LAS VEGAS, Sept. 6, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- MB Tech Inc. (OTCBB:MBTT) has launched a project to develop a Waveguide Patch for Ka-Band Flat Antenna in cooperation with the Information Communication Department of Dong-Seoul College in South Korea. This is a significant project because the Ka-Band is a necessary extension for military satellite-based communication, as well as consumer-based services. The band serves as an expansion alternative to the crowded C- and Ku-Bands for traditional fixed-satellite service.
This project will be sponsored by the Small and Medium Business Administration of Gyounggi Province in Korea. MB Tech entered a high technology project contest which was publicly announced by the local government in 2004. This Ka-Band project was selected as one of prospective technologies this August and, as a result of its selection, will be financially supported through its completion by the end of this year. Other advantages of Ka-Band for this application are the small size and low weight of the hardware and the global frequency allocations.
Today's DBS (Direct Broadcast Satellite) industry provides broadcasting services in Ku-Band width of 10.7 to 12.75 GHz. The volume of data transmitted over this band width has been significantly increased due to the sheer amount of growing programming and data based service offerings. The current market has more demand for high quality broadcasting services such as HDTV, which in itself takes up quite a bit of precious bandwidth.
Because of these trends and needs, the development of the Ka-Band of ultra high-frequency now seems inevitable. Ka-Band satellite systems can provide the optimum solution for the distribution of broadband signals to users everywhere in the world because it has 200 MHz of bandwidth which is five times wider than Ku-Bband. Many industry commentators claim that it will shape the future of communications and will touch many aspects of the converged and converging fields of broadcasting, communications, multimedia, Internet, mobile communications, plus many more.
Since the waveguide patch is a key technology to developing the Ka-Band flat antenna, MB Tech has set the new project's target specifications as band width of 21.2 to 21.85 GHz and an antenna size of 30 cm x 30 cm. The Faserwave portable auto positioning flat antenna (FA) remains thecompany's immediate priority as a 'go to market' product for largedistribution. The waveguide patch project is something that has beenin research and development and is intended initially for a smallermarket upon completion. "We believe that the dynamics of our technologyis different from most products that are competitive (The FA) and ourcompetitive development is onstream and in production. This definitelygives MB Tech an edge and we are now ready for delivery in the U.S. andworldwide. MB Tech's opportunities and market penetration into thevast U.S. market to which we have and are now engaged with our FA,"stated Hanwook Bae in his most recent visit to the U.S.
For information on MB Tech's product line, go to the following link: http://www.princetonresearch.com/clients/MBTechQ14.pdf. MB Tech is a global distributor of electronic components. MB Tech and its subsidiaries produce products for the DBS satellite industry and state-of-the-art RF microwave and communications technologies with consumer and military applications.
MB Tech serves the satellite television market as a provider of hardware and bundled solutions and is expanding to serve the satellite radio and military hardware and solutions sectors. MB Tech manufactures, distributes, and/or markets several proprietary solutions that differentiate it from competitors, including active and non-active auto-tracking (portable and stationary) flat antennas, a mobile phased shift array antenna, and a marine antenna.
MB Tech pioneered advancements like the dual-horn LNB, which allows multiple set-top boxes to be connected to a single satellite dish, enabling viewing of multiple channels simultaneously on different television monitors, and a tri-horn LNB, which provides the ability to download signals from multiple satellites over a single dish.
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