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Bharti Airtel (News - Alert) Limited, a premier global telecommunications company with operations in 19 countries across Asia and Africa, has awarded Comtech Telecommunications’ Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data (News - Alert) Corp., with a SATCOM equipment contract.

Comtech Telecommunications is a designer, developer, producer and marketer of innovative products, systems and services for advanced communications solutions.

Based on the company’s track record of providing operators globally with infrastructure products that reduce operating expenses and increase throughput for satellite-based mobile backhaul, Bharti Airtel selected the Comtech equipment.

As per the contract, Comtech will supply the equipment to support Bharti Airtel's (News - Alert) network upgrade and service expansion across its operations in 16 African countries.

Bharti Airtel ordered Comtech's award-winning CDM-625 Advanced Satellite Modems and the Memotec CX-U Series.

CDM-625 Advanced Satellite Modem combines advanced technologies for maximum bandwidth efficiency under all conditions, including DoubleTalk Carrier-in-Carrier bandwidth compression, patented VersaFEC low latency LDPC forward error correction with Adaptive Coding and Modulation, patent-pending ultra-low overhead streamline encapsulation, header compression and payload compression.

By bringing together a flexible access device and mobile backhaul traffic optimization, the CX-U Series offers a variety of backhaul interfaces and transmission options.

The CX-U offers Abis/Ater optimization, 2G/3G aggregation, DCME voice trunking optimization, TDM Pseudowire, all over IP, Frame Relay or MLPPP protocol support.

“Bharti Airtel will use Comtech equipment to facilitate significant growth planned for the African region," said Fred Kornberg, President and Chief Executive Officer of Comtech Telecommunications (News - Alert) Corp, in a press release.

In related news, Comtech Telecommunications announced that its subsidiary, Comtech Xicom (News - Alert) Technology, received $1 million order from the U.S. Navy for high-power amplifiers.