PARIS – Comtech Telecommunications, an organization known for providing satellite and terrestrial communications equipment and services, announced plans Sept. 12 to offer government and industrial customers with communications networks established “in a matter of hours.”
Through BRIDGE solutions, Comtech is offering “portable, adaptable, full-service communications networks” to assist bridge gaps in satellite and terrestrial infrastructure, in response to a Sept. 12 news release. BRIDGE solutions is meant “to fulfill the urgent needs” of “emergency service providers, distant communities, military operators and maritime customers.” (BRIDGE stands for blended, resilient, integrated, digital, global, end-to-end.)
The “infrastructure, cloud and application agnostic” BRIDGE solutions “can repeatedly evolve over time to fulfill emerging government and industrial” demands, in response to the news release published at World Satellite Business Week.
Connective Tissue
BRIDGE solutions reveals a very important shift underway at Comtech, a Melville, Latest York-based company that has acquired greater than a dozen communications technology businesses over many years.
Comtech is “finding that we are able to pull capability from across our enterprise and be the connective tissue between ecosystems that historically have been independent and now are converging together,” Ken Peterman, Comtech chairman, president and CEO, told
Hybrid networks that include satellites in various orbits are one example of convergence. As well as, Peterman pointed to the convergence of satellite and terrestrial networks. Further convergence of geospatial and satellite communications networks is on the best way, he added.
“We’re taking a look at the power to seamlessly get information all of the option to the sting, in order that insight is on the market and actionable with as low latency as possible,” Peterman said.
Breaking Silos
When Peterman became Comtech president and CEO a little bit greater than a 12 months ago, the corporate was comprised of “14 siloed businesses operating independently to a big degree on their very own tools, processes and systems.”
Since then, Comtech has merged the siloed business units, allowing them to share resources.
“Bringing these 14 silo businesses together, reduces costs substantially and improves our efficiency,” Peterman said. “The second thing it does is enables us to operate collaboratively.”
Innovation Foundry
An engine for that collaboration is the Evoke innovation foundry established in 2022. There, Comtech’s “most entrepreneurial and modern engineers” determine how you can bring together the corporate’s various technologies and capabilities to construct latest subsystems and systems, Peterman said.
“In collaborative workshops, we discover the shopper challenges and put our collective technologies to work to create a more comprehensive value proposition for that customer,” Peterman said. “We’re finding significant growth opportunities there.”
Collaborative workshops often result in pilot projects “where we display something so a customer can empirically assess the way it increases their customer experience and the way it improves their financial performance.” Peterman said. “We are able to move from there to truly tailoring a BRIDGE solution on a customer-by-customer basis.”