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By Rachel Jewett | November 30, 2020
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Kymeta u8 antenna installed on a vehicle. Photo: Kymeta

Kymeta’s next-generation u8 antenna is now commercially available, the company
announced Monday. Kymeta is pitching the land mobility Ku-band antenna as a
communication solution for government, defense, and first responder customers.
It covers the full Ku-band and is capable of operating on Low-Earth Orbit (LEO)
networks.

Kymeta Vice President of Product Lilac Muller told Via Satellite that this
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to the core technology, but also for usability and quick connectivity. 



“We have built-in cellular cellular connection, and a built-in SD-WAN router
with a Wi-Fi bubble. You turn on your car, the system connects, and you have a
Wi Fi bubble around you. The user shouldn’t be thinking about the technology and
the antenna, they should just be connected and that’s what we had in mind when
we designed this product,” she said. 

Neville Meijers, Kymeta chief product and marketing officer told Via Satellite
the product has been designed specifically for land mobility needs in that it
has high environmental tolerance to operate in extreme hot and cold
environments, and it has been designed to use low power and it operates on a
vehicle without any additional power than the battery. 

Kymeta is selling the u8 as an antenna; an ODU which allows customers to connect
to their own modem; and a turnkey terminal with embedded satellite modem,
cellular modem, and SD-WAN capabilities. Kymeta is also offering a purchasing
option designed for users like first responders, an end-to-end subscription
package to the hardware and Kymeta Connect hybrid satellite-cellular
connectivity service. 

“There are a lot of customers like first responders who have never bought
satellite capacity and probably without this land mobile solution would never
even contemplate buying satellite capacity,” Meijers said. “We want to offer the
customer a very easy way to adopt our product from an end-to-end perspective, so
we packaged together the hardware, together with the network. Having this
ability to provide them with always-on communication resonates very strongly
with them.” 

“We believe that the combination of our service, together with our unique
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been asking for for many years, but has never happened,” he added. 

The product launch follows after beta trials kicked off in August, testing the
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Kymeta reports beta testing demonstrated throughputs of over 45 Mbps in land
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customer response to the trials has been “incredible.” 

Also in August, Kymeta closed an $85 million funding round led by Bill Gates,
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The U.S. Forest Service has the Kymeta antenna installed on its vehicles, Kymeta
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“My team works in some of the most densely populated, rugged, and steep forest
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use FaceTime and make voice calls for the first time. We now have a Kymeta
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