The iQ Desktop remote. Photo: iDirect.

VT iDirect announced another successful Over-the-Air (OTA) test of its Digital Video Broadcasting-Satellite Second Generation Extension (DVB-S2X) technology. The company conducted the test on the SES 4 satellite over C-band and achieved 5.7 bps/Hz.

The DVB-S2X technology is based on a customized Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) chipset and powers iDirect’s iQ Series family of remotes. The iQ Series, which will operate in both DVB-S2X and DVB-S2 mode, targets broadband, enterprise, and mobility applications and is packaged in desktop, rack-mount, board level and embedded compute form factors that will become available over the course of this year. The family of new remotes is software upgradeable to license added network capabilities and higher throughput levels.