[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-22-11] NovelSat’s third-generation NS3 satellite transmission technology aims to increase satellite bandwidth capacity by 20 percent to 55 percent more than current DVB-S2 and DVB-S standards, respectively, the company announced March 17.
    While demonstrating NS3 at the SATELLITE 2011 conference, NovelSat CEO Itzik Wulkan told Satellite TODAY Insider that the new solution represents technology that the satellite communications industry has looked for since the launch of DVB-S2 in 2005.
    "DVB-S2 is so close to its physical limit that many industry experts believe the remaining room for improvement is too limited to justify research and development efforts," said Wulkan. "In developing NS3, NovelSat focused its efforts on complex spectral efficiency improvements and we have successfully utilized every drop of the remaining room between DVB-S2 and the limit of Shannon’s Law to form a full generation improvement over the state-of-the-art DVB-S2."
    NS3 is based on a combination of signal processing techniques and a mix of algorithms that normally cancel each other out. The system features FPGAs and ASICs provide the algorithms with virtually unlimited computational power. Wulkan said NovelSat had been working on the technology since 2007.
    "NS3 arrives just in time for news gathering and content distribution operations. It also supports the same reception level with a 25 percent smaller and lighter-weight antenna," he said. "The spectrally efficient NS3 technology also serves the fast-expanding satellite communication demands of government and military applications, as well as growing data transmission needs. NS3 helps high throughput Ka-band satellite customers to maximize the efficiency of their bandwidth."

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