ST Electronics installs antenna system at SingTel’s Earth Station 
ConvergenceAsia staff
16/06/2009

ST Electronics’ wholly-owned subsidiary, ST Electronics (Satcom & Sensor Systems), has successfully commissioned an 11-metre Ku-Band antenna system at SingTel’s Seletar Earth Station for Communication System Monitoring (CSM) and Communication that carries commercial traffic on SingTel satellites. The areas of coverage are primarily India and Southeast Asia. SingTel will use the system to access its ST-2 satellite for the CSM functions and commercial traffic.

The system. which consists of an 11-metre Ku-band antenna, a Glass Reinforced Polyester equipment cabin, Travelling Wave Tube (TWT) amplifier and Low Noise Amplifier with redundancy, converters, fibre optic inter-facility links and Monitoring and Control (M&C) subsystem, offers SingTel additional capacity and capability to serve their customers internationally.

Seah Moon Ming, President, ST Electronics said ST Electronics has an extensive systems engineering and integration track record and has delivered a number of large scale earth station projects in the region. "With this implementation of our systems for SingTel, we have once again proven our capabilities with a key ICT player in the region.”

ST Electronics won the project through a tender in the last quarter of 2008 amidst local and international competition.

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