Comtech Systems Awarded Huge Contract by Major Oil Company

Comtech Telecommunications (News - Alert) Corp., an organization that designs, develops, produces and markets products, systems and services for advanced communications solutions, recently announced that Comtech Systems (News - Alert), Inc., the company’s subsidiary, will provide troposcatter system and CS67200i modems to a major international oil company. Comtech will also provide training and installation support as part of the $2.3 million contract. 

Comtech claims that CS67200i system provides the superior troposcatter performance. The modem’s fully redundant, field proven design incorporates features such as Comtech’s Turbo Product Code Forward Error Correction [FEC], Automatic Code Rate, and Automatic Power Control to maximize link performance under all conditions.

The company’s troposcatter system delivers high-throughput capacity to enable mission-critical surveillance, situational awareness and real-time data to remote, infrastructure-challenged locations. The solution allows direct transmission between sites, eliminates recurring costs, and reduces the complexity and delay in satellite communications currently used today. It also enhances communications capabilities with seamless compatibility and interoperability with legacy-fielded troposcatter systems used currently by the U.S. Military, including the AN/TRC-170.

"Once again, Comtech Systems was chosen due to our extensive experience and proven design capability in fielding high capacity troposcatter products and systems, as well as our proven tropo modem performance," said Fred Kornberg (News - Alert), president and chief executive officer of Comtech Telecommunications Corp.

In related news, Comtech Telecommunications Corp. recently announced that its Santa Clara, California-based subsidiary, Comtech Xicom (News - Alert) Technology, Inc., has received an order from an existing customer valued at $5.3 million for state-of-the-art 500W Ka-band high-power amplifiers to be used in the High Throughput Satellite (HTS) market.

These 500W amplifiers will be located at multiple gateways to enable high-capacity consumer broadband applications. HTS satellites provide significantly more total throughput compared to a classical spacecraft, thus significantly reducing cost-per-bit. This is accomplished by re-using spectrum across geographical areas with spot beams and operating at Ka-band where greater amounts of spectrum are available.