Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq:CMTL) has announced that, during the company's fourth quarter of fiscal 2018, the firm's Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp., which is part of Comtech’s Commercial Solutions segment, received a $1.3 million order for SATCOM infrastructure equipment from a major defense contractor — the equipment will be deployed by a government entity to support a new VSAT network.

The order specified Comtech EF Data’s VSAT networking equipment. Comtech EF Data’s VSAT solutions are a portfolio of high-performance, satellite-based communications hardware and software suites and professional services including installation, training and maintenance.

The systems are focused on throughput and service quality, featuring the processing power needed to support transmission requirements for high data rate applications, high definition video and voice, and low jitter and low latency so stringent SLAs can be met. Additionally, the fully managed systems have the intelligence to enable dynamic allocation of bandwidth when and where it is needed.