Anaren

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Anaren Inc.
Type Privately Held Company
Industry Wireless consumer products, RF Modules
Founded1967
FounderHugh A. Hair, Carl W. Gerst Jr. [1]
Headquarters
6635 Kirkville Rd, East Syracuse, New York
,
U.S.
Number of locations
5
Key people
Lawrence A. Sala (President, CEO, and Chairman of the Board)
Products
Products list
  • Microelectronics
  • Organic Substrates
Number of employees
880 (February, 2014) [2]
Parent Veritas Capital
Website Anaren.com

Anaren, Inc. provides high-frequency microwave microelectronics, components, and assemblies for wireless, aerospace, and defense electronics applications. [1]

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The company is headquartered in and operates five manufacturing facilities, each of which is subsidiary of Anaren, Inc. These include Anaren Microwave, Syracuse, New York; Anaren Ceramics, Salem, New Hampshire; MS Kennedy, Syracuse, New York; Unicircuit, Littleton, Colorado; and Anaren Communications, Suzhou, China.

History

Anaren was founded by Hugh A. Hair and Carl W. Gerst in 1967. Both were RF engineers who left General Electric to focus on a new company that would develop several new RF technologies, including the circuit-etching technologies called stripline manufacturing. The company started with a few dozen employees and a small facility in Syracuse, New York and its first customers were many manufacturing firms in the U.S. defense and aerospace sector including Hughes, Litton Industries (now part of Northrop Grumman), and Raytheon. [1] Contracts and assignments secured during the company's early years included: a microwave landing system for jetliners funded by the United States Department of Defense under FAA supervision; "wideband microwave tracking receivers" for use in direction-finding systems; and the company's first DFD (digital frequency discriminators) and ESM (electronic support measures) to help fighter jets and seaborne vessels detect, identify, and elude the radar signals of hostile craft. [1]

The company originally built custom solutions, many of which later became commercial products. In contrast to the smaller volumes of the custom products, these commercial products were marketed by the company on a larger, high-volume scale. The Cold War arms race drove the bulk of business over the company's first decade. By 1981, the company had grown to around 200 employees, achieved sales over $8,000,000, and required more space, which led to the construction of its current headquarters campus in East Syracuse, New York. [1]

With the decline of Cold War spending in the mid-1990s, the company diversified from the defense market by entering the commercial wireless infrastructure market with its Xinger-brand surface mount (SMT) component family, which included hybrid couplers, directional couplers, and power dividers. Shortly thereafter, the company established two operating groups: a Space & Defense Group focused on the company's traditional military and aerospace customers, and a Wireless Group focused on wireless infrastructure customers including operators of Cellular networks.

Although the company's Wireless Group was created to meet the needs of the wireless base-station market, later generations of passive components have become small enough to be used in mobile electronics. [3] The newer subminiature Xinger line of passive components are used in consumer devices such as cell phones, PDAs, wireless laptops, WLANS, Bluetooth applications, and set-top boxes.

The Space and Defense group remains a significant part of Anaren's business. In August 2012, Anaren's Space & Defense Group received contracts in excess of $11.5 million for passive ranging subsystems for airborne applications. [4]

Anaren was acquired by the privately held company Veritas Capital in February 2014 and delisted from the NASDAQ. [5]

Technologies

Wireless Group Technologies

Anaren manufactures high-volume standard components for commercial wireless infrastructure and consumer electronics OEMs.

The surface mount components include couplers, power dividers, and balun transformers. They are used in both base station equipment and Consumer electronics products including mobile phones, Bluetooth headsets, set-top boxes, and laptop computers. [6]

Resistive components include terminations, resistors, and attenuators. They are used in wireless, military, instrumentation, and aerospace applications. [7]

The Anaren Integrated Radio (AIR) modules incorporate RF Transceivers from Texas Instruments and Broadcom. [8] [9] These modules typically incorporate a transceiver IC, matching circuit, and antenna, for adding Bluetooth low energy, Zigbee, or proprietary RF links to a system. Applications for wireless modules include Wireless sensor networks, Smart grid, and Real-time locating system.

In 2014, Anaren acquired Cellular Machines, an IoT company specializing in monitoring temperature data of refrigeration equipment. [10]

Space & Defense Group Technologies

Anaren's Space & Defense Group is a subcontractor to several military and aerospace companies, including Raytheon, [11] Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, BAE, and Thales. They manufacture RF components for use in threat detection, communications, navigation, and other functions in ground, sea, space, and aircraft applications. Anaren's standard and custom RF solutions include:

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Anaren History". Archived from the original on September 11, 2017. Retrieved January 28, 2013.
  2. ↑ Anaren FAQs
  3. ↑ Richardson RFPD Introduces 400W SMT Hybrid Coupler And Matching Termination From Anaren, rfglobalnet.com, September 11, 2012
  4. ↑ Anaren Receives Contracts in Excess of $11.5 Million, microwavejournal.com, August 17, 2012
  5. ↑ "Veritas Capital". Archived from the original on April 24, 2014. Retrieved April 24, 2014.
  6. ↑ Jack Browne: Product Snapshot: Anaren's Xinger, mwrf.com, Jan. 20, 2004
  7. 1 2 Jack Browne: Preparing RF/MW Parts For Space, mwrf.com, Oct. 2, 2012
  8. ↑ Nicolas Mokhoff (January 12, 2012). "RF warhorse takes on TI transceiver as booster". eetimes.com. Archived from the original on January 21, 2013. Retrieved June 22, 2022.
  9. ↑ "AIR Module Enabled by Broadcom's WICED Smart Bluetooth Technology". circuitcellar.com. January 13, 2015.
  10. ↑ "About Cellular Machines". Cellular Machines. Archived from the original on February 27, 2015. Retrieved February 27, 2015.
  11. ↑ "Anaren Awarded $8.3 Million Initial Contract by Raytheon to Support U.S. Navy's Air and Missile Defense Radar Program (AMDR)". April 7, 2014. Retrieved February 27, 2015.
  12. ↑ Jack Browne: Assemblies Combine Multiple Components, mwrf.com, July 10, 2012
  13. ↑ Anaren RF Multi-Chip Modules Archived April 2, 2013, at the Wayback Machine , anaren.com
  14. ↑ Anaren's CEO Discusses F2Q 2012 Results, seekingalpha.com, Jan. 26, 2012
  15. ↑ Anaren Microwave, Inc. History, fundinguniverse.com
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