O3b Networks Selects AvL Technologies for Transportable Terminal Antenna for MEO Satellite Network

Asheville, NC, March 12, 2015–O3b Networks selected AvL Technologies to design and build the Transportable Terminal Antenna System for use with O3b’s Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) Satellite Network.  The program calls for AvL to develop and manufacture the hardware and software for a family of earth station antennas with reflector sizes of 0.85m, 1.0m, 1.2m, 1.8m and 2.4m. These Transportable Antenna Systems will enable O3b’s customers to rapidly deploy systems to take advantage of O3b’s “Fiber Speed with Satellite Reach.” 

The O3b network is unique in that its use of multiple satellites in MEO and Ka-Band frequencies will allow for extremely wideband digital traffic with minimal latency, effectively Transportable Terminal Antenna System will enable users to realize the benefits of this technology with the ability to move and rapidly deploy the network’s capabilities to meet changing requirements and evolving needs.  The Transportable Terminal Antenna System changing requirements and evolving needs.  The Transportable Terminal Antenna System two hours.  The 0.85m transportable terminal will be shown in AVL’s booth at Satellite 2015.

“These high performance transportable antennas are designed to acquire and track the O3b satellites as they move across the orbital arc. AvL Technologies was selected by O3b because of the high quality of our antennas and our engineering expertise to design and manufacture antennas that can work in tandem to accurately follow the satellites” said Mike Proffitt, President of AvL Technologies.

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