Ceragon Networks Ltd. (‘Ceragon’) operates as a wireless transport specialist company.
The company is providing innovative, high-capacity wireless connectivity solutions to global markets across various industries, such as wireless (mobile) network service providers, and private networks.
In preparation for the transition from 4G to 5G technologies, the company has begun planning the roll-out of new 5G-supporting products. In 2019, it introduced the market-first ‘disaggregated wireless transpo...
Ceragon Networks Ltd. (‘Ceragon’) operates as a wireless transport specialist company.
The company is providing innovative, high-capacity wireless connectivity solutions to global markets across various industries, such as wireless (mobile) network service providers, and private networks.
In preparation for the transition from 4G to 5G technologies, the company has begun planning the roll-out of new 5G-supporting products. In 2019, it introduced the market-first ‘disaggregated wireless transport’ architecture, which allows operators to significantly simplify 5G network deployment and maintenance, as well as reduce capital and operating expenses. The company has invested in a new chipset, which incorporates multi-cores to be integrated into products expected to be launched as of 2025. The first new incorporated product is the IP-100E, which was recently launched.
The company provides wireless transport solutions and services that enable cellular operators, other service providers, and private networks to build new networks, and evolve networks towards 4G and 5G services. The services provided over these networks include: voice, mobile and fixed broadband, multimedia, Industrial/Machine-to-Machine (M2M), Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity, public safety, and other mission-critical services. The company also provides its solutions for wireless transport to other vertical markets, such as Internet service providers, public safety, municipalities, government, utilities, oil and gas offshore drilling platforms, as well as maritime communications, broadcasters, and defense. The company’s wireless transport solutions use microwave and millimeter-wave radio technologies to transfer large amounts of telecommunication traffic between wireless 5G, 4G, 3G, and other cellular base station technologies (distributed, or centralized with dispersed remote radio heads), and the core of the service provider’s network. The company follows industry consortiums of companies, which attempt to better define future technologies in ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) markets, such as Open Networking Foundation (ONF), Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), Telecom Infra Project (TIP), and others, and when it is relevant, the company takes part in industry processes and standards setting.
In addition to providing the company’s solutions, it also offers its customers a comprehensive set of turn-key services, including advanced network and radio planning, site survey, solutions development, network rollout, maintenance, wireless transport network audit and optimization, and training. To enable the delivery of turn-key solutions to the company’s customers, in addition to providing roll-out services, the company has partnered with other third-party providers of technologies complementary to its own. The company’s offerings include technologies, such as: Unlicensed Point-to-Point, Private Long-Term Evolution (LTE), Licensed/unlicensed Point-to-Multipoint, Internet Protocol/Multi-Protocol Label Switching (IP/MPLS) SW, and/or white boxes, and others. This allows the company to better cover its customers’ end-to-end needs, and increases the level of stickiness with these customers. The company’s services include powerful project management tools, such as its ‘InSide Software’ tool, that streamline deployments of complex wireless networks, thereby reducing time and costs associated with network set-up, and allowing a fast time-to-revenue. The company’s experienced teams can deploy hundreds of wireless transport links every week, and its rollout project track record includes hundreds of thousands of links already installed and operational with a variety of industry-leading operators.
Designed for any network scenario, including risk-free flexible migration from current and legacy network technologies and architectures to evolving standards and network transport scenarios, the company’s solutions provide ultra-high-speed connectivity at any distance, whether a few kilometers or tens of kilometers, and even longer, over any available spectrum (or combinations of available spectrum bands), and in any site and network architecture. The company’s solutions support all wireless access technologies, including 5G-NR NSA, 5G-NR SALTE, HSPA, EV-DO, CDMA, W-CDMA, WIFI, and GSM, as well as Tetra, P.25, and LMR for critical communications. These solutions allow wireless service providers to cost-effectively and seamlessly evolve their networks from a monolithic base-station architecture to an open radio access network (RAN) architecture, utilizing vertical and horizontal disaggregation, allowing them extra flexibility, scalability, and efficiency, thereby meeting the increasing demand of a growing number of connections of any type for consumers and enterprises with growing needs for mobile and other multimedia services, and a growing number of machines or IoT devices, such as street surveillance devices or meters.
The company also provides its solutions to other non-carrier vertical markets (private networks), such as oil and gas companies, public safety organizations, businesses, and public institutions, broadcasters, energy utilities, and others that operate their own private communications networks. The company’s solutions are deployed by more than 600 service providers of all sizes, as well as in more than 1,600 private networks, in more than approximately 130 countries.
In January 2025, the company was acquired by merger with E2E to further expand its offering to private networks. E2E provides a full end-to-end solution for private networks, primarily serving customers in oil and gas, utilities, and industrial verticals. E2E is essentially a systems integration company that designs, deploys, and manages connectivity solutions for its customers, as well as other related devices. In addition, E2E has developed a software solution to help manage the customers’ networks and monitor certain operational and business-related metrics.
Wireless Transport; Short-haul, Long-haul, and Small Cells Transport
The company serves the ‘best-of-breed’ segment of the market and specializes in a range of solutions, which it believes provide high value for the company’s customers, including:
Short-haul solutions, which typically provide a wireless link capacity of up to 4 Gbps per link for backhaul with a single unit, and/or a link capacity of up to 20 Gbps for fronthaul (25 Gbps with next-generation E-band IP-100E). These solutions are available for distances of several hundred feet to 10 miles. Short-haul links are deployed in access applications (macro cells, small cells, and distributed cells) wirelessly connecting the individual base stations or base station elements (i.e., a ‘central unit’, a ‘distributed unit’, or a ‘radio unit’) towers to the core network. Short-haul solutions are also used in a range of non-carrier ‘vertical’ applications, such as state and local government, public safety, education, and offshore communication for oil and gas platforms.
Long-haul solutions, which typically provide a capacity of up to 10 Gbps, are used in the ‘highways’ of the telecommunication backbone network. These links are typically used to carry services at distances of 10 to 50 miles, and, using the right planning, configuration, and equipment, can also bridge distances of 100 miles and more. Long-haul solutions are also used in a range of non-carrier ‘vertical’ applications, such as broadcast, state and local government, public safety, utilities, and offshore communication for oil and gas platforms.
The company has, on more than one occasion, been the first to introduce new products and features to the market, including the first solution for wireless transmission for evolving cellular networks, providing 155 Mbps at 38 GHz in 1996, and numerous microwave and millimeter-wave technology innovations thereafter. Since 2008, the company has invested in pioneering multicore technology, focusing on addressing the multiple wireless transport challenges of 4G and 5G services. This technology is at the core of the company’s in-house developed chipsets for wireless transport, now in their fourth generation, which enable the company to design and offer vertically integrated solutions. This vertical integration enables the company to provide higher flexibility, better performance, and improved time-to-market. With the first products based on multicore technology introduced to the market in 2013, the company has enabled dual-core radios and far advanced capabilities, such as Line-of-Sight Multiple Input Multiple Output (LoS MIMO), which allows efficient use of spectrum where congestion of frequencies exists, Advanced Frequency Reuse (AFR), which allows massive network densification, and Advanced Space Diversity (ASD), which eliminates the use of multiple antennas in various network scenarios, thereby accelerating network deployment and reducing total cost of ownership.
In 2019, the company introduced the market-first ‘disaggregated wireless transport’ architecture, which allows operators to significantly simplify 5G network deployment and maintenance, as well as reduce capital and operating expenses.
The company has invested in a new chipset, which incorporates multi-cores in a chipset that was launched in 2024. This is integrated into the company’s IP-100E product line, which was recently launched and will be in mass production and productization during 2026, offering industry-leading performance and capacity.
Solutions
The company offers a broad product portfolio of innovative, field-proven, high-capacity wireless transport solutions, which incorporate its unique multicore technology. The company’s multicore technology is a key element in its differentiation within the wireless transport market, serving the ‘best-of-breed’ market segment. The company’s multicore technology consists of a high order of digital signal carriers embedded in modems having multiple baseband cores, designed for microwave and millimeter-wave communications, and RF integrated circuits (RFIC), which support the entire available microwave and millimeter-wave spectrum. The company integrates its multicore technology SoCs into subsystems and complete wireless transport solutions that deliver high value for its customers. With the company’s approach to solutions, from system-on-a-chip design all the way to solutions design, it enables cellular operators, other wireless service providers, public safety organizations, utility companies, and private network owners to effectively obtain a range of benefits:
Increase business operational efficiency by reducing network-related expenses: The company’s customers are able to obtain the required capacity with one-quarter of the spectrum needed otherwise, double network capacity without adding more equipment simply by remotely expanding wireless link capacity, significantly reduce energy-related expenses by utilizing its energy-efficient products, use smaller antennas, thereby reducing telecommunication tower leasing costs, and improve their staff productivity with the use of a single wireless transport platform for their long-haul, short-haul, and small/distributed cells transport needs. The company offers a range of solutions for quick and simple modernization of wireless networks to 4G and 5G, which significantly contribute to its customers’ ability to modernize and expand their services.
The company’s wireless transport solutions are offered across the widest range of frequencies—from 4 GHz microwaves to 86 GHz millimeter-waves. This provides the company’s customers with more flexibility in deploying its wireless transport infrastructure, as it enables the customers to select the spectrum available in the customers’ market, from a wider range of frequencies. Any transport network topology is supported to enable high network availability and resiliency, including ring, mesh, tree, and chain topologies.
Enhance service portfolio, quality of experience, and reach: The company’s multicore technology allows its customers to introduce new services (e.g., 5G use cases), to improve subscriber (user) quality of experience generated from the voice, data, and multimedia services that they provide to their customers, and to extend their network and services reach in order to address new markets. The company’s All-outdoor offering enables quicker installation and deployment, hence improving time-to-market of its customers’ services to their subscribers.
Ensure peace of mind: The company’s solutions utilize the latest in microwave and millimeter-wave technology, incorporated in-house developed System-on-Chips (baseband and RF integrated circuits), and use the latest advances in SMT (Surface-mount technologies) based manufacturing—allowing the company’s customers to benefit from the highest service availability across their Ceragon-based wireless transport network.
End-to-End connectivity solutions for Private Networks: The company’s solutions for private networks include a suite of products and services, either owned by the company or by its ecosystem partners, to support private networks in everything they need for high-quality connectivity solutions and complete support from initial ideation and design to deployment, ongoing management, and support, allowing its customers to have a one-stop shop for all network-related operations. The company’s acquisition by merger of E2E expands its offering with additional services, use cases, and proprietary vendor-agnostic management software.
The company provides its customers with future solutions already built into their Ceragon-installed base. It invests a significant amount of effort in designing and providing solutions, which are not only backward compatible with its earlier product generations but also allow its customers to reuse the radio units and antennas of their Ceragon links installed base, thereby replacing only the low labor-consuming indoor (sheltered) units—thus benefiting from the latest wireless transport performance of its latest technology across their Ceragon-installed base. Moreover, its solutions support multiple technologies within the same wireless transport equipment, providing its customers with high flexibility in network transition from legacy connectivity to 4G and 5G connectivity and architectures, at their desired pace of transition—while achieving long-term operational efficiency, high service quality, and availability.
Design to Cost: The company’s strategy to drive performance up while driving costs down is achieved through its investment in modem and RF (radio frequency) integrated circuit (IC) design. The company’s advanced chipsets, which are already in use in hundreds of thousands of units in the field, integrate all the radio functionality required for high-end microwave and millimeter-wave systems. By owning the technology and controlling the complete system design, the company achieves a very high level of vertical integration and cost structure and control over the timing of introducing certain capabilities, which is not available to vendors relying on off-the-shelf chipsets. This, in turn, enables the company to yield systems that have superior performance when compared with systems that use off-the-shelf chipsets components available from other single sources, due to its ability to closely integrate and fine-tune the performance of all the radio components. The company has introduced automated testing that allows it to speed up production while lowering the costs for electronic manufacturing services manufacturers.
Strategic Partnerships: The company maintains strategic partnerships with third-party solution vendors and network integrators. Through these relationships, the company develops interoperable ecosystems, enabling operators and private networks to profitably evolve networks by using complementary transport alternatives. In some cases, the company has entered into a strategic alliance with a multinational technology company that, nevertheless, chooses the company’s technology for its future products, acknowledging that it proposes the ‘best-of-breed’ cutting-edge technology.
Products
The company’s portfolio of products utilizes microwave and millimeter-wave radio technologies that provide its customers with wireless connectivity that dynamically adapts to weather conditions and optimizes range and efficiency for a given frequency channel bandwidth. The company’s products are typically sold as a complete system consisting of some or all of the following four components: an outdoor unit, an indoor unit, a compact high-performance antenna, and a network management system. The company offers all-packet microwave and millimeter-wave radio links, with optional migration from TDM to Ethernet. The company’s products include integrated networking functions for both TDM, Ethernet, and IP/MPLS.
The company offers its products in four configurations: All-outdoor, split-mount, all-indoor, and disaggregated transport.
All-outdoor solutions combine the functionality of both the indoor and outdoor units in a single, compact device. This weather-proof enclosure is fastened to an antenna, eliminating the need for rack space or sheltering, as well as the need for air conditioning, and is more environmentally friendly due to its lower footprint and power consumption.
Split-mount solutions consist of:
Indoor units, which are used to process and manage information transmitted to and from the outdoor unit, aggregate multiple transmission signals, and provide a physical interface to wire-line networks.
Outdoor units, or Radio Frequency Units (RFU), which are used to control power transmission, and provide an interface between antennas and indoor units. They are contained in compact weather-proof enclosures fastened to antennas. Indoor units are connected to outdoor units by standard coaxial or Cat-5/6 baseband cables.
All-indoor solutions refer to solutions in which the entire system (indoor unit and RFU) resides in a single rack inside a transmission equipment room. A waveguide connection transports the radio signals to the antenna mounted on a tower. All indoor equipment is typically used in long-haul applications.
Disaggregated wireless transport solutions offer a single radio suitable for all-outdoor, a split-mount scenario, and a networking unit, which provides versatile and scalable hardware options based on merchant routing silicon and also provides routing capabilities (L3) that are radio technologies aware.
Pointing out accurate solutions for high movement environments, these are advanced microwave radio systems for use on moving rigs/vessels where the antenna is stabilized in one or two axes, azimuth or azimuth/elevation.
Antennas are used to transmit and receive microwave radio signals from one side of the wireless link to the other. These devices are mounted on poles typically placed on rooftops, towers, or buildings. The company relies on third-party vendors to supply this component.
End-to-End Network Management: The company’s network management system uses standard management protocols to monitor and control managed devices at both the element and network levels, and can be integrated into its customers’ existing network management systems.
Unified network intelligence and management software suite: Provides an intuitive and in-depth view of the entire wireless transport network. It is the ideal tool to proactively run, analyze, and maintain network health for the best performance and functionality. In addition, it provides self-defined automation use cases, pre-defined configuration files that can be uploaded quickly to the network elements—on-site or remotely.
Smart Activation Key: A single centralized Smart Activation Key that instantly discovers and automatically activates all network elements.
PtMP - The company acquired a new type of solution that provides Point-to-Multipoint offering. This solution is ideal for the emerging 5G Gigabit Wireless Access (GWA) market for residential customers and many enterprise market segments that require dense gigabit connectivity.
The IP-20 Platform provides a wide range of solutions for any configuration requirement and diverse networking scenarios. Composed of high-density multi-technology nodes and integrated radio units of multiple radio technologies ranging from 4 GHz and up to 86 GHz, it offers ultra-high capacity of multiple Gbps with flexibility in accommodating for every site providing high-performance terminals for all-indoor, split mount, and all-outdoor configurations. The IP-20 platform supports carrier-ethernet services and is MEF 2.0 certified.
The IP-50 Platform provides wireless transport using a single type of radio in microwave or millimeter-wave for all configuration and installation scenarios, and IP/MPLS and segment routing capabilities over merchant silicon hardware options.
As wireless transport capacity needs grow, the wireless transport network blueprint evolves to support more radio carriers in one box (2 carriers, instead of 1) as a basic configuration with the IP-20C product, or even 4+0 (a link utilizing 4-carriers in a carrier-aggregation configuration) in all-outdoor configuration with layer-1 carrier aggregation to support growing capacity needs at minimal footprint with the IP-50C product. The company’s multicore technology covers all network scenarios and site configurations, whether All-outdoor, Split-mount, or All-indoor. Various multicore radio units can be used with IP-20N/IP-20A, IP-20F, or IP-50FX products, such as RFU-D and the RFU-D-HP, or IP-50C and IP-50E in the disaggregated solution (i.e., can be used as a stand-alone, all-outdoor radio or in a split-mount configuration, connected to the IP-50FX). As part of the IP-50FX Disaggregated Cell Site Gateway (DCSG), the company introduced a Radio Aware Open Networking (RAON) Software, designed to increase operational efficiency, simplify radio monitoring and management, and expects in the future to release a reduced energy consumption.
In addition to the IP-20 and the IP-50 Platforms, the company provides the PointLink portfolio that offers a tailored solution for oil and gas and other maritime offshore applications.
The company is also able to address a new range of markets and opportunities with the addition of Siklu’s products:
The EtherHaul Platform (EH) provides a wide range of Point-to-Point all-outdoor radios operating in the mmWave spectrum (V-band 60 GHz license-exempt and E-band 70/80 GHz lightly licensed). Deployable at street level with integrated antennas or on rooftops and towers with external antennas, the capacity ranges from 1 Gbps to 20 Gbps. All the radios are PoE or DC powered, and many offer PoE-out options to power additional equipment served by the wireless link.
The MultiHaul Platform (MH) is a novel series of all-outdoor compact radios operating in the 60 GHz license-exempt spectrum, with beam-forming self-aligning antennas, and Layer 2 SDN MESH capability for SON (Self-Organizing Network). The radios operate in Point-to-Multipoint topologies, lowering the cost of the radio link, and growing the range or coverage of the wireless network. The MESH can feature redundant links to raise the resiliency of the wireless network. All the radios are PoE powered, and many offer PoE-out options to power additional equipment served by the wireless link.
The company’s network management system (NMS) can be used to monitor network element status, provide statistical and inventory reports, download software and configuration to elements in the network, and provide end-to-end service management across the network. The company’s NMS solutions support all its microwave and millimeter-wave products through a single user interface.
SDN (Software Defined Network) solution
As the mobile industry progresses towards the 5G era, SDN is becoming more important for operators. SDN concepts and protocols will allow the operators to have a complete, multi-technology, multi-vendor view of their network, and apply optimization and predictive maintenance instructions in real time. The SDN concepts and values fit well with the openness and disaggregation principles that the company’s customers are seeking. The company offers its customers a wide variety of SDN supporting products and tools:
SDN Controller – The company’s SDN Master is a complete controller supporting SDN protocols that can monitor and control the company’s products in an SDN environment. The SDN Master can work as a ‘standalone’ controller, or as part of an SDN solution managed by a higher-level SDN controller offered by a third-party vendor (sometimes referred to as an SDN Orchestrator), allowing full flexibility to its customers.
SDN support in the company’s wireless transport products - All Ceragon IP-20 and IP-50 products support the needed SDN protocols allowing the operator to manage these products with the company’s SDN controllers but also with third-party SDN controllers, again, allowing full flexibility to its customers.
SDN applications – Software (SW) tools with significant impact on the company’s customers’ TCO (total cost of ownership), network availability, and fast network rollout. These applications enable operators to increase their network efficiency and effectiveness with operational optimization and automation capabilities. With the SDN technology, the company’s SW solutions are entering into the cloud domain allowing multiple open and flexible deployment scenarios for its customers. The company is developing and enhancing those and other SW tools in order to expand its offering also to stand-alone SW solutions and services, either as on-premises, remote, or SaaS services. The company recently launched ‘Ceragon Insight’, which is a unified network intelligence and management software suite for wireless transport networks.
IP-100 Platform
The company has invested in a new chipset, which incorporates multi-cores in a chipset that was launched in 2024 and is now integrated into the company’s IP-100E family, offering industry-leading performance and capacity. The company is already designing the first IP-100 products that will be using that chipset that will significantly increase its wireless transport products capabilities in terms of higher capacity, lower latency, and more, the first of them just recently launched. These capabilities will make the IP-100 platform the optimized choice for existing and new use cases in the 5G mobile market. The IP-100 platform is expected to expand the company’s product coverage beyond the MW bands, V-Band, and E-Band range (4-86 GHz), and include W-band (up to 110 GHz) and D-band (up to 170 GHz) products.
The company’s outdoor RFUs are designed with sturdiness, power, simplicity, and compatibility in mind. As such, they provide high-power transmission for both short and long distances, and can be assembled and installed quickly and easily. The RFUs can operate with different Ceragon indoor units, according to the desired configuration, addressing any network need, whether cellular, backbone, rural, or private transport networks.
Services
The company offers complete solutions and services for the design and implementation of telecommunication networks, as well as the expansion or integration of existing ones. The company has a global projects and services group that operates alongside its products groups. Under this group, the company offers its customers a comprehensive set of turn-key services, including: advanced network and radio planning, site survey, solutions development, installation, network auditing and optimization, maintenance, training, and more. The company’s services include utilization of powerful project management tools in order to streamline deployments of complex wireless networks, thereby reducing time and costs associated with network set-up, and allowing faster time to revenue. The company’s experienced teams can deploy hundreds of ‘wireless transport links’ every week, and its rollout project track record includes hundreds of thousands of links already installed and in operation with a variety of Tier 1 operators.
The company is committed to providing high levels of service and implementation support to its customers. The company’s sales and network field engineering services personnel work closely with customers, system integrators, and others to coordinate network design, and ensure successful deployment of its solutions.
The company supports its products with documentation and training courses tailored to its customers’ varied needs. It has the capability to remotely monitor the in-network performance of its products and to diagnose and address problems that may arise. The company helps its customers to integrate its network management system into their existing internal network operations control centers.
In pursuit of its new strategy to diversify and expand its offerings to include, among other things, solutions for WISPs (wireless internet services), private networks, and software-based solutions, the company is developing and enhancing SW tools, including those that have been used by it for network planning, commissioning, monitoring, optimization, and maintenance, to be included in its services offering as stand-alone SW solutions and services, either as on-premise, remote, or SaaS.
Ceragon Digital Twin is a Ceragon-developed tool that creates a virtual representation of customers’ physical networks. The Ceragon Digital Twin can be used to analyze, emulate, diagnose, and optimize the physical network and site infrastructure based on detailed modeling, data collection, and interfaces to achieve near real-time, interactive mapping between physical networks and virtual twin networks. The company’s customers benefit from a data-driven and vendor-agnostic system that proactively identifies network weak spots, redundancies, energy cost inefficiencies, alerts for upcoming capacity bottlenecks, and many other network health and efficiency features. Customers benefit from a more resilient network, as well as both CAPEX and OPEX savings, driven by optimized, when and where needed expansion, energy cost reduction, and a lowered need for site visits. The company also invests to expand its Digital Twin solution offering to better support critical private networks requirements, including IoT standards and selected devices.
Ceragon’s Managed Services offering provides end-to-end, proactive management of the customer’s network operation. Ceragon leverages its decades of networking expertise, specialized software tools, and Network Management personnel, to relieve customers from the need to manage their network infrastructure.
The company’s suite of Professional Services was designed specifically for private networks to make possible the easiest network implementation throughout the entire network lifecycle—to help meet all of their connectivity needs. From planning and designing the right solution, through sourcing the required equipment, rolling out and installing the network, and assuring optimal performance through ongoing testing, management, and maintenance services, the company can customize the appropriate service offering for each customer. In addition, the company is investing in expanding its system integration capabilities to support more use cases and verticals, as the demand for modern private networks continues to increase.
The company’s recent acquisition by merger of E2E expands its services and software offerings, focused on the needs of private networks. E2E served dozens of customers, supporting them with meaningful networks deployments and software-based management. E2E brings capabilities in providing a full suite of services and system integration capabilities.
Customers
The company has sold its products, directly and through a variety of channels, to over 600 service providers and more than 1,600 private network customers in more than approximately 130 countries. The company’s principal customers are wireless service providers that use its products to expand transport network capacity, reduce transport costs, and support the provision of advanced telecommunications services. In 2024, the company continued to maintain its position as the number one wireless transport specialist, in terms of unit shipments and global distribution of its business. While most of its sales are direct, the company does reach a number of these customers through OEM or distributor relationships. The company also sells systems to large enterprises and public institutions that operate their own private communications networks through system integrators, resellers, and distributors. The company’s customer base is diverse in terms of both size and geographic location.
In 2024, customers from the Europe region contributed 14% of total yearly revenue. The company’s sales in Latin America and Africa in 2024 were 9% and 2% of yearly revenue, respectively. The company’s sales in Asia Pacific (excluding India), North America, and India in 2024 were 9%, 23%, and 43%, respectively.
Sales and Marketing
The company sells its products through a variety of channels, including direct sales, OEMs, resellers, distributors, and system integrators. The company’s sales and marketing staff, including services and supporting functions, include approximately 679 employees in many countries worldwide, who work together with local agents, distributors, and OEMs to expand its business.
The company is a supplier to various key OEMs which together account for approximately 4% of its revenues in 2024. System integrators, distributors, and resellers accounted for approximately 15% of the company’s revenues for 2024. The company is focusing its efforts on direct sales, which accounted for approximately 81% of its revenues for 2024. The company also plans to develop additional strategic relationships with equipment vendors, global and local system integrators, distributors, resellers, networking companies, and other industry suppliers with the goal of gaining greater access to its target markets.
Marketing plays an important role in promoting the company’s products, solutions, and services in creating lead generation to new and existing customers, and ultimately establishing its leadership and differentiation in the market. The company’s key marketing activities include the following:
Proactively planning and executing marketing campaigns, and developing content, as well as communications material to promote the company’s products, solutions, and services to customers and prospects over the entire course of the sales cycle. Activities include advertising, e-mail, press releases, newsletters, marketing collateral (white papers, e-books, brochures, case studies, etc.), blogs, promotional videos, and more. This content is produced and written with search engine optimization in mind to ensure the company ranks high in customer organic search results.
Organizing and running exhibitions, seminars, and events. This goes far beyond merely planning the logistics of the event, but customizing messaging for the target audience, creating event materials, such as displays, presentations, animated videos, demos, and, most importantly, promoting the event to customers and prospects to ensure successful attendance and secure customer meetings.
Manufacturing and Assembly
The company complies with standards promulgated by the International Organization for Standardization and has received certification under the ISO 9001 (Quality), ISO 14001 (Environment), ISO 27001 (Information Security Management System), and ISO 45001 (Health and Safety) standards.
Intellectual Property
As of December 31, 2024, the company has 18 patents granted in the United States and other foreign jurisdictions, including the EPO (European Patent Office), and 10 patent applications pending in the United States and other foreign jurisdictions, including the EPO.
In addition, Siklu has 31 patents granted in the United States, 1 patent granted in the UK, and 4 patent applications pending in Germany.
The company has registered trademarks as follows: for the standard character mark Ceragon Networks in Canada; for the standard character mark CERAGON, national registrations in Morocco, Malaysia, Indonesia (under the name of Ceragon Networks AS), Japan, Israel, Mexico, the United States, South Africa, the Philippines, Argentina, Venezuela, Peru, Canada, Nigeria, Brazil, and Colombia, the United Kingdom, and India, and International Registration (protection granted in Australia, Iceland, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Korea, Switzerland, Croatia, Norway, Russia, China, Ukraine, CTM (European Union), Turkey, Singapore, Macedonia, Egypt, Kenya, and Vietnam); for the company’s design mark for FibeAir in the United Kingdom and the European Union; for the standard character mark FibeAir in the United States; and for the standard character mark CeraView in the United Kingdom and the European Union.
In addition, E2E has 1 trademark for the standard character mark E2E in the United States.
Competition
The company competes with a number of wireless equipment providers worldwide that vary in size and in the types of products and solutions they offer. The company’s primary competitors include large wireless equipment manufacturers referred to as generalists, such as Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., L.M. Ericsson Telephone Company, Nokia Corporation, and ZTE Corporation. In addition to these primary competitors, a number of other smaller wireless transport equipment suppliers, including Aviat Networks Inc., SIAE Microelectronica S.p.A, Cambium Networks (60 GHz MESH products only), and Intracom Telecom, offer and develop products that compete with the company’s products.
The Israel Innovation Authority and other Granting Authorities
The company has received grants from the IIA for several projects and may receive additional grants in the future.
In December 2006, the company entered into an agreement with IIA to conclude its research and development grant programs sponsored by the IIA.
Research and Development
The company’s net research and development expenses totaled $35.0 million in 2024.
History
The company was founded in 1996. The company was incorporated in 1996. The company was formerly known as Giganet Ltd. and changed its name to Ceragon Networks Ltd. in 2000.
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