RAD Company Profile

Established nearly 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.

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

• SIP VoIP

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 Telecom, British Telecom, China Mobile, China Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, Embratel, France Telecom, Hutchison, KDDI, KPN, Orange, Singtel, SoftBank, Sprint, Telefónica, TeliaSonera, Telstra, Telus, T-Mobile, and Verizon. 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.

• Established in 1981, privately held RAD Data Communications is the anchor of the RAD Group of companies, with revenues approaching $1 billion

• RAD maintains 26 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), IP/MPLS 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

• 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

• Chairman, Zohar Zisapel

• President and CEO, Efraim Wachtel

• VP Marketing, Amir Karo

• VP Sales, Dario Zipris

• VP R&D, Hugo Silberman

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.