Powerwave Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: PWAV) is the latest company to join the WNCG Industrial Affiliates Program. Headquartered in Santa Anna, California, Powerwave is a world leader in the design and manufacture of wireless communications equipment. Founded in 1985 as Milcom International, the company has grown organically and through global acquisitions, and now has over 2,200 employees worldwide. Powerwave is well known to carriers and large wireless infrastructure manufacturers as a pioneering developer of frequency management products, remote radio heads, adaptive RF filters, power amplifiers, emergency equipment, and shelters for the global cellular telephone and military markets. In the past few years, Powerwave has introduced cutting edge products such as electrical and mechanical steered phased arrays for multiple bands, frequency-agile RF filters, and stealth antenna and shelter systems that are being embraced by 3G and 4G wireless carriers and government customers throughout the world.

Powerwave’s suite of products is widely used throughout the cellular industry, as they allow carriers to optimize for spectrum efficiency and coverage while also supporting the offload of 3G and 4G traffic from congested cellular spectrum to unlicensed WiFi networks. Powerwave has recently introduced the Netway Vision network manager that allows wireless carriers or public or private radio systems to remotely manage and optimize their wireless networks using network-aware hardware. In recent years, Powerwave has built its engineering team to include expertise in Digital Signal Processing and RF microwave circuit design, and they incorporate cutting edge custom designs in most of their products.