Andrew Antennas Connect Royal Thai Navy to the Internet.Business Editors ORLAND PARK Or·land Park A village of northeast Illinois, a residential and manufacturing suburb of Chicago. Population: 53,300. , Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 2001 Three Andrew HF Antennas Provide Ship-to-Shore Communications Andrew Corporation Andrew Corporation is an American multinational producer of communications devices. Andrew is a global designer, manufacturer, and supplier of communications equipment, services, and systems. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ANDW) has been awarded a contract by Loxley Ltd, a Thai conglomerate responsible for supplying the country's military with communications equipment. Loxley will equip the Royal Thai Navy The Royal Thai Navy (Thai: กองทัพเรือ) is the navy of Thailand and was established in the late 1800s. with three Andrew HF antennas to boost ship-to-shore communications. The installation is due for completion in mid 2001. The new antennas -- which will be installed in Chachaungsao in the east and Nakornpanom in northeast Thailand -- will enable the Royal Thai Navy to replace its old, analog, voice-only communications system with a new, digital system that carries both voice and data and provides access to its intranet and the Internet. The antennas will enable navy personnel to have communications coverage over a 500km radius - from the Indian Ocean to the South China Sea and Guam. "By positioning these antennas at strategic points around Thailand's coastline, the navy's shore-based personnel can communicate quickly and easily with the fleet whenever vessels are on maneuvers," said Bunpot Anantawat, assistant vice president of Loxley's transmission system department. "They will also provide efficient ship-to-ship communications and will enable personnel to send and receive e-mail and keep up-to-date on internal issues via the navy's intranet. The navy also plans to move several of its administrative applications to the Internet to help streamline its operations." Each of the antennas produces up to 1 kilowatt of power compared with the 100 watts produced by the previous system. This not only increases the offshore range of the fleet but also helps to support the high-speed, multimedia applications that the navy is introducing. The HF antennas, which bounce signals off the earth's atmosphere, are especially suitable for extreme climatic conditions, especially during the typhoon typhoon: see hurricane. season in Thailand. "These antennas will provide the Royal Thai Navy with excellent performance for high-density data, voice communications, network and broadcast applications," said Volker Lange, Andrew Corporation's director and general manager for South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. . "With the Thai economy beginning to recover, demand for infrastructure improvements such as the latest telecommunications services is increasing. The Royal Thai Navy project is the latest in a series of orders that Andrew has won in the Thai Kingdom, including an ALP (language) ALP - A list processing extension of Mercury Autocode. ["ALP, An Autocode List-Processing Language", D.C. Cooper et al, Computer J 5:28-31, 1962]. antenna for Thailand's Channel 3 television." Andrew Corporation is a global supplier of communications systems equipment and services. Major markets are wireless communications - which includes cellular, personal communications services See PCS. , and land mobile radio - broadcast, and common carrier. Andrew is an S&P 500 company whose common stock trades on The Nasdaq Stock Market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. (R) under the symbol:ANDW. For further information on Andrew products and services, including the text of this release, visit our Web site at http//:www.andrew.com |
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