Virtualized Wideband Transmitter
OpenSpace® quantumTX is a fully virtualized wideband software transmitter that addresses the needs of today’s current and next-generation of Earth Observation (EO) and Remote Sensing Satellites (RS) for more agile, cost-effective and scalable ground infrastructure.
Highlights
quantumTX is an ideal solution for new satellites and ground stations due to its performance and economic efficiency. The virtualized transmitter reduces operational costs, enhances troubleshooting, and supports the newer digital IF signaling capabilities.
quantumTX takes advantage of standard x86 server architectures and can be deployed easily on bare metal, virtual machines or in containers to meet different scalability needs, to drive higher capacity utilization and to reduce costs.
The software-based transmitter offers high performance for carriers from 1 Msps up to 250 Msps, supporting over 1 Gpbs of throughput for uplinks.
quantumTX provides modulation of several common waveforms, decoding, and forward error correction methods. Monitoring and control is performed using the HTML5 graphical user interface, using the REST API or GEMS.
Features
- Software defined radio solution enabling multiple waveform modulation and encoding options
- Uses industry standard interfaces
- Decouples the processing from purpose-built hardware
- Eliminates dependency on dedicated hardware
- Common cloud compatible infrastructure
- Instantiate application instances through automation and virtualization
Benefits
- Provides high performance and pass-to-pass configurability
- Web-based GUI, REST API and GEMS
- Lowers costs by using generic x86 compute resources
- Deploys flexibly on bare metal, virtually or in the cloud
- Easily fits into existing ground architectures from private to public cloud
- Scales on demand by spinning virtual instances up and down as needed
