Paris show beckons for satellite channel emulators

IZT aims to meet this challenge by creating cost-effective products that can quickly deliver accurate and realistic results, and help reduce development times and implementation risk for new satellite networks and optimise their throughput once they are in operation.

The emulators allow the cost-effective testing of equipment such as receivers, modems, transmitters, and satellite phones before system implementation. IZT’s satellite channel emulators feature true Doppler emulation, accurate time synchronous profiles, a multitude of configurable interference sources and a flexible and comprehensive satellite payload emulation.

Complex operational scenarios can be simulated, to test for their effects on the transmission, the satellite or the end user devices. Later, when the satellite is in operation, any effects or problems experienced can be reproduced with the emulator and analysed in the lab.

The IZT C6000 is a cost effective and time-saving solution for testing the complete bi-directional transmission path with up to ten groups of terminals operating under different propagation conditions. It provides a bi-directional bandwidth of up to 600 MHz and is configurable with respect to the number of links supported.

The IZT C3040 offers an instantaneous bandwidth of 100 MHz for high bandwidth applications. Customers can create realistic complex and reproducible scenarios to test flight and ground systems such as LEO, GEO, and MEO satellites, UAVs, modems, transmitters and receivers, as well as telemetry tracking and ranging verification and even terrestrial microwave links.