CAGE Codes:
Operating Segments: Instruments, Communications
HQ: Beaverton, Oregon
Parent Company: Danaher Corporation
About Tektronix Inc.
Tektronix was originally founded in 1945 under the name Tekrad Inc. The company name was then changed in 1946 to Tektronix Inc. In their earlier years, Tektronix specialized in manufacturing and distributing oscilloscopes. The company had been in business for over 50 years until November 21, 2007, when they were acquired by Danaher Corporation, who remains the parent company to this day. The communications division of Tektronix was transformed by Danaher into Tektronix Communications in 2016, in an effort to shift business strategy. Currently, Tektronix is a supplier of test products, measurement products,
monitoring products, and communication services for the computer and semiconductor industries. They also provide services for the military, consumer electronics, education, and other industries worldwide.
Products, Services, and Platforms
Tektronix is organized around two business segments: the instruments business and the communications business. The instruments business includes general purpose test and measurement products, monitoring products. Additionally, the instruments business encompasses products of the subsidiary Maxtek Components Corporation. This subsidiary manufactures
hybrid circuits for internal use and external sale. Alternatively, the communications business includes telecommunications network management solutions and services and network diagnostics products.
Instruments Business
The instruments business offers general purpose test products including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, signal sources, and spectrum analyzers. It also includes a variety of video testing, measurement, and monitoring products. Some of the oscilloscopes offered entail the 3 Series MDO Mixed Domain, the 4 Series MSO Mixed Signal, and the TBS1000. Logic analyzers are debug tools used by design engineers to capture, display, and analyze streams of digital data that occur simultaneously over many channels. Signal sources are stimulus products primarily used in the design and manufacturing of
electronic components, subassemblies, and end products in a wide variety of industries. Spectrum analyzers are used in the manufacturing of electronic components, subassemblies, and end products which utilize digital RF technology.
Maxtek Components Corporation
Maxtek Components Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tektronix, manufactures hybrid circuits for internal use, and external sale. Primarily to customers in the automated test equipment and medical equipment industries, as well as for military applications. Their products entail band switches, switched filter banks, mixers, upconverter blocks, downconverter blocks, frequency doubles,
frequency synthesizers, IF amplifiers, broadband amplifiers, and clock recovery modules.
Communications Business
Tektronix’s communications business offers network diagnostic equipment, network management solutions, and related support services for both fixed and mobile networks. This product line encompasses arbitrary function generators,
waveform generators, RF vector signal generators, and PTP/SDI reference clock solutions.
Subsidiaries/Partners
Tektronix’s product portfolio includes the products and services of multiple subsidiaries including
Keithley Instruments, Sonix, Picosecond Pulse Labs, General Computer Corporation, Sypris Test & Measurement, Initial State Technologies, Microwave Logic, Cyneta Networks, Veridae Systems, CAE Systems, Tektronix S.p.A., and many others.
Competitors
Tektronix’s top competitors are
Agilent Technologies, Acterna Corporation, Anritsu Corporation, Catapult Communications, LeCroy Corporation, Rohde & Schwarz, Yokogawa Electric Corporation, TEGAM, Trescal, PCSI, Dewetron, Leader, and several other smaller companies.
