About Anaren Computer Hardware Parts:
Anaren is a major supplier of microwave components and sub-assemblies to the defense electronics market. Today Anaren is a major innovator of standard products and custom microwave and RF technology. They have five facilities worldwide and are organized into two operating groups. The two groups are space & defense group and wireless group. The space and defense contractors support Anaren Microwave, Inc. MS Kennedy Corp, Circuit Inc. The wireless group supports infrastructure and consumer electronics OEMs that include Anaren Microwave, Inc., Anaren Ceramics Inc. and Anaren Communications. The product lines include integrated radio modules, zinger- brand components, wireless restive products, military/instrumentation restive products, cased/ceaseless components, EW products, ceramic circuits & packaging, microelectronics Kennedy, high-reel PWB, and application notes.
The company traces its history back to 1967 when it was founded by Hugh A. Hair and Carl W. Gerst, who were both RF engineers at General Electric prior to leaving and establishing a new company that utilized new RF technologies. The new technologies they developed were circuit-etching technologies called stripline manufacturing. At the time when they had only a few dozen employees, they began working with companies such as Litton Industries, Hughes, and Raytheon. Their first big accomplishment was being awarded a contract by the United States Department of Defense to develop a microwave landing system for jetliners. When the Cold War came around, the arms race fueled the company’s growth of these products, which were later remarketed in high volumes as commercial products. After the Cold War, the company branched out of the defense market into other commercial industries with new and existing technologies.
Today, their core competencies revolve around their wireless group and space and defense group technologies. Anaren specializes in manufacturing standard components for commercial wireless infrastructure and consumer electronics OEMs. They produce high volumes of couples, power dividers, balun transformers, and other surface mount components. These components are utilized in mobile phones, Bluetooth headsets, set-top boxes, and laptop computers. Anaren also offers resistive components such as terminations, resistors, and attenuators, which are used in a number of wirelesses, instrumentation, military, and aerospace applications. They also incorporate Texas Instruments’ low-power RF chip technology into many of their products. In addition, Anaren’s printed circuit board and ceramic based RF assemblies are utilized in the following defense and aerospace applications by OEMs: integrated microwave assemblies, multi-chip RF modules, active electronically scanned arrays, broadband receivers for missile applications, RF and LO distribution for complex receivers, beam former for satellite communications antennae, switch matrices for redundancy and signal routing, antenna feed networks for surface, airborne, and space radars, digital RF memories and frequency discriminators, and RF integrated back-planes.
Currently a publicly-traded company on the NASDAQ, Anaren generated $147.346 million in revenue as of 2012, including $8.614 million in operating income, and $0.61 million in net income while reporting $213.787 million in total assets and $185.503 million in total equity. Their employee base, which also considers the aforementioned subsidiaries and their company headquarters, totals 1,000 people. In 2013, Anaren received over $90 million in orders and unveiled several new products: the 5.0-6.0 GHZ ultra-low profile 3dB, 90 degrees hybrid couples, the integrated radio (AIR) modules A2530R24x, and the new 1.5-1.7 GHZ ultra-low profile 3dB, 90 degrees hybrid couple, among several other accomplishments.