News From Kathrein
Kathrein Exceeds Its Sales Targets in the First Half of 2018
Kathrein has generated more sales than planned in the first six months of this year and is clearly on a growth course. By the end of June, the company had revenues of around €394 million, exceeding its calculated sales target of just under €372 million for this period. Kathrein is also in line or ahead […]
Kathrein German Brand AwardKathrein Once Again Awarded the German Brand Award
Kathrein has repeated its 2017 success and is one of the winners of the prestigious 2018 German Brand Award. A high-level jury of noted experts from business and science honoured the company for its forward-looking Network Vision 2022. More than 1,250 nominations were evaluated in three competition classes. Last year, Kathrein also received two German […]
Antenne 1 Equips the Langenburg Transmitter with Kathrein Smart Monitoring
The private radio provider Hitradio antenne 1, whose headquarters are in Stuttgart, has equipped its Langenburg antenna system with the Kathrein Smart Monitoring system. Now it can detect technical problems in real time and react to them immediately. Antenne 1 plays a pioneering role in the project. The radio station operates its own antenna system […]
Kathrein Supports 5G Test Field for TV Transmission
Kathrein is one of the partners in the research project 5G-Today. Together with Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR, Bavarian Broadcasting), the German broadcast technology institute IRT, Rohde & Schwarz and Telefónica Deutschland, the company looks into the issue of how 5G technology can be used for the transmission of broadcast content. In the Bavarian Oberland, a 5G […]
Kathrein Presents New Milestones on the Way to 5G
Kathrein demonstrates in Barcelona its technological competency in the field of 5G research, the future mobile communication standard. At the Mobile World Congress 2018, the company showcases, among other things, an innovative antenna system which combines 5G-ready MIMO technology with current mobile technology standards such as LTE (4G). In addition, Kathrein presents its Network Vision […]
Kathrein’s Network Vision 2022
Increased internet availability enables an increasingly digitized world. Up until now, however, only about half the world’s population is connected to the Internet. Even though not everybody has access to the World Wide Web – and will not for a long time yet – numbers are rising. In densely populated areas and cities, mobile communication […]
Antenna OEMs Gear Up for FirstNet With Panoply of Products
BY J. SHARPE SMITH With the deployment of the First Responders Broadband Network (FirstNet) beginning next year, the antenna industry is ramping up with production and the orders are beginning to roll in. OEMs, such as CommScope and Kathrein, have introduced families of base station antennas designed to support FirstNet site configurations, including 4X4 MIMO, […]
Major Order for Kathrein in the Vehicle Networking Field
Kathrein has received the first series production order for Car2X technology (DSRC). The abbreviation DSRC stands for Dedicated Short Range Communication and describes systems by which vehicles are connected to each other at short and medium distances and also to the transport infrastructure. The Automotive Business Unit will deliver around 1.5 million Car2X antenna systems […]
Kathrein Shortlisted for Small Cell Forum Award
Kathrein’s Street Connect Antenna Solution™, a revolutionary in-ground small cell antenna, made the shortlist for the Small Cell Forum Industry Awards in the category “Excellence in Commercial Deployment of a Dense HetNet.” Kathrein Street Connect™ is a “game changer” in antenna innovation – traditionally RF engineers have tried to direct the RF signal down from […]