Kavveri Telecom acquires Canadian RFI firm

High end telecom products manufacturer, Kavveri Telecom Products Ltd, has acquired Canada''s DCI Digital Communications, a Canadian company that specialises in Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) products which reduce interference problems in the 30 MHz to 6 GHz range.

The products designed and manufactured are VHF and UHF bandpass filters, low pass filters, Wi-Fi filters, multiple-window filters, combiners, broadband duplexers, tower-top amplifiers and CDMA repeaters.

Kavveri acquired DCI Communications for C$2 million, making it into a fully owned subsidiary. Uma Reddy will head the operations of the acquired company as its president, based in Canada.

"Acquisition of DCI will give Kavveri a full product portfolio of Antennas and RF products to cater to the wider customer base of both Til-Tek and DCI, thereby providing greater penetration of the North American markets. This will also add a significant number of products in GSM / CDMA and WiMAX markets to Kavveri''s portfolio" said Mr. Venkateswarlu, Company Secretary of the Company.

"The product line of DCI will be manufactured here for the Indian market as well as for the developed markets of North America where we already have a very good customer base. We have strengthened the marketing network both in North America and India to aggressively target emerging market" said Col T S Gururaj (Retd), general manager (business development, telecom).