[SatNews] Antenna Technology Communications Inc. (ATCi) announced from the SCTE Cable Tec Expo taking place in New Orleans, LA, that a major U.S. cable operator has adopted the Simulsat-5b easy retrofit system for its headends.

Simulsat-5b is ATCi's newest entry in the Simulsat line of multibeam satellite-receiving antenna systems. The system was specifically designed to economically/quickly improve upon the longstanding worldwide workhorse of multibeam antennas, the original Simulsat-5. Simulsat-5b was designed from the ground up using the latest computer simulation and solid modeling technologies. Its tool surface accuracy is laser-verified to be within +/-0.005 RMS. Production of this state of the art system incorporates the latest advances in fiberglass resin and balsa core materials and uses vacuum infusion molding technology to result in the truest ever reproduction of the legacy antenna design, while yielding the lowest ever levels of noise relative to gain in a Simulsat antenna.