The Heartland Video Systems (HVS) Interop event is now history, held November 10-14 at the company’s Wisconsin headquarters. There, Anywave Broadcast Inc. participated in the testing of ATSC 3.0 translators.
The tests passed the test, GM David Neff says.
Testing was conducted using ATSC 3.0 RF signals supplied by HVS, complete with signaling tables signed with certificates.
As HVS notes, “It is a mandatory part of the ATSC 3.0 standard that signaling tables are cryptographically signed for security and authentication. If any of that signaling is to be modified for the translator output, then editing and re-signing in the translator is necessary.”
Given Anywave’s success at the event, Neff comnents, “With the signed signaling requirement, 3.0 translators can be a lot more complicated than their 1.0 counterparts. Essentially, a 3.0 translator requires a demodulator, a 3.0 exciter, and many of the functions of a broadcast gateway.”
Anywave’s AW9200 Exciter+ product offers those to users.
The interop was designed to test equipment interoperability with other gear.
