[Satellite TODAY Insider 08-24-11] Two Comtech Telecommunications subsidiaries have received a combined $9.9 million in amplifier and related equipment orders, the company announced Aug. 23.

   Comtech Telecomm. Corp., a development subsidiary that designs systems and services for advanced communications solutions, announced Aug. 22 that it received a $7.1 million order for Ka-Band power amplifiers from an unnamed U.S. government prime contractor through its California-based subsidiary, Comtech Xicom Technology.

   Comtech Xicom will supply the customer with an array of hardware, including high-power, tube-based and solid-state power amplifiers that incorporate power levels from 8 watts to 3 kilowatts. The amplifiers’ frequency coverage in sub-bands within the 2 GHz to 45 GHz spectrum are commonly utilized in military and commercial satellite uplink applications.

   Comtech’s Ka-band antenna-mount amplifiers will be used in transportable U.S. Air Force satellite terminals to expand an existing Air Force military satellite communications network, Comtech CEO Fred Kornberg said in a statement.

   Separately, Comtech’s Arizona-based subsidiary Comtech EF Data announced Aug. 23 that it was awarded a $2.8 million order for satellite Earth station equipment from an unnamed systems integrator to support a Comtech EF Data Vipersat-powered network in Latin America.

   The order included the supply of CDM-570L-IP satellite modems, the CDD-564L IP demodulators, the Vipersat management system and RF products including LPOD block up-converters and HPOD high-power amplifiers.

   The Vipersat-powered network aims to integrate Comtech EF Data modems with the Vipersat management system, which provides dynamic single-carrier-per-channel (dSCPC) bandwidth management of the space segment. When integrated with the CDM-570L-IP satellite modems and the CDD-564L IP Demodulators, the dSCPC technology automatically establishes the high-speed IP SCPC carrier when a remote has an application to transport over the satellite link.

   “We believe [the order] demonstrates the demand for Comtech’s products which were selected based on our ability to facilitate bandwidth-efficient satellite transport,” Kornberg said.