C-COM Satellite Systems Inc., a leading global provider of commercial grade mobile auto-deploying satellite antenna systems, announced that it has been awarded $412,550 funding grant over 2 years from ISED Canada under the CMC/FABrIC program.
Managed by CMC Microsystems, FABrIC is a five-year, $223 million initiative to secure Canada’s future in semiconductors.
The project entitled “High Efficiency Beamforming IC and Intelligent Beam-forming Antenna Modules for Satellite IoT and ESA Terminals” aims to develop next generation integrated circuits which will be used in the C-COM designed Ka-band electronically steered phased array antennas as well as for satellite based IoT applications. C-COM is collaborating with MMSENSE Technologies Inc., who was also awarded a funding grant of $497,650 over the same period and will be the lead on this
project.
This project was one of 5 awarded to companies based in the province of Ontario. The total investment by all parties in this project is $2.46 million over 2 years.
“We are grateful to FABrIC, CMC Microsystems and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) for this financial assistance,” said Dr. Leslie Klein, President and CEO of C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. “This grant will allow C-COM to enter a new
vertical market with a market potential of multiple billions of dollars and at the same time provide the company with its own enhanced Ka-band semiconductor IC technology, which will make our flat panel electronically steered antennas more cost effective and better performing.”
“We are excited to collaborate with C-COM on advancing Canada’s presence in emerging satellite communication markets,” said Dr. Mohammad-Reza Nezhad-Ahmadi, CEO of MMSENSE Technologies Inc.
“FABrIC funding enables both MMSENSE and C-COM to accelerate the development of high-efficiency, low-power-consumption, and cost-effective Ka-band beamforming ICs, antenna modules, and Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) solutions. This support strengthens our ability to scale engineering efforts, move quickly from prototypes to demonstration systems, and lay the foundation for commercial deployment in satellite
connectivity applications.”
C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. is a pioneer and a leading global
designer, developer, and manufacturer of transportable and mobile
satellite-based antenna systems. The Company has developed
proprietary, auto-acquisition controller technology for rapid antenna
pointing to a satellite with just the press of a button, enabling Broadband Internet via Satellite across a wide range of market applications worldwide, including regions unserved or underserved by terrestrial access technologies. C-COM has sold more than 11,000 antenna systems, in over 100 countries, through a
dedicated dealer network that provides service to a wide range of vertical markets such as Oil and Gas Exploration, Military Communications, Disaster Management, SNG, Emergency
Communications, Cellular Backhaul, Telemedicine, Mobile Education, Government Services, Mobile Banking, and others. The Company’s iNetVu® brand is synonymous with high quality, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
C-COM is in final stages of satellite testing and manufacturing of a potentially revolutionary Ka-band, electronically steerable, modular, conformal, flat panel phased array antenna. CCOM has developed this unique multi-orbit antenna with the intent of providing low-cost,
high-throughput mobility applications over satellite for land, airborne and maritime verticals over LEO, MEO and GEO satellite constellations. Another significant project underway at C-COM is the development of an Analog Beamforming Integrated Circuit, which is progressing well and is expected to enter the testing phase by the middle of this year. These
BFICs will be used in the manufacturing of all our ESA antennas with the intent to significantly reduce their cost and improve their performance.