About Zarlink Semiconductor
- Overview
Business Focus
Research and Development- Board of Directors
Executive Management Team
Operations
Contact Information
FY2008 Revenue
Leading Products
New Product Thrusts
Revenue - Board of Directors
Overview
For over 30 years, Zarlink has delivered semiconductor solutions that drive the capabilities of voice, enterprise, broadband and wireless communications. Customers include Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent, Nortel, Huawei, ZTE, Given Imaging, Cochlear, Nokia Siemens Networks and Ericsson.Business Focus
Communication Products
Carriers and service providers are transitioning from a circuit-switched to a packet-based infrastructure. Zarlink's expertise in timing and synchronization, voice technologies for residential, access and enterprise equipment, packet processing, TDM (time-division multiplex) switching, and voice processing helps navigate the complexities of converging networks.Medical Products
Customers rely on Zarlink's ultra low-power design skills and system knowledge for healthcare products, including cardiac pacemakers and hearing aids. Zarlink's combined ultra-low power and RF (radio frequency) design know-how is enabling a wide range of advanced healthcare products, including the world's first swallowable camera capsule and wirelessly enabled implanted medical devices supporting new monitoring, diagnostic and therapeutic applications.Optical Products
Zarlink's market-proven expertise is helping to drive a range of new optical interconnect products that deliver significant weight, flexibility and reach advantages while reducing installation time and layout concerns. This includes ZLynx active optical cables for data center and computer cluster interconnect, and optical converter modules for video surveillance systems. Zarlink's homegrown multi-channel physical medium dependent integrated circuits and state-of-the-art array photonics technology is at the heart of integrated optical module and transceiver solutions that provide equipment manufacturers with board space and power savings.Research and Development
Zarlink holds a strong portfolio of intellectual property, numbering about 2,100 patents and pending applications in key technologies such as voice and packet processing, optical, RF, and digital design. In Fiscal 2008, R&D spending was US$47.5 million, or 26% of revenue.
Operations
Zarlink sells products to 3,000 customers in more than 100 countries. It has R&D centers in Ottawa (Canada); San Diego, Phoenix, Austin and Reading (U.S.A.); Jarfalla (Sweden); and Caldicot and Plymouth (UK). Zarlink operates fabrication centers in Caldicot and Jarfalla.Contact Information
400 March Road, Ottawa, Canada K2K 3H4Phone: 613 592-0200
Fax: 613 592-1010
Email: corporate@zarlink.com
Web: http://www.zarlink.com/
FY2008 Revenue: US $183.4 million
Leading Products
Timing and synchronization; Voice interface products for voice-over-packet applications; ultra low-power ICs for healthcare; active optical cables for data center interconnect.New Product Thrusts
Synchronous Ethernet timing chips; voice interface products for voice-over-IP and voice-over-cable deployments; integrated optical products for data center and video surveillance system interconnect; ultra-low power wireless devices for medical telemetry. low-power RF devices for medical telemetry.Revenue
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