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Spirent Communications PLC

Test, Assure, Automate - Spirent

Spirent is the leading global provider of automated testing and assurance solutions for networks, security and positioning. We help you deliver on the promise of 5G, SD-WAN and the Cloud

CRN
00470893
Founded
1949
Age
76

Overview

Legal name
SPIRENT COMMUNICATIONS PLC
Region
South East England
Registered address
ORIGIN ONE
108 HIGH STREET
CRAWLEY
ENGLAND
RH10 1BD
Insolvency history
No

Corporate ownership

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Spirent Communications PLC
CRN 00470893
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CRN 001-36334

Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

5 events
11 Nov
2026

Confirmation statement due

Confirmation Due

Next confirmation statement due date

30 Jun
2026

Accounts due

Accounts Due

Next accounts due date

28 Oct
2025

Confirmation statement filed

Confirmation

Last confirmation statement made up date

31 Dec
2024

Accounts filed

Accounts

Last accounts made up date

16 Jul
1949

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Public funding

6 awards
First funded
2012
Funded years
2012, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021
Age at first award
62 years

Projects

2021 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Last Mile Delivery of non-GNSS resilient time, frequency and synchronisation (TFS)

1 Oct 2021 to 30 Apr 2022

Awarded
£35,069
Total cost £70,138

GNSS use is deeply embedded in our society, often used to obtain precise timing or positioning data for the operation of key elements of our critical national infrastructures. Our dependency on it cannot be under-estimated. The Last Mile Delivery of non-GNSS resilient time, frequency and synchronisation (TFS) project acknowledges the vulnerabilities of th...

2020 Feasibility Studies Lead participant

PNT Cyber Attack Resilience, a Lab2Live Observer Based Approach

1 Jan 2020 to 31 Mar 2020

Awarded
£39,383
Total cost £78,766

The challenge the UK faces is how to deliver, rapidly and competitively, the economical, societal, and environmental benefits that Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) have to offer. Through Zenzic, Government and industry have committed to develop a coordinated national platform of CAV testing infrastructure. These facilities are at the heart of testing, ...

2018 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

ELWAG-Enhanced Assured Location Simulator Leveraging WiFi and GNSS Sensor Fusion

1 Apr 2018 to 30 Sep 2019

Awarded
£227,182
Total cost £454,364

The need for smart devices to have a highly accurate self-awareness of their own location, and the location of other smart devices around is becoming increasingly important. Many devices rely on a singular location technology (typically GPS), which is one type of the wider eco system of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). These systems, whilst bec...

2017 Collaborative R&D

GAUSS - GNSS Assurance Using Synthetic Signals

1 Jul 2017 to 31 Dec 2019

Awarded
£81,194
Total cost £162,388

Broadcasters, telecoms, banks and many other industries rely on time, precise to billionths of a second, to synchronise their digital signals. This timing comes from GPS receivers like those that locate our satnavs and smart-phones. But the signals they pick up from the GPS satellites are exceptionally weak. They are occasionally disrupted by solar storms...

2016 Knowledge Transfer Partnership

University of Bath and Spirent Communications plc

1 Jan 2016 to 31 Dec 2017

Awarded
Unknown

To improve Global Navigation Satellite System simulator capabilities to underpin future capability in robust position, navigation and timing. To develop improved GPS receiver robustness testing for scintillation effects, atmospheric delays etc

2012 Fast Track

Security Threats and Vulnerabilities of GNSS - Analysis Specification & Test Services

1 May 2012 to 31 Jan 2013

Awarded
£22,000
Total cost £50,202

Security vulnerabilities and threats to services based on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are increasing concerns as their use for positioning navigation and timing (PNT) becomes ever more widespread and dependencies grow. The proposed work analyses specific operational needs in order to deduce and document Threats and Vulnerabilities (T&V) app...

Product types

Collaborative R&D Fast Track Feasibility Studies Knowledge Transfer Partnership