ETL Russia Presentation July 2014

ETL Systems
RSSC Dubna– July 2014
Global Leaders in Satellite RF Engineering & Custom Build
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Heritage
Custom Build &
Design
• Specialist RF equipment for 25 years
• 80% International Sales
• 75 staff in 3 global offices (UK, US, ME)
• Cover R&D, Production & Test
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Global RF Equipment Coverage
Broadcasters
Government
Satellite Operators
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The challenge:
• More and more space crafts orbiting the earth
• Bigger and more teleports with many different sizes and
designs of antennas
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Importance of Signal Handling
• Ever increasing traffic between space & terrestrial networks
• GEO orbiting satellites well exceed 420
• Hundreds of LEO and MEO satellites provide interlinks
between spacecraft. All eventually beamed down to earth
• Increasing traffic density, as well as capacity means
broader IF bands (E.G HTS Satellites)
• Bigger earth stations and wider range of antennas at each
of these teleports
• Antennas designed to handle multiple RF links of different
frequencies; Ka, Ku and C-bands
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Routing Your Satellite Signal – Old vs New
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ETL supply all of the satcoms segments
40% Government & Defense
40% Broadcast
ETL
10% Satellite Operators
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10% Telecoms
ETL Products
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What ETL matrices do
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Case Studies & applications
Excelling in RF Engineering
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Case Study 1
The brief: European teleport wanting to balance, equalise & distribute all
downlink and uplink traffic with variable gain & slope to compensate cable
losses; and have variable gain on each splitter output to balance signals
Rack layout of ETL Modular system with
50 downlink and 50 uplink chains.
system
ETL solution & roles:
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Initial definition of requirements
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Customisation: each RF path has a
variable gain amplifier and splitter
(combiner on TX) with variable gain
per output; based on ETL’s modular
system chassis. New RF cards
developed.
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Supply of amplifiers, splitters, fan
trays, termination panels, and intramodule cables.
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Supply and integration into racks.
Case Study 2
The brief: US government upgrading and expanding L-band switch
matrices and need 64x384 with specific RF performance; compact space
and simple cable installation
Vulcan based 64x384 system in
comfortable 3 racks
ETL solution & roles:
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Rack layouts and cabling agreed,
with particular regard to concerns
over total cabling requirements to
modems and antennas
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Customisation: cable management
and termination panels (standard RF
performance)
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Supply of complete system from
termination panel in to termination
panel out.
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Supply and integration into racks.
Case Study 3
Marine TVRO
• Typically 2 or 4 antennas
• Typically 4 L-band feeds per antenna (Ku or Ka
band)
• 16 to 128 receivers (some digiboxes STB’s; and
some IRD receivers)
• A pair of tracking antennas (e.g. Seatel) with
programmed blockage zones for
superstructure
• Fibre or direct Coax install with LNB powering
• Poor isolation and high losses lead to lost
signal, especially for Ka band
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1. RF Level Detection redundancy switching for 1 Satellite position with LNB control
DC 13/18V
+/- 22 kHz
4 off 2x1 Redundancy Switches
in a modular system chassis
ETL Model 26128-SW103-B7B7
DC 13/18V
+/- 22 kHz
Switching based on RF
detection – provides
DC (0V/13/18V +/- 22
kHz
4x64 L-band Optimus Matrix
ETL Model 21150-B7B7
DC 13/18V
+/- 22 kHz
Upto 64 feeds to set top boxes
selecting inputs via 13/18V +/- 22 KHz
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Upto 64 feeds to receivers with
remote routing control
Case Study 4 -Enigma RF Matrix
• 32x32 matrix (expandable)
• Fan-out, fan-in, and FIFO options
• high resilience applications; custom
requirements & asymmetric systems (n>>m)
• NEW: NGM-40: 1200-3000 MHz and vari gain;
NGM-34: excellent RF specs to 2450 MHz for
Ka-band; NGM-35 low noise variant
Benefits & basics:
•IF, wideband ,L-band & XL-band options
•1 RF card for each RF input & output adding resilience
•Hot swap of all active components
•Dual redundant CPU’s & PSU’S
•On board monitoring & diagnostics
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Static camera’s single matrix with dual input receivers
Matrix Size Calculation
• No of Camera’s = No of Diversity Receivers
• 1 Receiver per camera
• 2 matrix outputs per camera
• 2 Matrix inputs per antenna
• For 18 antenna sites = 36 antenna’s = 36 matrix inputs
• For 20 camera’s there are 40 receiver inputs = 40 matrix
outputs
A1M
CAM 1
A1B
CAM 1 RX
CAM 2 RX
CAM 2
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A2M
A2B
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CAM 3 RX
Victor IF to L-band Matrix
• 16x16 full fan-out matrix (8x8, 8x16)
• Compact form factor (1U)
• Designed for smaller head-ends and SNG trucks
• NEW: VTR-56 is to 2500 MHz for Ka-band and HTS
Benefits & basics:
• VTR-10 offers LNB powering and RF level
detection
• Variable gain
• Dual redundant PSU’s
• VTR-50 is lower cost, no LNB
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Product Reference – RF over Fibre
Excelling in RF Engineering
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StingRay- RF over Fibre
• Ultra compact design
• High isolation
• Hot-swap
• Wide dynamic range and output MGC
Benefits & Basics
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Up to 16 RX or TX modules in a 1U hot-swap chassis for high capacity
applications
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Part populate and / or mix TX and RX modules for downlink and uplink
with VSAT or small number of terminals
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High Isolation between modules and good RF performance
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Front panel local control and ethernet remote control
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Automatic link optimisation
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Product Reference - Amplifiers
Excelling in RF Engineering
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Alto Amplifiers – typical application
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Alto L-band Amplifiers
Variable gain, high performance amplifiers (flatness & noise figure)
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NEW: 1:1 redundant model, hot swap, variable gain and slope and
options for monitor port, 10 MHz & DC pass, outputs (1U)
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NEW: 2+1 and 4+2 redundant Alto shelves
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NEW: 2U shelf with hot swap PSU’s and enhanced linearity
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NEW: High performance auto gain control (AGC) & MGC modules
Benefits & basics:
• 8-38 dB gain with local and remote control variants
• Options for LNB powering and Slope Compensation
(0-8 dB)
• 4,8, or 16 amplifier shelves (1U and 2U)
• User settable AGC output (-20 to 0dBm)
• Wide AGC dynamic range (-55 to +5dBm)
• +30 dBm OIP3
• Hot swap amplifier modules and on board monitoring
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Product Reference - Splitters
Excelling in RF Engineering
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DEXTRA Splitters / Combiners - NEW
• 4, 8, 16-way splitters & combiners in
single and dual configurations.
• high resilience RF distribution, and
optimum satellite signal quality
• Ka-band and HTS applications
Advanced functionality:
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0/13/18V LNB powering (±22 KHz
tone)
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LNB current monitoring
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Customer settable alarm thresholds
for LNB current
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Dual redundant amplifiers (option)
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20 dB monitor port on the front
panel
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Web browser access (and SNMP) for
voltage and LNB alarm threshold
selection and status monitoring
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Compact 1RU 19” chassis
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RF performance:
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Specified to ensure optimum signal
quality with high throughput / high
bandwidth satcoms.
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850-2450 MHz operating range
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Excellent Gain flatness (frequency
response)
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High return loss
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High linearity
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Low noise figure
Modular System - RF signal handling
• Hot swap chassis with dual redundant PSU’s
and CPU -Up to 16 RF modules
• Ideal for larger teleports & broadcasters
• NEW: AGC version of 4-way splitter; 4-way
with RF level monitoring; and IF redundant
amplifier splitters / combiners
Benefits & Basics
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Splitters / combiners – 4 & 8-way – fixed gain, variable gain,
redundant amplifier, and output gain control options
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2x1 redundancy switches with RF detection
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Dual redundant amplifier cards
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Variable gain, variable slope compensation amplifier
modules
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Product Reference - Switches
Excelling in RF Engineering
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Monitoring Switches – DC to 22GHz
• LS Series – compact and low cost (8x1, 16x1, 32x1)
• Standard carrier monitoring applications
• NEW: Ka-band and HTS monitoring switches 50-2450 MHz
(8x1 model 23194, 16x1model 23195, 32x1model 23196)
• NEW: 1x8, 1x32 LS Switch version
Benefits & Basics
• Multiple modules for 63x1 etc
• Compact form factor (1U)
• IF through L-band
• SHF (S-band, Ka and Ku)
• Local and remote control
• Dual redundant PSU’s
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Product Reference - Components
Excelling in RF Engineering
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Component range
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Component Mounting System (CMS)-NEW!
• New: ETL 1U 19 inch Chassis
• Designed to house Scorpion Style passive
splitter/combiners
• Will accommodate 2, 4 and 8-way modules
• Capacity for 8 x 2 way or 4 x 4-way or 4 x 8way or a combination.
Functions include:
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DC & 10 MHz pass all ports
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DC and 10 MHz block all ports
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DC and 10 MHz pass on 1 port and
blocked on the rest
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ETL Summary
• Strong engineering and performance bias
• Solutioneering culture for new designs
• 25 years of worldwide experience
• World-class switch matrices, supported by a
very strong range of peripherals.
• Winners of the 2007, 2009 & 2013 Queen’s
Award for Enterprise
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