Monoblock RF Filters Covering:

• Cellular Base Station Infrastructure

• Broadband Wireless

• Military

• Aerospace

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Covering all Major Protocols:

• AMPS/CDMA

• PCS

• GPS

• InMarSat

• WCDMA

• DCS

• EGSM

• TCAS

• GSM

• MMDS

• DAB

• WiMAX

• WiFi Networkswww.ctscorp.com

CTS Monoblock RF Filters

Cellular Base Station

CTS is the inventor of monoblock ceramic filter technology. We hold

over 70 patents covering all aspects of monoblock filter design and

manufacturing. Ceramic monoblock filters offer major advantages over

competing technologies such as coaxial resonator filters.

• Lower Price• Smaller Size• Higher Reliability (MTTF> 400 years) • Best-in-Class Performance

CTS has the large selection of high performance filters designed Cellular

base stations—covering all major protocols including, AMPS, DCS,

WCDMA, CDMA, GMS, EGSM, and TDSCDMA.

Our monoblock RF Filters are optimized for superior performance

depending on where (Rx or Tx) they are required.

• Macro Base Stations typically have 6 to 12 transceivers per base

station with each transceiver requiring 3 band pass filters. For these

filters, we optimize ripple and attenuation while maintaining good

insertion loss electrical performance.

• Micro and Pico Base Stations typically have one transceiver per base

station with one band pass filter on each the Tx and Rx side. For TX

filtering, we offer filters with low insertion loss and for the Rx side

we offer filters with low ripple performance. Customers migrating

to a multi-transceiver architecture should reference our Actiplex™

product line.

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CTS monoblock filters can be optimized for specific applications,

opening the way for truly customizing product development. We have

been on the forefront of these developments from the very beginning;

providing the largest selection on monoblock filters in the industry.

Select a filter that closely matches your needs and contact us. We can

customize that filter to your specific performance requirements and have

samples delivered within 4 weeks.

Current R&D projects are focusing on high power, high performance

monoblock filter designs, which are capable of displacing air cavity filters

in many applications.

Broadband Wireless Monoblock RF Filters

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CTS has the largest selection of monoblock RF filters for broadband

wireless on the market today. With over 65 standard filters to choose

from, we offer the best selection of size, frequency and performance,

including frequencies as high as 5.8 GHz.

• Broadband Wireless Markets:

- WiMAX

- WiFi Mesh Networks

• Extended Frequency up to 6 GHz:

- WiMAX › U.S. - 2.5 GHz › Europe - 3.5 GHz › S. Korea - 2.3 GHz (rest of Asia uses a mixture of the 3) › Currently designed into CPE’s, PC cards and base stations

- WiFi Mesh Networks: › 2.45 GHz › 5.8 GHz

• Unique filter design allows for a single footprint across all three

WiMAX frequencies, enabling board reuse

• Currently designed into both indoor and outdoor units

Actiplex™ Monoblock RF Filters

ActiPlex™ — A “disruptive” filtering technology that can enable designs

of single board, multi-band micro cell base station or multi-band remote

radio head architectures.

• ActiPlex™ is a system enabler for designers through the use of a

family of duplexers and filters that gives superior performance

combined with premium space saving, enabling smaller base station

platforms.

• Filter Characteristics:

- Average Power Rating of 10 W to 20 W - 7.5 to 1 Peak-to-Average power ratio

- Board Mounted design enabling significant size reduction & alternate design strategy

- Flexible choice of BPF and Duplexers to meet different filter response

• The main application of the Actiplex™ product line is to provide

front-end filters for base station with power ratings between 10 W

and 30 W with up to 200 W peaks—an economical alternative to

standard air cavity filters.

CTS Sales Products are supported by well qualified Manufacturing Representatives and Authorized Stocking Distributors. You may locate your representative or preferred distributor at www.ctscorp.com. Your CTS Sales Contact is:

TCAS and InMarSat Monoblock FiltersCTS has a large selection of high performance filters designed

specifically for TCAS and InMarSat.

TCAS is an aircraft collision avoidance system designed to reduce the

incidence of mid-air collisions. TCAS transponders operate at 1030 MHz

and 1090 MHz.

InMarSat is a publicly owned company that owns and operates a con-

stellation of satellites that provide mobile communications to maritime,

aeronautical and land-based customers. Operating frequencies are

1525 MHz – 1559 MHz and 1626.5 MHz – 1660.5 MHz.

• Primary performance drivers: - Power - support applications up to 1,000 watts - Low insertion loss

- Improved filter symmetry resulting in superior signal to noise performance

• Monoblock construction advantages: - Better reliability (MTTF > 400 years) - Ease in handling and assembly

Monoblock R-F Filter

Low Ripple Filters for Repeaters

CTS offers over 15 standard duplexers and 50 standard band pass filters

with industry leading low ripple performance.

Repeaters cascade filters and amplifiers in order to boost the RF signal.

Most repeaters cascade filters in series with an amplifier in between

them to achieve the rejection that is required. Points to consider:

• Ripple and rejection are additive when filters are in series

• Too little rejection will cause signal distortion

• Too much ripple will reduce the distance a repeater will transmit due to introducing more loss into the system

CTS Low Ripple Filters offer superior electrical performance:

• Low Ripple – as low as 0.3 db over the entire passband resulting in reduced distortion and dropped calls due to amplified signal from cascade.

• High Rejection – as high as 50 db reduces the affect of amplified attenuation caused by cascading filters and amplifiers

• “Best in Class” ripple-to-rejection performance ratios

• Frequency ranges from 800 MHz to 5.6 GHz

• Monoblock Construction - better reliability (MTTF > 400 years), ease in handling and assembly

Visit our comprehensive filter selection guide on our website:

http://www.ctscorp.com/components/ceramic_filters.asp for bandpass filters http://www.ctscorp.com/components/ceramic_duplex.asp for duplexers

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