ATSC 3.0, known as well as NextGen TV, is the latest major standard to have been implemented and deployed in the broadcast sector. In the same way as DVB-T was replaced by DVB-T2 in many European, Asian, African and South American markets, bringing along many new technological improvements, it is now ATSC 1.0 turn to leap forward to the most advanced broadcast standard currently available: ATSC 3.0.

For this ATSC 3.0 technical overview, we will follow the OSI model (Open Systems Interconnection) in order to structure the different protocols and signals involved in building an ATSC 3.0 signal from the ground up from the transmission point of view. We will use the ATLAS NG (the NextGen TV ATSC 3.0 analyzer from PROMAX) to display the screen captures for the different layers in ATSC 3.0.

For those who do not compromise and equip themselves with top-shelf test equipment only, we created ATLAS NG, a multipurpose and featured packed spectrum analyzer which covers the most stringent requirements for broadcast professionals. DVB-S2x, ATSC 3.0, IPTV, Fiber optics, 3G-SDI, Transport stream ASI, Wi-Fi, OTT… all checked!.