GigaSat Overview
1.1.1 Business Overview
Company Headquarters: US
Founded: 2001
Workforce: ~50
Company working: GigaSat is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ultra Electronics Holdings, a British conglomerate operating in the defense, security, transport and energy industries. GigaSat manufactures satellite solutions for small, medium and large bandwidth requirements, such as GigaSat FA-180, a 1.8m flyaway antenna, which is operated at Ka, Ku, X and C-bands of frequency and multi-band transmissions on both commercial and military satellites, featherweight manpacks such as the MicroVSAT series for emergency military communication operations, and GigaSat FA-370 3.7m antenna for high data-rate military communications. The company also offer drive-aways including 1.0m, 1.5m, 1.8m, 2.0m, and 2.4m antenna-based systems, suitable for C (1.8, 2.0 or 2.4m) X, Ku and Ka-band transmissions which are adequate for satellite television news broadcasts. Besides VSAT, the company also offers special electronics such as CAM series M&C system, enabling control of any product with an RS232/485 interface, FMP series monitoring panels, dual-video displays, dual active monitor speakers, and others. The company operates in the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, Canada, the US, and the rest of the world.
GigaSat focuses on an organic growth strategy. This is evident in its contracts as a major supplier of the British Army for military communication technology such as long and medium-range VSAT antennas. For the enterprise VSAT market, it develops mobile broadcast systems which helps it to maintain brand presence in the commercial space as well. This approach of preserving a brand presence across verticals has allowed Gigasat to grow even in a mature industry.
