High-performance and high-reliability RF for LMR, LTE and Converged Networks
Filtronic’s products are integral to advanced radio networks, ensuring dispatchers can instantly communicate critical information to first responders in the field, enhancing public safety. When reliable communication is crucial for public safety, they can depend on Filtronic’s infrastructure to deliver seamless communication the first time, every time. Filtronic designs and manufactures purpose-built solutions that provide high-performance communications for first responders when seconds count.
Our precision products for critical communication applications include tower top amplifiers, filters, crossband/in-band combiners, power amplifiers and multiplexers. We collaborate with the leading critical communication OEM’s, acting as their RF partners. Our innovations and technical skill have improved miniaturisation, reducing the footprint and weight of our components, while increasing power and amplification to improve connectivity
Filtronic is a thought leader, innovator and problem solver in the mission-critical communications sector, helping to overcome complex RF challenges such as combining, filtering, and mitigating dynamic interference. We have established an enviable reputation in critical communications, most notably serving the US Project 25 (P25) public safety market with high-performance ceramic filter/combiners and RF conditioning products.
We provide full US-based assembly, and have been instrumental in reshoring some products and process for our customers. We can offer a range of tailored solutions from our modern manufacturing plant in Salisbury, Maryland, providing our customers a world class service that adds value to their supply chain. By helping our clients to remove cost from their operations, reducing their labour costs, improving their processes by removing waste. We also reduce time to market, giving our clients the flexibility to ramp up and down rapidly, improving quality all with no additional overheads or purchasing capital equipment.
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High reliability microwave sub-systems for emergency first response networks
Filtronic designs, manufactures and tests products for a range of advanced critical communications sub-systems, including:
P25 networks
Envious track record
serving the US P25 market
Land mobile radio
LMR track record with innovations
across the RF spectrum
5G & LTE
Experts in backhaul for
commercial-grade LTE networks
Converged networks
Hybrid solutions, blending
LMR with 5G networks.
Who we help
OEMs
Partner of choice for TTA’s, combiners and filters
Local government
Helping optimise network availability and performance
System integrators
Working in partnership to maximise performance
How we help
Contract manufacturing
We offer cost efficiencies, scalability, and specialised RF expertise, freeing our customers to concentrate on their core strengths. We streamline production, lower capital investment risks, and provide access to cutting-edge technologies, promoting innovation and boosting competitiveness.
Resilient/high-reliability networks
Our Critical Communications products facilitate high-reliability networks, ensuring uninterrupted communication for first responders during emergencies, enabling swift coordination and resource allocation.
Interference mitigation
Filtronic’s interference mitigation filters and capabilities ensure dependable communication for first responders during emergencies, minimising signal disruptions. This boosts operational efficiency, coordination, and safety, enabling swift decision-making, resource allocation, and effective response through uninterrupted access to critical information.
Reshoring
Working with leading OEMs we have reshored a number of processes successfully. This not only brought back manufacturing jobs and operations to US soil, but also strengthened the supply chain security and helped our customers reduce dependency on foreign production, ensuring greater control and stability in times of crisis.
Benefits
Agility
As an agile manufacturer, we deliver adaptability, responsiveness, and innovation, enabling rapid adjustments to meet changing market demands or evolving product requirements for sustained competitiveness for our customers.
SWAP-C
Reduced size, weight, increased power and lower cost in critical communications enhance portability, efficiency, and performance, facilitating easier deployment and a more reliable user experience.
Lower total cost of ownership
Our focus is on reducing total cost of ownership by enhancing yield, reliability, and overall product quality, thereby lowering costs throughout the product’s lifespan. This approach aims to improve profitability and deliver long-term value to your business.
Customisation
Customised solutions designed to meet your specific needs precisely, enhance performance, effectiveness, and satisfaction while addressing your unique challenges for optimal outcomes.
Engineer-Engineer collaboration
Our engineers work with your engineers to share knowledge, resources, and creativity, leading to improved problem-solving, innovation, and achievement of common goals with efficiency.
Critical communications RF filters
RF filters play a crucial role in emergency first response networks, ensuring reliable communication during critical situations. Filtronics capabilities in filters include metal cavity filters, ceramic, combline, interdigital, lumped element, suspended substrate, waveguide and thin-film filters.
We are experts in filter topology, offering rapid prototyping and reduced development cycles. Our team of highly experienced engineers work with customers to ascertain optimum technologies dependent upon specific filter requirements, e.g. size, response, power handling, insertion loss and rejection.
What we do
Critical communications RF products
Tower Top Amplifiers
Overview Our Tower Top Amplifier (TTA) systems are engineered to enhance the performance of critical communication networks, particularly in 700 and 800 MHz bands. These systems improve base station receiver sensitivity by amplifying weak signals at the tower top, thereby reducing signal loss associated with feeder cables. This enhancement is crucial for...
Cross band combiners
Cross-band combiners enable signals from multiple base stations of different bands to be combined onto a single pair of feeders which speeds up deployment, saves the cost of additional feeders and when used with ultrawideband antennas and multi-band TMAs, reduced site clutter. Cross-band combiners are used to combine multiple...
In band combiners
Due to the increasing restriction on tower infrastructure deployments by local municipal policies and the physical limitations of towers, operators are facing difficulties in adding new antenna systems to their existing sites. Network equipment sharing between multiple operators or multiple technologies are a cost-effective solution to the deployment of...
Custom filters
Filtronic has extensive knowledge and expertise in the design, development and production of custom filters that dates back to 1977. Our custom filters products include metal cavity filters, ceramic, combline, interdigital, lumped element, suspended substrate, waveguide and thin-film filters. We are experts in filter topology, offering rapid prototyping and...
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