News: Microelectronics
16 September 2025
Baylin’s Advantech receives CDN$665,000 purchase order for 200W S-band GaN SSPAs
Wireless technology company Baylin Technologies Inc of North York, Ontario, Canada (which provides passive and active RF and satellite communications products and services) says that its subsidiary Advantech Wireless Technologies Inc of Kirkland, Quebec, has received a CDN$665,000 purchase order from a US-based system integrator for its 200W outdoor S-band gallium nitride (GaN) solid-state power amplifiers (SSPA). The amplifiers will be integrated into the US Department of Defense (DOD) battlefield terminals to support US warfighters.
The solid-state amplifiers provide what is claimed to be unparalleled reliability. The CAN-Bus operating platform supports component-level diagnostics along with the ability to modify features and operations parameters remotely.
“Being trusted by defense contractors to support battlefield terminals for the US DOD demonstrates the quality of our technology and its reliability,” says Baylin’s CEO Leighton Carroll. “Our strategy has been upgrading the legacy Advantech technology, not only to include more features but to also have higher configurability and resiliency,” he adds. “By moving to our new modular architecture, we are also simplifying supply chain and production, thereby needing fewer resources to produce what we’re great at. Over time this will not only lead to competitive differentiation, but will also drive margin improvement.”
