Study on feasibility of SATCOM for railway communication

Final Report
• Extensive coverage from 50°W to 90°E and 70°N to 70°S
• Ideally positioned to address communications within NATO‘s stated Level of
Ambition of a Major Joint Operation
• Enables maritime operations over the Atlantic and Indian Oceans
o Multiple-mission beams
• High-power coverage over key mission areas
• Ideal for establishing critical and secure communications in theatres of
operations
• Fully flexible and steerable
Ka-band: frequency band reserved for governments and institutions, ideal for establishing
secure communications for high- throughput or mobility applications.
o Anchor beam
• Ideal for connecting European headquarters to any of the GovSat-1 mission
beams
• Ideal for interconnecting headquarters or other key institutional or defence
sites within Europe
o Multiple-Mission beams
• High-power beams to enable high-bandwidth applications over small
antennas
• Ideal for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) and
Communications on the Move (COTM) applications.
• Providing high-power coverage over the Mediterranean Sea
6.2.11 Smart LNB (Eutelsat)
6.2.11.1 System Overview
The SmartLNB is a solution recently deployed by Eutelsat that consists of providing a low throughput
return channel (in Ku/Ka-band) to existing broadcast services and M2M applications. This new
technology is based on a next-generation electronic feed (with an embedded DVB demodulator and
an IP transmitter) that enables a variety of low throughput applications via (GEO) satellite. Therefore,
this technology adds low throughput return channels to existing forward channels.
This new technology has been though initially for 2 main markets:
Interactive TV services, giving end users easy access to connected TV services such as:
o Pay-per-view
o Social TV
o Personal subscription management
o etc.
M2M (Machine-to-Machine), where applications with small volumes of data are collected or
exchanged, such as:
o e-Health
o Smart-grids
o Remote diagnostics and telemetry
o Data gathering
o SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition)
Doc.Nº: SRAIL-FNR-010-IND
Edit./Rev.: 1/1
Date: 16/02/2017
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