Communications Systems, Inc. provides physical connectivity infrastructure and services for global deployments of broadband networks. Focusing on innovative, cost-effective solutions, CSI provides customers the ability to deliver, manage, and optimize their broadband network services and architecture. From the integration of fiber optics in any application and environment to efficient home voice and data deployments to optimization of data and application access, CSI provides the tools for maximum utilization of the network from the edge to the user. With partners and customers in over 50 countries, CSI has built a reputation as a reliable global innovator focusing on quality and customer service.
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Austin Taylor
JDL Technologies, Inc.
Suttle
Transition Networks, Inc.
Austin Taylor Communications, located in Bethesda, Wales, United Kingdom, is a highly respected manufacturer of telecommunication products designed primarily to British standards. Historically, over half of the company’s sales have been to the United Kingdom but it supplies Hong Kong, other pacific rim markets and the middle east with British standard products. It’s products include residential line jacks, wiring boxes and harnesses, large street cabinets and local area network products.
Austin Taylor’s market share in the UK started to improve towards the latter part of 2002 as new UK distribution channels were opened. The launch of the "AT Net" Structured Cabling range helped generate this additional business, which should improve market share in all target market sectors and beyond.
Austin Taylor Communications started to develop a new manufacturing supply chain via the Far East, which will significantly improve our competitiveness, and improve profit margins in what remains a highly competitive environment.
JDL Technologies is an enterprise class IT solutions provider. Its customers range from government agencies and school districts to commercial enterprises. For more than 13 years, JDL and its highly skilled engineers have integrated some of the largest and most complex IT projects in the country. JDL has deployed one of the largest fully managed wireless networks in the U.S. with more than 6,000 access points and 60,000 computers. JDL also remotely monitors and manages a network infrastructure of more than 10,000 network devices across 300 locations.
JDL’s technology expertise consists of a team of engineers, project managers, operations managers and executives with dozens of industry certifications and expertise in core business technologies including extensive experience on enterprise wireless and switching high definition video conferencing, service management, desktop management and desktop virtualization.
Suttle manufactures telecommunications connection products and filtering devices for voice, data, and video applications. Exciting changes are underway in the telecommunications industry that continue to provide Suttle with many opportunities.
Suttle's core business of traditional phone connecting blocks, including the CorroShield
TM line of corrosion resistant jacks, continues to hold a place of strength in the marketplace.
The company has also become one of the industry's leading xDSL filter suppliers and is helping lead the industry with some exciting new DSL filtering devices that will further extend the bandwidth and reach of existing copper infrastructure to the home.
Suttle also continues to execute on its plan to be a leading supplier of structured cabling solutions for the home with great success. Key to the service provider, structured wiring systems simplify and enhance a homebuyer's lifestyle and create long-term value for the home. Ideal for FTTP (Fiber To The Premise) networks, Suttle's SOHO Access
TM products provide an attractive, installer friendly and cost effective solution which has been well received by the marketplace.
Founded in 1987 as Transition Engineering, the company's first products adapted coaxial cable to twisted-pair cables; connecting terminals to mainframe computers. The company was renamed Transition Networks, Inc. in 1995 and experienced continued rapid growth as its products evolved from general Ethernet networking equipment to a complete line of conversion technology solutions. In 1998, Transition Networks was purchased by Communication Systems, Inc, (NASDAQ: JCS).
Today, Transition Networks, Inc. offers a full suite of fiber networking products that enable you to deliver and manage your network traffic reliably over fiber optics. The company's Transition Networks brand of media converters makes conversion between disparate media types possible; while helping companies leverage their existing network infrastructure. These media conversion technologies are offered across a broad spectrum of networking protocols including Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit, T1/E1, DS3, ATM, RS232/485, video, Power-over-Ethernet, and many more.
In the fall of 2005, Communication Systems, Inc. announced the integration of MILAN Technologies into Transition Networks. This integration expanded the Transition Networks product portfolio to include a complete line of multilayer switches. The MILAN By Transition Networks product family of Ethernet switches offers customers unique configurations and a high level of service and reliability. These switches are designed to facilitate low-cost network evolution with unique solutions, all while easing the stress on networks caused by high-bandwidth applications.
Based in Minneapolis, Transition Networks distributes hardware-based networking solutions exclusively through a network of resellers in more than 100 countries.
