Bird Technologies has acquired DeltaNode – A company based in Stockholm, Sweden, part of the SHL Group (Scandinavian Health Ltd.) for an undisclosed amount of cash. The transaction was completed on September 1. Founded in 2005 by a group of engineers with decades of wireless experience, DeltaNode has established a strong presence in Europe, the U.S., and Canada, as a supplier of RF-over-fiber distributed antenna systems and repeaters designed for enhancing coverage of commercial wireless and public safety communication systems.
The acquisition brings substantial benefits to Bird, as the technologies, product lines, and markets of each company seamlessly complement each other, making Bird one only a handful of companies in the world to offer a complete line of RF products and services from the component through system levels for both commercial wireless and public safety communications systems.
DeltaNode’s technology and products offer some significant advantages over competing systems, such as fanless remote transceivers even at the 50 Watt level (which is unique to DeltaNode), light, compact head-end and remote transceivers, the lowest system noise figure in the industry, and perhaps most important, enclosures that are compliant with the stringent IP65 (NEMA4) rating including the head-end. This is an essential requirement for public safety, defense, and other applications. In addition, DeltaNode’s repeater products cover all U.S. and international wireless bands and complement the frequency coverage of Bird’s products.
