CalAmp Corp. develops and markets wireless communications
solutions that deliver data, voice, and video for critical
networked communications and other applications in the
United States. It operates in two segments, Wireless DataCom
and Satellite. The Wireless DataCom segment provides
wireless communications technologies, products, and services
to the wireless networks and mobile resource management
(MRM) markets for various applications. It also designs and
builds multi-network wireless systems that permit first-
responder fire, police, and emergency medical services
personnel to access data and communicate remotely with
colleagues, dispatchers, and back-office databases. In
addition, this segment designs and provides applications
involving various combinations of private and public
networks, narrow-band and broad-band frequencies, licensed
and unlicensed radio spectrum, and mobile and fixed-remote
communications. Further, its MRM wireless solutions include
global positioning system location, cellular data modems,
and programmable events-based notification firmware as main
components. This segment sells its products and services
for utility, governmental, and enterprise customers through
direct and indirect sales channels. The Satellite segment
develops, manufactures, and sells direct broadcast satellite
(DBS) outdoor consumer premise equipment for digital and
high definition satellite television reception. Its DBS
reception products include reflector dish antennae and
outdoor electronics that receive, process, amplify, and
switch satellite television signals for distribution over
coaxial cable to multiple set-top boxes inside the home.
These DBS reception products are installed at subscribers
premises to receive subscription television programming
signals transmitted from orbiting satellites. CalAmp Corp.
was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Oxnard,
California.