HeightsNetworking Platform

Oil & Gas Purpose-built to support the applications- aware network onboard todays deep and ultra-deep offshore exploration platforms. Provides the throughput required to relay mission-critical down-hole drilling info and the performance levels to best support geophysical applications, maximizing situational awareness and enabling faster decision making.

Corporate Enterprise Designed to support the ever-changing and increasing array of business applications for end users who rely on connectivity to remain productive. Enables cloud computing and collaboration for both government entities (NGOs) and commercial providers.

Cruise & Cargo Provides the ability to create service differentiation, allowing an enhanced onboard passenger or crew experience. Meets the increasing demands of an on-the-move Wi-Fi enabled community desiring 100% connectivity for bandwidth-hungry applications and remote connections to home.

Elevating Your Services with Unparalleled Horsepower, Efficiency & IntelligenceThe Heights Networking Platform leverages our industry-leading horsepower, efficiency and intelligence to enable differentiation of your services today while preparing you to unleash the power of the new spacecraft designs of tomorrow.

Designed with the service provider in mind, Heights is a scalable networking platform that meets the evolving demands of a diverse multi-tenant end user community. The most net efficient and powerful platform in the industry, Heights leverages a single comprehensive user interface teamed with a powerful traffic analytics engine that allows you to easily design, implement, monitor, control and optimize your network. The result is an elevated Quality of Experience (QoE) for your users. Equipped to support the most demanding networks on traditional wide beams, new High Throughput Satellite (HTS) spot beams or a combination of both, you can increase market share and grow revenues while controlling costs via Heights.

Unparalleled Horsepower to Support End User Traffic Demand The Heights platform is designed to support the traffic load of demanding premium enterprise users on traditional or HTS satellites, with remote gateways capable of processing from 35,000 pps (H8) up to 140,000 pps (H64) with all features enabled. These performance levels make the Heights Remote Gateway suite the most powerful IP packet processing engines in the market, providing the best support for simultaneous high definition video sessions working in tandem with high data rate mission-critical business applications, Internet access and voice connections.

The Heights Networking Platform Solution The Heights Networking Platform is a robust carrier class solution that supports multiple business models simultaneously, from full hub ownership, to collocation at a third party teleport facility to Virtual Network Operator (VNO) operations. Modular in design, the platform consists of scalable hubs that support any satellite architecture, any frequency band, and allows for multiple cost-effective expansion paths.

Hub Options Two different Hubs are offered, each seamlessly enabling connectivity with existing IP infrastructure and capable of providing user IP throughputs of up to 450 Mbps per outbound.

Heights Solo Designed to support a single private network with one shared outbound and shared bandwidth pool for inbound connections. Heights VNO Designed to support the hosting of multiple VNO networks simultaneously, providing multiple outbound carriers along with multiple bandwidth pools for inbound connections.

Powerful Tiered Remote Gateways The four remote gateway options within the Heights platform meet the unique, vertical-specific needs of end users at user IP throughputs of up to 64 Mbps. Each remote gateway in a network is assigned bandwidth on-demand from a shared bandwidth pool by the Heights dynamic bandwidth allocation engine. This enables Heights to blend the flexibility of MF-TDMA with the efficiency of SCPC. In addition, each remote gateway in the network leverages its own optimal modulation and coding method and is not limited to a combination that disadvantages remote gateways to allow for worst-case remote operation, as is the case with a static or adaptive TDMA method.

Elevating Your ServicesThe Heights Networking Platform enables you to elevate your services through a fusion of intelligence with a highly efficient horsepower machine from Comtech EF Data.

Groundbreaking Efficiency to Minimize OPEXTo create the service economics required in todays evolving world of satellite networking, a great deal of focus needs to be placed on the overall net efficiency of the network. The Heights platform provides the most attractive economics for mission- critical premium enterprise services via multi-layer optimization.

Efficiency Boost Waveform (EB) for Outbound Provides a 10%-35% increase in efficiency over the DVB-S2 standard, controlling operating costs while providing up to 450 Mbps outbound user IP throughput, ideal for new HTS designs.

VersaFEC-2 Waveform for Inbounds Brings optimal application performance with DVB-S2X like efficiencies with an 80% decrease in end-to-end latency for connection-oriented and interactive applications that are adversely affected by long round-trip times.

Adaptive Coding & Modulation (ACM) The advantage of bi-directional ACM, enabling users to maximize throughputs and availability depending upon weather conditions, variable beam location, and terminal size while being able to meet stringent SLAs.

Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation (dSCPC) Provides a highly intelligent dynamic bandwidth allocation engine, resizing inbound SCPC links as needed, providing the underlying resiliency to meet the stringent jitter and latency requirements of the most crucial applications.

Compression A highly robust lossless compression engine and IP header compression technique operate in conjunction to further maximize net efficiency while maintaining the integrity of mission-critical information.

Multi-Tier Quality of Service (QoS) Leverages a powerful classification and traffic shaping engine that ensures that the highest value traffic is prioritized, ensuring the most important services are uninterrupted and business applications continue to function properly.

Robust Intelligence to Maximize QoEThroughout the life of a network, a great deal of intelligence is required to ensure end users are delivered a maximized QoE. The Heights platform provides different layers of intelligence through network design tools, a powerful analytics engine and a deep bench of industry experts available as an extension of your operations organization.

Comtech Network Planning Tool (CNPT) An invaluable comprehensive toolkit that analyzes different network architecture design options and generates budgetary designs along with total traffic efficiency, allowing the user to select the most optimal solution prior to network rollout.

NetVue Integrated Management System A single intuitive graphical user interface that acts as a user-friendly front-end to monitor and control network equipment, providing the level of real-time network insight required to run an optimal network. Features a robust, comprehensive network management and analytics engine that allows users to intelligently maximize resources, ensure network uptime and provide the elevated levels of service that are required to support fixed and remote sites in the field. In addition, the CNPT seamlessly integrates with NetVue to port configurations from planning to operations, providing extreme ease of use and ensuring optimization from the start.

Ongoing Support via ESS As end-user demands and cost pressures continue to increase, consultation with satellite networking experts teamed with 24x7 engineering support to ensure a network is optimal has become a necessity. Our ESS Prime service is backed by a team of seasoned satellite network engineers who have designed, implemented and optimized networks around the world, and leverage this expertise daily to provide users with their best solution.

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Benefits of the Heights Networking PlatformThe Heights Networking Platform provides the industrys premier support for premium enterprise services for networks ranging from tens to thousands of sites. Benefits include:

In a world of me-too offerings, differentiation comes from challenging convention and partnering with a satellite platform provider that enables you to defy the norm. Contact us today Well help you determine how Heights can elevate your services with its unparalleled mix of horsepower, efficiency and intelligence.

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Grow Your Business

Increase Your Margins

Differentiate Your Services

Meet tomorrows multimedia traffic demands today via unparalleled throughput

Ensure your customers most latency and jitter sensitive applications operate properly to maximize productivity

Support multi-tenant end users, providing individualized service levels on a single shared platform

Consult with platform experts before, during & after network implementation to maximize QoE

Leverage the most attractive cost economics over the life of your network via multi-layer optimization

Maintain ongoing optimal operation via a single powerful analytics engine to maximize resource utilization

Operate simultaneously on multiple satellites and frequencies with cost-effective expansion paths

Transition all or part of your network onto HTS spot beams, unleashing the potential of these innovations via future-proof design

Tie costs to revenue via gradual network expansion start small with low upfront costs and expand as your business grows

Offer and leverage an array of different business models to increase market share

Address new markets & generate new revenue via intelligent network design and optimal resource utilization

Enhance remote terminal performance via bi-directional ACM and seamless beam and hub transition