Global Connections 07/31/12

German satellite operator WORK Microwave added several advanced features to its line of high-speed DVB-S2 modems. Using the company’s new filter technology, users reportedly could experience as much as 15-percent bandwidth gain on top of the DVB-S2 standard, while operators can constrain the bandwidth of modulated spectrum to achieve a roll-off of 5 percent or more, depending on the tightness of the filter. Operators also can classify and prioritize traffic according to symbol-based (signal layer) and rate-based (IP layer) rules and parameters to better manage the distribution of available bandwidth…Tail-f Systems, a Swedish developer of configuration management and network automation software, says PureWave Networks selected its ConfD software to build the on-device management system for its PureWave Constellation family of LTE small-cell base stations. ConfD auto-renders critical northbound interfaces (CLI, Web UI, NETCONF, SNMP and a RESTFul API) from a single data model; it includes an embedded database and transaction management…Entropic Communications Inc. today announced the production release for its next-gen c.LINK Broadband Access products: the EN3511 Network Controller (NC) and the EN3530 Client Premise Equipment (CPE). Specific to the Ethernet-over-Coax (EoC) market, the new system uses 65nm single-chip system-on-a-chip (SoC) technology. The company is targeting China’s cable industry.