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Feature Descriptions
MDM9000 Satellite Modem
The following figure compares 20% roll-off with 5% roll-off.
By lowering the roll-off factor and accordingly increasing the symbol rate, the throughput can be
increased while maintaining the same occupied (leased) bandwidth.
Clean Channel Technology®
Newtec's Clean Channel Technology is a combination of improved roll-off factors for DVB-S2 and
advanced filtering technologies to allow optimal carrier spacing. The combination can bring
efficiency gains up to 15%.
Clean channel technology consists out of the following three effects.
A first effect in the Clean Channel Technology is applying a smaller Roll-Off (RO) percentage than
currently used in the DVB-S2 standard. In the DVB-S2 standard the 20% and 25% roll-off factor
percentages are common. Basically this means that these percentages need to be added to the
desired bandwidth over satellite. Reducing these roll-off factors to 5%, 10% or 15% results in a
direct gain in bandwidth. This is reflected in the following formula: