The activation of FlexACM on this link significantly increases throughput on average by 85 percent, and guarantees up to 100 percent link availability. SkyVision’s point-to-point link between its teleport in Kenya and its main teleport in Austria uses an inclined orbit satellite. In order to follow the position of the inclined orbit satellite, SkyVision needs to use tracking on outbound and inbound antennas. The Newtec FlexACM solution, that enables the usage of higher modulation schemes and lower error correction, results in an average data throughput of 74 Mbps, an 85 percent improvement on performance from the previous system, and with peak-throughput speeds of 95 Mbps or 137 percent during the best link conditions.
The implemented Newtec FlexACM solution, consisting of Elevation EL470 modems with on-board FlexACM client/controller, enables a higher modulation scheme and less error correction (up to 16APSK 4/5) whenever the situation allows, thereby giving higher throughputs up to 95 Mbps and guaranteed link availability. In addition to using FlexACM for this Africa to Europe IP point-to-point inclined orbit link, SkyVision are also set to use FlexACM for their point-to-multipoint IP distribution network that shares a single outbound carrier. Each of the remote sites will receive their data within the carrier with optimised modulation scheme and error protection for each site. This will allow SkyVision to free up scarce C-band capacity and serve more customers within the same leased space segment.