Andrew Receives Europe*Star Approval for Ku-Band Earth Station Antennas.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)--March 19, 2002 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 received Europe*Star approval for the Ku-band versions of its 3.7-, 4.6-, 5.6-, and 7.6-meter earth station antennas. These Ku-band antennas are suitable for use in multinational private networks, broadcast news reporting, and public switched services. Andrew Europe*Star approved Ku-band earth station antennas offer guaranteed acceptance for operation on the Europe*Star systems covering Europe, Southern Africa, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent, and South East Asia. With Europe*Star approval, commissioning costs are lower, performance levels are assured, and implementation is faster and cheaper because the requirement for field-verification testing is eliminated. Andrew Corporation's satellite earth station system portfolio offers a complete RF solution to companies that are planning broadband satellite networks and companies implementing satellite systems for government, corporate or public communications networks. For further information, call the Andrew Customer Support Center at 1-800-255-1479 and request Bulletin Numbers 10244 (3.7-meter ESA 1. (architecture) ESA - Enterprise Systems Architecture. 2. (body) ESA - European Space Agency. ), 10245 (4.6-meter ESA), 10294 (5.6-meter ESA), and 10293 (7.6-meter ESA). Or, visit www.andrew.com and download the bulletins from the On-line Document Center. Andrew Corporation is a global leader in the design, manufacture and supply of communications equipment, systems and services. Andrew products and services provide proven solutions for wireless, fixed-line and broadband wireless telecommunication service providers, Internet service providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. and broadcasters throughout the world. Andrew is an S&P 500 company listed on the Nasdaq National Market System under the symbol:ANDW. About Europe*Star Europe*Star is a satellite owner-operator headquartered in London, with regional marketing offices in Cape Town, South Africa, and New Delhi, India. Europe*Star operates its own mission control center in Toulouse, France, for tracking, telemetry telemetry Highly automated communications process by which data are collected from instruments located at remote or inaccessible points and transmitted to receiving equipment for measurement, monitoring, display, and recording. and control of the satellites. A joint venture between Alcatel Space of France and Loral Space & Communications of the USA, Europe*Star is a member of the Loral Global Alliance. Europe*Star offers satellite capacity on its geostationary Aligned with the earth. Refers to satellites (GEOs) that travel at the same rotational speed as the earth (they are geosynchronous) and are always the same distance from the earth. See GEO. satellites, leasing whole and fractional transponders for full-time and occasional use requirements. Brought into service at the start of 2001, the Europe*Star 1 satellite has five high-power beams covering Europe, Southern Africa, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and South East Asia. Its Europe*Star B satellite provides additional capacity for markets in Central and Eastern Europe The term "Central and Eastern Europe" came into wide spread use, replacing "Eastern bloc", to describe former Communist countries in Europe, after the collapse of the Iron Curtain in 1989/90. . Europe*Star is also an investor in Stellat, a joint venture with France Telecom, which will launch the Stellat 5 satellite during 2002. For further information, visit the Europe*Star Website at www.europestar.com. |
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