Company: KVHI
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001007587-25-000003
Chunk: 19

Company: KVH INDUSTRIES INC \DE\
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 19
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 winding down our product manufacturing operations at our Middletown, Rhode Island location and ceased substantial manufacturing activity in late 2024. We expect to continue to facilitate customer transition to third-party hardware products compatible with our mobile satellite communications services.

Our parabolic mobile satellite antenna products use sophisticated robotics, stabilization, and control software, sensing technologies, transceiver integration, and advanced antenna designs to automatically search for, identify, and point directly at the optimal communications and television satellite while the vessel or vehicle is in motion. Our antennas use digital inertial measurement units, gyroscopes, and inclinometers to measure the movement of an antenna platform in relation to the earth in three different axes. Microprocessors and our proprietary stabilization and control software use that data to compute the antenna movement necessary for the antenna’s motors to point the antenna properly and maintain contact with the satellite. If an obstruction temporarily blocks the satellite signal, our products either automatically switch to an available, alternate satellite beam or, if no other beam is available, continue to track the satellite’s location according to the movement of the antenna platform in order to carry out automatic, rapid reacquisition of the signal when a direct line of sight to the satellite is restored.

Satellite Internet and Phone. Our TracNet hybrid terminals (TracNet H-series) offer an end-to-end, multichannel connectivity solution. Every TracNet H-series terminal includes an integrated Ku-band VSAT antenna, high-efficiency 5G/LTE cellular antenna, and high-powered Wi-Fi bridge for connections to shore-based Wi-Fi channels. These same cellular and Wi-Fi technologies are also integral components of our TracNet Coastal products. TracNet H-series and Coastal systems offer intelligent hybrid channel switching based on factors such as service availability, costs, and the quality of data transfer. Our TracNet H-series and Coastal systems also offer the option to add two additional third-party services and their companion terminals to serve as alternate primary or backup services. We also continue to service and support our legacy TracPhone VSAT-only terminals. Together with our airtime services, these products provide an end-to-end solution for offshore mobile connectivity to commercial, leisure, and government customers seeking an integrated hardware and service solution for mobile communications and seamless region-to-region roaming. We manufacture the TracNet and TracPhone terminals and provide 24/7/365 after-sale support. We integrate the full rack of discrete below-decks equipment typically used on traditional VSAT systems into a single, streamlined unit that is significantly easier to deploy than