VT iDirect, Inc.
launched the first suite of DVB-S2/ACM products
in its Evolution product line – the Evolution X3
router, XLC-10 line card and iDX software. These
new products enable service providers to
leverage the benefits of DVB-S2 with Adaptive
Coding and Modulation (ACM) to lower operating
costs and increase their business opportunities.
The Evolution offerings complement iDirect’s
widely-deployed, award winning iNFINITI product
line.
The Evolution
X3 is an integrated satellite modem and IP
router with Ethernet interface. The X3 maximizes
bandwidth efficiency, featuring DVB-S2/ACM on
the outbound carrier and iDirect’s patented,
deterministic TDMA on the inbound channel. It
supports a wide range of IP data rates, carrier
modulations and FEC codes, including downstream
modulations of up to 16APSK and upstream
modulations of 8PSK. The Evolution product line,
which includes the XLC-10, iDX and X3, enables
satellite networks to reach data speeds of up to
156 Megabits per second.
Extensive
tests show that the Evolution product line can
deliver a 30 percent improvement in bandwidth
efficiency over DVB-S systems. An additional
gain of 50 percent is possible through ACM, an
advanced feature of the DVB-S2 standard which
iDirect has built into its Evolution product
line. These dramatic gains open new
opportunities for service providers to improve
support for a range of IP applications,
including virtual private networks (VPN), voice
over IP (VoIP), videoconferencing, enterprise
networks, point of sale, SCADA, telemetry,
multimedia and Internet cafes.
The new
Evolution product line fully integrates with the
advanced features of the iDirect Intelligent
Platform to help operators amplify the gains of
DVB-S2. One of the platform’s key features,
Group QoS, enables service providers to combine
multiple small networks into a single, larger
carrier that is better able to leverage the
efficiency of DVB-S2/ACM.
