Custom
Electronics for the Carriers, Networks, and Infrastructure That Connect the
World
From NEBS Level 3 access hardware and O-RAN radio units to CBRS CBSD electronics and GSMA eSIM platforms — Ankh Innovations engineers custom telecom hardware from schematic to PTCRB-certified, carrier-qualified product.
The Stakes in Telecom Infrastructure
Five-Nines Availability Means 5.26 Minutes of Downtime Per Year. Your Hardware Is on the Critical Path.
Telecommunications infrastructure hardware operates at a level of reliability expectation that would be considered absurd in any other electronics context. Five nines — 99.999% availability — translates to 5.26 minutes of unplanned downtime per year, across hardware that may be deployed in outdoor cabinets, rooftop enclosures, underground central office environments, and orbital LEO satellite platforms simultaneously.
The barrier to entry is real: NEBS Level 3 qualification requires GR-63-CORE seismic, thermal, and altitude testing plus GR-1089-CORE EMC — a six-to-twelve month process with significant capital and engineering investment. PTCRB and 3GPP RF conformance, CBRS SAS interface certification, and carrier lab acceptance testing add additional gates that consumer-grade hardware companies simply cannot navigate.
Ankh Innovations has invested in RF infrastructure, NEBS test coordination, and carrier qualification engineering specifically to serve companies building telecommunications hardware. We know how to structure a hardware program that will pass NEBS the first time, not the third.
From O-RAN Radio Units to Satellite Ground Hardware
O-RAN & Private 5G Radio Hardware
NEBS-Qualified Access & Edge Hardware
eSIM & Remote SIM Provisioning Hardware
Satellite Ground & LEO Terminal Electronics
Network Timing & Synchronization Hardware
Tower Site & RAN Backhaul Electronics
IoT Connectivity & Device Management Platforms
Optical & Fixed-Line Access Hardware
Full RF front-end design — PA selection and load-pull optimization, LNA noise figure and IP3 trade-offs, duplexer and filter mask compliance, controlled-impedance PCB layout, and RF characterization from 400 MHz to 86 GHz using on-site VNA and spectrum analyzer infrastructure.
Why Engineering Teams Choose Ankh
We Design the RF Front-End, Not the Module Carrier Board.
Most embedded design shops integrate an off-the-shelf cellular module and call it RF work. Our RF team designs the PA topology, optimizes the filter mask for your specific carrier band plan, and tunes the antenna matching network on a real VNA — not a simulation. When your radio needs to hit 3GPP TS 38.521 transmitter EVM at the edge of temperature range, we know exactly where the margin went and how to recover it before the conformance test campaign starts.
NEBS Level 3 Is a Design Discipline, Not a Test Campaign.
Hardware that fails GR-63-CORE seismic testing at the lab doesn't just fail the test — it fails because the chassis was designed without NEBS zone map constraints in mind. We structure NEBS into the product architecture from day one: component anchoring rules, card guide clearances, airflow topology for thermal zone compliance, and GR-1089-CORE surge suppression networks that are part of the schematic, not the rework pile. Products that go to NEBS test from our team pass on the first campaign.
We Know How Tier 1 Carrier Procurement Labs Work. We've Sent Hardware Through Them.
Carrier lab acceptance testing is not a spec sheet — it is a live integration event with the carrier's OSS/BSS team, network operations engineers, and RF planning team all watching your hardware perform on their infrastructure. Ankh engineers have been in those labs. We structure hardware programs around carrier qualification milestones, prepare the test plans, and make sure the hardware that arrives in the lab is the same hardware that will reach the field — not a special build assembled for the test.
Telecom Infrastructure Ships in Year One and Gets Managed for Twenty Years.
Carrier hardware programs span decades. The component you design with today may be EOL in three years, and a tower site controller installed in 2026 may still be in service in 2044. Ankh builds long-life electronics programs with multi-source component strategies, JEDEC-standard obsolescence monitoring, and design-for-replaceability so that when a silicon vendor sunsets a part, your engineering team has a validated replacement plan and not a hardware crisis.
CBRS Private 5G Radio Hardware for a Tier 1 Logistics Operator
A major North American logistics operator needed CBRS-certified indoor and outdoor radio hardware for private 5G coverage across 47 distribution centers. Ankh designed the CBSD radio electronics with FCC Part 96 SAS interface, O-RAN eCPRI fronthaul, and TR-369 USP management — achieving PTCRB certification in the first test campaign and deploying across all 47 sites within 11 months of silicon bring-up.
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