[Satellite TODAY 03-11-13] Romantis, a global provider of satellite capacity and satellite networking equipment, has announced a new UHP 3.0 software upgrade for its Universal Hardware Platform (UHP). UHP 3.0 is the latest generation of high-throughput, universal UHP VSAT platform with increased performance, advanced Quality of Service (QoS) and multi-profile operations. 

   The new software enhances UHP’s satellite router performance to processing 60,000 packets per second and up to 150 Mbps aggregate throughput. It also increases the number of supported TDMA Inroutes (up to 254 per network), including Fast-Hopping MF-TDMA and TCP/IP acceleration; and the number of supported Terminals (up to 2,040 per Inroute or above 500,000 per network).

   UHP 3.0 also features new advanced traffic management capabilities such as Group Hierarchical QoS, Traffic Policies and Hierarchical 680-channel Traffic Shaper.

   Plus, adaptive technologies combine automatic Transmission Level Control (TLC) and DVB-S2 Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM) available both for TDM/TDMA networks and SCPC channels. Multi-profile operations with dynamic switching between different configuration settings and/or modes of operations, including TDM/TDMA, SCPC and Hubless TDMA are also included.