Monthly Archives: September 2013

DVB-T2 and Large SFNs – Some Pros and Cons

DVB-T2 is today by far, the most advanced digital terrestrial television (DTT) system. It is much more flexible, robust, and efficient than any other DTT system. DVB-T2 uses OFDM modulation, and offers a wide range of different modes, making it a very flexible standard. Due to the multi-path immunity of OFDM, DVB-T2 allows the possibility […]

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Three (3) Types of Reasons to Plan a Broadcast Network

Quality Reasons By a careful network planning, operators can provide their customers a robust and quality assured network. In an early stage, long before deployment of the network, problems can be found and solved. Economic Reasons The network must be financially viable. Deployment and operation costs must be weighed against the revenue. By a careful […]

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A Simplified Description of Coverage Probability Calculations for OFDM Systems in Radio Network Planning Software

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a technique that is used in many popular wireless communication systems, such as digital terrestrial broadcast systems (DVB-T, DVB-T2, ISDB-T, DTMB, CMMB, T-DAB, T-DMB), wireless LAN, WiMAX, and LTE. OFDM works very well in radio channels where multipath propagation is particularly noticeable. Multipath propagation generates mainly two effects: intersymbol […]

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