Orbcomm

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ORBCOMM, Inc.

Company type	Wireless data networking
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	1993 by Orbital Sciences and Teleglobe
Headquarters	Rochelle Park, New Jersey, United States
Key people	Chairman: Jerome (Jerry) Eisenberg CFO: Dean Milcos CEO: Sameer Agrawal EVP Technology and Operations: John J. Stolte
Products	Industrial Internet, telecommunications and informatics, and satellite communications. [buzzword]
Revenue	US$248 million (2020)
Number of employees	800
Website	www.orbcomm.com

ORBCOMM is an American company that offers industrial internet and machine to machine (M2M)^[1] communications hardware, software and services designed to track, monitor, and control fixed and mobile assets in markets including transportation, heavy equipment, maritime, oil and gas, utilities and government. The company provides hardware devices, modems, web applications, and data services delivered over multiple satellite and cellular networks.

As of June 30, 2021, ORBCOMM has more than 2.3 million billable subscriber communicators,^[2] serving original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) such as Caterpillar Inc., Doosan Infracore America, Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd., John Deere, Komatsu Limited, and Volvo Construction Equipment, as well as other customers such as J. B. Hunt,^[3] C&S Wholesale Grocers, Canadian National Railways, C.R. England, Hub Group, KLLM Transport Services, Marten Transport, Swift Transportation, Target, Tropicana, Tyson Foods, Walmart and Werner Enterprises.^[4]

ORBCOMM owns and operates a global network of 31 low Earth orbit (LEO) communications satellites and accompanying ground infrastructure, including 16 gateway Earth stations (GESs) around the world. ORBCOMM is licensed to provide service in more than 130 countries and territories worldwide.^[5]