High-speed train at Beijing Station. Photo: Public Domain Pictures.

Comtech Telecommunications announced that three different customers of Comtech EF Data, which is part of Comtech’s commercial solutions segment, have installed, accepted and are now using the Heights Networking Platform to support their business needs. These orders, which the company received earlier in fiscal 2017, have an initial combined contract value of $1.6 million to date.

The first service provider is leveraging the Heights Networking Platform in several teleports across multiple satellites in C- and Ku-band to provide secure global connectivity to embassies. The provider chose the Heights platform to upgrade Single Channel per Carrier (SCPC) connections to provide a more efficient network solution while accommodating new bandwidth-intensive applications. Powered by the NetVue Integrated Management System, the operational network supports a mix of video conference, file transfer, email, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and internet applications as network throughput demands vary.

The second customer is using the Heights platform to provide high-throughput connection to trains traversing China. Equipped with Heights H16 Remote Gateways, each moving train leverages a dynamically sized high-throughput return connection of up to 16 Mbps to transmit Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) environmental and operational data back to headquarters for engineering and safety purposes on an as-needed basis.

Finally, a customer in Southeast Asia will securely connect up to 500 government locations to a centralized operations hub via Heights H8 Remote Gateways. Focused on the island regions of the country, the network will provide ubiquitous high-speed connectivity independent upon location within the country, according to Comtech. The current network of 100 sites provides equal access to each site via user-defined Quality of Service (QoS) elements. According to Comtech, the solution allows each remote government location to transmit up to 8 Mbps of compressed IP content to the central site with all features implemented without concern for processing limits common to many point-to-multipoint solutions.