Memotec Data Incorporated

Memotec Data Incorporated was a small data processing and communications company based in Montreal, Quebec and came into the spolight when it purchased former crown corporation Teleglobe Canada in 1987 under the leadership of its president, William McKenzie. The company changed its name after the purchase of Teleglobe. Bell Canada Enterprises acquired a minority stake in Memotec in 1987 and Kontron Holdings.

The company was re-incorporated in 1993 as Memotec Communications Incorporated. The company was acquired by Comtech EF Data (Comtech Communications Incorporated) of Tempe, Arizona. Memotec's core business today is in data optimization.

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Evolution to Bandwidth Optimization Leveraging its expertise in voice processing and network protocols, Memotec identified a need in cellular backhaul, and more specifically in using satellite communications to serve rural and remote areas. From its enterprise days, Memotec knew how to squeeze more traffic into less bandwidth to reduce telecommunications costs for its customers. The cellular backhaul satellite environment, known for its high-cost communication links, needed just such a solution.

Leveraging its vast experienced gained from decades of delivering leading-edge enterprise networking solutions, Memotec now focuses its efforts on optimizing and compressing mobile traffic, launching a radically new business model for cost-effective, efficient rural GSM deployments over satellite communications.

Today Memotec is the acknowledged market leader in GSM satellite backhaul optimization since 2002. And once again, with its new CX-U and CX-UA series, Memotec has succeeded in bridging yet another technological divide, between satellite and terrestrial networks, with outstanding success.

Memotec Today The growth of data traffic had created stress points in the backhaul network. Memotec understands data and voice networks and how to make them more efficient. In fact, a key Memotec strength throughout the years has been its core team of engineers, a cohesive group of thinkers and doers who have worked seamlessly together through many projects, products and technological challenges and who have built sustainability for perennial success by sharing their knowledge within the company. Thanks to this skilled team, Memotec, today, has an innovative product range designed expressly to bring relief to terrestrial and satellite cellular backhaul networks, across different wireless mobile technologies [GSM, UMTS, CDMA].

Management The company is led by Yves Hupe, president of Memotec Inc. Headquartered in Montreal, Canada, Memotec has several offices worldwide: North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, South East Asia and Pacific... With more than 130 worldwide customers (October 2008), the company can leverage the experience gained in the network design and bandwidth optimization industry, having worked and continuing working with major infrastructure manufacturers. The parent company, Comtech EF Data, also allows benefiting from its R&D investments and expertise.