CDM-780 Hybrid Designed SATCOM Solution Contracts Awarded to Comtech
Comtech recently secured multiple orders for significant quantities of its CDM-780 high-speed software defined modems. These modems will be delivered to innovative, next generation satellite operators as well as to the U.S. Department of Defense who will be assessing, evaluating, and fielding these modems in a variety of scenarios to enable broad scale government and commercial deployments to provide end users with access to high-speed connectivity in some of the hardest to reach places in the world.
“These contracts illustrate our continuing technology leadership and fluency in future networking capabilities that can help our customers democratize access to communications and empower individuals, communities, businesses, and governments across the globe.”
Ken Peterman, President and CEO, Comtech.
Comtech says its CDM-780 is one of the highest capacity commercial off the shelf gateway SATCOM solutions available today. Through a software-defined architecture, the CDM-780 is designed to readily adapt and evolve over time to deliver SATCOM services that can transition across high throughput and very high throughput satellite networks, as well as Low Earth Orbit, Medium Earth Orbit, and Geostationary Earth Orbit constellations.
CDM-780 Benefits
According to the Comtech website, the new CDM-780 DVB-S2X high-speed Gateway modem is capable of managing unprecedented amounts of data delivered over new ultra-powerful and complex wideband GEO, MEO and LEO satellites and constellations. This allows for high-speed trunking services to gateways and support massive VSAT networks of hundreds-of-thousands of sites.
“Our CDM-780 is uniquely positioned to support the blending of communications services across multiple, diverse satellite orbits and networks,” said Ken Peterman, President and CEO, Comtech. “These contracts illustrate our continuing technology leadership and fluency in future networking capabilities that can help our customers democratize access to communications and empower individuals, communities, businesses, and governments across the globe.”
Comtech Telecommunications Corp. is a technology company providing space and satellite communications technologies, terrestrial and wireless network solutions, next-generation 9-1-1 emergency services, and cloud native capabilities to commercial and government customers around the world. Their culture of innovation and employee empowerment unleashes a relentless passion for customer success. With multiple facilities located in technology corridors throughout the United States and around the world, Comtech leverages our global presence, technology leadership, and decades of experience to create the world’s most innovative communications solutions.
(Source: Comtech news release. Images provided and from file)