Rohde & Schwarz Company Center

For 75 years, Rohde & Schwarz has stood for quality, precision, and innovation in all fields of wireless communications. The privately owned company group has a global presence. It develops, produces, and markets a wide range of electronic capital goods for industry, infrastructure operators, and government agen­cies. Rohde & Schwarz numbers among the market leaders in all of its business fields, including wireless communications and RF test and measurement, terrestrial TV broad­casting, and technologies relating to the interception and analysis of radio signals.
Numerous subsidiaries and repre­sentatives not only ensure quick and competent on-site support anywhere in the world, but also safeguard customer investments with comprehensive service and support offerings.

Our business fields:

Test and measurement
Rohde & Schwarz is one of the world''s largest manufacturers of electronic test and measurement equipment. Our products set stan­dards in research, development, production, and service. We are a key partner of industry and network operators for all T&M tasks in radio­communications.
In the past year, Rohde & Schwarz launched new product highlights for signal generation, spectrum analy­sis and EMC measurement, again proving its innovative strength in RF test and measurement. In the extremely high frequency range, the introduction of products for net­work analysis in the millimeter-wave range marked the entry in the tera­hertz technology of the future. On the wireless market, the company strengthened its leading position as a supplier of T&M solutions for next-generation technologies such as LTE, WiMAX™ and MIMO.

Broadcasting
TV viewers and radio listeners in more than 80 countries receive their programs via transmitters from Rohde & Schwarz. By providing an innovative portfolio of broadcasting and measuring equipment, we are driving the development of digital broadcasting worldwide.
The company’s market leader­ship in terrestrial TV transmitters, including for mobile TV, was further enhanced in the past year by the installation of Rohde & Schwarz equipment in all regions of the world. One of the primary success factors was the introduction of a new generation of transmitters featuring significantly lower power consumption.
To producers of consumer electronics, Rohde & Schwarz supplies all necessary test equipment for the development and production of satellite receivers, TV sets, and other user equipment, including for the new high definition formats. The large variety of broadcast and video technologies is covered by Rohde & Schwarz with its multi-standard platforms, which allow very flexible use at all stages of the value added chain.

Secure communications
Radiocommunications systems
Security organizations and armed forces must be able to exchange information efficiently and securely – also in multinational operations. To ensure the rapid coordination of civil, governmental, and military forces in times of crisis, Rohde & Schwarz supplies powerful, interoperable communications systems. Due to their modern encryption methods, the company‘s solutions fulfill the highest requirements of national and international security standards. Software-defined radios ensure the greatest possible flexibility and are in use around the globe. Civil air traffic control agencies in 80 countries and at more than 200 locations – both airports and ATC centers – use Rohde & Schwarz radio systems.
Professional mobile radio (PMR)
TETRA radio networks have already been put into operation in more than 30 countries by the Rohde & Schwarz Professional
Mobile Radio GmbH subsidiary – for example in the Moscow Metro, at the Panama Canal, in a nation­wide network in Malaysia, and at major sporting events such as the Asian Games in Qatar.
Communications security
Rohde & Schwarz SIT GmbH devel­ops highly secure crypto products and systems for private industry, government agencies, and the military. A highlight is the ELCRODAT 4-2 encryption unit, which has been approved for maximum levels of classification and is being used by the German armed forces and NATO.

Radiomonitoring and radiolocation
The need for mobile, wireless exchange of information is increas­ing drastically, but the usable frequency spectrum for radiocom­munications is limited. Therefore, Rohde & Schwarz develops and produces stationary and mobile systems for detecting, locating, and analyzing radiocommunications signals. These systems allow efficient monitoring and allocation of the limited radio frequencies.
Its receivers, direction finders, signal analyzers, antennas, and customized systems have made
Rohde & Schwarz a reliable partner for its customers for many decades. Applications include public safety and national security, radiomonitoring by regulatory agencies, and frequency management.

Services
Rohde & Schwarz operates a global service network in order to safeguard the investments of its customers. The following on-site services are offered worldwide: Calibration, Maintenance and repair, Product updates and upgrades. By cooperating with the regional Rohde & Schwarz service centers as well as the plants and special­ized subsidiaries, the company can provide a wide range of additional services: System support, installation and commissioning, application support, development of customized modules, instruments, and systems, software development, mechanical and electrical design, manufacturing to order, technical documentation and logistics.

Our offerings for the Aerospace & Defense T&M market
Instrument security
Aerospace and defense security requirements demand the ability to remove user data and instrument usage information. Many of our instruments offer removable data storage and memory clearing procedures to address these security issues. Easy-to-follow, clearly written application notes simplify compliance with recommended procedures.

Software-code compatibility is another critical requirement for aerospace and defense ATE systems. Due to the costs and technical issues surrounding TPS modifications, legacy TPS programs demand that upgrade and replacement instrumentation be code-compatible. Rohde & Schwarz takes the issue of code compatibility seriously, and many of our instruments provide near drop-in replacement for key legacy instrumentation.

Longevity
From system development and demonstration to production and field-operational support, Rohde & Schwarz instrumentation is designed to meet the aerospace and defense industry’s long program life cycles. Our modular instruments allow users to add additional capabilities as required, and we regularly provide enhancements to keep our instruments at the forefront of technology.

LXI solutions
Over 30 Rohde & Schwarz instruments are certified LXI-conformant, incl. spectrum & network analyzers, and signal generators.

Products & Services

• Avionics Systems, Instruments and Components (Aerospace)

Last update by Alexander Wörner, Mon 3 Aug 2009