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MaxView Carrier Monitoring System
Network operators at satellite earth stations, uplinks and teleports use the MaxView® Carrier Monitoring System® (CMS) to monitor and control RF spectrum usage. Available as a stand-alone system, or fully integrated into the MaxView Network Management System, MaxView CMS enables satellite service providers to automate satellite transmissions from spectrum planning to service activation and assurance.
MaxView CMS enables service providers to:
- Detect carriers and monitor their “vital stats” including center frequency, bandwidth, power levels and SNR
- Remotely view carrier spectrum
- Detect piracy and double illumination
- Correlate customer problem reports with carrier measurements
- Support multiple spectrum analyzers with one carrier monitoring system
- Control RF switch matrices to select and test many carriers with a single spectrum analyzer
- Meet service availability targets by minimizing transmission errors
- Automatically correct transmissions that are outside pre-defined “normal” parameters
Integrated Carrier Monitoring and Control
MaxView CMS automatically acquires and displays traces, locates spurs, generates alarms and logs the results to a database. By employing MaxView’s equipment control functionality, users can also define automatic responses to alarms in order to correct power levels and bandwidth usage that exceed acceptable levels.
Define Expected Values for Center Frequency, Bandwidth, Power Levels and SNR
Users have complete control over system settings, alarm threshold parameters and which bands and carriers are polled at any one time. MaxView CMS measures transmission levels against these user-defined “normal” values.
Monitor and Report Spurious Carriers
MaxView CMS searches for a signal above the user-defined noise floor. If the measured Center Frequency matches one of the configured carriers, MaxView CMS identifies it as a carrier. Likewise, if the measured Power Level is above the power level defined for spurs, MaxView CMS identifies it as a spur and generates an alarm.
Automatically Manage Alarms
Users can create “supermacros” in MaxView. Once triggered by an alarm from the MaxView CMS, the supermacros will automatically remotely control equipment to correct transmission parameters that exceed user-defined normal levels.
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