Engineering
Services
Satellite Earth Station System Engineering
Prepare RFPs for Turnkey Earth Station Procurement
Evaluate Turnkey Proposals for Satellite Earth Terminals
Prepare Proposals for Satellite Earth Terminals
Prepare GCE (Ground Comm Equip) Hardware Design and/or Procurement
Specifications
Prepare/Witness/Perform GCE Test Procedures
Prepare Satellite System Hardware and Propagation Availability Analysis
Prepare end-to-end link budget designs and trade-off studies
Prepare parametric distortion analysis for uplink and downlink signal path chains
Research and Analysis
Prepare Technical White Papers
Market Research and Reports
Competitive Analysis
Provide guidance for Product Development Road Maps
Provide guidance for Business Plan Development
Technical and Sales Support
Meet directly with Customers present solutions and/or determine Customer needs
Coach and Train Sales Personnel
Provide specialized training to Client’s Engineering Staff
Provide on-site Sales Technical Support for proposal presentations
Field Support
On-Site Testing and Troubleshooting
Site Survey and Site Design
Technical Analyses
Installation procedure emulation, and pointing accuracy uplink interference
simulation
Prediction of signal distortion in high-power amplifier and transmission chains
Satellite link budgets, rain fade and availability analysis, diversity gain estimations
Earth station antenna and HPA sizing
Cascaded lineup design, noise figure, dynamic range, spurious, and worst case
analyses
Design and Management Support
Evaluation of microwave subsystem design reviews
Capital and recurring cost analyses of satellite links and networks
Customer specification compliance reviews
Proposal generation support
Specifications and statements of work for suppliers
Production readiness reviews
Cross-disciplinary technical support
Cost analyses
Design review support
Tools
Matlab; Macromedia Flash; LINC (small-signal RF circuit analysis); MS Office
(Word/Excel/PowerPoint)
Extensive collection of utilities for microwave and satellite system analysis
Programming
Flash ActionScript
Matlab
Excel VBA add-ins
Java