Globecomm Awarded Equipment Acquisition and Engineering Services Contract from a Telecommunications Service Provider Valued at up to $11 Million

Published on Wednesday, 08 February 2012 10:17 Written by TradersHuddle Staff

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-( Business Wire )-

Globecomm Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: GCOM), a leading global provider of communications solutions and services, announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, ComSource has been awarded a one year Equipment Acquisition and Engineering Services contract from a telecommunications service provider (the customer) valued at up to $11.0 million. The Company has received funding in the amount of $8.6 million and the customer has an option to provide additional funding for the remaining amount throughout the contract term.

ComSource will provide acquisition services to acquire selected telecommunications hardware and engineering support to provide laboratory independent, verification and validation testing services.

Byron Parker, President of ComSource, said: “This contract award represents an exciting new direction for our laboratory testing services and growth into the machine to machine (M2M) testing marketplace.”

About Globecomm Systems

Globecomm Systems Inc., or Globecomm, is a leading global provider of satellite-based managed network solutions. Employing our expertise in emerging communication technologies we are able to offer a comprehensive suite of system integration, system products, and network services enabling a complete end-to-end solution for our customers. We believe our integrated approach of in-house design and engineering expertise combined with a world-class global network and our 24 by 7 network operating centers provides us a unique competitive advantage. We are now taking this value proposition to selective vertical markets, including government, wireless, media, enterprise, and maritime. As a network solution provider we leverage our global network to provide customers managed access services to the United States Internet backbone, video content, the public switched telephone network or their corporate headquarters, or government offices. We currently have customers for which we are providing such services in the United States, Europe, South America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

Based in Hauppauge, New York, Globecomm Systems also maintains offices in Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia, the Netherlands, South Africa, Hong Kong, Germany, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and Afghanistan.

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