RAD Data Communications
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| Private | |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 1981 |
| Founders | Yehuda Zisapel Zohar Zisapel |
| Headquarters | Tel Aviv, Israel |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Chairman: Yehuda Zisapel, CEO: Dror Bin |
| Products | Service Assured Access solutions for service providers and Service Assured Networking solutions for power utilities, transportation systems and government agencies |
| Website | www.rad.com |
RAD (the registered trademark of RAD Data Communications Ltd.) is a privately held corporation, headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel that designs and manufacturers specialized networking equipment.
RAD is a member of the $1.25 billion RAD Group of companies.
RAD was founded by brothers Yehuda and Zohar Zisapel in 1981 as a spin-off from Bynet, a networking hardware distribution company founded by Yehuda in 1973. Their goal was to develop their own products; the company was simply named RAD, for Research And Development.
RAD first successful product was a miniature (by 1980s standards) modem for telephone lines that did not require a separate power source. This novel concept quickly became a commercial success, and by 1985, RAD annual revenues reached $5.5 million. This initial product line evolved into RAD Data Communications, the largest company within the RAD Group.
In 2014, RAD opened a new $32 million advanced R&D center for developing NFV and SDN solutions in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba.
The company is active in industry standardization bodies such as the Broadband Forum, ETSI NFV ISG, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF).
On of the 46 copies of Rodin's The Thinker that were made from the original cast after the sculptor's death was acquired by Yehuda Zisapel and placed on permanent exhibit in the lobby of RAD's current Tel Aviv headquarters when the building was opened in 2000.
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