A refurbished VertexRSI 9.0m antenna installed at Aflenz teleport in Austria.

A refurbished VertexRSI 9.0m antenna installed at Aflenz teleport in Austria

In May 2022 Skybrokers delivered and installed an used and refurbished VertexRSI 9.0m satellite antenna at the A1 Telecom Aflenz Teleport in Austria. The VertexRSI 9.0m Earth Station Antenna was completely touched up to include new motors, new jackboots, bearings and new de-icing pads. Our team successfully finished and tested the antenna system in the last week of May 2022.

A1 Telecom Group Austria operates the Aflenz Teleport providing worldwide data services, satellite measurement services and its direct-2-home platform for TV channels. Aflenz Teleport is the only Earth Station in Austria and is operating over the 50 satellite antennas including the 275 tonnes weighing 32m NEC antenna! The teleport is located in Aflenz in the heart of federal state Styria (Steiermark Bundesland).

Aflenz Teleport was put in operation in May 1980 and is one of Europe’s largest and most modern satellite relay stations and is an integral part of the Telekom Austria Group’s international terrestrial backbone network with a total of 200 PoP’s in 47 countries of the world.

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.