Case Studies

5G Network Infrastructure Interoperability Demands

5G Mobile Network Operators are being motivated to change and broaden their range of infrastructure suppliers, adding more vendors to the traditional mix of large brand names. This is in some part due to geo-political issues relating to Chinese infrastructure vendors, as well as the commercial and technical opportunities being offered through the Open RAN infrastructure interface standards. Read more »

Earthquake Monitoring Station Deploys GPS over Fiber System

Based in Vienna, Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik (ZAMG) offers a broad range of services, including archaeological ground surveys and earthquake monitoring. Highly sensitive accelerometers are used to detect earthquake and after-shock tremors. Networks that interconnect accelerometers and other devices are synchronized using the extremely accurate GPS clock. A GPS antenna with a coaxial cable… Read more »

Rain Fade Solution for Telstar 12 VANTAGE Satellite

Telesat is a leading global satellite operator, providing reliable and secure satellite-delivered communications solutions worldwide to broadcast, telecom, corporate and government customers.  The Problem: The Ka-Band signals from the new Telstar 12 VANTAGE high throughput satellite (HTS) can be affected by rain fade.  The signals are used for VSAT gateways which have a high level of QOS and have a system architecture which is timing dependant.  The Solution… Read more »

Chronos and ViaLite Support Ultra-Fast Timing for Financial Institutions

As financial institutions around the world are seeking to offer the fastest trading speeds possible to support high-frequency trading and comply to MiFID II, their IT systems need highly accurate timing signals which are acquired from the GPS satellite network.  ViaLite and specialist supplier of ultra-precise timing solutions, Chronos Technology, have collaborated to support ultra-fast trading speeds at financial institutions and data centers combining ViaLite RF over fiber and Chronos’s… Read more »

Broadcast Service Routing and Distribution over Single Mode Optical Fiber

Broadcasters and program producers continue to push the content delivery envelope when covering or recording live events.  High profile events require a large range of equipment designed to capture all aspects of the event, relaying images, audio and data from an array of cameras and microphones back to the production suite in the outside broadcast (OB) truck.  This case study describes how fiber optic technology is used… Read more »

Satellite Ground Station Installation

Fiber optic systems are now the widely accepted alternative to copper cables in most satellite earth stations.  ViaLite was approached by a leading supplier of satellite broadcast and telecommunication services who had an urgent requirement for inter facility systems at some of their teleports.  Having just experienced problems with a previous supplier due to poor product quality and delivery timescale problems this customer needed a reliable new source for fiber… Read more »

GPS Timing Distribution for TETRA Base Stations

A major blue chip manufacturer of TETRA radio systems required a new design capable of carrying the GPS RF signals from antenna to remote base stations in tunnel networks. ViaLite provided a rapid development and qualification cycle for a new product for use in hazardous environments.  The new system is now used in the customers TETRA network for distribution of timing reference signals.  This new system had to work in… Read more »