Kalman Saffran Associates , Inc. Information

Kalman Saffran Associates, Inc. (KSA), established in 1978, is a semi-custom/OEM product development and manufacturing firm specializing in the telecommunications, data communications and interactive/CATV industries. Our clients include Cisco Systems, 3COM, Lucent, AT&T, Nortel, General Instrument, Scientific-Atlanta, as well as PictureTel, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, GTE and other leaders in their fields. We are a very fast, very high-quality, relatively inexpensive resource for delivering new products and services to the marketplace. Fast, high-quality, cost-effective -- in this intensely competitive business climate, these three crucial components of the time-to-market formula often make the difference between success and failure in the marketplace. We can be viewed as a SONET/ATM/MPEG-2 standard product company which will customize its offerings to meet your requirements. We have been architecting, designing and manufacturing SONET, ATM and MPEG-2 electronics and software products for leading companies since each of those standards was approved. We know the standards, the technologies, the components and the state of the art extremely well. We have technology "building blocks" which can be leveraged to your advantage ( SONET framers, line interfaces, diagnostics, MPEG-2 and ATM reference designs, PCI interfaces, etc.). Of course, products must be built to your specification as to form factor, proprietary management interfaces, etc. These technology building blocks enable us to produce this category of product in significantly less time and for significantly less money than the schedule and budget usually associated with new product development. KSA has consistently produced products at the leading edge of the technologies in which we are involved. For example, we helped one client, a world leader in telecommunications, to define and implement products for optical voice, video and data transmission which have come to dominate the world market. These first-in-the-world products gained our customer hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues and assured their continuing market leadership. Similarly, in software, we assisted another client, a leader in the medical electronics field, in bringing the earliest, most advanced 3 million line of code object-oriented, client/server clinical information system to market. We developed custom tools, objects and other building blocks when none existed. Being first to market with a functional, performing product put that customer far ahead of its competition and guaranteed the "lion's share" of the market for years to come. Although many of the systems, subsystems and components we have designed and built were "first-ever" (e.g. first MPEG-2 product in the world, subsystems of the first ATM product in the world and AT&T's first SONET product), we have never failed technically on any of the more than 3000 projects we have completed, nor have we ever had to refuse work due to a lack of technical competency in a given area. We guarantee on-schedule, on-budget, thoroughly satisfactory results in all cases, no if's, and's or but's. KSA's proven methodology for rapid product development guarantees your success. If you contract with us, you will have working product in less than a year (nine months is typical, although we have done extremely sophisticated products in less time) in the quantities you require. We will train your engineers in the technologies involved if you so desire. While we prefer to do the manufacturing, we will map the design and manufacturing processes precisely to your own for ease of transition, should you prefer to do the manufacturing. We will integrate the product into your systems should you so desire. We will provide clear documentation for supporting the product in the field as well as provide the transition field support if you so desire. We will be pleased to assist your product development efforts.