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<blockquote data-quote="Fisty McB" data-source="post: 1091606" data-attributes="member: 389824"><p>There's no official figures, but unofficially it's reckoned that Saorsat is used by less than 1000 households in the Republic of Ireland, and with RTE needing to cut further expenses as well, this would seem to be an easy one to save a few Euros...</p><p></p><p>...not to mention that capacity on the Irish Ka-Sat spot beam has reportedly been struggling to keep up with demand over the last few months as people & businesses are using Tooway based connections more during recent international events - sacrificing some of the bit rate of Saorsat will help deliver a bigger IP payload on that beam.</p><p></p><p>What will be interesting is how the change in FEC to 5/6 will affect reception, especially in fringe areas. It's been thought that Saorsat isn't transmitting on "full" power at present in the first place so there might be scope to increase downlink power to compensate - otherwise the SNR margin is going to be further weakened (not to mention a reduction in overall bitrate capacity of the service), which could cause problems with not only those with smaller than recommended dish sizes, but also those towards the east of the footprint where reception is also interference limited.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fisty McB, post: 1091606, member: 389824"] There's no official figures, but unofficially it's reckoned that Saorsat is used by less than 1000 households in the Republic of Ireland, and with RTE needing to cut further expenses as well, this would seem to be an easy one to save a few Euros... ...not to mention that capacity on the Irish Ka-Sat spot beam has reportedly been struggling to keep up with demand over the last few months as people & businesses are using Tooway based connections more during recent international events - sacrificing some of the bit rate of Saorsat will help deliver a bigger IP payload on that beam. What will be interesting is how the change in FEC to 5/6 will affect reception, especially in fringe areas. It's been thought that Saorsat isn't transmitting on "full" power at present in the first place so there might be scope to increase downlink power to compensate - otherwise the SNR margin is going to be further weakened (not to mention a reduction in overall bitrate capacity of the service), which could cause problems with not only those with smaller than recommended dish sizes, but also those towards the east of the footprint where reception is also interference limited. [/QUOTE]
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