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Spectrum Signal Processing becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vecima Networks Inc.
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On May 2, 2007, Vecima Networks Inc. completed its acquisition of
Spectrum Signal Processing Inc. As a result of the Arrangement, Spectrum becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vecima.
What does this mean for Spectrum's customers?
Spectrum will continue its focused investments in the defense and satellite communications markets.
In the short term, it will be business as usual. In the long term, look for exciting new offers and advanced application solutions
as the companies realize the technology synergies. Spectrum will be able to leverage Vecima's broadband wireless
technologies, including Vecima's WiMAX technologies, in addressing the needs of its defense communications customers to
offer powerful solutions for next-generation defense systems.
What does this mean for the defense and satellite communications markets?
Spectrum will continue to supply and support the defense and satellite communications markets with leading
commercial off-the-shelf products, technologies, and services for software defined radio and
other advanced wireless applications.
Spectrum maintains its deep application expertise and, when combined with its high performance systems,
can significantly reduce the cost, schedule, and performance risk inherent in the radio development
programs of defense and satellite wireless system integrators and government quick response capability teams.
For more information, read the complete
press release. For more information on Spectrum and Vecima, please visit
www.spectrumsignal.com
and
www.vecimanetworks.com respectively.
Spectrum's Program Development Managers
will be happy to address any questions or concerns that may reside with Spectrum's prospects
or customers as a result of this transaction.
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Spectrum's flexComm Sensor Data Link Modem System for Littoral Applications
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Spectrum recently announced its
flexComm™
Sensor Data Link Modem System (SDLMS) designed for the protection and monitoring of littoral waters. The
commercial off-the-shelf SDLMS consists of two subsystems; a software defined radio (SDR) modem transceiver subsystem for the
shipborne radio gateway and one or more remote sensor modem transceiver subsystems for the sensor radios. These radios are
designed for rugged, low power, space-constrained deployments, such as in a buoy connected to a hydrophone array, in an
unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV), an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) or an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
The SDLMS is designed to provide continuous coverage over vast ocean areas for extended periods in order to detect
quiet nuclear submarines, diesel-electric submarines running on batteries, ships exiting or entering port and mine-laying
operations. Spectrum's integrated solution is architected to meet the processing and bandwidth requirements of today's
most common data link waveforms, including STANAG 7085, T-CDL, Wideband Networking Waveform (WNW) and 802.16 (WiMAX).
For more information, read the
press release, download the
Sensor Data
Link Modem System datasheet (pdf) or contact
Spectrum Sales.
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Spectrum Selected by Harris Corporation to Support the U.S. Navy Multi-Mission Unmanned Surface Vehicles (MMUSV)
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The Government Communications Systems Division of Harris Corporation has selected Spectrum's flexComm
SDR-4000 rugged
software defined radio (SDR) solution to be deployed in field trials of the United States Navy's
Multi-Mission Unmanned Surface Vehicles (MMUSV). Under the agreement, Spectrum will supply the signal processing
system onboard the MMUSV that communicates with a processing system aboard a Littoral Combat Ship (LSC).
Field trials for the MMUSV are scheduled to begin in early 2007.
The MMUSV, a vessel similar to a rigid inflatable boat, is one of the mission modules that can launch
from a LCS. It is designed to operate autonomously and thereby protect boat operators
from threats and attacks including extreme environmental conditions and hazardous electromagnetic attack.
The MMUSV can be configured to support several different types of missions such as side scanning sonar
data collection, weapons missions, anti-submarine warfare or surface ship warfare. Each of these missions
will require a different type of data to be collected and communicated to the LCS.
Spectrum's SDR-4000 will be used to enable the transmission of these different data types.
For more information on the MMUSV announcement, read the
press release,
SDR-4000 datasheet (pdf) or contact
Spectrum Sales.
This is the second contract between Harris Corporation and Spectrum Signal Processing to support future U.S. littoral systems.
The first came in 2006 in support of the U.S. Navy's
Advanced Deployable System (ADS) program.
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Spectrum Signal Processing Selected by French Ministry of Defense
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Spectrum announced the signing of a $850,000 contract with its European distributor, Antycip. Antycip has
been awarded a contract by the Centre D'ELectronique de l'Armement (CELAR). Spectrum has received an
order for deliveries of multiple
flexComm SDR-3002 IMRDP
systems, training and engineering services over the next nine months. The CELAR may exercise options under
the terms of their contract with Antycip that could result in additional follow-on orders to Spectrum totaling
approximately $855,000, commencing in 2009.
The CELAR, an organization within the French Ministry of Defence, is a technical test and evaluation center for
communications, information security and electronic warfare. The CELAR already has software defined radio (SDR)
capabilities and will use Spectrum products to advance its own SDR technology and Software Communication
Architecture (SCA) capabilities. This will enable them to test waveforms and radios for SCA compliance.
For more information, read the
press release
or download the datasheet.
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Reading Break: Can the Military Use Commercial Wireless Signal Processing Technologies to Reduce Size, Weight and Power in Radio Devices?
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As a continuing column in the IEEE Communciations Magazine Quarterly Radio Supplement, Spectrum's Chief Technology Officer and VP Corporate Development Lee Pucker
explores the following question in the March issue: can the military use commercial wireless signal processing technologies to reduce size, weight and power in radio devices?
Militaries worldwide are moving toward the concept of network-centric operations: networking their forces with
wireless communications technologies to increase combat effectiveness. Among the problems faced in moving
to this model of warfare are the issues associated with managing the increased size, weight, and power in military radio
devices when supporting the requisite complex networking waveforms and air interface standards. Generally speaking,
the RF and baseband signal processing associated with these wideband networking waveforms draw considerably
more power than the processing associated with the narrower band waveforms inherent in more traditional military
communication systems. Since many of these devices draw power from batteries, more power for signal processing
often means that a trade-off must be made between the operating time of the radio device in the battle space and
the size and weight of the power supply.
Download the complete
article (pdf).
Access Spectrum's library of published articles at
www.spectrumsignal.com/publications.
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