The maker of Compact PCI and VME boards said design wins are up, due to its concentration on aerospace, defence and telecoms applications.
“Communications is going very nicely right now,” a spokesman at the firm told Electronics Weekly. This is led by the rollout of 2.5G and 3G services, he said.
“We have substantially increased sales this year in Europe and that’s driven by comms and some big contracts in Scandinavia.”
SBS derives around 30 per cent of its revenue from Europe. In the first nine months of the current financial year Europe grew sales by 81 per cent.
Technology is also pushing sales, said the firm: “The industry is now moving to the advanced TCA architecture.”
Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture is backed by over 100 firms and was developed by the PCI Industrial Computers Manufacturers Group. It is aimed at the next generation of carrier grade telecoms equipment. Its fundamental change to existing backplane systems is its use of a switch fabric.
Meanwhile, SBS has opened an office in Shenzhen, China. “It’s a huge market potentially for us and you need a local presence,” said the spokesman.
The firm expects rapid sales growth, from five per cent of its total today to 30 per cent in as little as three years.
