Established 30 years ago, privately held RAD Data Communications is an award-winning manufacturer of cost-effective access and backhaul solutions for mobile and fixed line carriers, service providers, enterprises, government agencies, transportation systems, and public utilities. Its expertise in international markets, strict adherence to quality standards, environmentally friendly operations and green manufacturing ethos, together with a corporate culture that encourages long-term relationships with customers, channels, suppliers, and employees, combine to make RAD the perfect partner for all your telecommunications and data communications projects.
The Value Proposition:
For Carriers and Service Providers
Deploy new revenue-generating NGN services with guaranteed SLAs over any access infrastructure
Lower OpEx by optimizing network resources
Protect existing legacy revenue streams by facilitating a smooth migration to new packet switched infrastructure with minimal disruption to existing customers or networks
For Mobile Operators
Reduce backhaul costs for 2G, 3G and 3.5G traffic
Prepare backhaul networks to support LTE’s high capacity and disruptive network architecture
For Public Utilities and the Energy Sector
Transport SCADA, smart metering, PLC, teleprotection, as well as video surveillance, voice, and data over secure and reliable WAN connections
Facilitate migration to IP/Ethernet
Offer utelco services
For the Transportation Sector
Reduce communications costs by handling multiple types of traffic, including control and alarms, multimedia applications, video surveillance, voice, and data over a reliable and integrated network
Enable smooth migration to packet switched networks
Offer telecom services
RAD’s broad in-house technology base includes:
Network migration and pseudowire
Synchronization and timing over packet
OAM, performance management and QoS
Business DSL
Layer 2 switching
Speech compression
ASIC and FPGA development
System on an SFP
Leading Customers
RAD is a preferred solutions provider for more than 150 carriers around the world, from Tier 1 mobile operators to fixed line incumbents, city carriers, ISPs, and rural service telcos. Customers include the industry's global leaders, from AT&T to Bell Canada, Bharti Airtel, British Telecom, China Mobile, China Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, Embratel, France Telecom/Orange, Hutchison, KDDI, KPN, SingTel, SoftBank, Sprint, Telefónica, Telekom Austria, TeliaSonera, Telstra, Telus, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Vodafone. Beyond its strong ties with telecom providers, RAD maintains extensive relationships with enterprise network professionals in the banking, commercial, educational, energy, financial, insurance, and manufacturing sectors.
Fast Facts
Established in 1981, privately held RAD Data Communications is the anchor of the RAD Group of companies, with revenues of $1 billion in 2010
RAD maintains 32 offices on six continents, supporting 300 sales channels in 165 countries
Approximately 30 percent of RAD’s 1,000 employees are engaged in R&D
RAD has a distinguished record of leadership in industry bodies such as the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), Broadband Forum, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IEFT), and CELTIC, a EUREKA cluster that is the only European research and development program dedicated to end-to-end telecommunications solutions
First Facts
RAD was the originator of Single IP, which enables multiple users to share a common IP address for Internet access
RAD’s pioneering TDMoIP® technology, which it introduced to the market over a decade ago, was the forerunner of today’s widely deployed pseudowire solutions
RAD was the first vendor to miniaturize an interface converter and pseudowire gateway into an SFP
RAD is the first vendor in the industry to win a large-scale deployment of a demarcation device with Sync-E and to demo 1588-2005 in an incumbent carrier’s test lab
A unique business philosophy distinguishes the RAD Group, which has no holding company but is strategically guided by its founders. Each company in the RAD Group operates autonomously under a common strategic umbrella. This decentralized approach maximizes the advantages inherent in small business units, such as flexibility, entrepreneurial spirit and management focus. A new company is established when a market opportunity is identified – requiring a technology, marketing approach or corporate culture that does not exist in any of the other companies.
Five RAD Group companies are traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market in the US, while others are privately held by the Group’s founders and venture capital firms.
