company industry telecommunications founded 2000 headquarters cambridge uk products wireless backhaul and access networks website cbnl website cambridge broadband networks limited cbnl develops and manufactures point to multipoint pmp wireless backhaul and access solutions serving telecommunication customers in over 30 countries . pmp is a wireless technology which creates a radio link between a central location and multiple cell sites . the company is a privately held company backed by institutional investors amadeus capital partners 1 accel partners 2 tvm capital gmbh 3 adara venture partners 4 and samsung ventures europe . 5 contents 1 leadership 2 locations 3 products and services 4 history 5 small cells 6 external links 7 notes leadership edit jonathan mckay chairman lionel chmilewsky chief executive officer locations edit the company s headquarters are based in cambridge as part of the cambridge technology cluster silicon fen . cbnl also has offices in south africa nigeria and kenya . products and services edit the company s vectastar product uses its pmp topology to share wireless backhaul and access resource between several cell sites each generating voice and packet traffic . this technology means spectrum can be managed dynamically and efficiently and can reduce capital and operating costs . vectastar is used by telecoms network providers across the globe to build a variety of wireless backhaul and access networks . this includes new packet networks ; mobile broadband network upgrades ; ethernet enterprise networks and 2g 3g ip backhaul migration . vectastar delivers up to and over 300mbit s full duplex per sector and is deployable in 2g 3g 4g small cell and long term evolution lte backhaul networks . the company offers services including network planning and design ; network deployment ; network operation ; customer training ; 24 hour customer support and weee recycling . history edit the company was founded in 2000 by ten engineers from cambridge university who secured private equity funding to develop an innovative solution to the increased demand for mobile communications . soon after the company started the earliest variant of vectastar was launched and shipped to the first customers . over the following years cbnl identified new market opportunities and developed product variants to address those featuring new frequencies and a move into the backhaul space . the period of 2005 10 saw the company grow 864 per cent growth which ranked the company in the top 200 on the deloitte technology fast 500 emea 2010 a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in emea and reaching number 38 in the sunday times microsoft tech track 100 in 2011 . in november 2011 the company supplied microwave radio equipment to backhaul telef nica uk s o2 4g trial network in london uk . 6 small cells edit in april 2012 cbnl announced that it had been accepted as a member of the small cell forum 7 a not for profit membership organisation that seeks to enable and promote small cell technology worldwide . cbnl has since been appointed vice chair of small cell forum backhaul special interest group . as a member of next generation mobile networks ngmn alliance cbnl recently led a mixed group of both operators and vendors to generate consensus around the specific needs for small cell backhaul technology . results from this work were published in july 2012 in the ngmn alliance s white paper small cell backhaul requirements . 8 external links edit cambridge broadband networks limited corporate website notes edit amedeus capital website cbnl investment summary accel website investment companies listing page tvm website companies portfolio page adara website cbnl investor information samsung ventures europe website o2 press release o2 brings superfast 4g to london cbnl brings its backhaul expertise to the small cell forum ngmn outlines requirements for small cell backhaul retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cambridge broadband & oldid 718965535 categories private equity portfolio companiescompanies based in cambridgecompanies established in 2000telecommunications companies of the united kingdomhidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 6 may 2016 at 18 39 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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