iDirect Evolution 8000 Series - Introduction; Figure 1. Front View of the E8350 Satellite Router

iDirect Evolution 8000 Series Satellite Router Installation and Safety Manual 1
1 Introduction
The Evolution 8000 Series Satellite Router is the highest performance remote networking
solution available today, offering tremendous flexibility, security, and network capacity.
Developed to meet the most demanding user requirements, Evolution 8000 Series Satellite
Routers are ideal for military, network carriers, or high-end enterprise customers requiring
reliable, fast, secure, and encrypted data communications.
The Evolution 8000 Series Satellite Routers deliver all of the benefits of broadband IP
networking while providing the highest TCP/IP throughput in the industry, including:
• Built-in flexibility
–Mesh option
–SCPC option
• Secure communications
– FIPS 140-2 Certified (Pending)
– Embedded 3DES/AES encryption
– Direct interconnection for redundant failover
• Bandwidth optimization
– Reservation MF-TDMA return channel that is four times more bandwidth efficient than
Slotted Aloha
– Turbo Codes on the forward and return channel providing a 1.5 dB power advantage
over Reed-Solomon Viterbi codes
– 1.2 Spacing — delivers 14% savings in bandwidth
– Proprietary IP encapsulation that is 15% more efficient than MPE (Multi-Protocol
Encapsulation)
– Networks configuration in 1kbps increments to get exactly the bandwidth required
A front view of the e8350 Satellite Router is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Front View of the e8350 Satellite Router