Comtech Heights Platforms (Mini_SOLO_VNO) Network HUBS

Description

Comtech Heights™ Networking Platform is engineered to elevate your services with unparalleled horsepower, efficiency and intelligence.
The platform’s features were designed with the service provider and its multi user environments in mind, from concept to operation. It Combines our most efficient waveforms, Heights Dynamic Network Access (H-DNA), header and payload compression engines, WAN & GTP optimisation, multi-tier Quality of Service (QoS), proven dynamic bandwidth and power management along with bi-directional Adaptive Coding & Modulation (ACM) capability to provide the highest user throughput, highest availability, and most optimal resource utilisation available in the industry.

The Heights Networking Platform meets the demands of those operating on traditional wide beams while providing distinct advantages for those using or considering migrating to High Throughput Satellites (HTS). Heights 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.

Three hub configurations are offered: 

• Heights Solo-Mini – Single network hub with single outbound carrier and shared bandwidth pool for inbound connections, for small private networks.
• Heights Solo – Single network hub with single outbound carrier and shared bandwidth pool for inbound connections.
• Heights VNO – Multi-network hub with multiple outbound carriers along with multiple associated shared bandwidth pools for inbound connections.
• Custom hub configurations are also available.

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 utilises total network bandwidth at all times.

Multi-Layer Optimisation
The multi-tier optimisation in the Heights Networking Platform provides the highest spectral and power efficiency in its class – delivering
highest user IP bits per Hz and user IP bits per Amplifier Watt. This multi-layer approach includes:

• Comtech’s DVB-S2X and Efficiency Boost (EB) Outbound.
• VersaFEC-2 on Inbounds.
• Bi-Directional ACM.
• Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation.
• IP Header and Payload Compression.
• Advanced Multi-Tier QoS

NetVue Intergrated Management System (NMS)
A state-of-the-art NMS is critical to operating a shared multi-user platform that supports multiple business models in a cost-effective manner. The Heights leverages the powerful NetVue Integrated Management System as a single front-end of multiple networks to observe and modify elements throughout all customer networks. In addition, NetVue provides tiered access levels that allow a network operator to provide Virtual Network Operator (VNO) monitor and control access to a number of different service providers for their own partition of the platform.

• Seamless Bridge Point-to-Multipoint (BPM) Operation.
• Global IP Roaming.
• WAN Optimisation.
• Dynamic MESH.
• Comtech Network Planning Tool (CNPT).
• Engineering Support Services (ESS).

Benefits

• Designed from the ground up for the service provider; seamless integration with existing IT infrastructure • Highly scalable platform able to support multiple business models simultaneously with networks ranging from a few sites to thousands of sites.
• Seamless layer 2 operation with VLAN support simplifies “plug-n-play” integration with provider infrastructure and maintains traffic
  separation among users.
• Advanced multi-tier QoS to support the service provider environment of diverse end users operating in a multi-tenant environment
  • Intelligent NetVue NMS provides insight required to operate the network optimally, maximising resource utilisation and enhancing
  profitability.
• Allows a network operator to support a number of different business models, including VNO and co-location.
• Comtech Network Planning Tool seamlessly integrates with the NetVue NMS to port configurations from planning to operations.
• ESS Prime service provides 24×7 consultation to ensure optimal design, implementation and operation.
• Bi-directional ACM enables optimal operation and highest network availability under all conditions, especially for on-the-move
  applications.
• Dynamic bandwidth and power management provide optimal resource utilisation achieving highest user throughput for available
  bandwidth and power.
• High-performance multi-core packet processing enables the most demanding services to be supported while providing the highest
  throughput abilities in the industry.
• WAN optimisation improves user QoE while saving bandwidth.
• Maximises Quality of Experience (QoE) by providing the best support of mission-critical business applications that require the
  lowest latency and jitter possible.