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Objectives
Market analyses predict an annual growth rate 50-80% p.a. over the next years for the two-way DVB-RCS VSAT industry. This growth shall change the market share of DVB-RCS based solutions from about 5% as of today to over 20% by the year 2008. The project DELOS targets this market with the development of the IP-core (see Fig.1) and focuses on the following objectives:
- Develop a single, generic architectural component to host the protocol part of the DVB-RCS terminal functionality,
- Enable the easy integration of DELOS on any kind of Integrated Circuits,
- Minimize DVB-RCS terminal development and manufacturing cycle and costs,
- Ensure maximum compatibility with existing and future hardware and software designs,
- Enable openness of the architecture and allow re-use of existing ready-made components,
- Enhance overall terminal performance,
- Ensure terminal interoperability,
- Take into account compatibility with actual and future DVB-RCS specifications.
Figure 1: DELOS IP-core positioning and general architecture
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Challenges
The majority of VSAT vendors (standards-based and proprietary) agree that there are two key needs to be addressed for further success:
- Price reductions, and
- Interoperability
Currently there is little difference in performance and price between proprietary and standards-based solutions. Additionally DVB-RCS solutions are not wholly interoperable today and customers are in essence locked into one vendor. Therefore DELOS will penetrate the terminal market through a scalable, interoperable, re-usable and low cost, DVB-RCS core component that will allow proliferation of manufacturers and minimise development cycles and costs with direct consequence on end-product price reduction, while ensuring improved performance.
Plan
The project will evolve within an 18-month framework organized in 6 WPs, whereby the management, technological and commercial activities are divided as follows:
- WP1000: Project Co-ordination & management
- WP2000: IP-core requirements & specification
- WP3000: Hardware platform design and development
- WP4000: Software platform design and development
- WP5000: Integration, validation & demonstration
- WP6000: Market Assessment & Exploitation Activities
The major milestones of the project have been assigned in accordance with AO/1-4852/05/NL/US SoW guidelines to meetings (BDR, MTR, FR) in the context of which the project’s right technical and commercial orientation will be reviewed.
Current Status
The project started on January 2006. The work was successfully completed on June 2007 and the project officially concluded with the Final Review which took place on the 26th July 2007.