Eagle Broadband has provided its suitcase-sized, portable SatMAX technology to the U.S. Army enabling its disaster-response teams to establish and maintain vital, Iridium satellite-based voice and data communications in any non-line-of-sight environment such as within buildings, command centers or other locations where outdoor use is not possible or practical. The company has also offered to send additional SatMAX units to other federal, state and local civilian government and military agencies as well.
The portable SatMAX can be deployed in minutes, easily transported and can operate either on batteries or standard AC power allowing users with existing Iridium handsets to quickly and easily make secure or unsecure calls from virtually any location.
Dave Micek, Eagle Broadband President and CEO, commented, "We are committed to helping civilian government and military agencies with their rescue and recovery efforts in any way possible. Eagle's SatMAX technology enables disaster response teams to quickly and easily establish mission-critical, satellite-based communications in affected areas where no other means of communications are available. Eagle's employees are devoted to doing everything possible to assist the dedicated relief workers that are responding to the needs of the hurricane survivors."
Eagle's SatMAX non-line-of-sight satellite communications technology enables civilian government, military and enterprise customers to quickly and easily make reliable, fully wireless, voice and data communications available in any non-line-of-sight environment including inside buildings or structures, onboard vehicles, aircraft or ships, from obstructed areas, etc. With SatMAX, users of the Iridium satellite network can use their existing satellite phones to make multiple concurrent calls within SatMAX-enabled "hotspot" areas from any location on Earth. The technology enables routine, mission critical and backup communications that can improve safety and security, emergency preparedness and response, user productivity, mobility, problem solving and mission support.
