SHAPING THE FUTURE OF SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS
APPENDIX C – TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
EL170 IP Satellite Modulator
Input Interface
• Auto switching 10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet interface;
• Maximum rate: 133 Mbit/s or 67,000 packets per second;
• Layer 2 bridge mode: Ethernet frames over satellite;
• Layer 3 bridge or router mode: IP packets over satellite;
• Proxy ARP support;
• Base Band Frame input (optional);
• Supported encapsulation modes:
- Data piping;
- Ultra Lightweight Encapsulation (ULE);
- Multi Protocol Encapsulation (MPE) Extended Performance
Encapsulation (XPE) - Newtec’s highly efficient encapsulation protocol
for the encapsulation of Ethernet/IP frames in DVB-S2 Base-Band
frames.
• Filtering and routing capabilities:
- Up to 32 VLAN filters;
- Up to 255 MAC filters;
- Up to 255 IP routes/air-MAC addresses;
- Up to 255 PIDs;
- Up to 16 DVB-S2 Streams.
Modulation
Supported modulation schemes and FEC
• DVB-S/DSNG:
Outer/Inner FEC: Reed Solomon /Viterbi
ModCods:
- QPSK: 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 5/6, 7/8
- 8PSK: 2/3, 5/6, 8/9
- 16QAM: 3/4, 7/8
• DVB-S2:
Outer/Inner FEC: BCH/ LDPC
ModCods:
- QPSK: 1/4, 1/3, 2/5, 1/2, 3/5, 2/3, 3/4, 4/5, 5/6, 8/9, 9/10
- 8PSK: 3/5, 2/3, 3/4, 5/6, 8/9, 9/10
- 16APSK: 2/3, 3/4, 4/5, 5/6, 8/9, 9/10
- 32APSK: 3/4, 4/5, 5/6, 8/9, 9/10