{"id":48459,"date":"2025-09-10T17:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/comtech-wgs-modem-is-certified-to-operate-on-o3b-mpower\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T17:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:29:09","slug":"comtech-wgs-modem-is-certified-to-operate-on-o3b-mpower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/comtech-wgs-modem-is-certified-to-operate-on-o3b-mpower\/","title":{"rendered":"Comtech WGS Modem is Certified to Operate on O3b mPOWER"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Comtech Telecommunications<\/b>\u2019 defense-grade SLM-5650B modem has been certified to operate with <strong>SES<\/strong>\u2019s O3b mPOWER Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) constellation, Comtech announced Wednesday. The modem can be used to provide hybrid communications services to Department of Defense (DoD) and coalition customers, with the MEO constellation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Comtech said it is the first \u201csovereign-certified modem\u201d to receive Government Terminal Certification to operate on O3b mPOWER. This comes after last year, SES placed an order for the software-defined SLM-5650B and other next-generation modems to operate on the O3b mPOWER constellation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Comtech\u2019s SLM-5650B is a software-defined modem that is certified for the DoD\u2019s Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) system. It supports multiple DoD and NATO waveforms including STANAG 4486 Ed3, Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS), and DVB-S2X, with the ability to add more waveforms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver 10,000 Comtech defense-grade modems are currently fielded-providing critical connectivity services to DoD and NATO customers today. As one of the leading U.S. manufacturers of sovereign modem technologies, we are thrilled to partner with SES to deliver new capabilities that will help U.S. DoD and coalition warfighters maintain an information advantage across all domains,\u201d commented Daniel Gizinski, president of Comtech\u2019s Satellite and Space Communications Segment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comtech Telecommunications\u2019 defense-grade SLM-5650B modem has been certified to operate with SES\u2019s O3b mPOWER Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) constellation, Comtech announced Wednesday. The modem can be used to provide hybrid communications services to Department of Defense (DoD) and coalition customers, with the MEO constellation.&nbsp; Comtech said it is the first \u201csovereign-certified modem\u201d to receive Government Terminal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}