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More than faster internet: how design and manufacturing will change in the 5G world
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Flex offers comprehensive services to help enable the most advanced communications solutions for 5G network infrastructure, satellite, IP, and optical networks. We partner with OEMs to manufacture critical infrastructure like radio access network (RAN), multi-access edge compute (MEC), and the telco cloud as well as emerging technologies such as open RAN.
The 5G network transformation is making smart cities, next-generation automotive solutions, smart manufacturing, and connected healthcare innovations possible. Learn how you can utilize Flex’s design and manufacturing expertise to bring your 5G network infrastructure products to market.
We design and manufacture the products that enable fiber to the home, optical backbones, datacenter interconnect, metro ethernet, and IP networking.
Our design, manufacturing, and fulfillment capabilities serve an important role in the 5G network ecosystem and are helping to drive 5G market growth. See how our scale and global footprint can help your business grow.
We have joined the 5G Automotive Association, where automotive, technology, and telecommunications companies work together on end-to-end connectivity solutions for future mobility services.
We’re contributing to the O-RAN Alliance and helping the industry evolve to open, interoperable, and virtualized radio access networks.
We have an engineering-focused development of new telecommunications network infrastructure technologies as part of the Telecom Infra Project.
At Flex, we design and manufacture a range of products for OEMs serving mobile networks including outdoor radios, baseband servers, and cell-site routers. We utilize decades of design and advanced manufacturing expertise to bring your 5G and wireless infrastructure products to market at global scale.
Flex is your partner for new 5G network product development or modifications to an existing design.
Flex has the tools and processes to manage a resilient ecosystem of thousands of suppliers to ensure we deliver on time at the highest quality.
To ensure quality and repeatability, we offer the latest manufacturing capabilities for advanced products, including those requiring extra-large PCBs or BGAs.
Our teams conduct rigorous testing in dedicated labs throughout the product development process including validation of EMC and regulatory performance, leading to expeditious certification of new 5G infrastructure products.
We design and manufacture products that enable fiber to the home (FTTH), optical backbones, data center interconnect, metro ethernet, and IP networking. Whether you need data to move within local, metro, or wide area networks, Flex can help.
Flex offers volume production of optical transceivers to complement our traditional high-density SMT capability. And as silicon photonics replaces conventional TOSA/ROSA technologies, Flex has the capabilities to support your complex manufacturing needs.
Our diverse supply chain network, paired with our breadth of experience and expertise, keeps production on track.
Our manufacturing services include complex PCB assembly with large BGAs, intricate fiber routing and splicing, fine pitch, and hot bar soldering of optical components, die attach, wire bonding, and active optical alignment.
We focus on product longevity and waste reduction, enabling customers to further extend the life of their products at scale.
