide range of network interfaces and configurations, including 16xE1, 21E1, 32xE1, 42E1, 63E1, E3, 1 or 2x100Base TX
Fast Ethernet
In computer networking, Fast Ethernet is a collective term for a number of Ethernet standards that carry traffic at the nominal rate of 100 Mbit/s, against the original Ethernet speed of 10 Mbit/s. Of the fast Ethernet standards 100BASE-TX is by far the most common and is supported by the...
Ethernet, or combination of these interfaces, and 1xSTM-1. One of recent case studies has showed that CFQ equipment is reliable also as a long range solution, connecting sites of 40km distance in New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
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