Channel Stacking and Single Cable LNB Specs Improve SatDelivery

Entropic Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:ENTR) has announced their Channel Stacking Switch products support the ASTRA Single Cable Low Noise Block (LNB) down converter technical specification. This news follows SES’ recent release of their specifications for Single Cable LNBs. b>SES-ASTRA drives industry requirements and standards to ensure end-user quality-of-service and is a provider of DTH satellite services in Europe. ASTRA LNB specifications are closely followed and widely adopted by leading DBS Pay-TV Operators as the standard their customer premise equipment (CPE) suppliers need to meet. In addition to supporting the strategies of DBS Pay-TV Operators, ASTRA technical recommendations also provide specifications for ensuring plug and play interoperability and an excellent customer experience for the Free To Air (FTA) market. ASTRA’s Single Cable Specifications, along with the recently released single cable communications standard, CENELEC EN50494, continue to solidify the industry need to provide low cost, high quality, and reliable DBS solutions to support the growing satellite-viewing customer demand for easy access to multimedia content and HD programming. Entropic‘s Channel Stacking Switch (CSS) ICs are compliant with ASTRA’s Single Cable LNB Specifications and allow satellite operators to deliver cost-effective satellite programming to their subscribers—San Diego, California