AMERGINT Collaborates
with Microsoft on Microsoft Azure Orbital
Satellite Ground Station Service
September 23, 2020
AMERGINT Technologies
announced it is working with Microsoft on their
new Microsoft Azure Orbital, a new cloud service
for connecting users to their satellites.
AMERGINT is supporting
Azure Orbital as both an Azure Marketplace
application publisher and an infrastructure OEM
supplier. AMERGINT is delivering digitizers and
data transport appliances that enable the
collection, network transport, and processing of
digitized IF satellite signals used by earth
observation and communication satellites. In the
Cloud, AMERGINT’s satTRAC® software, high-rate
modulators and demodulators and tailored
solutions receive, transform, decrypt, and
connect users to the satellite data they need to
accomplish their missions. AMERGINT brings over
a decade of proven virtualized software modem
technologies to Azure Orbital to ensure that
customers are provided a reliable and trusted
means to access their data from Azure and Azure
Orbital.
“We are thrilled to support
Microsoft in the buildout of Microsoft Azure
Orbital,” says Matt Prechtel, Business Area
Manager for Cloud Products and Solutions. “From
our position as a leader in satellite ground
processing, we believe that the future of
satellite ground is intertwined with the Cloud
and this growing market segment. The Cloud
enables scalability, resilience, and most
importantly, acceleration to on orbit operations
beyond anything we’ve ever seen to date. We
can’t wait to see what customers do with it.”
Jeff Cohen, Partner Program
Manager for Azure Networking at Microsoft WAN,
Edge, Space said, “AMERGINT's engineering depth
and products have helped Microsoft bring Azure
Orbital to the market as a premier Azure service
offering. We look forward to the continued
collaboration with AMERGINT.”
Azure Orbital is a managed
service that offers end-to-end satellite ground
services through the Azure public cloud
platform. This novel approach enables users to
connect to the service through suites of managed
applications that are, in turn, connected to the
Azure Orbital service offering infrastructure.
Azure Orbital includes both Microsoft-owned
antennas sites as well as access to a larger
federated network of partner sites for true
global connectivity.