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Comtech Receives $ 1 million in Orders for New High-Speed Trunking Modem
Comtech EF Data Corp, a subsidiary of Comtech Telecommunications and a manufacturer of a broad spectrum of satellite earth station communications products, has received $1.0 million in orders for its new CDM-750 Advanced High-Speed Trunking Modem.
Officials with Comtech said that the modems are being deployed by a leading operator of cellular telecommunications services in Southeast Asia to support high-speed GSM/IP trunking backhaul.
By using the CDM-750, this operator will enable links of approximately 90 Mbps in 15.5 MHz of bandwidth, which is spectrally equivalent to running at 64-QAM over satellite.
Company officials said that the CDM-750 Advanced High-Speed Trunking Modem simultaneously supports DVB-S2, Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM) and the DoubleTalk Carrier-in-Carrier bandwidth compression.
According to company officials, leveraging the DVB-S2 EN 302 307 LDPC/BCH standard, the CDM-750 provides a blend of coding and forward error correction (FEC) to ensure that the maximum amount of satellite traffic is transported for a given signal to noise capacity.
With its ACM support, it can respond to changing link conditions by automatically adjusting modulation and FEC rates and converting link margin into user capacity under all conditions.
Company officials said that the DoubleTalk Carrier-in-Carrier technology also allows the transmit and receive carriers of a full-duplex satellite link to be transmitted in the same transponder space.
When combined with advanced FEC and modulation techniques, DoubleTalk Carrier-in-Carrier can deliver unprecedented operating expense savings.
Earlier in April Comtech Telecommunications Corp. had announced that its Santa Clara, California-based subsidiary, Comtech Xicom (News – Alert) Technology, Inc. and Comtech EF Data Corp., have received satellite communications equipment orders totaling $12.1 million from a major government prime contractor.
Officials with Comtech said that the orders are for follow-on procurements of high-power tri-band amplifiers, high-power Ka-band amplifiers and satellite earth station modems for transportable USAF satellite terminals and will be utilized to expand an existing military network.
Company officials said that deployed throughout the world, these terminals offer users the flexibility of accessing both military and commercial satellites.
Satellite Optimization Helps Satellites Go Where WiMax Can't
Satellite technology is relevant in times of battle. And knowing how to optimize those satellites could mean the difference between defeat and victory.
What tangible benefits optimized satellite communications can provide in times of combat ?
Howard Teicher, one of Expand networks’ founders who is the company’s vice president of public sector and satellite markets, where he is responsible for Expand’s military, intelligence, civilian agency and satellite businesses siad: “First and foremost military operations require the ability to communicate in remote, hostile environments, where the infrastructure we take for granted in the developed world does not exist. Even in parts of the world where we’re seeing the wide-spread deployment of cellular or WiMax technologies, you still don’t find that capability in all of the areas where combat is taking place in the world today, particularly in southwest Asia or obviously… out at sea.”
“Satellite provides the only means to guarantee the delivery of data, the ability to communicate to war fighters in these remote areas where there is no line of sight, wireless infrastructure, towers, fiber, or copper.”
“Satellite has become ever more ubiquitous and more and more companies around the world are putting communications satellites into orbit. I expect we’ll see quite a surge in the next three to five years of satellite capacity.”
“Already, we’re seeing much of the capacity that is being put in orbit is pre-subscribed. Bandwith optimization will remain a high priority item for any user of satellite transport to get the most bang for the buck.”
Diverse Industrial Applications Drive the World Satellite Machine-to-Machine Communications Market
Worldwide, wireless, wireline, and satellite networks developed significantly in the last twenty years, setting the stage for machine-to-machine (M2M) applications and equipment to utilize these existing networks. Used for logistical tracking, telemetry, remote monitoring, geo fencing, security, and scientific monitoring, M2M communications provide benefits for industries ranging from agriculture to retail, driving the satellite M2M industry over the next five to seven years.
The world satellite M2M communications market is currently experiencing exponential growth, as companies seek to raise productivity while reducing costs. M2M hardware and equipment have continuously reduced in both size and cost in the last five years.
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, World Satellite Machine-to-Machine Communications Market, finds that the market earned revenues of $726 million in 2009 and estimates this to reach $1.90 billion in 2016. The United States dominates the world satellite M2M communications market, with 62 percent market share since its enterprises have the capital to implement M2M. The Asia-Pacific region is expected to experience maximum growth in terms of regional share in the long term.
If you are interested in more information on this study, please send an e-mail to Jake Wengroff, Corporate Communications, at jake.wengroff@frost.com, with your full name, company name, title, telephone number, company e-mail address, company website, city, state, and country.
Globally, there are over one billion personal computers, four billion wireless phones, and one billion wireline phones in service. There are only about one hundred million dedicated M2M devices in service, but reversing those numbers would be ideal for the long term. However, the escalating costs of bandwidth and equipment will restrain market growth in the short term. Satellite hardware and airtime are substantially more expensive than that of their terrestrial counterparts.
“The average revenue per user among cellular operators is in the range of $6 to $7 per month, whereas satellite companies are in the $24 per month range,” explains Longfield. “Additionally, hardware prices for satellite M2M equipment range from $74 to $3,200.”
As hardware sales grow, economies of scale will develop and contribute to reductions in unit prices for M2M equipment. As prices fall for M2M equipment, more opportunities will materialize in the vertical markets.