CITEL protects your equipment from lightning!

Company Goal: To protect all electronic and electric equipment from lightning strikes and electrical transients caused by lightning and switching transients and electromagnetic interferences.

Over the years, four large product families have been developed in the respect of the most severe standards, requested by our customers. CITEL products are recommended by some of the largest Insurance Companies (MAAF, MMA …), are used by major Telecom and Industrial companies, and respect international standards.

They constitute a complete range and ideal for protecting industrial sites, Telecom (i.e. Base Radio Station Equipment)

• Ceramic Gas Tube Components

This is CITEL’s base product (35% of sales). CITEL is # 2 in the worldwide market for gas tubes. The GDT is a small hi-tech component (less than 1 cm). It is the base element for protecting central telephones from transients.
For a number of reasons, CITEL products, using patents are homologated by most French and international groups

• Data Line and Telecom Surge Protection :

These subassemblies can be easily used by the installer and the home user
They are designed to protect PBX’s (Private Branch Exchange) and all the information and electronic equipment either connected to the phone system or to the Local Area Network (LAN).

In 1982, the private phone market offered society its first important opportunity of diversification. The demand, linked to the implementation of digital telecom centrals and terminals more and more fragile, is growing fast. This evolution requires the design of very effective protection systems adapted to all networks, actual and future.  

• AC Surge protection

The DS surge protection product line is designed to protect from transients that occur on AC power lines. They are designed to fit on standard DIN rail. The DS series protects as well private home as industrial equipments and radio base stations.

This market is a new and fast growing market for CITEL.  The worldwide market share should increase considerable in the years to come. CITEL is the sole manufacturer homologated at the main manufacturer of RBS thanks to innovative solutions of protections

CITEL has another range of surge protectors dedicated to single phase plugs protection. These products, named "Parasurges", are available in different formats, including phone plugs, multioutlet…

• Coaxial Surge Protection

To complete the range of surge protection, CITEL offers a diversified line of coaxial surge protection to protect coaxial feeds and antennas.

With the wide range of mobile equipments available (GSM, PCN, UMTS, BLR...), coaxial protectors are becoming more and more important and continue to evolve towards new technology such as Quarter Waves