[SatNews] Communications & Power Industries, Inc. (CPI), (Nasdaq: CPII) is working with Russia, having received an order for C-band satellite communications amplifiers. The amplifiers support the switch from analog terrestrial television to digital terrestrial television (DTT) in Russia. The value of the order is in excess of $1 million. Russia began shutting down analog television transmitters earlier this year and expects to complete the switch to DTT in 2015.

Work on the order will be completed by CPI's Satcom Division in Georgetown, Ontario, and its Microwave Power Products Division in Palo Alto, California. Delivery of the outdoor amplifiers is expected to be completed by the end of calendar 2010. CPI is a leading provider of microwave, radio frequency, power and control solutions for critical defense, communications, medical, scientific and other applications.