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In a milestone year, which saw Newtec celebrate its 30th anniversary, it is fitting that 2015 saw the company continue to champion innovation. This has been Newtec’s mission since it was founded in 1985 and today, the specialist in designing, developing and manufacturing satellite communications equipment and technologies is continuing to break barriers.

Products offered by Newtec include modulators, modems, redundancy switches, frequency converters, gateways, combiners, network optimisation units and hubs.

The company is particularly focused on pushing the limits of spectral efficiency, with the introduction of technologies like wideband DVB-S2X, Mx-DMA, Bandwidth Cancellation and predistortion Equalink 3 – all of which aim to help Newtec’s customers keep up with the insatiable demand for more bandwidth at lower costs. While transmission efficiency is important, reliability is essential. The company’s roots in mission critical services, such as TV broadcast and highspeed trunking, means equipment must be built to last.

Newtec’s solutions aim to address the main challenges in the following segments within the broadcast vertical market: • Direct-to-Home (DTH) broadcast. • Direct-to-Transmission Tower (DTT). • Distribution to local headends. • Fixed contribution. • Satellite News Gathering (SNG). • Multi-Service BroadCast (MSBC)

Networks. In addition, Newtec caters for: • Cellular backhaul and trunking.

• Consumer and enterprise VSAT. • Government and defence. • Mobility offshore and maritime. DTH Newtec offers powerful capabilities including Equalink 3 pre-distortion, which allows operators to increase their It’s the magic of satellite space segment efficiency by up to 20% without changing the end-users’ existing communications that Set Top Boxes (STBs) or impacting the uplink chain in any way, other than allows information to be updating the modulators to the latest Newtec M6100 series. This will help transmitted anywhere, position broadcasters as they gradually helping to build a safer, migrate to HD and then to 4K in the future.better informed and Another example would be for SNG or fixed contribution, where the DVB-S2X more connected world standard can save more than 20% of the space segment OPEX. for everyone.

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CONSUMER & ENTERPRISECONSUMER & VSAT ENTERPRISE VSAT BROADCAST BROADCAST

CELLULAR BACKHAUL CELLULAR & TRUNKINGBACKHAUL & TRUNKING

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MOBILITY, OFFSHORE & MARITIME MOBILITY, OFFSHORE & MARITIME

MSBC The Newtec Dialog multi-service platform is one example of how the application of cutting-edge Newtec technology can add significant value to the broadcast vertical market. The primary driver for developing this technology is reducing clients’ OPEX and CAPEX, as well as increasing operational flexibility.

Within the broadcast vertical market, Newtec Dialog brings automated workflows. The Newtec Dialog multiservice broadcast platform is a single multiservice platform designed to support and automate mixed occasional use live and file broadcast workflows, in combination with always-on data and voice services. Benefits to operators include: • Control and automation of the contribution link from the SNG to the studio. • Workflow automation incorporates the management of available space segment and satellite ground equipment. • End-to-end system approach to broadcast content exchange, whereby

VSAT and SCPC technologies are merged into one single multi-service platform supporting always-on IP connectivity for data and voice services. • Automated FNG live/file contributions for additional broadcast workflow flexibility.

To give two examples, Intelsat has launched a next-generation MSBC solution called IntelsatOne Prism, based on Newtec Dialog. By choosing Newtec Dialog, Intelsat is addressing the increasing pressure on media companies to meet the demands of a ‘television everywhere’ society, as well as the challenges posed by the growing complexity of workflow management. Network Innovations (NI) has developed its ‘Maverick’ service which is ideal for SNG-broadcast, government and energy clients wanting true dynamic bandwidth allocation via satellite. Through Maverick, NI offers the best and most efficient platform with flexibility and cost savings for its VSAT services worldwide.

In addition to efficiency, scalability and flexibility, Newtec Dialog enables the automation of broadcast workflows and effective usage of available hardware and bandwidth resources. A sophisticated resource scheduling and workflow automation engine reduces costs, saves time and allows broadcasters to rapidly deploy new services as the market evolves.

The ground-breaking product was awarded the World Teleport Association’s ‘Teleport Technology of the Year’ award at the beginning of 2015. Its benefits, along with others brought by Newtec technology, can be applied to all of Newtec’s key markets, as already outlined.

The Rise of HTS The continued growth of High Throughput Satellite (HTS) has been a key driver in Newtec’s product development strategy. A further expansion of HTS is on the horizon, bringing enormous opportunities for operators and service providers alike. However, in order to ensure that all levels of the value chain get

the most out of HTS, choosing the right ground segment technology is essential. Looking at the HTS evolution, Newtec has identified a clear trend towards multi-service networks across the industry. Although the majority of VSAT terminals are deployed for consumer broadband, much of the revenue actually comes from high-end applications, like mobility, oil and gas and cellular backhaul. By combining all these applications on a single platform, network operators can maximise economies of scale while diversifying their business.

With a diverse modem portfolio and three return technologies, the Newtec Dialog multi-service platform was specifically designed to address this wide range of applications. Only 20 months since it was released, Newtec Dialog has already been chosen by many customers as a way of streamlining, expanding and future-proofing their businesses.

Connecting 600 Million Users Satellite services provider Yahsat chose Newtec Dialog to prepare for the launch of its new satellite Al Yah 3, which is scheduled for service launch in early 2017. The Newtec Dialog hub will be used as part of a new gateway in Brazil, along with various types of the Newtec Ka-band VSAT terminal.

The setup will allow for broadcasting in the new DVB-S2X standard, while the Al Yah 3 satellite will extend the company’s commercial Ka-band coverage to an additional 19 countries and 600 million users, covering more than 95% of Brazil’s population.

A key factor in Yahsat’s decision to opt for Newtec Dialog was its capabilities to help it appeal to wider demographics in the markets in which it operates, meaning the platform may also be deployed in other territories across Yahsat’s footprint.

Breaking Barriers to Set New World Records Aside from reliability, speed and efficiency are also important to Newtec. In the past, the company has broken several speed barriers and also demonstrated its industry-leading spectral efficiency.

Newtec has now taken this a step further and achieved a world first for the amount of throughput in a single transponder – putting 20Mbps into 2MHz. Maximising bits per second per Hz has always been a priority for Newtec and is increasingly important as satellite operators and service providers look to launch new services while delivering higher performance and improved economics for their customers.

This important achievement shows Newtec can utilise the capabilities of nextgeneration satellites by using technology that is available today. Reaching this record demonstrates unparalleled efficiency at any rate, whether on low-speed voice or data connection or for medium-speed backhaul links, all the way up to ultrahigh-speed trunks.

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