ETL Systems to Showcase New RF over Fibre StingRay Product to IBC Audience

Most compact RF over fibre transmit and receive equipment on the market offers highest level of redundancy while maintaining the best quality of signals

An exciting new range of RF over fibre products will be among technologies showcased by ETL Systems, a global designer and manufacturer of RF distribution equipment for satellite communications, at this year’s IBC exhibition.

StingRay, which will be displayed at ETL’s booth 1.A33, in Hall 1, is designed to address the growing number of teleports which require reliable short distance fibre links. The range includes options for indoor and outdoor applications, offering the highest level of redundancy while maintaining the best quality of signal.

The compact product also features local, as well as remote control, and its hot-swap fibre modules can be part populated, helping teleport engineers to design fibre links within budget.

“This is the most compact unit of its kind on the market, capable of fitting the greatest number of hot-swap transmit and receive fibre modules in the smallest space,” said Dr Esen Bayar, Technical Director of ETL Systems. “We have focussed on excellent module to module isolation and low IMD3 ensuring maximum efficiency in spectrum usage. We are looking forward to launching our StingRay outdoor weatherproof enclosure (ODU) at this year’s IBC. This new product provides a robust solution for outdoor applications.”

ETL will celebrate the IBC premiere of StingRay with a special cocktail event at its booth from 5pm to 6pm on Saturday. A second event will be held on Sunday between 9.30am and 12pm to introduce International Sales Manager Mather Ali to the company’s Turkish customers.

Visitors to IBC will also be able to view ETL’s new Dextra range of web-enabled professional splitters and combiners to cover the L-band frequency, as well as the “V series” matrix family, which includes the 128×128 high-density Vulcan matrix and 64×64 Vortex matrix.

With 25 years of experience in designing award-winning RF equipment and benefitting from dedicated in-house RF and test engineers, ETL representatives will also be available to talk to customers about tailor-made solutions to fit their exact needs.

Demonstrations at IBC 2014

New! RF over fibre range
Building on ETL’s existing RF expertise, the new range provides a unique design for high isolation applications. All chassis in the range are hot-swap with fibre module options such as single or dual modules, -20dB monitor ports and 13/18V LNB powering.

New! Dextra splitters and combiners

ETL’s new Dextra series includes 4-way and 8-way splitters and combiners in both single and dual configurations and 16-way splitters and combiners, available as single units. The range offers consistently excellent RF performance, including high linearity and low noise figure, and outperform some of the more expensive models available. Remote control and monitoring via SNMP & web browser interface, with settable alarm thresholds, as well as flexible and configurable LNB power at the input ports of the splitters is also featured.

Components Mounting System

Designed with flexibility at its core, the 1U 19 inch chassis accommodates ETL’s Scorpion range of L-band two, four and eight-way passive splitters and combiners in any combination, as required by the operator. The simple, versatile solution gives users the choice to install the same components, a mixture of all three, or anything in between.

V series matrix family

 Included in ETL’s “V series” matrix family is the 128×128 Vulcan matrix (Model VCN-10) – an extremely compact matrix used for many high resilience high performance applications. Offering a cost-effective solution for larger RF routing systems, it is housed in a 16U 19” rack enclosure and has extensive on-board monitoring and reporting of RF card amplifier status, CPU and PSU status and HMI communications.

The 64×64 Vortex matrix, the 32×32 Enigma matrix, the 16×32 Valiant matrix and the 16×16 Victor matrix make up the rest of the V family.

Alto Amplifiers

The Alto series range of L-band Amplifiers includes 4, 8 and 16 module options with variable gain. Remotely controlled via Ethernet and web browser interface, the design of the amplifier is modular, allowing hot-swap of amplifiers and power supplies. It can also be controlled locally and monitored via the front panel display with simplified push buttons. It is designed for the front end RF chain and provides amplification and slope compensation from cable loss for teleports and TVRO and head-ends.