PHOENIX, March 23, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Radyne Corporation (Nasdaq:RADN) announced today that its Xicom Technology division received a follow-on procurement order for $1.4 million for Ka-band power amplifiers to be used in terminals for the U.S. Air Force's Wideband Global System (previously known as Wideband Gapfiller) constellation of satellites.
Each WGS satellite, the first of which will launch this summer, will be capable of offering more than 10 times the communications capacity of the predecessor DSCS III Military Satellites. The increased satellite capacity is expected to drive increased X-band and Ka-band amplifier sales to military users. Xicom's Ka-band amplifiers lead the industry in reliability and advanced features.
"This order demonstrates continued market demand for Xicom's Ka-band amplifiers, which represent a key growth area for the company," said Myron Wagner, Radyne's CEO. "As the military begins to ramp up hardware procurement to utilize the WGS Satellites, Xicom will continue to provide leading-edge products that meet customer needs."
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, through its Tiernan subsidiary, is a supplier of HDTV and SDTV encoding and transmission equipment. The Xicom Technology subsidiary is a producer of high power amplifiers for communications applications. Radyne is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, has manufacturing facilities in Phoenix, Arizona, San Diego, California, and Santa Clara, California and sales offices in Singapore, Beijing, Jakarta and the United Kingdom. The Company also has sales and/or service centers in Sao Paulo, Bangalore, Shanghai and Moscow. For more information, visit our web site at www.radn.com.
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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.
-- A downturn in the evolving telecommunications, television broadcast
and Internet industries.
-- 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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