H-Pro Heights Remote Gateway

Heights™ Networking Platform

Overview
The Heights™ Networking Platform is engineered to elevate your services with unparalleled
horsepower, efficiency and intelligence. The Heights platform was designed with the service
provider and its multi-user environments in mind, from concept to operation.
Typical Users
• Cruise
Heights combines our most efficient waveforms, header and payload compression engines, • Mobile Network Operators
WAN GTP data optimization, proven dynamic bandwidth and power management and bi- • Oil & Gas
directional ACM capability fully integrated with multi-tier Quality of Service (QoS) to provide • Corporate Enterprise
the highest user Quality of Experience (QoE), highest user throughput, highest availability, • Service Provider Multi-User
and most optimal resource utilization available in the industry. Environments
• Non-Governmental
Heights meets the demands of those operating on traditional wide beams while providing Organization (NGO)
distinct advantages for those using or planning to use High Throughput Satellites (HTS) in
• Media
future. Heights is HTS ready, allowing service providers to leverage the significant increases
• Government
in throughput from the new HTS designs.

Purpose-built to unleash the potential of these tight spot beams, Heights remote gateways Common Applications
provide the strongest processing performance, maximizing user IP bits per Hz while • Maritime, Offshore & Mobility
realizing significant gains in user IP bits per Amplifier (BUC) Watt. Communications
• Mobile Backhaul
The H-Pro Remote Gateway is the high-performance platform capable of delivering • Latency Sensitive Business
unprecedented throughput to remote sites in a shared bandwidth environment. It supports Applications
multiple transmit throughput tiers up to 197.5 Mbps, managed via centralized licensing • IP Trunking & Internet Access
capability for ease of use, allowing users to standardize on a single remote platform, • Satellite News Gathering
simplifying stocking and sparing. • Content Distribution Networks

Heights Dynamic Network Access (H-DNA)

H-DNA is an evolutionary dynamic network access technology designed for Heights return links that:
• Rapidly adapts to changing environments
• Delivers superior efficiency & Quality of Experience (QoE)
• Instantly assigns capacity based on network-wide demand
• Intelligently utilizes total network bandwidth at all times

H-DNA is designed to provide network wide fast switching on a sub-second interval making the process seamless and transparent to
end users for real-time as well as non real-time applications. H-DNA leverages Comtech’s high performance VersaFEC®-2 waveforms
with ACM, dynamic power control, high performance packet processing, network wide multi-tier QoS and IP optimization technology to
enable unprecedented bandwidth efficiency and superior QoE. H-DNA fast switching and bandwidth allocation mechanism allows a
Heights network to respond rapidly to changing traffic and link conditions while maintaining lowest latency and jitter for superior QoE
and maximum bandwidth utilization efficiency.

H-DNA is fast, flexible and uncompromising, delivering unprecedented benefits to users and service providers alike. More detail is
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Unparalleled Remote Horsepower

H-Pro incorporates unprecedented processing power enabling high throughput with multi-layer optimization. The increased EIRP and
G/T performance of new HTS spacecraft allows for significantly higher throughput. However, this increased throughput cannot be met if
the underlying packet processing is not able to keep up with the increased traffic flow. The quad-core processor in H-Pro can support
the most demanding user applications in a HTS environment enabling service providers to take full advantage of the potential of these
new HTS designs and grow service levels as end users’ demands grow.

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Seamless Bridge Point-to-Multipoint (BPM) Mode or Routed Mode
In addition to routed mode, the Heights Networking Platform supports BPM mode for true layer 2 operation enabling seamless
integration with service provider network. A Heights network operating in BPM mode can be viewed as an Ethernet switch supporting
VLAN and MPLS while benefiting from bi-directional IP optimization, multi-tier QoS, ACM and dynamic bandwidth management. H-Pro
includes extensive VLAN support including VLAN Access mode, trunk mode and QinQ. In BPM mode, H-Pro supports traffic
classification and QoS by VLAN ID as well as MPLS Traffic Class Field (formerly referred to as EXP bits).

WAN Optimization and GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP) Mobile User Data Traffic Optimization
Heights Remote Gateways incorporate embedded WAN optimization for Internet Traffic and GTP traffic Optimization. GTP is used in
mobile networks on 3G IuPS, 3G IuH and LTE S1 interfaces. Mobile subscriber traffic is encapsulated within an IP/UDP/GTP tunnel.
Embedded GTP traffic optimization allows for optimization of the mobile subscriber traffic within the GTP tunnel, improving user Quality
of Experience (QoE) through greater throughput and faster response time, and rendering the Mobile Network more efficient.

Heights WAN and GTP optimization provide TCP acceleration, based on Comtech’s patented TurboStream Performance Enhancement
Protocol (PEP). TurboStream mitigates TCP performance issues across long delay links through intelligent implementations of scalable
WAN TCP windows, and traffic multiplexing of LAN TCP sessions into persistent WAN TCP sessions. This process greatly reduces
“time to first byte”, which means that the traffic starts flowing much faster than it would otherwise, and also enables traffic to ramp up to
levels which would not be otherwise possible over long latency VSAT links.

Heights WAN and GTP optimization incorporate remote DNS caching enabling remote users’ web browsers to quickly resolve Host
names to IP addresses locally, once again speeding up the “time to first byte”. Without local DNS caching, all DNS inquiries would have
to traverse the VSAT link leading to longer delays before traffic starts actually flowing.

Heights WAN and GTP optimization also support image smoothing, thereby reducing the amount of data that needs to traverse the
satellite link. Image smoothing also speeds up the time to download the webpages.

WAN and GTP optimization requires the FX Series at the hub. WAN optimization and GTP optimization is fully integrated with network
wide multi-tier QoS, ACM and IP optimization for maximum performance and efficiency.

Global IP Roaming
An embedded mobility controller in H-Pro enables a satellite terminal on-board a mobile platform to seamlessly transition between
satellite beams or hub coverage with minimal service interruption. The embedded mobility controller interfaces with the Antenna Control
Unit (ACU), maintains satellite footprint maps and initiates beam switching and handoff as the vessel moves through the satellite
footprint. It offers a common management interface for the mobility server and the ACU by providing a set of commands, information,
interfaces and status queries.

Dynamic MESH
Heights supports dynamic remote-to-remote connections (MESH) in router mode with Dynamic SCPC (dSCPC), using additional
receivers at the remote. Dynamic MESH requires “loop-back” operation where each site in a MESH connection is able to receive from
all other sites in that MESH connection. Dynamic MESH eliminates double hop latency as remote-to-remote packets don’t have to
transit through the hub. It also requires 50% less bandwidth as a remote-to-remote double hop link would consume almost twice the
bandwidth.

Benefits
• High throughput capabilities support increasing end user traffic demands
• Multiple throughput tiers managed by software licensing simplify stocking and sparing
• Future-proof design allows remote gateways to take advantage of significant throughput increase potential of new HTS designs
• High performance waveforms combined with multi-layer optimization delivers the highest user IP bits per Hz, as well as highest
user IP bits per Amplifier (BUC) Watt, minimizing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) over network life
• Seamless Bridge Point-to-Multipoint (BPM) mode provides seamless integration with service provider network
• Extensive VLAN support enabling traffic separation for multi-user environments
• Embedded mobility controller enables global roaming

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Specifications
Transmit Demodulator Specifications
Data Rate Tiers From 5 Mbps to 197.5 Mbps Operating Frequency 950 to 2150 MHz L-Band, 100 Hz frequency
(WAN Rate) LAN throughput can be substantially resolution
higher depending on IP optimization Input Power Range, -60 dBm + 10 log (symbol rate in Msps) to
(WAN tiers controlled by software Desired Carrier -25 dBm
license, centrally managed) Absolute Maximum, No -10 dBm
Symbol Rate Up to 45 Msps Damage
Minimum symbol rate is 42.3 ksps for Acquisition Range +/- 100 kHz
BPSK/QPSK, 60 ksps for 8-ARY, 100 Adaptive Equalizer Corrects up to 3 dB tilt
ksps for 16-ARY, 250 ksps for 32-ARY LNB Reference Via RX IF center conductor, 10.0 MHz ±
modulation. (10 MHz) 0.06 ppm
FEC VersaFEC-2 High Rate (HR) Selectable on/off, -3.0 dBm ± 3 dB
VersaFEC-2 LNB Voltage Selectable on/off, 13 VDC, 18 VDC
Modulation BPSK, QPSK, 8-ARY, 16-ARY, 32-ARY LNB Current 500 mA, maximum
Transmit Filter Rolloff 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 35% Monitor Functions Es/No estimate, receive signal level,
Return ACM Yes frequency offset

Receive Physical, Power & Environmental

Data Rate Up to 250 Mbps Dimensions (1RU) 1.75” x 19.0” x 16.1”
Symbol Rate 1 – 150 Msps (height x width x depth) (4.4 x 48 x 40.8 cm) approximate
FEC DVB-S2X & Comtech Efficiency Boost Power Supply 100-240 VAC, 47Hz-63Hz IEC 320
(EB) input
Demodulation QPSK, 8PSK, 16APSK, 32APSK, 48 VDC (HW option)
64APSK, 128APSK, 256APSK Operating Temperature 0 to 50°C
Filter Rolloff 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 35% Storage temperature –20 to 70°C
Outbound ACM Yes Humidity 95% maximum, non-condensing

Packets per Second > 75,000 Hardware Options

Aggregate PPS (TX+RX) > 140,000 (Future) • 48 VDC, Primary Power Supply
Gigabit Ethernet Traffic Port 4 • 24 VDC, 90 W @ 50°C BUC Power Supply
• 48 VDC, 150 W @ 50°C BUC Power Supply
Modulator Specifications
Operating Frequency 950 to 2150 MHz L-Band,
100 Hz frequency resolution
Frequency Stability ± 0.06 ppm (± 6 x 10-8), 0 to 50°C
(32 to 122°F)
Frequency Reference Internal
Harmonics and Better than -55 dBc/4 kHz
Spurious (typically < -60 dBc/4KHz)
Measured from Fo +/- 300 MHz
BUC Reference Via TX IF center conductor, 10.0 MHz ± 0.06
(10 MHz) ppm, selectable on/off, 0.0 dBm  3 dB
BUC Power Supply 24 VDC, 4.17 Amps max., 90 W @ 50°C
(HW Option) 48 VDC, 3.125 Amps max., 150 W @ 50°C
Supplied through TX IF center conductor
and selectable on/off via M&C control

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