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Comtech Launches Heights Dynamic Network Access

By Kendall Russell | May 16, 2017
Mark Toppenberg, SVP Sales and Marketing at Comtech EF Data, hosts customer seminar in Dubai. Photo: LinkedIn.

Mark Toppenberg, SVP Sales and Marketing at Comtech EF Data, hosts customer seminar in Dubai. Photo: LinkedIn.

Comtech EF Data announced the general availability of the Heights Dynamic Network Access (H-DNA) technology. According to the company, with H-DNA, the Heights Networking Platform improves end user satellite quality of experience.

Comtech designed H-DNA for the Heights Networking Platform’s return links. According to Comtech, it delivers new benefits to users, service providers and satellite operators alike. The culmination of new waveforms, enhanced bandwidth management algorithms and multi-layer Quality of Service (QoS) make this return access scheme automatically able to react to real-time traffic demand, providing best fit solutions based on customers’ service level agreements and network policies.

H-DNA provides sub-second reaction time to changing user demand and link conditions without introducing the excessive jitter and latency normally associated with other return access technologies, according to Comtech. Additionally, as H-DNA leverages the VersaFEC-2 high-performance Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) waveform, adaptive coding and modulation, dynamic power control, Internet Protocol (IP) optimization, low framing overhead, multi-tier QoS and Wide Area Network (WAN) optimization, it delivers the most user IP bits per Hertz compared to other solutions in its class, Comtech stated.

H-DNA assigns capacity based on network-wide demand and ensures that bandwidth is instantly made available to users and sites across the network as demand changes. According to Comtech, H-DNA also allocates all available bandwidth per user demand and configured service level agreements ensuring that all capacity is used at all times.