Company Portrait

Quick SHF Facts

established
1983
in Berlin		 ~ 8
million Euro
annual revenue		 85
percent
international business		 ISO
9001:2015
certificated
~ 60
highly qualified
employees		 1
subsidiary
in JAPAN		 >35
years
RF experience		 Focus:
T&M Equipment
for high speed
data transmission
1st vendor of
40 Gbps BERTS (1998)
56 Gbps BERTS (2005)
120 Gbps BERTS (2017)		 generation of
256 Gbps
on a single serial line		 broadband
amplifiers
up to
67 GHz		 Customers:
Universities
R&D labs
Tier-1 network
equipment providers

 

Company Description

Since 1983 the SHF Communication Technologies AG develops, manufactures and sells components and measurement equipment for high speed optical communication.

Currently SHF employs 57 people at its headquarter in Berlin (Germany) and in its subsidiary in Tokyo (SHF Japan Corporation).

SHF’s components and instruments have a worldwide reputation in the telecommunication and network equipment industry. The products are mainly used in R&D centers to optimize the customer’s products or services in order to raise the data transmission capacity. Thus many well-known research facilities form the quality and speed demanding customer base of SHF.

The product portfolio of SHF meets the growing demand for ultra high speed optoelectronic equipment and components by offering:

SHF has a special know-how in high frequency electronics and is recognized as one of the worldwide leading suppliers of components and measurement instruments for this industry.
The development and production of bit pattern generators and error analyzers dates back to the year 1996. Since then, SHF has always been the first company introducing the next high speed category (e.g. 20 Gbps in 1996, 40 Gbps in 1998 and 60 Gbps in 2014).

SHF Management

Dr. Frank Hieronymi (CEO)
Dr. Lars Klapproth (COO)