SatixFy Communications Ltd. announced a deal to supply its chips to Astrome, marking SatixFy's entrance into the terrestrial 5G market and a direct foothold into the Indian market. Astrome, headquartered in Bengaluru, India and with offices in the U.S. and France, provides gigabit speed wireless solutions to telecom service providers, Private Networks/Enterprises, and Defense organizations. Astrome is focused on delivering GigaMesh, a multi-gigabit wireless X-haul radio to accelerate the deployment of 5G in suburban areas and broadband in rural areas.

SatixFy's PRIME 1 beamformer chip will power Astrome's Next-Gen GigaMesh product, which is one of the only point-to-multi-point E-band high-speed link for terrestrial 5G in the world. The PRIME 1 beamformer chip, initially developed as a key building block for SatixFy's satellite antenna systems, supports up to 32 antenna elements and can be digitally connected to other PRIME chips to rapidly build a range of antennas. The PRIME 1 chip was developed with the support of the UK Space Agency via the European Space Agency's ARTES Core Competitiveness Programme.