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Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co KG
Founded17 November 1933
FounderLothar Rohde & Hermann Schwarz
HeadquartersMunich, Germany
Key people
Christian Leicher, President & CEO, Peter Riedel, President & COO
Revenue€2.53 billion (FY 2021/22)[1]
Number of employees
Around 13,000(FY 2021/22)[2]
Websitewww.rohde-schwarz.com

Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co KG (/ˈroʊdə ... ˈʃwɔːrts/, German: [ˈʁoːdə ʔʊnt ˈʃvaʁts]) is an international electronics group specializing in the fields of electronic test equipment, broadcast & media, cybersecurity, radiomonitoring and radiolocation, and radiocommunication. The company provides products for the wireless communications, broadcast & media, cybersecurity and electronics industry, aerospace and defense, homeland security and critical infrastructures.

In addition to the Munich headquarters, there are regional headquarters in the United States (Columbia, Maryland) and in Asia (Singapore). About 7,700[2] of the company's employees work in Germany. Worldwide the company has a total of around 13,000 employees[2] in over 70 countries. Exports account for around 85 percent of revenues.

History

The company was founded by Lothar Rohde and Hermann Schwarz who met while studying physics in Jena. They built their first T&M instrument in 1932, and in August 1933, the Physikalisch-Technisches Entwicklungslabor Dr. Rohde & Dr. Schwarz (known as PTE) started in business. Ceramic insulation for frequencies above 1 MHz were improved in second half of the 1920s when German firm Hermsdorf-Schomburg-Isolatoren-Gesellschaft, also known as Hescho produced new types of ceramic material with very low loss at RF, due to the absence of iron. These parts were difficult to messure, but PTE developed suitable test equipment. The measurement equipement for HF-technology promoted the development of radar and radio systems of Wehrmacht in WW2.[3]

After business activities were resumed in 1945, the US Army placed a major order that ensured the company's continued existence. In the same year the company was renamed Rohde & Schwarz (R&S).[4]

In 2018 a joint venture with Rheinmetall was established: RRS-MITCOS was designed to develop digital solutions fo German Bundeswehr.[5]

In 2022 R&S aquired the Siegburger company Schönhofer Sales and Engineering GmbH, SSE. The company develops analytic systems for IT and integration of KI analytic tools.[6]

In May 2022, Rohde & Schwarz announced the acquisition of UK based technology training and development company The Technology Academy. The Technology company specialises in web-based training in the fields of radio frequency, wireless and microwave engineering technology.[7]

R&S has grown from just over 6,500 employees in 2010 to over 13,000 in 2022 and is represented at 70 locations worldwide. This growth was not exclusively organic, but also included company acquisitions such as Lancom - one of the leading manufacturers of network infrastructure.[8]

In 2023, R&S received a comprehensive contract worth several billion to update the communications systems and equip almost all military units in the German Bundeswehr with its SOVERON digital radio system.[9]

Products

Typical two chanel osciloscope by HAMEG, HM203-6


R&S subsidary for oscilloscopes HAMEG was producing the standard testing equipment for comapnys, schools and universitys in Germany. In 2010, Rohde & Schwarz launched the world's first oscilloscope with a digital trigger.[10]

More than 200 airports deploy Rohde & Schwarz radiocommunications systems. In 2011, the company began selling voice communications systems for air traffic control (ATC). These systems are based on a product from Topex SA, a company in which Rohde & Schwarz acquired a majority interest in 2010.[11]

Rohde & Schwarz SIT GmbH develops crypto products and systems for government agencies, the German armed forces, authorities, the military and private industry. The subsidiary's high-security encryption technology is used for both wireless and wireline communications. As early as 2001, Rohde & Schwarz SIT launched the world's first crypto phone TopSec GSM.[12]

SOVERON

Soveron is a family of SDR radios for military tactical communication, develeoped by R&S. The radios working at HF, UHF and VHF spectrums and are based on an internationally common Software Communications Architecture standard with backward compatibility. The frequency sectrum ranges from 30 to 600 MHz; simultaneous transmission of voice and data in each radio channel with up to two voice channels is possibel. The "Transect" fast frequency hopping technology provides robustness against jamming attacks. For bandwidth efficient voice compression is a MELPe codec used.[13] Soveron is allready used by a number of NATO and non-NATO forces.[14]

When the Russian war of aggression on Ukraine started in 2022, the German government under Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) decided on a special assets ("Sondervermögen") for fitting of German armed forces for example by a state of the art command and information system. Rohde & Schwarz was awarded the contract for 2.9 billion EUR in 2022 for Armed Forces Joint Connected Radio Equipment (Streitkräftegemeinsame verbundfähige Funkausstattung (SVFuA)) and will deliver it´s Soveron program

Public known users of Soveron are the Portugese Army, the Canadian Armed Forces and an not puplic known asian armed force.

References

  1. ^ "Rohde & Schwarz consistently aligns business performance for further growth".
  2. ^ a b c KG, Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. "Company profile". www.rohde-schwarz.com.
  3. ^ "About WWII RADIO SETS". www.kriegsfunker.com. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  4. ^ "Lothar Rohde – Rohde-Stiftung". www.rohde-stiftung.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  5. ^ "Vernetzte Waffenschmieden – Rüstungsindustrie in Deutschland - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung". www.rosalux.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  6. ^ https://www.bundeswehr-journal.de/2022/signal-intelligence-rohde-schwarz-uebernimmt-sse/#more-14787
  7. ^ "Rohde & Schwarz enhances digital training offerings through acquisition of The Technology Academy". Electronics360. 4 May 2022. Retrieved 5 May 2022.
  8. ^ "Unternehmensbesuch bei Rohde & Schwarz". Reservistenverband (in German). Retrieved 2023-10-06.
  9. ^ "Bundeswehr-Sondervermögen und Digitalfunk: Geld allein macht nicht glücklich – Augen geradeaus!". augengeradeaus.net. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
  10. ^ Microwave Engineering
  11. ^ Bloomberg businessweek
  12. ^ "NIA - NATO Information Assurance".
  13. ^ https://scdn.rohde-schwarz.com/ur/pws/dl_downloads/dl_common_library/dl_brochures_and_datasheets/pdf_1/SOVERON_D_fly_en_3609-2500-32_v0100_120dpi.pdf
  14. ^ André (2020-10-13). "Erster Exporterfolg für Soveron Funkgeräte". Zur Lage (in German). Retrieved 2023-10-12.
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