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DVB-C2 completes Berlin field test

Glatz: DVB-C2 extends digital offering

Transmission tests on the second generation cable system DVB-C2 have been successfully completed by Kabel Deutschland in Berlin, just five months after its publication by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).

During the tests DVB-C2 modulated HDTV signals were transmitted on channel D562 alongside analogue and digital services on a fully loaded Berlin cable network.

Engineers pointed to the successful transmission of 1024-QAM and even 4096-QAM constellations, the most complex and spectrum efficient configurations of the new DVB-C2 cable standard, in a fully loaded 862 MHz cable network. Read the story »

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