VSAT Hub Router iDirect iNFINITI Platform - IP over Satellite

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A single iNFINITI series chassis can support:
✦ Mesh, Star, SCPC or Hybrid Networks
✦ C, Ku, extended-C and emerging Ka radio bands
✦ Interface with multiple satellites
✦ Bandwidth configurable from 64 Kbps to 18 Mbps in 1 Kbps increments
✦Thousands of sites on a single network

This revolutionary design offers carriers unparalleled capability to meet their networking challenges, support any customer requirement, and maximizes their investment in equipment and bandwidth. The resulting solution allows them to support any combination of network applications to thousands of remote sites supporting virtually any mix of customer profiles — all from a single platform.
The network can be grown one line card at a time to optimize network utilization, and the iNFINITI series is scalable to meet any network or bandwidth requirements. Network operators can lower their equipment and operating costs while increasing revenues and profits — all while delivering the highest quality to your customers.iDirect hubs can configure networks starting at just 64 Kbps, and scale up to 18 Mbps in 1 Kbps increments. This, combined with the bandwidth efficiency of iDirect networks, significantly lowers both the capital expenditures and the operating expenditures for carriers utilizing iDirect equipment.

The iDirect iNFINITI Platform
The cutting-edge iDirect iNFINITI platform enables you to:
✦ Deliver complete enterprise application support
✦ Deliver near toll-quality voice
✦ Support diverse needs of enterprise IP networks
✦ Implement a full IP network with the lowest capital costs
✦ Interface with multiple satellites through a single hub—no other system can do this!
✦ Efficiently manage networks with an unequaled Network Management System (NMS)
✦ Enter new markets more profitably
Highest bandwidth efficiency in the industry

Capacity Optimization is inherent throughout the iDirect solution. By using a native IP solution, you’ll save 10-50% capacity versus an inefficient DVB MPEG Encapsulation scheme. The extremely rapid bandwidth-on demand system ensures the highest efficiency of capacity utilization—98% payload efficient. In addition, with 1.2 Carrier Spacing we deliver additional 14% savings in bandwidth through more efficient use of your transponder capacity.

Achieve a high degree of scalability
You can increase bandwidth as needed on-the-fly: upstream from 64 Kbps to 4 Mbps; downstream from 128 Kbps to 18 Mbps. You can also configure networks in 1 Kbps increments, and add new remotes easily—without increasing satellite capacity. Carry more traffic over your available bandwidth. iDirect’s Deterministic-TDMA (D-TDMA) allocates bandwidth among multiple remote sites based on instantaneous conditions. Several times a second, our D-TDMA algorithm allocates bandwidth dynamically based on criteria such as the queue depth, the Committed Information Rate (CIR) configuration, Quality of Service (QoS) and Prioritization requirements, as well as any Rate Limiting established at each remote site.

Provide a host of flexible service and application options for customers.                                                                 Click for larger image
iDirect’s system and application QoS feature minimizes high-priority packet loss or delay, and allows you to deliver applications like video or Voice over IP. iDirect’s Broadband VSAT Network System provides a highly reliable, secure, two-way TCP/IP transmission for high-speed, multimedia service applications on any topology (star, star/mesh, SCPC).
 
Greater Reliability
Greater reliability from the industry’s leading Network Management System. iDirect’s Network Management System (NMS) provides all essential monitoring and control operations from a centrally-located network operations center. The system can scale to monitor multiple hubs and thousands of remote sites from a single NMS. This functionality provides network operators with an unmatched tool to increase network efficiency, support individual site requirements, and maximize network reliability. From one easy to use GUI, network operators can:
    ✦ Direct all configuration and control capacities, including the ability to send software and firmware updates over the air to remote locations
    ✦ Access graphical views of the network layout and configure all system parameters
    ✦ Utilize tools for both active and passive investigation of network behavior
    ✦ Monitor graphical tools for querying and displaying network statistics.
The iDirect NMS makes network anomalies easier to identify and correct, and insures optimal bandwidth allocation across all elements of the network. The result is the industry’s most efficient and powerful solution. With support for C, Ku, extended-C and emerging Ka radio bands, iDirect can offer any combination of network application supporting virtually any mix of customer profiles—all from a single platform.

iDirect Solutions for Any Network                                                                                                                              Click for larger image     
From scalable hubs that can support thousands of remote sites to private hubs supporting a single network, iDirect solutions optimize satellite networks and deliver the most efficient use of available bandwidth. Network operators can lower their operating expenses, while offering customers greater network functionality.
As the international technology market continues to expand, demand for broadband intensive applications, and the high speed access to provide it, presents unprecedented business opportunities for those who can identify these segments and cost effectively deliver wireless connectivity. Historically the challenge of meeting the communications needs of these niche markets has been the high cost of deploying a network, and the ongoing investment required to maintain it while the customer base is being built. iDirect hubs can configure networks starting at just 64 Kbps, and scale up to 18 Mbps in 1 Kbps increments. This combined with the bandwidth efficiency of iDirect networks significantly lowers both the Capital expenditures and the Operating expenditures for carriers utilizing iDirect equipment. With the inherent flexibility of the iDirect solution, network operators can even resell some of the unused capacity of a hub. For network operators this offers an additional opportunity to maximize their equipment investment by selling blocks of network capacity as “Virtual” Networks.
Customers who deploy a Virtual Network solution receive the benefit of operating their own VSAT network without the cost of buying the VSAT hub infrastructure.

The iDirect VNO Solution
Virtual Network Operators (VNOs) rent network capacity from a host network operator (HNO). Capacity is physically isolated from the rest of the network, and can be managed to any specifications the VNO requires, including using private IP addresses. This allows a VNO to offer highly competitive broadband IP service anywhere, without a significant upfront investment. In addition to low initial cost, as a virtual network operator you will be able to:
✦ Commission and control your own remote sites
✦ Deliver end users broadband speeds of up to 18 Mbps
✦ Insure your network traffic is 100% physically separate from anyone else’s
✦ Provide custom QoS service levels
✦ Support applications like VoIP, video and private networks
✦ Pay only for the capacity you need
✦ Easily expand your service capacity as you build customer demand

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Virtual networks offer all the opportunity of the satellite industry without assuming the risk, or the upfront investment of deploying a separate network. And, since a VNO can start with as little as a single line card, they have the ability to deploy exactly the network bandwidth for their initial business case, with the flexibility to expand as much as the markets demand. The VNO model allows new operators to develop niche opportunities worldwide, and provides them with state of the art network management tools, security and functionality to deliver the applications customers need.

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iDirect Hub Router Technical Specifications

Slots

• 20

 Slot Groups

• Minimum Group Size 4 Slots

• Maximum Group Size 20 Slots

SatCom Interfaces

• 5 TxIF Ports: Type - F, 950 - 1700 MHz

• 5 RxIF Ports: Type - F, 950 - 1700 MHz

• 5 Independent, 4-to-1 L-Band Combiner for Tx

• 5 Independent, 4-to-1 L-Band Divider for Rx

Management Interfaces

• RJ45, Console Port on Line Card

• RJ45, 10/100 Ethernet on Chassis -

• Redundant Ethernet ports

• Monitoring /Configuration

 LEDs

• Line Card Status, Power Status, Fan Status

 Cable Management

•  20 Port - RJ45, Cat5e Patch Panel

Size

•  W 17.5" x D 24" x H 19 "

• (W 44.45 cm x D 60.96 cm x H 48.3 cm)

Weight

• Empty 94 lbs (42.6 kg)

• Loaded 108 lbs (48.9 kg)

Operating Temperature

• 0º to 45ºC (+32º to +113ºF)

Power Supply

• 1+1 Redundant Dual AC Inlets

• Hot-Swappable

• 100-240 V~, 8A@110V, 47-63 Hz

Fan

• N+1 Redundant (N=2)

• Hot-Swappable

Standards Compliance

• UL 1950, EN 60950, FCC Part 15-

• Class B, EN 55022-Class B,

• EN 300673, EN 301489-1,

• EN 301489-12, EN 30428, EN 301443
   

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