De-installation of a VertexRSI 9m Satellite Antenna in Geneva, Switzerland.

De-installation of a VertexRSI 9m Satellite Antenna in Geneva, Switzerland.

Skybrokers de-installed a VertexRSI 9m Earth Station Antenna at Reuters in Geneva, Switzerland in November 2015. The de-installation was performed by a three member installation team and was part of a de-commissioning project of two antennas. Special thanks to John Knight of CTS Media who made this project happen. The antenna was checked out and refurbished in our facility in Europe and found a new home in India.

Reuters is an international news agency owned by Thomson Reuters and is one of the largest news agencies in the world. It employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists in about 200 locations worldwide. The agency was established in London in the UK in 1851 by the German-born Paul Reuter. It was acquired by the Thomson Corporation in 2008 and now makes up the media division of Thomson Reuters.

VertexRSI offered the full range of earth station and base station communications products and was specialized in fixed and mobile satellite communication gateways, antennas, high power amplifiers, baseband products, frequency converters, controls and microwave components. VertexRSI offered design and engineering support as preparation for the installation.

Skybrokers offers for over 10 years VertexRSI Satellite Earth Station Antennas, new as well as used. We can provide turnkey solutions, refurbishment and upgrades. We supported several clients with new and used antennas, such as the VertexRSI 3.8m, VertexRSI 6.3m, VertexRSI 6.1, VertexRSI 7.2m, VertexRSI 8.1m and VertexRSI 9.3m.

The company was founded in 1973 and operated from 2004 till 2019 as subsidiary of General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies, a USA based business unit of General Dynamics C4 Systems, operating as General Dynamics Mission Systems. VertexRSI was owned by Tripoint Global, a privately held company in New York who bought Vertex in 1999 from Vertex Corp. Tripoint Global was composed that time of RSI, Prodelin, Gabriel Electronics & Microwave and CSA Wireless Communications. Tripoint Global merged Vertex with RSI to become VertexRSI. GDSatcom acquired Trpoint Global in 2004.

In 2019 VertexRSI (GDSatcom) was acquired by CPI, Inc.