Introduction

Overview - Based on MicroFirst’s DAS technology the DESC is a fully expandable and extensible real-time control & monitoring system for satellite IRD’s. This stand-alone automation product is designed to provide reliable schedule management and device control for, literally, hundreds of IRD’s through RS232, RS422 or TCP/IP communications.

The “real-time control” portion of DESC runs on an MPC-1610 under the WinMOS, MicroFirst’s reliable and efficient embedded OS. There are no lock-ups, no “blue-screens” and no waiting for long boot-up processes. The system typically boots in 10 seconds or less, from power-on, providing faster services with minimal down-time. The GUI portion of DESC is handled by a suite of schedule editing and data management applications designed to run on user-supplied WinNT/2000/XP workstations.

DESC features:

• Graphical manual control of all aspects of an IRD that are accessible through its protocol
• Scheduling of implicit mode changes (i.e. DCII or DVB modes)
• Scheduling of virtual channel and virtual table mode changes
• Scheduling of frequency changes
• Alarming of communications losses, noise ratio, db level and tuning
• Logging of all system activity with separate Log Viewing application
  

Sample Screens

Login Screen
System Status
HD IRDs
HD IRD Details
SD IRDs
SD IRD Details
GPI Status
Port Config
HD Network Schedule