COM DEV Wireless Group's RF Conditioning Supply Contract Escalates past $50 Million
--Contract grows due to support from strategic manufacturing
facility in Suzhou, China-
CAMBRIDGE, ON, Feb. 21 /CNW/ - COM DEV International Ltd. (TSE:CDV),
announced more details about a major contract first described in the general
announcement that it released November 15, 1999.
COM DEV's Wireless Group has been selected to supply radio frequency (RF)
conditioning equipment components to a global supplier of CDMA and GSM
900/1800/1900 wireless networks.
Under terms of the contract, COM DEV will supply RF signal conditioning
equipment that meets this supplier's unique requirements. In addition to
supplying product from its manufacturing facilities in the UK and Canada, COM
DEV will now also supply product from its Suzhou, China facility directly to
this supplier's joint venture in China. As a result, the value of the contract
and its potential to further escalate over the life of the contract, have both
increased. The total value of the contract is now expected to rise to at least
$50 million in 2000.
"For many years, the Wireless industry has relied on COM DEV to supply RF
filtering and combining technologies that enhance the system performance of
the basestation. We are very excited about our continued success," said Peter
Scovell, President of COM DEV Wireless Group. "We look forward to growing with
this supplier as it capitalizes on the many opportunities for growth within
the Chinese market."
COM DEV's signal conditioning subsystems play a critical role in
enhancing the performance of cellular telephone basestations. They enable the
basestation to discriminate between the signals going to and from the mobile
telephones, and they amplify the power level of the incoming signals so they
can be processed. Other applications filter out interfering signals from other
sources and monitor the health of the external tower mounted receivers and
transmitters, reporting any problems. One of COM DEV's major competitive
discriminators in this product line, is its ability to deliver all the
functions of filtering, amplification and alarm monitoring in a single cost
effective and compact electronics package.
COM DEV International is the largest Canadian-owned designer,
manufacturer and distributor of space and wireless subsystem products through
its two divisions: the Wireless Group and the Space Group. COM DEV employs
more than 1,300 people in facilities in Canada, the United States, the United
Kingdom and China.
The Wireless Group designs and manufactures leading edge wireless
subsystems that enjoy broad acceptance among global wireless, cellular
telephone and PCS system vendors. Included among these advanced subsystems are
the core signal conditioning products described above; plus EIA/TIA-136 soft
radios, wireless Internet access infrastructure and new products to be used in
wireless communications operating under existing and evolving technology
standards like W-ODFM, UMTS and 3G, the next-generation broadband mobile
telephony. The Wireless Group also designs and manufactures complete
EIA/TIA-136, TDMA cellular telephone basestations in its newly formed Wireless
System Products Division.
The Space Group manufactures advanced products that are sold to the major
satellite prime contractors for use in earth science and commercial
communications satellites. |
