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Aicox renews with Ovzon “SATCOM-as-a-Service”

Ovzon has received an order for renewal of Ovzon’s SATCOM-as-a-Service from its Spanish partner Aicox Soluciones. The 6-months extension will mainly be delivered during the first half of 2024.

The order is for Ovzon’s SATCOM-as-a-Service Plus solution, a fully integrated solution that includes satellite bandwidth, Ovzon T6 mobile satellite terminals and Ovzon’s dedicated customer service and support. The order is for a demanding end-customer within the Civil Defense sector that started using Ovzon’s services in January 2023.

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Aicox Soluciones celebrates the interest of the defense sector for its novelties at FEINDEF 2023

The company has received numerous visits and its news have been of great interest among the Armed Forces and the State Security Forces and Corps.

Aicox Soluciones attended the fair together with its partners Ultra, iDirect, Integrasys and Ovzon, among others.

 

Aicox Soluciones and its partners celebrate the interest shown by professionals in their communication solutions exhibited at the third edition of the International Defense Fair (FEINDEF) and the involvement of their clients and partners, who showed their most innovative solutions.

From May 17 to 19, at stands 10D17-D19 of IFEMA Hall 10, Aicox showed a large part of its solutions, some of which are already used in the Armed Forces and State Security Forces and Bodies in matters such as secure communications, especially satellite, such as, for example, the satellite matching systems of the Navy that are being renewed.

Aicox Soluciones has been dedicated to the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces for 30 years, working together to obtain the best results, and “for five or six years, we have tried to bet on a value proposition that consists of trying to leave more industrial weight in the country”, emphasizes Carlos Félix Laborda, vice president of the company.

The company not only showed its satellite communications solutions, but also showed its news in radios, its inhibition line and surveillance with the application of artificial intelligence. In relation to the latter, Carlos Laborda, CEO of Aicox Soluciones, explains that they are designed for “combat units, so that we have automated surveillance systems with artificial intelligence systems that can make immediate response decisions avoiding everything that the operation of a person who has certain limitations regarding this type of observations”.

As on previous occasions, Aicox Soluciones did not go to FEINDEF alone, but was accompanied by its partners, in different fields, Ultra, Ovzon, iDirect, Integrasys and CPI Satcom & Antenna Technologies Division.

 

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Aicox Soluciones will show its solutions, 100% Spanish, for hostile environments at FEINDEF

  • The company will be at stand 10D17-D19 in Hall 10 of IFEMA.
  • AICOX Solutions will attend with the companies Ultra, Ovzon, iDirect, Integrasys and CPI Satcom & Antenna Technologies Division.

AICOX Soluciones , a 100% Spanish technology company, will participate as an exhibitor in the third edition of the International Defense Fair (FEINDEF) from May 17 to 19. The company will share a stand with its collaborators in Defense and Satellite Communications, to show the products they can offer to the sector.

AICOX Solutions, leader in the development and supply of robust solutions for hostile environments and integrated systems for Defense, as well as for the Security Forces and Corps, develops technologies mainly focused on civil and military communications, with special interest in Satellite communications. , a sector in which the company is one of the national technological leaders. Additionally, AICOX Soluciones has also established itself as one of the main providers of solutions based on tactical Voice and Radio Data communication systems using SDR technology, as well as on advanced RCIED jamming or inhibition systems for combat environments.

Another of the company’s novelties is the intelligent integration software platform that allows the creation of solutions for Border Surveillance applications in both terrestrial and maritime environments, as well as for other types of similar applications in which it is necessary to coordinate technical means and humans in multi-domain environments.

Among the new technological lines in which AICOX Soluciones works are the design and development of intelligent Command and Control software platforms and embedded solutions for video processing through AI, design of optronic systems for Security and Surveillance applications and integrated vehicle solutions on platforms, as well as the modernization and updating of mobile units for C4ISR applications.

AICOX Soluciones will be accompanied at FEINDEF by its partners Ultra , Ovzon , iDirect , Integrasys and CPI Satcom & Antenna Technologies Division .

National technological leader

With more than 30 years of uninterrupted activity, AICOX has become one of the national technological leaders thanks to its developments for military and civil communications, with special interest in satellite communications, a sector in which the company is one of the national technology leaders.

The company has managed to consolidate itself as one of the main providers of solutions based on tactical Voice and Radio Data communication systems using SDR technology, as well as on advanced RCIED jamming or inhibition systems for combat environments.

international vocation

Since its inception, AICOX has had the objective of internationalization and collaboration with foreign companies to bring their developments and technologies to Spain and this vocation has led them to “achieve alliances with important groups of manufacturers and integrators, thus achieving the establishment of large infrastructures ”, highlights Carlos Laborda, general director of the company.

These collaborations and the company’s commitment to research, development and innovation have made AICOX “not only a technological benchmark but also a company that develops its own products, adding value in R+D+i, to offer their clients the best solutions in cellular communications, satellite, transmission and broadcast, defense and industry”, explains Laborda.

Among its main clients are: Spanish Ministry of Defense , Navantia , Hisdesat , Hispasat , Portuguese Ministry of Defense, Indra, Telefónica, Brazilian Ministry of Defense, Cellnex, Itelzapi, Overon, Vodafone, Ericsson, Canal Sur, RNE, RTVE.

Qualified work

Carlos Laborda highlights that all this work would not be possible without the passion and talent of the “great team of professionals willing to take on challenges every day and face them”.
The company currently has 160 employees, of which more than 100 are highly qualified jobs.

OUR SPONSORS FEINDEF 2023


ULTRA
provides application engineering solutions in the key elements of mission-critical and intelligent systems. Through innovative problem solving, using sustainable capabilities and evolving technologies, we offer outstanding solutions to our clients’ most complex problems in defense, security, critical detection and control environments.

OVZON
is revolutionizing mobile broadband via satellite by providing the highest bandwidth through the smallest terminals. Our advanced proprietary satellite technology and unique ultra-small terminals allow mobile users to connect anywhere and transfer large amounts of data. Ovzon’s end-to-end solutions meet the growing demand for global connectivity for customers with high-performance requirements, such as government, media, maritime, aviation, and NGOs. Our dedicated and experienced team ensures top quality service for our demanding clients.

iDIRECT
are pioneering a world-class cloud-based terrestrial satellite infrastructure platform that enables multi-orbit, multi-access technology that transforms satellite service delivery to be seamless, significantly cheaper, infinitely scalable, and able to deliver any data rate and functionality that is needed for any possible application that can support satellite connectivity.
We enable a smarter, more secure world by creating network solutions to improve security and find new ways of doing business.
The world is changing rapidly and we make sure to stay ahead of those changes. While security remains our primary focus, we are gradually expanding into related markets using new web-based products and solutions.
Our experience working with network audio and video, analytics and access control solutions contributes to the protection of people and property, to the optimization of processes and increases business efficiency and access to information.

INTEGRASYS
is a private company specialized in the engineering and manufacturing of Satellite Spectrum Monitoring Systems in the telecommunications and broadcasting markets.
Integrasys was founded in 1990 by a group of Hewlett-Packard engineers, experts in automated RF and microwave test systems and software, and the Marquis de Antella. Since then Integrasys has evolved into the current company, offering a wide range of signal monitoring products and solutions for VSAT Deployment and Maintenance and Link Budget for different telecommunications and satellite services with the best attention that our clients deserve.

CPI Satcom & Antenna Technologies Division
is a leading provider of ground-based satellite communications products; data link antennas with automatic tracking for land, sea and air; high-precision satellite and scientific terminals; and services.
Communications & Power Industries is a global manufacturer of electronic components and subsystems primarily focused on the communications, defense and medical markets. With a heritage of technological excellence spanning decades, CPI develops, manufactures and globally distributes innovative and reliable technology solutions used in the generation, amplification, transmission and reception of microwave signals for commercial and military applications. CPI serves clients in the communications, defense, medical, industrial and scientific markets.

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Aicox together with its partner Ovzon receives first SATCOM-as-a-Service order

The order is for Ovzon’s SATCOM-as-a-Service Plus solution, a fully integrated solution that includes satellite bandwidth, Ovzon T6 mobile satellite terminals, commercial internet, gateway access, terrestrial backbone connectivity, and 24/7 customer service and support. The order is for an initial test and validation phase for a demanding customer in the Civil Protection sector.

Aicox Soluciones, with whom Ovzon has cooperated since 2021, offers customized advanced technical and satellite communication solutions to customers within defense, civil protection, and emergency services in the Spanish and Portuguese markets.

“Ovzon’s SATCOM-as-a-Service solutions perfectly complement Aicox Soluciones. Our Spanish government customer needed a solution enabling them to quickly deploy multiple high-bandwidth applications with guaranteed connectivity, resilience, and mobility. This is a key factor for the success of mission-critical operations in life-critical environments,” says Jose Carlos Laborda, CEO of Aicox Soluciones.

“We are very pleased to have received our first contract in Spain. We have worked closely with our European partners to demonstrate that Ovzon’s SATCOM-as-a-Service solutions are uniquely suited also for public safety and first responder organizations. Our solutions perfectly answer their needs for high-performing, mobile, and resilient satellite communications that are essential to the success of their critical missions. This order is a great win and another step in verifying that our focus on answering the rapidly expanding demand for our solutions throughout Europe is paying off,” says Per Norén, CEO of Ovzon.

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Aicox participates in the EXPOEMER 2022

Aicox participates in the EXPOEMER 2022 fair on November 23 and 24 in Córdoba. Meeting point between forest fire services and leading companies in the sector.

Aicox participates in this fair as a collaborating company showing our own solution, N+I, of added value that integrates various technologies and serves the following tasks:

    • Early detection of sources of fire in forest environments of all kinds.
    • Monitoring of the fire front in fires.
    • Resource management in extinction tasks.
    • Integration of sensors and media in multi-domain deployments.

 

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Aicox Soluciones, HISPASAT and Ovzon will participate in the SEDEXPO International Fair

Aicox Soluciones, HISPASAT and Ovzon will participate in the SEDEXPO International Fair on November 17-19.

These companies will present their “SATCOM as-a-Service” solutions with a toolkit specifically designed for defense, fire and rescue services.

In addition, “SATCOM as-a-Service” combines Ovzon’s high performance and mobile satellite mobile terminals, both On-The-Pause and On-The-Move, the reliability of HISPASAT satellite connectivity and the Aicox local support.

Aicox Soluciones, HISPASAT and Ovzon will present at their stand at the SEDEXPO International Fair, which takes place in Silleda between November 17 and 19, the “SATCOM as-a-Service” solutions aimed at the field of defense and emergencies. These solutions can be offered through three different Ovzon terminals:

  • Ovzon T6 , a lightweight and rugged portable broadband terminal, the size of a laptop, that can be deployed, aligned and connected in less than a minute and provides connectivity via a satellite link.
  • Ovzon Medium W/H satellite broadband terminals for on-the-go applications. Combined with satellite services, they offer full mobility, ease of use and access for customers.
  • Ovzon Mini , a small broadband satellite terminal for mobile applications.

OVZON T6 Ovzon Medium W/H

Both Ovzon T6 and Ovzon Mini can deploy On-The-Pause applications and be transported in small cases, while Ovzon Medium W/H can be installed on mobile platforms such as UAVs, helicopters, maritime vessels or land vehicles to offer On-The-Move solutions. . All of them are capable of transmitting up to 70 Mbps and receiving up to 120 Mbps.

In addition, these solutions are marketed under different business models:

– OVZON PLUS , a solution that offers flexible data rates, as well as a data package per GB.
– OVZON GO is a dedicated solution, used specifically for a fixed usage model.
– OVZON HERO is an advanced and customized high-performance solution that allows the most demanding customers to perform tasks in critical environments.

Likewise, and as a complement to this type of portable or mobile connectivity solutions, HISPASAT will present, in collaboration with the company PYRO, its fire prevention and fighting system based on Bseed WATCH® technology. This solution combines the use of sensors with satellite connectivity in 100% of the territory to offer a forest fire monitoring tool; which allows you to calculate, up to 10 days in advance, the risk of fire, the rates of fire spread or the humidity of forest fuels. Bseed WATCH® also has early detection systems without false alarms, thanks to its temperature, CO and CO2 sensors, which send an alert to the population and those responsible for local emergencies in a matter of seconds. In the event of a fire, Bseed WATCH® provides a unique view of the emergency, offering high-quality information on the area, such as its weather conditions, the location and progress of the fire in real time, and the control of evacuation routes. All this information obtained by the system is offered openly to the population and those responsible for extinction, so that they can take and plan more effective and safer actions to extinguish the fire.

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The employers of the Defense Industry celebrate the rain of millions: “We are starting a path of hope for a stable horizon”

The Industry that develops Defense and Security technology in Spain recognizes that such an important investment has never been made in this sector as that made by the Government of Spain.

The clearest person to recognize this was Indra’s CEO, Ignacio Mataix: “In the 20 years I’ve been in the sector, this is one of the biggest budgetary efforts, motivated by the geopolitical moment, but also by the need to promote a key industry”. This technology company -whose largest shareholder is the holding company public Sepi- celebrates this 25% budget increase “because it is very good news” which shows, according to Mataix, that the Defense budget “is always an investment, not an expense, its multiplier effect for employment, together with the duality technology, make it essential for leading countries to protect them to the maximum”.

Indra, which together with Airbus (in Germany) and Dassault (in France) leads the billionaire program for the air combat system of the future (FCAS), believes that this investment of 4,900 million euros for the Special Armament Program (PEA) is “an incentive to attract talent to the security industry in Spain”.

A reading also shared by Navantia, “this defense budget increase is positive because it will strengthen national security and democratic values,” Javier Romero, director of strategy for this company, tells SER. The contribution of this company public – belonging to the State Society of Industrial Participations – to the GDP of the industry is 1%, “for each Navantia job another 6 or 7 jobs are generated in other types of suppliers”, hence they are also expectant before the contracts that may arise.

Other leading companies such as AICOX – with more than 30 years of experience supplying integrated systems for Defense and Security Forces – understand that such a large injection in the sector “above all will improve the quality of employment and also the retention of talent that we are losing very quickly. In addition, it will consolidate the future of the smaller companies because “if we accompany the budgets with production plans, these objectives can be achieved”, says its president, Carlos Laborda, convinced that this increase in the Defense budget “is essential for the development of Spain” because it will allow companies in the sector “to be at the current technological cutting edge in Spain”.

In 2019, Defense and Security technology companies had a turnover of more than 13,000 million euros, exported 71% of their products and generated 57,600 highly-qualified technical jobs. The employers’ association that represents these companies is the Spanish Association of Defense, Security, Aeronautics and Space Technology Companies (TEDAE). “There has never been an increase like this, we can only assess this new budget with enthusiasm, with hope, because this increase is very positive,” TEDAE president Ricardo Martí acknowledges to SER.

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Aicox and RF will renew the communications of the Soria stations on Vamtac of the Army

The contract will modernize around thirty stations of this model

The Spanish Army has commissioned a temporary union of companies formed by Aicox and RF to integrate new CIS equipment (communications and information) in some thirty Soria stations, installed on Vamtac SOTM (Satcom On The Move) vehicles, for an amount almost three million euros.

The contract seeks to make the leap to what is known as the Soria type 4 station, fundamentally characterized by incorporating the communications managers Gescomet, VMI, and a soundproof generator set integrated into the platform, according to the Army itself.

The Soria station is the main communications hub of the mobile command post and provides support in any tactical situation. It is equipped with different transmission equipment: satellite communications on the move through the Spanish Military Satellite Communications System (Secomsat) and several military and civil communications systems (VHF/UHF, HF, satellite, Inmarsat…).

The winning companies will be in charge of the engineering design, the supply of the equipment; hardware and software installation and configuration work and validation; the necessary transformations in the 30 SOMT Vamtac vehicles (Vamtac S3 and ST5 model); the supply of spare parts and tools for maintenance; staff training; and the final homologation of the modified vehicles.

The contract budget is almost three million euros -2,968,533 euros, taxes included-, divided into three annuities (2022, 2023 and 2024). The estimated value amounts to 3.3 million by including a possible extension for one more year. The Headquarters of Economic Affairs of the Army Logistics Support Command (MALE) selected the offer from Aicox and RF for being the best in terms of quality and price, according to the award announcement.

Up to eight companies submitted offers. The joint venture made up of Aicox and RF competed in the final phase of the contest with the company JPG.

 

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