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Note added 2022: Hughes HX is now listed as legacy service on the Bentley Walker web site: https://bentley-walker.com/hx50
Bentley Walker have their fifth Hughes HX hub, on Telstar 11N satellite operating in the beam shown below. Service start May 2009.
Enquiries: sales@bentleywalker.com Telephone: +44 239 231 1103
Telstar 11N Ku band Africa beam
Telstar 11N is located at 37.5 degrees West and utilizes 39 high powered Ku-band transponders to support video and data applications in North America, Europe and Africa and across the Atlantic Ocean.
The satellite's African coverage is promoting the implementation of broadband and video services across the continent and enabling a broad range of users to seamlessly connect their African operations with Europe and North America.
Telstar 11N satellite at 37.5 West orbit position.
HX VSAT hub equipment rack.
Telstar 11N was manufactured by Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) and Sea Launch provided mission management with its Land Launch partner, Space International Services Ltd. Telesat's newest satellite uses SS/L's proven 1300 platform, has a solar array span of 31 meters and an expected 15 year mission life.
The HX50 is a high-performance customer satellite modem/router designed to support high-bandwidth links with Quality of Service (QoS) features such as Min/Max CIR together with dynamic allocation of bandwidth. With integrated IP features including NAT/PAT, DHCP, RIPV1, RIPV2, and DNS server/relay functionality, together with TCP acceleration and a high-performance satellite modem, the HX50 is the ideal platform to enable high-performance IP connectivity for a variety of applications including internet cafes, community ISP, cellular backhaul, MPLS extension services, virtual leased-line services, and other high-bandwidth solutions.
HX50 customer modem
Hughes HX Features
DVB-S2 with Adaptive Coding Modulation, providing up to 50% more throughput than DVB-S and 20% more than standard DVB-S2
Two 10/100BaseT Ethernet LAN RJ45 ports offering the ability to offer dual subscriptions.
Adaptive Inroute Selection - AIS - enables highest efficiency transport at best quality
Service profiles available include Dynamic Streaming, CBR, Adaptive CBR and CIR with Best Effort
DNS Caching
Turbopage HTTP prefetch for superspeed browsing
DHCP server or relay
Full RIPV2 routing support
NAT/PAT
VLAN Tagging
Firewall support through integrated access control lists
Bi-directional data compression
User-friendly LED display indicating terminal operational status
Please contact sales@bentleywalker.com for information about currently provided services and technologies.
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