Anite

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Anite plc
Type Limited
Industry Software
Founded1973;48 years ago (1973)
Headquarters Fleet, Hampshire
Key people
Mike Bonin, (Managing Director, Device & Infrastructure Testing)
Petri Toljamo, (Managing Director, Network Testing)
Revenue £109.2 million (2014) [1]
£9.3 million (2014) [1]
£12.3 million (2014) [1]
Number of employees
circa 500
Parent Keysight Technologies
Website www.anite.com

Anite is a supplier of test and measurement software to the international wireless market. It provides testing, measurement, optimisation and analytics systems based on its specialist sector knowledge and its proprietary software and hardware products. Customers include major manufacturers of mobile devices, chipsets and network equipment, mobile network operators, regulatory authorities, and independent test houses. [2]

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History

The company was founded in 1973 as Cray Electronics: in October 1996 it changed its name to Anite Group plc. [3] In 2006 it acquired Nemo, a network testing business. [4] In October 2007 it changed its name to Anite plc. [5] In April 2015, Anite acquired Setcom Wireless Products GmbH. [6]

After Anite started struggling in the face of cancellation of orders from Blackberry, Nokia and Motorola, [7] Anite received a takeover offer from US electronics test and measurement company, Keysight Technologies [8] in a deal worth £388 million in June 2015. [7] The acquisition was completed in August 2015. [9]

Operations

The company has two sides to its business: [10]

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