ETL Systems, a global designer and manufacturer of RF distribution equipment for satellite communications, today announced it has further enhanced its successful RF over Fibre range, StingRay.
A new Flyaway Unit has also been added to the StingRay range, designed for rapid deployment of flyaway fibre links, making it ideal for Satellite News Gathering (SNG), outdoor or sporting broadcasts and other events where antennas are far away from other equipment.The new developments – which will be on display at IBC 2015 in Amsterdam – include improved redundancy systems for reliability, IP65-rated, weatherproof outdoor units (ODU) and standalone component modules, ideal for applications that require a small number of links.
“These are great additions to our StingRay RF over fibre range, which is the most compact unit of its kind, with built in reliability from dual redundant hot-swap power supplies and hot-swap transmit and receive fibre modules,” said Dr Esen Bayar, Technical Director at ETL Systems. “The StingRay inter-facility links have several advantages over traditional copper coax cables, such as lower loss to signal quality, lower risk of lightning strikes and improvements in transition distances.”
ETL’s new Piranha LNB Power Supply Units and new developments to the L-Band Enigma matrix range, which is used to improve live signal uplinks and downlinks within a teleport, are also being launched at the IBC Conference and Exhibition, which takes place at the RAI Amsterdam from Thursday, September 10 to Tuesday, September 15.
The Piranha is compact, expandable and customisable, offering customers the chance to tailor their energy consumption for specific applications.
New technologies designed in to the Enigma Matrix range include variable gain to balance signals and high linearity and low noise variants to deliver optimum performance. A passive model for high power applications has also been made available.
“Whether it is TVRO applications for playout centres or newsgathering and sports eve
