Comtech Receives Order to Provide Satellite Products for Unique Data Collection System.MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 16, 1999-- -- Order is for Modems and Transceivers -- $100,000 Initially, with Potential for $500,000 Total Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq: CMTL CMTL Chief Military Training Leader CMTL Center for Mathematics, Teaching and Learning ) today announced that it has received an initial $100,000 order from a major Mexican company for satellite modems and transceivers to be used in an innovative remote satellite data collection system. Follow-on orders could bring total Comtech sales connected with the project to $500,000. The CDM-550 digital satellite modems and CSAT-5060 C-band transceivers covered by the order are produced by Comtech Communications Corp., a Tempe, Arizona Tempe (pronounced /tɛm.'piː/) is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA, with a population of 169,712 according to 2006 Census Bureau estimates. subsidiary of Comtech Telecommunications. The Comtech products will be used to provide a low-cost method of remote data collection from a central site, using common transmit and receive frequencies to reduce satellite transmission costs. The new system, which replaces a much more expensive approach developed by another company, is essentially a low-duty-cycle TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) A satellite and cellular phone technology that interleaves multiple digital signals onto a single high-speed channel. For cellular, TDMA triples the capacity of the original analog method (FDMA). system designed for sites that do not require constant access but must receive data from the central site several times daily. In order to reduce power costs, remote sites remain in a low-power standby mode A sleep mode in a portable computer that provides an almost immediate resumption of operation when turned back on. In standby mode, the hard disk and display are turned off, and the CPU is throttled down to its lowest-power state. until commanded to transmit data. The initial order announced today is for a network with one hub and nine remote sites. Upon successful demonstration of the concept, the network is to be expanded to up to 50 sites. Comtech Telecommunications, Inc., through its operating units operating unit A type of operating company that engages in transactions with outsiders and that is owned by another business. For example, in 1995 the stockholders of Capital Cities/ABC approved a $19 billion merger with the Walt Disney Company, whereupon , is a broad-based supplier of packet data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. services, state-of-the-art solid state high power amplifiers and high technology satellite and over-the-horizon microwave telecommunication products and systems for commercial and government applications. For further information, please visit the Company's website at www.comtechtel.com Certain information contained herein includes information that is forward-looking. The matters referred to in forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. may be affected by the risks and uncertainties involved in the Company's business. These forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements contained in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings. |
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