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Welcome To
The Multiservice Era
By Hans Massart, Market Director, and Kerstin Roost, Public Relations Director, Newtec.

T

he multiservice era begins with
broadcasters and satellite service
providers facing numerous challenges,
including more complex workflows, the
introduction of new services, increased
user expectations for always-on
connectivity, and pressure on efficiency
in both the space and ground segments.
The importance of embracing the
multiservice trend was emphasised by
our comprehensive industry survey,
which aimed to address and understand
the key challenges for broadcasters.
About 270 leaders in the satellite
industry participated in the survey
which took place in the second half
of 2014. The findings revealed our
industry is vibrant, and in a constant
search for new growth and expansion,
with 82 percent of broadcasters and
broadcast service providers planning
to launch additional services in the
near future. In the past, the high
CAPEX and OPEX required to roll out
new services on dedicated satellite
capacity and network infrastructure
were often inhibitors to the business
cases for new service launches. This is
where today's multiservice networks
make the difference. A multi-service
network is a flexible, all IP-based
platform that is shared to offer
multiple services.
Sharing
satellite
capacity,
operational
staff,
and
ground
infrastructure to deliver multiple
services (video, radio, broadband,
voice, file transfers, etc.), lowers the
barrier to launch new services to the

Your platform advantages

market significantly, while increasing
business flexibility and agility in an
ever changing world.
The Three Key Capabilities of a
Multiservice Network
A multiservice network has three key
capabilities that need to co-exist in the
same system. First of all, a multiservice
network brings service and business
flexibility. Flexibility is at the core of
a multiservice network, and provides
peace of mind to service providers and
customers using the network. In fact,
product and service offerings can be
adjusted at any time to maximize the
business opportunities. Our Newtec
Dialog multiservice platform is a safe
investment, future-proof to carry
any existing or new media, voice, or
broadband service.
Secondly, scalability of the system
(and investment) is imminent to
successful incubation and launch of
new service offerings. A portfolio of
satellite terminals, in terms of cost and
performance for any frequency band,
and a scalable hub, are prerequisites
to scalability. The emerging market
from High Throughput Satellite (HTS)
networks benefits even more from
scalable ground infrastructure than
conventional networks do.
Thirdly, of course, is efficiency,
which means two things. On the one
hand, it implies effective use of assets
and resources, workflows and timescheduled transmissions that share
satellite space segment and satellite

Newtec survey results: 82% of the participants will add
new services to their network in the near future.
The majority of the to-be-added services require
bidirectional satellite connectivity (e.g. VSAT)

modems in a reliable manner, avoiding
any conflicts during transmission
sessions. This implies a solid session
and resource manager, as well as
trustful QoS and SLA management,
are at the heart of the system. On the
other hand, efficiency also alludes to
efficient transmission.
SCPC and MF-TDMA - Have You
Heard About Mx-DMA?
In traditional systems, customers
have to choose, during the network
build, between SCPC and MF-TDMA,
making it a one-time choice. Newtec
has three different technologies
available that can be dynamically
selected to offer optimal performance
for a given service and user profile. In
addition to SCPC links and MF-TDMA,
a third and innovative technology is
part of Newtec Dialog: Mx-DMA. It is

a new, highly efficient, and patented
return technology, which combines the
best features of MF-TDMA and SCPC
technologies.
Newtec Dialog
Newtec Dialog is changing the
landscape of Satellite News Gathering
(SNG), sports contribution, and
exchange networks, significantly.
Furthermore, since the architecture
is all-IP, it can perfectly interoperate
with fibre optic networks (MPLS).
Newtec Dialog changes the way we
transmit breaking news, exchange high
quality sports feeds, talk to each other,
surf the Internet, and share files over
satellite.
Welcome in the new multiservice
era and let's talk about your projects;
www.newtec.eu

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