Peak Communications, which has been exhibiting at ConnecTech Asia for more than 15 years, will be in Singapore to demonstrate a wide range of its equipment, especially its RCU50R series of outdoor mounted units.
These units offer flexible and cost-effective redundancy switch solutions, minimising capex through reduced cross-site control and drive cable costs whilst improving electromagnetic antenna isolation.
They are compatible with most makes of LNA/LNB/BUC/BDC and waveguide switch items, so are ideal for legacy systems and new installations alike. For new installations, Peak can also supply the LNA’s/LNB’s, waveguide switches, mounting plate and so on as a turnkey solution, or customers may supply their own parts.
The RCU50Rseries switching units include latching switches which maintain the RF path configuration in the event of a power failure, rather than pin diode switches which are common in lower grade designs.
DC power is provided for the LNA/LNB/BUC/BDC units whilst current is monitored to establish correct operation and trigger automatic switch-over to the standby unit as necessary. User settable current ‘window’ alarm levels are provided along with ‘live’ monitoring of the current drawn.
Units are separately DC-powered and are fitted with redundant DC inputs as standard. They do not rely upon the often-unreliable and limited modem-derived DC supplies, or hold-up capacitors with limited switching cycles and deteriorating life performance issues.
Reference generation with automatic external reference locking or ‘pass-through’ can be provided for LNB/BUC/BDC units.
Tell-backs from waveguide switches are monitored to ensure correct positioning and operation.
Units are controlled directly via Ethernet with embedded web-page and SNMP support; rack-mounted control panels can also be provided. They also contain local user controls for maintenance purposes, that can be locked-out if preferred.
CommunicAsia, Stand 1U3-07
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