PHOENIX, Oct. 18, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Radyne Corporation (Nasdaq:RADN) announced today its AeroAstro business unit will supply Globalstar with network upgrades as part of AeroAstro's SENS (Sensor Enabled Notification System) that will enhance both the receiver sensitivity and the overall customer messaging capacity of the entire AeroAstro-powered Globalstar Simplex data network.
According to the recently signed agreement, AeroAstro will provide ground network upgrades to the entire fleet of deployed receivers to expand the current subscriber messaging capacity of the data network by 10 times and increase receiver sensitivity of the network by up to 40 percent.
Increased receiver sensitivity will further expand the geographic coverage area currently providing simplex data services and is expected to further improve message transmission reliability, which already exceeds 99 percent in its primary coverage area. Deliveries of the necessary upgrades are scheduled to begin in early 2008.
Globalstar's AeroAstro-powered SENS simplex data network is used to support a variety of aviation flight-following, emergency asset, fleet and personal tracking applications. Simplex data modem integrated solutions are also used for a number of remote monitoring and alarm applications, both within and beyond the reach of traditional wireless and terrestrial infrastructure. Information such as GPS location co-ordinates, remote status and other sensor information can be reliably sent to customers using the network.
"AeroAstro's technology lead in low cost reliable remote monitoring continues to drive new sales in this high growth market," said Myron Wagner, Radyne's CEO. "This is just one of many markets where Radyne and AeroAstro can exploit new sales opportunities."
AeroAstro's SENS technology provides a total solution that is uniquely affordable and reliable with ubiquitous coverage over most of the globe. AeroAstro combines infrastructure and asset tag hardware, data portal and communications services, and systems engineering to deliver prices, power savings, compact size and ease of use previously unimaginable from satellite communications. To order remote tracking hardware, transmitters, or data management services, please visit AeroAstro online at www.sensservice.com.
About Radyne Corporation
Radyne Corporation designs, manufactures, sells, integrates and installs products, systems and software used for the transmission and reception of data and video over satellite, troposcatter, microwave and cable communication networks. The Company sells under four brands:
-- Radyne builds satellite modems, converters and switches,
-- Xicom Technology produces high power amplifiers,
-- AeroAstro is a leader in microsatellite systems, components,
and advanced communications technologies,
-- Tiernan supplies HDTV and SDTV encoding and transmission
equipment.
Radyne is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, with additional offices in Santa Clara and San Diego, California, Ashburn, Virginia and Littleton, Colorado. In addition, the Company has sales offices in Singapore, Beijing, Jakarta and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit our web site at www.radn.com.
About Globalstar, Inc.
With over 250,000 activated satellite voice and data units, Globalstar offers satellite services to commercial and recreational users in more than 120 countries around the world. The Company's voice and data products include mobile and fixed satellite telephones, simplex and duplex satellite data modems and flexible service packages. Many land based and maritime industries benefit from Globalstar with increased productivity from remote areas beyond cellular and landline service. Global customer segments include: oil and gas, government, mining, forestry, commercial fishing, utilities, military, transportation, heavy construction, emergency preparedness, and business continuity as well as individual recreational users. Globalstar data solutions are ideal for various asset tracking, data monitoring and SCADA applications.
Safe Harbor Paragraph for Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes statements that may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (the "Reform Act") and Radyne claims the protection of the safe-harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the Reform Act. These forward-looking statements are often characterized by the terms "may," "believes," "projects," "expects," or "anticipates," and do not reflect historical facts. Forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements of Radyne Corporation and its subsidiaries, including AeroAstro, to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could affect Radyne Corporation's results and cause them to materially differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements contained herein include, without limitation, our belief that the SENS technology is uniquely affordable and reliable or that the integration of Radyne and AeroAstro will lead to new sales and profits in growing markets.
Other factors that may affect forward-looking statements and the Company's business generally include but are not limited to:
-- Prospects of the international markets and global economy given
that Radyne Corporation depends heavily on international sales.
-- Risk factors and cautionary statements made in Radyne
Corporation's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended
December 31, 2006.
-- The effect that acts of international terrorism may have on
Radyne Corporation's ability to ship products abroad.
-- Other factors that Radyne Corporation is currently unable to
identify or quantify, but may exist in the future.
Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date the statement was made. Radyne Corporation does not undertake and specifically declines any obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
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