The market for information and communications technology is characterized by its especially dynamic innovativeness.
Mobile Phones
Modern mobile telephones are expected to work seamlessly in different networks, support various wireless standards and services (such as wireless LAN or GPS), and handle more and more new functions, such as mobile TV. Since mobile phones are expected to offer more capabilities all the time, demand for SAW filter solutions is growing over-proportionately. EPCOS is also benefiting in particular from customers’ needs for ever smaller components and modules. This trend is driven by the fact that the phones must stay as small as ever despite their growing functionality. As the global market leader for SAW products, EPCOS is helping to drive the trend toward miniaturization.
Wireline Communication
EPCOS also offers a comprehensive range of reliable products for wireline communications. We are the only manufacturer to offer a hybrid module combining surge arresters and varistors; it protects sensitive telecom equipment in central offices and on customer premises against voltage surges caused by lightning, thus preventing disruption of service. Our film capacitors are also used for interference suppression.
Internet Access
Digital subscriber line (DSL) technology has emerged as one of the preferred broadband solutions, giving even small businesses and private households high-speed, low-cost Internet access. The demand for broadband Internet services should grow in the future. EPCOS products such as miniaturized EPX ferrite cores in ADSL interface transformers help to ensure broadband transmission with minimal signal distortion.
