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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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DVB-T2 Radio Network Planning Using PROGIRA® plan

DVB-T2 is the currently most advanced digital terrestrial television (DTT) system. It is much more flexible, robust, and efficient than any other DTT system. Like its predecessor, DVB-T2 uses OFDM modulation, and offers a wide range of different modes, making it a very flexible standard. DVB-T2 is also offering a very robust signal by using […]

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