an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . april 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message telit communications type public industry internet of things iot and machine to machine communications founded trieste italy 1986 headquarters headquarters london uk regional headquarters emea trieste italy north america raleigh north carolina us latin america sao paulo brazil apac seoul korea italy key people oozi cats ceo yosi fait deputy ceo yossi moscovitz president revenue 294.0 m in 2014 156.3 m in h1 2015 products telecommunications number of employees 885 as of october 2015 website www.telit.com telit communications plc is a global provider of wireless machine to machine m2m technology and value added services including connectivity cloud and paas application enablement services 1 headquartered in london uk . 2 the company is listed on the aim aim tcm . in addition to m2mair the company operates two other business units . telit automotive solutions delivering automotive grade products and associated services as a supplier to tier one automotive oem manufacturers . telit gnss solutions addresses the market of global positioning receivers and associated technology . contents 1 telit wireless solutions 2 history 3 research and development r & d 4 references telit wireless solutions edit telit wireless solutions tws is a subsidiary of telit communications plc. telit is a fast growing wireless m2m company addressing a worldwide market that amounts to 14 billion already today . 3 in terms of sales telit is ranked as the third largest m2m module supplier worldwide by market research firm berg insight . since 2005 the company has achieved steadily increasing sales . telit wireless solutions headquarters are located in london with regional headquarters in emea trieste italy north america raleigh north carolina latin america s o paulo brazil and apac seoul korea . the company has a wide network of sales offices located in australia brazil china denmark germany france india israel italy korea russia spain the republic of south africa taiwan turkey the uk and the us . telit introduced the ball grid array bga module the family and unified form factor concepts and the smallest gps receiver module . the company offers an extensive portfolio of cellular short range and global navigation satellite system gnss modules . its products are available in over 80 countries from 35 sales offices . history edit in 1986 the company started as telital and telital automotive an engineering company providing research and development services to multinational telecoms . in 1997 the company began manufacturing and marketing products under the telit brand . telit launched its first m2m module called datablock in 1998 . from 1997 on millions of cellular handsets and other mobile communications devices including the first globalstar satellite phone were to users and operators worldwide . in 2006 with the acquisition of bellwave the apac asia and pacific telit s regional headquarters was opened in seoul . at the same time offices in north america were also opened in north carolina creating telit north america . also in 2006 telit premiered its telit2market magazine an annual publication covering trends opinions and market reports on m2m along with the case studies and technology updates . in 2008 telit continued its global expansion with new regional operations establishing sales offices and manufacturing in s o paulo brazil ; sales offices in johannesburg south africa and ankara turkey . in 2009 telit acquired france based one rf focused on development of 802.15.4 zigbee and proprietary low power mesh network modules . the deal included a full portfolio of ipr covering short range protocol stacks . telit also launched infinita services conceived to simplify m2m solution deployment and maintenance of device software . launches a new short range product family and the market s smallest gsm gprs module the ge865 quad . in march 2011 telit acquired motorola solutions m2m modules business unit . the acquisition brought telit s consolidated pro forma revenues to approximately 180 million for the year ended 31 december 2010 . this was equivalent to a pro forma market share of approximately 20 % based on report by beecham research . 4 in january 2012 telit acquired navman wireless oem solutions providers of jupiter brand gps modules for 3 million in cash . the acquisition gave telit a dedicated gnns research and development unit and access to customers outside the m2m module industry . 5 in july 2012 telit formed a new business unit m2mair 6 to offer m2m managed and value added services including connectivity . m2mair offers module and subscription lifecycle management via a software as a service saas platform and global wireless coverage in partnership with telef nica . the service was initially available in europe with roll outs scheduled in the u.s. apac and latin america later in 2013 . 7 later in 2012 telit launched the jupiter sl869 multi constellation gnss receiver supporting gps glonass galileo and qzss ; quickly followed by the 3d sip based se880 the market s smallest and most sensitive full featured gps receiver . in 2013 telit acquired of crossbridge solutions expanding m2mair into north america . 8 telit wireless solutions inc. a fully owned subsidiary of telit communications plc entered on september 4 2013 into an agreement to purchase us based boca raton fl ils technology llc a leading provider of a ready to use off the shelf cloud platform to connect enterprise it systems to m2m connected devices and machines for business critical use . telit wireless solutions srl a fully owned subsidiary of telit communications plc entered on december 22 2013 into an agreement subject to closing with nxp b.v. a fully owned subsidiary of nxp semiconductors n.v. nasdaq nxpi to purchase nxp s atop business . the board is pleased to announce that closing conditions for completion of the acquisition have been fulfilled and closing is expected to occur on march 31 2014 . 9 today telit develops manufactures and markets a wide range of enterprise communication modules including all relevant wireless technologies for m2m applications enabling machines devices and vehicles to communicate via mobile networks . telit owns protocol stacks for most of its technologies of cellular and short range wireless modules . its m2m module portfolio include products in gsm gprs edge umts ev do hspa lte and cdma products as well as short range modules in wi fi zigbee short range rf proprietary mesh and point to point networks for unlicensed frequency bands wireless mbus and gps glonass machine to machine modules . its xe910 family of wireless modules features a single form factor that is interchangeable on regional cellular networks . telit remains the only company to publish an m2m trade magazine telit2market . released regularly once a year it is a reference for current developments and new technological advancements in the m2m market . research and development r & d edit telit operates eight r & d centers around the globe that are located in trieste italy sardinia italy caen france leuven belgium seoul south korea tel aviv israel boca raton florida usa chicago illinois usa and foothill ranch california usa . the r & d facility in trieste is the company s main engineering design & development facility and headquarters for the global r & d function . trieste focuses its brain trust in the advancement of gsm gprs edge and gps technologies . telit s sardinia r & d center is the primary competence center for other wireless technologies and special projects . this facility investigates short range wireless satellite and other emerging technologies . the center distributed between two r & d facilities of telit acquired nxp atop caen france and leuven belgium houses 30 engineers dedicated to the research and development effort for the company s automotive solutions business unit . telit s apac r & d center in seoul is the main development site for the company s cdma wcdma and umts projects . it is also telit s center of competence for automotive specific products and rugged design technologies . the team in tel aviv supports the other r & d centers worldwide in the cellular sector . the boca raton r & d center is the world headquarter site for ils technology acquired in september 2013 and houses engineering and r & d in charge of advancing cloud technology and the company s application enablement platform aep . the lincolnshire r & d center is located in the chicago area u.s.a. this r & d team is responsible for m2mair north america product development including constant improvement to one of the region s most modern network operations centers noc dedicated to m2m . telit s foothill ranch r & d center near los angeles is focused on gps qzss galileo compass and related location based projects . the company also hosts a technical forum an online knowledge database for the entire m2m community to which all of its r & d resources contribute . references edit dead link http www.telit.com cn discover telit media center press releases.php p id 283 & p anz show & n id 223 dead link http www.telit.com en about company about us.php m2m . www.idate.org . retrieved 2016 07 13 . enabling iot is what we do telit . www.telit.com . retrieved 2016 07 13 . directions magazine telit wireless solutions to acquire navman wireless oem solutions dec. 21 2011 http www.telit.com telit pulsar en us.cms.display .705 . m2mair connected world new services add value to m2m july 13 2012 telit communications to buy crossbridge solutions rtt news 1 2 2013 telit acquires nxp s automotive telematics onboard unit platform for 9m retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title telit & oldid 740143135 categories mobile phone 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