Anokiwave [Now Qorvo] and Requtech AB Collaborate to Enable High Performance SATCOM-On-The-Move User Terminals
Requtech’s latest lightweight electronically scanned antennas at Ku and Ka bands, powered by Anokiwave’s SATCOM ICs, are delivering high performance, low-cost user terminals for SATCOM-On-The-Move. Primarily focused on the upcoming SATCOM markets over LEO and MEO satellite constellations, Requtech’s RESA (Requtech Electronically Steered Array) family of flexible configurable architecture terminals can also operate over geostationary (GEO) constellations.
March 15, 2022 | Boston, MA: Anokiwave, the leader in highly integrated, cost-effective silicon-based IC solutions for the millimeter-wave (mmW) and active antenna markets and Requtech, a Swedish antenna manufacturer, have announced a collaboration to enable SATCOM-On-The-Move applications over LEO/MEO/GEO communication satellites. As part of this collaboration, Anokiwave provides advanced, low-cost silicon 2nd generation SATCOM Ku and K/Ka-band ICs to power Requtech’s RESA-S family of fully integrated phased array flat panel antenna terminals.
Requtech’s phased array flat panel antennas enable SATCOM-On-The-Move applications over LEO/MEO/GEO constellations. Designed as a lightweight member of the RESA family of flat panel satellite terminals, RESA-S can be used as a stand-alone product or used in a networked mesh configuration with several RESA terminals to avoid signal blockage from for example, ships superstructure. Anokiwave provides Silicon SATCOM beamforming ICs to Requtech that improve performance, reduce cost, simplify thermal management, and provide a host of unique digital functionality to simplify overall system design. Compared to multiple other companies that are just beginning to promise their early-stage ICs, Anokiwave ICs are fully released and are shipping in volume.
“Phased array antennas are changing the way in which users communicate with SATCOM networks as they enter a new era of global communication. As the market moves to commercial, high-volume terminals, ground communications with LEO/MEO/GEO SATCOM systems require low-cost antennas with extremely fast steerable beams in a low-profile form factor,” states Andy Crofts, Anokiwave VP of Applications. “The Anokiwave CMOS based beamformer ICs are the key enabling technology making electronic beam steering in flat panel active antennas a commercial reality.”
“The Anokiwave chipset offers huge advantages in terms of 'time to market' and performance. This is why Requtech has selected Anokiwave for its Ku and Ka Satcom Phased Array Antenna design,” said Omid Sotoudeh, Requtech's CEO. “Requtech previously has extensive knowledge and experience with military phased array radars and felt that the Anokiwave chipset was the best vehicle for using those skill sets in the development of products for the SATCOM market.”