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РусскийPROMAX has provided key assistance to 2018’s Tour of Spain “La Vuelta”
The 2018’s cycling Tour of Spain 'La Vuelta' has been a great success. RTVE -the Spanish public radio/television entity- has performed a depth coverage of the entire event. The mobile links of helicopters and motorcycles to the base station have been made with digital television ISDB-T technology..
Inside of a mobile unit
Why has ISDB-T standard been used for TV links instead of DVB-T or DVB-T2?
The advantage of the ISDB-T system is its robustness in movement. This is the key reason for RTVE to select ISDB-T on their mobile links.
ISDB-T is a standard developed in Japan and widely used in South America. Together with DVB-T, DVB-T2 and ATSC, they are terrestrial broadcasting standards supported by PROMAX TV and spectrum analyzers.
The 'La Vuelta a España' is a challenge. Some of the stages pass through mountain roads, with multiple tunnels and rugged landscapes that makes it difficult to transmit-receive real time images from mobile units. With the ISDB-T standard, transmitted signals are more robust. It takes longer before they get unlocked at they recover faster. This is what makes the difference with the DVB-T and DVB-T2 systems adopted as broadcasting standards throughout Europe.
Diagram of the television broadcasting of the 2018’s Tour of Spain 'La Vuelta'
RANGER Neo are multistandard TV and spectrum analyzers including DVB-T, DVB-T2 and ISDB-T/Tb in a single device
The multistandard measuring tools RANGER Neo 4 from PROMAX have provided a great support to perform the adjustments of the mobile links of 'La Vuelta'. It is a portable, compact and highly reliable analyzer that can deal both with DVB-T and DVB-T and ISDB-T.
It allows performing the analysis of all the transmission parameters as well as decoding 4K picture, which is widely used in sports events.
PROMAX is a leading manufacturer of test and measurement systems, broadcast and TV signal distribution equipment. Our product lines include measuring instruments for cable TV, satellite TV, broadcast, wireless and fibre optics networks, FTTH and GPON analyzers. DVB-T modulators, IP streamers or IP converters (ASI, DVB-T) are among the company’s latest developments.