Cambridge Broadband
| Type | Private Company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Headquarters | Cambridge, UK |
| Products | wireless backhaul and access networks |
| Website | CBNL website |
Cambridge Broadband Networks Limited (CBNL) develops and manufactures point-to-multipoint (PMP) wireless backhaul and access solutions, serving telecommunication customers in over 30 countries.
PMP is a wireless technology which creates a radio link between a central location and multiple cell sites.
The Company is a privately-held company backed by institutional investors: Amadeus Capital Partners[1], Accel Partners[2], TVM Capital GmbH[3], Adara Venture Partners[4] and Samsung Ventures Europe[5].
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[edit] Leadership
- Terry Vega (Chairman)
- Graham Peel (Chief Executive Officer)
[edit] Locations
The Company’s headquarters are based in Cambridge, as part of the Cambridge technology cluster (Silicon Fen). CBNL also has offices in South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya.
[edit] Products and services
The Company’s VectaStar product uses its PMP topology to share wireless backhaul and access resource between several cell sites, each generating voice and packet traffic. This technology means spectrum can be managed dynamically and efficiently and can reduce capital and operating costs. VectaStar is used by telecoms network providers across the globe to build a variety of wireless backhaul and access networks. This includes new packet networks; mobile broadband network upgrades; ethernet enterprise networks and 2G - 3G IP backhaul migration. VectaStar delivers up to and over 300Mbps full duplex per sector and is deployable in 2G, 3G, 4G, small cell and Long Term Evolution backhaul networks.
The company offers services including network planning and design; network deployment; network operation; customer training; 24 hour customer support and WEEE recycling.
[edit] History
The Company was founded in 2000 by ten engineers from Cambridge University who secured private equity funding to develop an innovative solution to the increased demand for mobile communications. Soon after the company started, the earliest variant of VectaStar was launched and shipped to the first customers. Over the following years CBNL identified new market opportunities and developed product variants to address those, featuring new frequencies and a move into the backhaul space.
The period of 2005-10 saw the Company grow 864 per cent - growth which ranked the Company in the top 200 on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA 2010, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in EMEA, and reaching number 38 in the Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 in 2011.
In November 2011 the Company supplied microwave radio equipment to backhaul Telefónica UK’s O2 4G trial network in London, UK.[6]
