Westell Technologies Inc. - Communications Equipment

(630) 898-2500
750 N. Commons Drive
Aurora, Illinois 60504
www.westell.com

Business Description

The Company is comprised of two segments: equipment sales and teleconference services. In the equipment segment, the Company designs, manufactures, markets and services a broad range of digital and legacy analog products used by telephone companies and other telecommunications service providers to deliver broadband services over both existing copper telephone wires and fiber that connect end users to a telephone company's central office. The central office is a telephone company building where subscriber lines are joined to switching equipment that can connect subscribers to each other. The copper wires and fiber that connect users to these central offices are part of the telephone companies' networks and are commonly referred to as the local loop or the local access network.

The equipment manufacturing segment consists of two product lines: Customer Networking Equipment (CNE) products and Network Service Access (NSA) products. The CNE product line includes broadband and digital subscriber line (DSL) technology products that allow the transport of high-speed data over the local loop and enable telecommunications companies to provide broadband services over existing copper infrastructure and fiber. The Company’s NSA product line consists of manageable and non-manageable T1 transmission equipment, associated mountings and special service plugs for the legacy copper telephone network.