Comtech Heights H8, Remote Gateway

Description

Overview
Heights H8 Remote Gateway is HTS ready, providing the lowest cost highest throughput solution for feeder link teleports supporting fixed or remote terminals, scaling from tens to thousands of sites economically. H8 Remote Gateway – Low to Medium Throughput, for Dynamic SCPC mode of operation, upgradable to H-DNA …

• • Receives up to 30 Mbps user IP data
  • Transmits up to 8 Mbps user IP data

The Heights™ Networking Platform is engineered to elevate your services with unparalleled horsepower, efficiency and intelligence.
There are multiple remote gateway options that support Dynamic SCPC (dSCPC) depending upon the performance needs of each site within your network. All remote options are able to interoperate within the same network and are equipped with all features enabled upon initial site rollout. All future features are made available to customers with an Engineering Support Services contract.

Heights combines our most efficient waveforms, header and payload compression engines, WAN optimization, proven dynamic bandwidth and power management along with bidirectional ACM capability to provide the highest user throughput, highest availability, and most optimal resource utilization available in the industry.

Heights meets the demands of those operating on traditional wide beams while providing distinct advantages for those with High throughput Satellites (HTS) in their future. Heights is HTS ready, allowing service providers to leverage the significant increases in performance these new designs will offer for inbound links.

Heights Dynamic Network Access (H-DNA)
H-DNA is an evolutionary dynamic network access technology designed for Heights return links that:

• Rapidly adapts to changing environments.
• Delivers superior efficiency & Quality of Experience (QoE).
• Instantly assigns capacity based on network-wide demand.
• Intelligently utilizes total network bandwidth at all times.

H-DNA is designed to provide network wide fast switching on a sub-second interval making the process seamless and transparent to end users for real-time as well as non real-time applications. H-DNA leverages Comtech’s high performance VersaFEC-2 waveforms with ACM, dynamic power control, high performance packet processing, network wide multi-tier QoS and IP optimization technology to enable unprecedented bandwidth efficiency and superior QoE. H-DNA fast switching and bandwidth allocation mechanism allows a Heights network to respond rapidly to changing traffic and link conditions while maintaining lowest latency and jitter for superior QoE and maximum bandwidth utilization efficiency.

Unparalleled Remote Horsepower
Each Remote Gateway provides unprecedented processing power with all multi-layer optimization features enabled on the device. The
performance levels enable the Heights remote gateway suite to support the most demanding of multimedia traffic mixes in a single unit and provide the headroom required to leverage new HTS spacecraft designs. The increased G/T performance of these new spacecraft allow for significantly more throughput to be transmitted in the inbound direction, in terms of Mbps. However, this increased Mbps cannot be met if the underlying packet processing is not able to keep up with traffic flow. Our remote gateways all have the underlying processing power to enable service providers to take full advantage of the potential of these new HTS designs and grow service levels as end users’ demands grow.

Dynamic MESH
Heights supports dynamic remote-to-remote connections (MESH) in router mode with dSCPC, using additional receivers at the remote.
Dynamic MESH requires “loop-back” operation where each site in a MESH connection is able to receive from all other sites in that MESH connection. Dynamic MESH eliminates double hop latency as remote-to-remote packets don’t have to transit through the hub. It also requires 50% less bandwidth as a remote-to-remote double hop link would consume almost twice the bandwidth.

WAN Optimization
Heights Remote Gateways incorporate embedded WAN optimization. WAN optimization includes TCP / http acceleration, persistent TCP connections, image smoothing, DNS caching and object caching and significantly improves user’s web browsing experience over higher latency satellite links while reducing the amount of required bandwidth. It also enables web and other TCP applications to fully utilize all available bandwidth. WAN optimization requires FX-4010C Application Delivery Controller (ADC) at the hub. WAN optimization is fully integrated with multi-tier QoS, ACM and IP optimization for maximum performance and efficiency.

Benefits

• High throughput capabilities support increasing end user traffic demands without upgrades or site visits.
• Flexible remote gateways can operate on both traditional wide and new HTS designs.
• Future-proof design allows remote gateways to take advantage of significant throughput increase potential of new HTS designs.
• Remote gateway horsepower allows maximum user IP bits per Amplifier (BUC) Watt to be achieved.
• Seamless Bridge Point-to-Multipoint (BPM) Operation provides traffic separation for remote multi-tenant environments.
• On-board Global IP roaming functionality allows each remote to make individual beam transition decisions.
• Multi-layer optimization delivers the highest user IP bits per Hz, minimizing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) over network life.

Comtech EF Data Corporation is a leading supplier of satellite bandwidth and link optimisation. The H-Plus Remote Gateway high-performance satellite communications infrastructure solutions feature groundbreaking efficiency, robust intelligence and unparalleled horsepower. Commercial and government users around the world utilise our solution suite to reduce OPEX/CAPEX and to increase throughput for the most demanding fixed and mobile networks.