RAD Data Communications Ltd. is a privately held corporation, headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel that designs and manufacturers specialized networking equipment.

[1] In 2014, RAD opened a new $32 million advanced R&D center for developing NFV and SDN solutions[buzzword] in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba.

[3] One of the 46 copies of Rodin's The Thinker that were made from the original cast after the sculptor's death was acquired by Yehuda Zisapel and placed on permanent exhibit in the lobby of RAD's current Tel Aviv headquarters when the building was opened in 2000.

[8] In 2015 RAD also launched a virtual customer premises equipment (vCPE) device for IP and Carrier Ethernet services with a field pluggable module for hosting virtual network functions (VNFs)[9] and in 2016 it added a white box option that is license-upgradable for network functions such as routing, service demarcation and performance monitoring.

[12] The company's installed base now exceeds 15,000,000 units[13] and includes more than 150 telecommunications carriers and service providers, in addition to a large number of public transportation systems, power utilities, governments, homeland security agencies, and educational institutions.