Rohde & Schwarz

ROHDE & SCHWARZ
Founded 17. November 1933
Founder Dr. Lothar Rohde & Dr. Hermann Schwarz
Headquarters Munich, Germany
Key people
 Christian Leicher, President & CEO, Peter Riedel, President & COO
Products Test and measurement, broadcast and media, cybersecurity, secure communications, radiomonitoring and radiolocation
Revenue €1.92 Billion (FY 2015/16)
Number of employees
 10,000 (FY 2015/16)
Website www.rohde-schwarz.com

Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co KG (/ˈroʊdə ənd ˈʃwɔːrts/; German pronunciation: [ˈʁoːdə ʊnt ˈʃvaʁts]) is an international electronics group specialized in the fields of electronic test equipment, broadcast & media, cybersecurity, radiomonitoring and radiolocation, and radiocommunication. The company provides products for the wireless communications, broadcast & media, cybersecurity and electronics industry, aerospace and defense, homeland security and critical infrastructures.

The group has been developing, producing and marketing electronic products for the capital goods sector since 1933. In addition to the Munich headquarters, there are regional headquarters in the US (Columbia, Maryland) and in Asia (Singapore). Almost 6,000 of the company's employees work in Germany, including the around 2,000 employees at the Munich headquarters.

Worldwide the company has a total of around 10,000 employees in over 70 countries. It is family-owned and self-financing. Exports account for around 90 percent of revenues. The company invests around 16 percent of its annual net revenue into research and development.

Central R&D is located at company headquarters in Munich, Germany. Most products are manufactured in the Rohde & Schwarz plants in Memmingen (in Bavaria, Germany), Teisnach (in Bavaria, Germany) and Vimperk (Czech Republic). In 2005, Rohde & Schwarz acquired Hameg Instruments GmbH, a German test and measurement (T&M) equipment manufacturer.

Outside Germany, Rohde & Schwarz has development centers in the United States, Singapore, Korea, China, Denmark, France and United Kingdom. The company has also production facilities in Singapore and Malaysia, which have been up and running since the beginning of 2011 and July 2011, respectively.

History

The company was founded by Lothar Rohde and Hermann Schwarz who met while studying physics in Jena. They built their first T&M instrument in 1932, and in August 1933, the Physikalisch-Technisches Entwicklungslabor Dr. Rohde & Dr. Schwarz (known as PTE) started in business.

Timeline

Plants and subsidiaries

Plants

Rohde & Schwarz has five plants in Europe and Asia. The European plants in Memmingen, Teisnach and Vimperk offer production services also for external customers.

As the center of competency for complex equipment, Rohde & Schwarz Messgerätebau GmbH is responsible for electronic module assembly, microelectronics, microwave engineering, final production and manufacture of test systems.

Rohde & Schwarz Teisnach is the center for mechanical and electronic production. It produces housings, shielding parts, antennas, printed boards, micromechanical precision parts, electromechanical custom-made products of all types and much more. As the center of competency for transmitters and systems, the Teisnach plant manufactures and delivers all TV and sound broadcasting transmitters as well as customized radiocommunications systems.

As the competency center for standard equipment, the Czech plant manufactures products of low to medium complexity including cable production and assembly as well as all Hameg instruments.

Since 2011, Rohde & Schwarz has been operating small-scale plants in Singapore and in neighboring Malaysia for final assembly and shipping of individual equipment families.

Subsidiaries

RSV, headquartered in Munich, is responsible for the sales of Rohde & Schwarz products and complementary OEM brands within Germany. RSV maintains a nationwide sales network in Germany.

R&S Systems GmbH provides system services within the Rohde & Schwarz business fields – from system development and integration to delivery, assembly and commissioning of turnkey T&M and communications equipment worldwide. This includes infotainment test systems for automobile production, mobile ATC systems as well as complete electronics workshops for technical service.

Rohde & Schwarz International Operations supports the Asia/Pacific and Middle East/Africa sales organization (= Rohde & Schwarz Regional Headquarters Singapore Pte. Ltd.).

Rohde & Schwarz SIT GmbH provides solutions for information and communications security that have been approved by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) and NATO/SECAN. The key activities of the company are the development of crypto products and systems as well as consulting and IT security analyses for government authorities, armed forces and industry.

Hameg, a German T&M equipment manufacturer with a rich tradition, supplements the Rohde & Schwarz portfolio in the lower price segment by offering reliable T&M instruments for science, industry and education. Hameg is an independent company responsible for product development, product management, service and sales. All Hameg products are manufactured at the Rohde & Schwarz core plants.

GEDIS develops and implements customized solutions for testing electronic instruments, modules, and submodules, and for the management of test and communications systems. The company addresses government authorities, large system houses, the automobile industry and their suppliers.

DVS Digital Video Systems produces workstations, video servers and storage solutions for the post production of digital film and TV productions.

ipoque develops network management systems. The products range from bandwidth management and network transparency to network monitoring and deep packet inspection.

SwissQual develops and sells systems for measuring and assessing voice, data and video quality in wireless networks. SwissQual was founded in 2000 and is based in Zuchwil, Switzerland.

The French Arpège SAS develops and implements customer-specific systems in the areas of satellite monitoring and lawful interception for government security agencies.

For more than 20 years, S.C. Rohde & Schwarz Topex has been developing and implementing telecommunications equipment for military and civil markets. Rohde & Schwarz Topex develops voice communications systems for air traffic control, solutions for next generation networks (NGNs), including softswitches, media gateways for TDM, VoIP, GSM and CDMA (2G, 3G), signaling gateways (SS7, ISDN, R2, SIP and H323), broadband Wi-Fi mobile routers and fixed-mobile terminals (2G, 3G).

For more than 10 years, gateprotect has been effectively protecting companies worldwide against cyber-attacks with IT security solutions “made in Germany”.

Sirrix AG is a spin-off company of the University of Saarbrücken and is offering products and security solutions for communication systems and infrastructures. Main business areas are consulting and development of security solutions for IT systems.

Product areas

T&M equipment for wireless communications, general-purpose electronics and microwave

Rohde & Schwarz provides T&M solutions for all mobile radio and wireless technologies, from LTE, UMTS/HSPA(+), GSM and CDMA2000® to Bluetooth®, GPS and wireless internet access via WLAN and WiMAXTM.

The company offers the products that are needed in the development and manufacturing of chipsets, mobile devices and base stations. Network operators rely on Rohde & Schwarz products in the planning, setup and monitoring of their networks. Rohde & Schwarz develops signal generators and analyzers for the specific requirements of LTE-Advanced.

For the aerospace and defense industry, Rohde & Schwarz develops Electronic test equipment for microwave links as well as for radar and satellite communications systems. In addition, the company provides complete systems for EMC and field strength testing, for example to detect electromagnetic disturbance in automotive electronics.

In 2010, Rohde & Schwarz entered a new market segment by launching the world's first oscilloscope with a digital trigger.[3]

Broadcasting and media

The company has been active in the field of TV and sound broadcasting for over 60 years. Today, Rohde & Schwarz transmitters and T&M equipment are in use for analog and digital television in more than 80 countries. Rohde & Schwarz supports the world's most common digital broadcasting standards. The company offers equipment for ATSC Mobile DTV in North America, ISDB-T in Asia and Latin America and DVB-T2 in Europe.

In the field of mobile TV, Rohde & Schwarz combines its expertise in broadcasting and wireless communications. The company sells T&M equipment for the installation, maintenance and monitoring of broadcasting networks. It also supplies consumer electronics manufacturers with the T&M equipment they need for the development and production of satellite receivers and TV sets, including for HD and 3D formats.

At the end of 2010, Rohde & Schwarz acquired DVS Digital Video Systems GmbH. DVS offers hardware and software for professional film and video post production.

Cybersecurity

In the new cybersecurity business field, Rohde & Schwarz and its subsidiaries gateprotect GmbH, Sirrix AG, Rohde & Schwarz SlT GmbH and ipoque GmbH offer a broad range of technologically leading solutions for IT and network security. The portfolio focuses on crypto solutions, next generation firewalls and endpoint security applications, ranging from small all in one products to customized solutions for critical infrastructures. The company plans to strengthen its position in the B2B field with first class expertise and high tech solutions "made in Germany" under the Rohde & Schwarz cybersecurity brand. The activities are now bundled in Rohde & Schwarz Cybersecurity GmbH, that has launched its own home page at https://cybersecurity.rohde-schwarz.com

Secure communications for armed forces, government authorities and industry

Rohde & Schwarz supplies interoperable radiocommunications systems for military, government and civil applications. It is currently working on the development of software defined radio (SDR). At the end of 2008 the German armed forces commissioned the company to develop an SDR base unit for their future joint radio system (SVFuA).

More than 200 airports around the world deploy Rohde & Schwarz radiocommunications systems. In 2011, the company added voice communications systems for air traffic control (ATC) to its product offering. These systems are based on a product from Topex SA, a company in which Rohde & Schwarz acquired a majority interest in 2010.[4]

Rohde & Schwarz SIT GmbH develops crypto products and systems for government agencies, the German armed forces, authorities, the military and private industry. The subsidiary's high-security encryption technology is used for both wireless and wireline communications. As early as 2001, Rohde & Schwarz SIT set standards in secure mobile communications by launching the world's first crypto phone TopSec GSM.[5]

Frequency management and radiolocation for internal and external security

Rohde & Schwarz develops stationary and mobile systems for detecting, locating and analyzing radiocommunications signals.[6] Rohde & Schwarz provides authorities and services with solutions for identifying and locating suspicious communications activities. The company offers a full range of products, from receivers, direction finders, signal analyzers and antennas to customized systems.

Satellite monitoring also plays an important role at Rohde & Schwarz. Solutions include both stationary and mobile systems for use on the ground, at sea and in the air. They enable government agencies worldwide to gain insight into satellite-based voice and data communications. In this field, Rohde & Schwarz is supported by its French subsidiary Arpège SAS.

In 2011, Rohde & Schwarz entered a new market segment by acquiring ipoque GmbH, a specialist in Internet traffic management and network monitoring. ipoque develops software solutions used to detect and monitor network applications.

Service, support and system integration

The Rohde & Schwarz service and sales network provides 24-hour support. In addition to calibration, maintenance, product upgrades and on-site services, the company also offers its customers training courses. R&S Systems GmbH develops and integrates turnkey systems within the Rohde & Schwarz business fields and puts them into operation at customer premises. The system portfolio includes infotainment test systems for automobile production, mobile ATC systems as well as complete electronics workshops for technical service. R&S Systems also offers customized solutions in addition to standard products.

Gedis GmbH is another Rohde & Schwarz system house. This subsidiary specializes in automatic test equipment (ATE) for testing electronic assemblies and modules. Its product portfolio ranges from compact manual test systems to turnkey, automatic in-line systems.

Products

Product timeline

References

  1. ↑ https://www.rohde-schwarz.com/en/news-press/press-room/press-releases-detailpages/gateprotect-to-become-part-of-the-rohde-schwarz-group-press_releases_detailpage_229356-67330.html
  2. ↑ https://www.rohde-schwarz.com/en/news-press/press-room/press-releases-detailpages/rohde-schwarz-acquires-enterprise-security-specialist-sirrix-ag-press_releases_detailpage_229356-119553.html
  3. ↑ Microwave Engineering
  4. ↑ Bloomberg businessweek
  5. ↑ NIA - NATO Information Assurance
  6. ↑ "Rohde & Schwarz products". Retrieved 2013-12-18.
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