Anritsu
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Anritsu Corporation (アンリツ株式会社 Anritsu Kabushiki-gaisha?) is a Japanese corporation that is a major presence in the test and measurement market. Products include microwave, RF, and optical signal generators (sources), spectrum analyzers, and network analyzers. Its history includes various companies, among them, Annaka Corporation in Japan, and Wiltron Company in the United States. Net sales in FY2005 was 91 billion yen, or roughly $800 million. It has been listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange since 1961 (TYO: 6754 ). As of 2006, it employed 3700 employees in 18 countries.
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[edit] Anritsu Company USA
Anritsu Company, headquartered in Morgan Hill, CA, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Anritsu Corporation based in Atsugi, Japan. In development, Anritsu Company has continued on Wiltron's focus of microwave frequency network analyzers and spectrum analyzers. Its SiteMaster family of products has become very popular among those that maintain cellular phone sites. SiteMasters are microwave vector network analyzers providing return loss, cable loss, and distance to fault in a handheld instrument. Because of the market dominance of the SiteMaster, the platform was expanded to create the SpectrumMaster and CellMaster, which perform microwave spectrum analysis and modulation analysis, respectively.
[edit] Anritsu EMEA
Anritsu EMEA covers Europe, the Middle East and Africa. With over 750 employees in the region the headquarters are based in Luton (UK) with field offices in Dubai, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway. Other areas are managed through local distributors.
[edit] Anritsu Japan History
In Japan, Anritsu's first predecessor, Sekisan-sha, was founded in 1895. Annaka Electric Company followed, producing wireless transmitters and the world's first wireless telephone service and Japan's first automatic public telephone. More recently, their SONET analyzer measuring 10Gb/s and transmitter test products are of note.
