Communications Networks

COMMUNICATION NETWORKS MANUFACTURING

With decades experience with a broad range of communication networks products, Sanmina provides you with integrated design, technology and global supply chain solutions.

We offer:

Technology, design and manufacture of high speed optical and RF transceivers, PCBs, backplanes and enclosures.
A unique combination of engineering, technology and manufacturing experience that makes us a trusted and valuable supply chain partner.

Product Expertise

For decades, Sanmina has been collaborating with the world’s leading communications Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to design, manufacture, deliver and repair broadband routers, switches, wireless, wireline and advanced optical network infrastructure equipment.

Sanmina integrates its high-technology components into these products, which include high speed optical and RF transceivers, PCBs, backplanes and enclosures. Our combined experience with communications system components, systems and test engineering help optimize time to market, while maximizing performance, cost and system reliability.

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Leading communications OEMs trust Sanmina to manufacture, test and repair complex 4G and 5G infrastructure equipment.

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Sanmina develops custom RF and optical transceivers, modulators and subsystems for a broad range of communications products – but you own the IP.

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Sanmina specializes in building high technology, complex PCBAs and Line Cards in state of the art facilities around the world.

Personal communications equipment used by first responders, medical personnel and police organizations is manufactured by Sanmina.

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Sanmina simplifies supply chains and accelerates time to market for backhaul systems by providing integrated manufacturing solutions for complete systems, PCBAs, PCBs, cables, backplanes and enclosures.

Sanmina specializes in building, testing and repairing highly complex RF products, such as base station radios.

Sanmina Technology

Sanmina’s component technologies improve equipment performance and reduce costs for communications and network equipment customers. We offer a complete and integrated set of technologies for high-performance communications products including optical and RF transceivers, PCBs, backplanes and enclosures. We have in-house labs for materials analysis and signal integrity to qualify the latest high-speed laminates for PCBs and backplanes, as well as thermal and RF emissions labs for enclosures. Our design centers are located close to our customers, with best-cost manufacturing in all major regions worldwide.

OPTICAL, RF & MICRO-ELECTRONICS

Sanmina’s Optical, RF and Micro-electronics Division designs, industrializes and manufactures leading edge optical and RF devices using the latest in microelectronic assembly equipment optimized by our process engineers for your product.

Customers can choose from a wide range of service offerings. This flexibility enables our customers to engage in the design and industrialization processes as much as or as little as they want while maintaining the product IP. All design services are performed with manufacturability and a robust supply chain in mind.

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Printed Circuit Boards

PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS

We partner with customers to develop custom, high-speed PCBs that deliver the highest performance in the industry using the latest technologies and materials, qualified in-house by Sanmina. High End capabilities include:

• Blind/Buried/Stacked via escape structures
• Multiple sequential lamination using hybrid material sets
• Embedded Passives
• Coin-in-Cavity Thermal Solutions
• Multiple depth back drilling

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ENCLOSURES

Customers benefit from Sanmina’s complete mechanical, thermal, and RF emissions expertise for enclosure design, prototyping and production.

We offer design, DFX, prototype and volume production services for frames, racks and enclosures with hard and soft tooling, paint and powder coating.

We also have extensive experience with fan tray, cooling and power system design.

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Services

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NPI

Sanmina realizes the critical importance that NPI plays in optimizing a new product’s time to market. When we help customers launch complex products, we can provide substantial engineering, technology and manufacturing expertise to achieve that customer’s vision. At Sanmina, we have extensive experience with design, quickturn prototyping, product verification, volume production and logistics.

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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Supply chain management has crossed over from being a narrow management function to being a key differentiating function. Success now hinges on a different set of criteria, where each company is racing to get the right product to the right place at the right time and at the right cost. Our goal is to align customer objectives with the best supply chain strategy in the Electronics Manufacturing Services industry.

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FULFILLMENT AND REPAIR

Sanmina Global Services integrates logistics with repair services and robust supply chain management. This integration provides our customers with a complete solution: assembly, configuration, distribution, after-market services and end-of-life management of products, at a lower cost and with fully integrated data and configuration management.

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Design and Engineering

Customers benefit from Sanmina’s decades of design experience for telecommunications components and subsystems including indoor and outdoor enclosures, PCBs, backplanes, cables, RF and optical components.

Our design capabilities are integrated; we can provide design or thermal, EMC and seismic analysis for an integrated backplane/enclosure subassembly.

We have in-house labs for materials analysis and signal integrity to qualify the latest high-speed laminates for PCBs and backplanes, as well as thermal and RF emissions labs for enclosures.

OPTICAL AND RF COMPONENTS

Sanmina designs and produces state-of-the-art optical and RF transceivers, modulators, amplifiers and other components. Our customers retain the design IP, while Sanmina develops modules and subsystems incorporating the latest microelectronic packaging and substrate technology. We offer customers complete services, including turnkey test system development for RF and optical systems.

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RF AND CIRCUIT DESIGN

Sanmina has design centers specializing in circuit and subsystem design for a broad range of communications products. Product expertise includes RF and radio design, low noise amplifier design for communications and satellite applications, high speed digital electronics and power circuits. Our combined experience with circuit design and high speed technologies such as RF, optical, PCB, cable and backplane technologies provides significant competitive advantage for our customers.

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PCBS AND BACKPLANES

We develop custom PCBs that deliver the highest performance in the industry using the latest technologies and materials, qualified in-house by Sanmina. Recent PCB innovations include:
• Via escape structures for fine pitch 3000+ pin BGAs
• Advanced laminate qualifications, supporting low attenuation at 25 Gbs
• Backplanes: Multiple materials and sequential laminations
• Layer counts to 50+, panel sizes to 60 inches, blind connectors, backdrilling

PCBs AND BACKPLANES

ENCLOSURES

Customers benefit from Sanmina’s complete mechanical, thermal, and RF emissions design expertise for communications enclosure design, prototyping and production. We offer design, DFX, prototype and volume production services for frames, racks and enclosures with hard and soft tooling, paint and powder coating. Once the design is approved, Sanmina manages the transfer of manufacturing in order to provide the best total landed cost. We also have extensive experience with fan tray, cooling and power system design.

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