Comtech’s UHP platform provides emergency network operators with critical comms
Since Katrina, ODN has established more than 500 resilient first responder network sites around the U.S. together with Comtech — each company offering a unique blend of connectivity tailored to land mobile radio (LMR) backhaul.
“We come in with a highly flexible, robust foundational and primary VSAT link and layer other links on top, whether it’s microwave, T1 fiber, or cellular. By blending all of these together, we have an inherently secure, affordable, and resilient network that first responders can count on in all kinds of weather and disasters,” explained John Heifner, Orbital Data Networks (ODN) Senior Vice President of Engineering.
“We rely very heavily on the adaptable, satellite-based and software-defined UHP platform from Comtech to allow our first responder customers to leverage multiple comms links and topologies in a wide range of connectivity scenarios.”
Comtech’s versatile Universal Hardware Platform (UHP) can be tailored to the mission being served — with point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, star, and mesh VSAT architectures that enable ODN to create multiple redundant paths with a single telecommunications asset.
