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increase the modulation and coding granularity.“Newtec was a key player in the development of the new standard which, with the advent of 4K and HEVC, will deliver much-needed greater efficiency,” said Thomas Van den Driessche, chief commercial officer of Newtec. “It will allow more content to be handled by the same satellite.” SES was an early adopter of S2 Extensions, using Newtec MDM6000 satellite modems to increase the efficiency of its African SES-5 payload, and at IBC, Newtec was showing off its latest hubs, modulators and modems that are compatible with the soon-to- be-updated standard. Carrier ID addresses the long-standing problem of identifying the source of satellite interference — a problem that Newtec, working with the Satellite Interference Reduction Group (iRG) discovered is a continuous problem for one in five operators. “We’re one of the first
manufacturers to include Carrier ID support in our
products,” said Van den Driessche. “It’s that kind of innovation on behalf of our customers that allows us to continue to grow our market share and to maintain our leading position in the industry.” Satellite operators are
the company describes as unique signal purity, TeamCast believes that it can provide a direct path to ‘DVB-Sx’ enabled professional solutions. “For us, it’s all about DVB-Sx and beyond,” said Gerard Faria, chief technology officer,
offer innovative and powerful solutions to the satellite industry,” continued Faria. “Furthermore, our involvement in the current DVB-Sx standardisation body is a warranty for our customers that we will continuously
“IBC trends? Higher resolution screens, technologies supporting greater consumer control, multi-screen viewing and the continuing transition to a fully digital environment”
required to begin the transition to implementation of Carrier ID by 1 January, 2015.
DVB-Sx — and beyond Also demonstrating its capability in this field was TeamCast, who announced new features for the Vyper DVB-S2 modulator, including Carrier ID, low roll-off values, multi- stream, ACM and opportunistic data insertion. Field programmable and with what
who is also co-chair of the FoBTV Network technical group. “We also launched SaTurn, a compact OEM dual DVB-S2 demodulator board that allow pro IRD manufacturers to switch easily to the high-end side, including the use of low FEC rates for low C/Ns, or 16 and 32 APSK modulation, for high bitrates. “Our long and proven
expertise in digital modulation technologies allow us to
help them to optimise their transmissions.” For the industry as a whole,
there can be little doubt that satellite technology plays a key role. That’s no less true for certain segments of the industry. In newsgathering, for example, competition is typically fierce to be first with the story — and new products at IBC were designed specifically to support that goal. On the Cobham stand, for example, the focus was on the
company’s ability to provide a range of portable satellite solutions, each offering different combinations of size, weight and power. Perhaps most notable among these was the Explorer 710 BGAN terminal. First ‘soft launched’ at NAB, it received its European debut at IBC in Amsterdam, where Cobham was demonstrating it live for the first time. The 710 provides streaming rates over 650kbps out of the box, when using the new high datarate streaming service from Inmarsat.
Jean-François Leprince-Ringuet, Eutelsat
Smallest, lightest “This is the world’s smallest and lightest Class 1 BGAN terminal,” said Henrik Nørrelykke, vice president, Land Systems at Cobham SATCOM. “It represents a step change in what’s possible — a real tipping point in terms of the capability it provides to the first guy in. For any application or environment in which timing is critical and there’s a need for high bandwidth, the Explorer 710 provides an outstanding solution.” The size of a laptop, the
Explorer 710 weighs less than
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