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November 5th, 2013

Advantech Wireless—Turnkey Solution Provided (SATCOM)


[SatNews] Advantech Wireless Inc. has successfully completed the deployment of a turnkey solution, including its high power SapphireBlu(tm) Series of UltraLinear(tm) GaN technology based SSPAs, for a major military customer in Latin America.

The solution included the deployment of the first Hub Earth station to access MEXSAT’s newest member of the fleet, MEXSAT-3 (Bicentenario), and the powerful, redundant combination of Advantech Wireless’s 500W C-band UltraLinear™ GaN based SSPAs integrated with one 9.3m antenna. The remote antennas and RF subsystems were also provided as part of this contract.

Cristi Damian, VP Business Development at Advantech Wireless, said, “This disruptive technology allows remarkably high levels of performance and also impressive savings in CAPEX and OPEX, including energy cost”.