SatNet offers the most scalable solutions of the industry available at the most competitive cost.

The SatNet Pay-as-You-Grow™ system supports the service provider's requirements at all stages of a network deployment. Starting from an SCPC-based network, the Pay-as-You-Grow™ strategy enables the network operator and service provider to migrate to DVB-RCS while re-using the same user terminal equipment and forward link equipment. This allows to easily grow the system from a few SCPC terminals to hundreds of DVB-RCS terminals. Further, the Pay-as-You-Grow™ strategy makes it possible to scale up the DVB-RCS hub from hundreds of terminals to tens of thousands of terminals.

The SatNet Pay-as-You-Grow™ networks support the full IP application set ranging from web access and FTP to streaming and interactive end-user applications. Pay-as-You-Grow™ provides a powerful IP access network and the required infrastructure to support end-to-end IP connectivity.

This solution, starting in DVB-SCPC and upgrading to DVB-RCS, offers a very cost-competitive solution for any size network. There are several steps possible in the evolution of a network that needs to grow; the network operator can choose to enter at the 1st step or the 3rd step, depending on whether he needs to start with DVB-SCPC or DVB-RCS:

• 1st step - Deploy an SCPC/DVB-S/DVB-S2 network with a small number of terminals (up to a few tens).
• 2nd step - DVB-RCS + SCPC: retain terminal types (such as SatNet's own Series 5000 SIT, which has dual SCPC & DVB-RCS capabilities), add the DVB-RCS specific element (RLSS) to hub.
• 3rd step - DVB-RCS only: retain existing terminals and deploy (additional) DVB-RCS-only terminals. The DVB-RCS hub and RLSS can be scaled up as the network size grows.