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About Amphenol TCS

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Amphenol TCS (ATCS) is the leader in high-speed, high-density connection systems, designing and manufacturing the industry's leading high-speed, high-density connectors and backplane systems. Amphenol TCS solves system design challenges with integrated interconnect solutions for application in the networking, communications, storage, and computer server markets.

Amphenol TCS was founded in 1968 as a division of Teradyne, Inc. and acquired by Amphenol Corporation in December of 2005.  Amphenol Corp. is the world’s third largest connector company, producing electronic and fiber optic connectors, cable, and interconnect systems for applications converging technologies of voice, video and data communications, industrial/automotive and military/aerospace.

A History of Innovation
Amphenol has 70+ year history of innovation and a leadership position in all markets served. ATCS engineers in the field and in product development work closely with our customers to understand their technology needs now and in the future.

ATCS has a long history of technology advancements, including:

 
Invents ‘eye of the needle’ compliant pin and NAFI fork and blade
 
Pioneers industry’s first modular high-density connector (HD+®)
 
VHDM Backplane Connector Designs the VHDM® family of high-speed, high-density interconnect products. VHDM quickly becomes the de-facto industry standard with billions of pins installed worldwide
   
Amphenol's VHDM-HSD Backplane ConnectorLaunches the industry’s first commercially successfully connector optimized for high speed differential applications (VHDM-HSD™) at speeds greater than 5.0 Gb/s
   
 
Builds world’s largest backplane in volume (24" X 54" panel size, 30 layers, Nelco 6000, 46,972 plated through holes)
HD-Optyx Optical Connector Introduces industry’s first modular optical interconnect architecture – HD-Optyx
Amphenol's Ventura Connector Introduces Ventura™ – the market’s highest density (178 pins/inch) and fastest single-ended connector (6.25 Gb/s).
Amphenol's Crossbow Matrix Orthogonal Midplane ConnectorIntroduces Crossbow™ Matrix, the first differential connector optimized for orthogonal midplane configurations, and the fastest platform on the market today- enabling data rates up to 25 Gb/s.

Amphenol's XCede ConnectorAnnounces a breakthrough in interconnect performance with the introduction of its XCede™ connector platform. The XCede connector is designed to support 20+ Gbps requirements.

Global Connection – Local Support
Amphenol has a large global manufacturing and support network with broad supply chain relationships around the world. Amphenol TCS locates its manufacturing sites to provide the most value to our customers. Production manufacturing facilities are located in Mexico, Malaysia and China, and local sales and applications engineering support is available around the world.

Recent Industry Awards and Recognition

2008: XCede® named DesignVision Award winner in the Interconnect and Component Technology category from the International Engineering Consortium (IEC) for innovative products and services that support the work of electronic design engineers
2007: XCede® awarded Product of the Year by Electronic Products Magazine
2006: Crossbow DesignVision Award winner in the Interconnect and Component Technology category from the International Engineering Consortium (IEC) for innovative products and services that support the work of electronic design engineers
2004: Lucent Technologies’ “Golden Link Award” for the second consecutive year. TCS is honored for significant contributions in key areas including delivery, technology, value, quality and overall supplier relationship.
2004:

Ranked among the Best New Hampshire Companies to Work For by Business New Hampshire Magazine.

2003: Named Circuits Assembly magazine overall winner (medium-size category) of Service Excellence award for demonstrating outstanding performance in customer satisfaction
2003:

Lucent Technologies’ “Golden Link Award” for outstanding performance in critical customer satisfaction areas including quality, on-time delivery, technology, innovation and overall value

2002: Winner of Circuits Assembly magazine’s Service Excellence customer survey in the categories of responsiveness and quality
2002: GbX awarded Product of the Year by Electronics Products magazine
2002: GbX awarded finalist status in EP&P magazines’ Excellence in Electronic Packaging & Production awards


Products and Services

High-Speed, High-Density Connectors
Our broad range of connector products enable design engineers to achieve their performance targets. Whether the priority is a proven cost-optimized solution or the best performing connector on the market, Amphenol TCS is your source for reliable high-speed and high-density connectors.

High-Technology Printed Circuits
Amphenol TCS manufactures high-technology, high-reliability printed circuit boards in our North American plant and manages cost-effective global sourcing for high-volume PCB production. Our printed circuit capabilities are among the world's broadest and most advanced, including experience with a wide variety of materials to enable increasing signal speeds, deep microvias, buried, blind and backdrilled vias, sequential lamination, panel sizes from 18" x 24 " up to 24" x 54", layer counts to 60+ and board thicknesses up to .500". Amphenol's printed circuit fabrication facility is MIL-PRF-31032/1A, /2, MIL-P-55110 and ITAR certified.

Backplane System Solutions
Integrated backplane system solutions that meet increasing bandwidth needs by optimizing the entire signal transmission path and boosting channel performance. Amphenol TCS is the world’s most advanced backplane manufacturer with a wide range of press fit, surface mount and test capabilities.

Real World Solutions
As bandwidth demands increase, the challenge is to balance greater performance requirements with lower overall system costs. Our unique combination of in-depth system expertise and broad spectrum of high-performance interconnect products helps meet this challenge head on with real world solutions. Early in the design cycle, Amphenol TCS helps customers understand important design trade-offs.

 
 
 
   
   
   
     
   
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