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Press kit - ANGA Cable 2011

No more unnecessary truck rolls - Teleste adds Intelligence to HFC networks

At the this year’s ANGA conference, Teleste, the European market leader in HFC networks, made some exiting announcements to address the problem that all cable operators are facing – time consuming and inefficient network management and maintenance.

Labour intensive network maintenance is often the prime reason for high operating expenses. This also means that manual network operations are prone to human mistakes, which lead to unnecessary truck-rolls and service interruptions.

Teleste tackles these problems by bringing intelligence to the network. This intelligence is built on the tandem of products that Teleste introduces at ANGA - the new automatically configurable AC 9000 Intelligent fibre optic node, and the next generation CATvisor EMS management software, that allows operators to see exactly where problems lie on a network topology map.

In Teleste’s new AC 9000, all configurations are done automatically without the maintenance crew having to adjust and configure each device separately. This eliminates human errors and saves a lot of manual configuration work. The AC9000 is monitored and controlled remotely with Teleste’s CATVisor EMS management suite.

AC 9000’s intelligence also allows operators to address ingress problems automatically. Far too often, ingress can disrupt services and irritate end-users. The new AC 9000 recognises and automatically isolates ingress problems with the help of an ingress analyser. The product also provides 2x4 scalability with the ability to use digital return path transmitters.

Management on a map

One key issue in network management and maintenance is that network problems can be difficult to locate – when there is a problem in a network, operators cannot see where this problem actually occurs without having to go through complex network diagrams and in the worst case, hand-written notes on where network elements are located.

Teleste’s new CATvisor EMS 4.0 eliminates this problem by introducing the long awaited network map view, which shows exactly where problems are located …on a real world map. This adds a new dimension to the presentation of management information from intelligent network elements All network elements and signal/IP routes can be shown on a network topology map. Accurate information about the network eliminates guesswork from network maintenance and management - reducing downtime and unnecessary truck rolls.

The new CATvisor EMS 4.0 also includes fully configurable views that can be tailored to include just the right information for each application and user. The new release also adds inventory management features to EMS, with the possibility to associate documents and links to network elements.

The fire-and forget installation of the new AC 9000 coupled with the industry’s most advanced management suite promise to reduce OPEX significantly for cable operators, because operators can pinpoint problems and network components are installed in a single go. Intelligence also helps to reduce service outages, provide better service to end-users and eventually reduce churn.

World’s most versatile head-end extends with new receivers

At ANGA, Teleste also introduces next generation of the Luminato head-end platform. Teleste Luminato is the industry’s most compact and energy-efficient head-end platform and it allows operators to provide more content with less equipment.

Originally introduced two years ago at ANGA, the new Luminato is now enhanced with higher performance and can be expanded with two new modules for DVB-C and DVB-T2 reception. The DVB-T2 module enables reception of the emerging terrestrial HD transmissions while DVB-C receiver allows service providers to pick selected cable TV services as a part of their service bouquets. These two new modules combined with already existing Luminato input capabilities enable operators to enrich the subscribers’ user experience with new services for example in hospitality applications.

Luminato is the industry’s most compact and modular platform, providing a multitude of interfaces such as DVB-S/S2, DVB-T/T2, DVB-C, DVB-ASI in/out, QAM, COFDM and IP within one single platform. All these complemented with advanced DVB processing capabilities, high capacity scrambling and multiplexing, packed in a space of one rack unit make Luminato a unique value proposal.

The Luminato platform’s modularity has gained a warm welcome on the market and Teleste has delivered over 1000 Luminato platforms to more than 50 countries globally.

Elegant solution for combining and splitting broadcast and narrowcast

At ANGA, Teleste also complements its product portfolio with the new HECS headend combiner splitter product line that fits into standard rack and sub-rack mounts.

HECS tackles a issue that many operators face: today's multi-play headends contain broadcasted and narrowcasted TV-services and as well DOCSIS 3 based services, and all these signal sources need to be combined, controlled and adjusted to fit in to the distribution network. The solution for this is the new Teleste HECS product line, which is intended to be used at head-ends and HUB's for combining/splitting narrowcast and broadcast signals.

HECS product line includes combiners, splitters, directional couplers and diplex filters. HECS allows operators to build complex signal splitting and combining configurations with a tidy rack mounted product.