Communications service providers across the globe are continuing their rapid migration to next-generation networks that can deliver reliable broadband services over any device anytime, anywhere.
With today’s explosion of broadband traffic driven by people’s need for instant access to information, communications service providers are rethinking their network infrastructure to support new technologies and applications. Always-on connectivity and bandwidth-intensive business, lifestyle and entertainment services are challenging traditional networks and driving profound changes in enterprises and broadband networks.
With its industry-leading portfolio of network infrastructure solutions and services, ADC plays a crucial role in enabling its customers to deliver dynamic video, voice, data and wireless services that are increasingly essential to businesses and on-the-go consumers.
ADC’s innovative, high-performance fiber connectivity and wireless coverage and capacity solutions support a broad range of network applications that help the company’s customers provide new and improved services to meet their own customers’ unrelenting demand for bandwidth. The global demand for bandwidth offers unique growth opportunities for ADC in service provider and enterprise networks in the Americas, Asia and Europe.
Founded 75 years ago, ADC continues to build on a strong heritage of providing solutions and services that support its customers’ migration to next-generation networks in more than 130 countries across the globe. As the leading service providers and enterprises worldwide invest in infrastructure that delivers broadband services to business, residential and mobile subscribers, ADC’s breadth of solutions and experience, together with its strong financial position, make the company a reliable partner in addressing today’s network realities and preparing for tomorrow’s communications demands.
FAST FACTS
ADC annual sales: $1.15 billion (FY 2009) - Outside of the United States = 35%.
ADC stock is traded on The NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbol ADCT.
ADC employs approximately 9,000 professionals worldwide.
Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn. in the United States, the company has sales into more than 130 countries and occupies facilities around the world including locations in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, the Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States, Venezuela, and Vietnam.
Businesses
Our customers are served regionally around the world by businesses focused on solutions designed for telecommunications, wireless, cable, and enterprise networks. The business units within ADC developing products and services include Global Connectivity Solutions, Network Solutions and Professional Services. These organizations service all types of networks through a combination of equipment, solutions and services.
Global Connectivity Solutions
As service providers migrate to next-generation networks, ADC’s connectivity product portfolio provides end-to-end network infrastructure solutions for central office, data center, outside plant and wireless network and cell-site deployments. These solutions help accelerate the deployment of fiber optic networks that deliver high-bandwidth services global carriers and cable operators require to grow subscribers and generate new revenue. Many of these products are deployed in next-generation networks, including ADC’s OmniReach® FTTX solutions for the outside plant, FiberGuide® cable management systems, and TrueNet® structured cabling products.
Reducing capital and operating costs and minimizing installation time are the primary considerations of service providers worldwide when building FTTX networks. The company’s OmniReach Rapid Fiber system is designed specifically to assist carriers in deploying optical fiber distribution networks for multiple dwelling units (MDUs) – in less time with less total cost on a consistent, high-quality basis. Also ideal for MDU environments are RealFlex connectorized cable solutions that optimize fiber performance and ensure rapid service turn-up.
Moreover, based on its years of supporting broadband services in rural communities, ADC offers hundreds of Rural Utilities Service (RUS)-listed products that will help service providers build new fiber-based and wireless networks as they leverage U.S. broadband stimulus funds. The company’s connectivity solutions continue to play a role in stimulus-supported FTTX networks in China and are able to support government-funded, next-generation network builds wherever they are happening, including in Australia where a National Broadband Network (NBN) is planned.
To keep pace with growing data transmission and application needs, as well as the trend toward data center consolidation, public and private enterprises also rely on ADC’s extensive industry experience and innovative connectivity solutions in their own migration to fiber-based networks. ADC’s TrueNet product portfolio not only keeps mission critical data centers running at peak performance, it also supports energy-efficient technologies that are designed to reduce cooling, decrease power requirements, and lower operational costs.
Wireless Coverage and Capacity
As one of the world’s leading in-building wireless coverage and capacity solutions providers, ADC’s technology enhances network access and backhaul capabilities for service providers. With the emergence of WiMAX and LTE networks, 3G and 4G applications will enable organizations around the world to operate more efficiently and offer better service to their customers. ADC’s market-leading InterReach® in-building distributed antenna systems (DAS) deliver reliable services indoors, where users depend on them most.
In addition, the company’s FlexWave Prism™ solution provides flexible microcellular coverage and capacity in outdoor environments where traditional cell sites cannot reach effectively. Prism provides a cost-effective, efficient solution for service providers migrating users to next-generation mobile service delivery platforms. ADC also offers fiber-to-the-cell-site solutions to address the bandwidth, flexibility, and long-term cost minimization required to improve backhaul capabilities.
Professional Services
ADC supports customers in the U.S. with integrated services for broadband, multi-service communications over wireline, wireless, cable and enterprise networks. The company helps customers plan, deploy and maintain networks that deliver broadband services to consumers and businesses, and supports both multi-vendor and multi-service delivery requirements. ADC is engaged with its customers throughout the technology life-cycle, from network design, build-out, turn-up and testing to ongoing maintenance and training, and serves as a valuable resource for their ever-expanding network needs.
A Global Leader
ADC’s goal is to become the global leader in providing network infrastructure solutions and as such is focused on the products and services that support our customers’ migration to next-generation networks. In addition to the design and manufacture of innovative equipment for broadband networks, our commitment to deliver excellent quality and value to our customers strengthens our industry position and enhances our long-term growth potential.
Customers
Customers around the world include local and long distance telephone companies, cable television operators, Internet/data communications providers, wireless service providers, private network operators, and broadcast television operators. Examples of this vast customer base include, AT&T, Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Canada, Bloomberg, China Telecom, Citibank, Comcast, Cox, Deutsche Telekom, Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, Mayo Clinic, Morgan Stanley, NBC, Optus, Qwest, Reliance Infocom (India), Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, Telus, Venetian Resort Hotel, Verizon, Vodafone, and many others
