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Being close to our customers is an identity trademark for Televes. 25 years ago, an initiative that sought to take an important step to fulfill this vocation was launched. Televes INFO bulletin was born with a first issue dated March 1991. That edition was modest in volume and content, but harbored the germ that has guided its development: to provide timely insight into the evolution of technology, report the news regarding the company´s catalog and to reflect the initiatives taken by Televes in key areas such as sector training.

Throughout these years, our INFO has grown in many ways. First, in variety of content. It has incorporated sections dedicated to answering technical questions; to show the increasingly active presence of the company in technical and commercial events; to provide useful ideas; to present installations that deploy advanced solutions, or display a touch of humor through photos with the most creative ways our customers use our products.

The development of the newsletter has been forged in parallel with the evolution of our company. Thus, with the exponential international growth of Televes, so too did the translated editions; the first was Portuguese 2004. Six years later, the international edition was launched with versions in English, French and Italian.  The latest additions in Polish German and Russian make up a wide array of languages with some personalized content for each market. At the same time, INFO Televes has adapted to ever changing technologies and today is available from anywhere in the world through their digital editions.

It is now the time for a brief celebration of INFO 25th Anniversary. We thank you, the readers, for your continued loyalty and we renew our commitment to continue improving our newsletter and to continue at your side  

The T.0X headends can now be controlled remotely through mobile phone apps for iOS and Android.

Tsuite and also its Windows version is now available in those platforms. Thanks to this the adjusting work and the remote monitorization of Televes headends will be now possible from smartphones and tablets. The installer will be able to provide immediate services of maintenance and installation  

The immense possibilities offered by this technology enable a new generation of Televes equipment
and opens the door to diversification into highly technical and competitive sectors.

Making its own printed circuit boards (PCBs) has become one of several Televes brand traits, all driven by the historical need to employ self-sufficiency and technological development as a survival mechanism. When in 1983 Siemens decided to export its first Surface Mount Components (SMD) machine outside of Germany, it was Televes who acquired it. That investment in a technology that was virtually unknown in the industry, confirmed the company at the forefront of manufacturing.

True to its nature, Televes now goes a step beyond and has committed to designing and manufacturing its own line of components using MMIC (Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits) technology.

Once again, a huge leap forward that will give a substantial competitive edge to the company. MMIC drastically reduces constraints when designing advanced products. With traditional electronic components, designers must limit their requirements to the technical specifications offered by component manufacturers in their Integrated Circuit catalogs. With the MMIC technology, however, Televes can now produce its own components to whatever stringent and challenging specs defined. The designers now have their own imagination and industrial ingenuity as the only virtual limit.

Manufacturing the MMIC circuits is performed with compounds of semiconductors such as gallium arsenide (GaAs), gallium nitride (GaN) and silicon germanium (SiGe). Gallium arsenide offers advantages such as its ability to work at high frequencies and high resilience which prevents interference. Active devices, transmission lines and passive components devices can now be integrated on a single substrate, creating circuits so small that you must use powerful microscopes to handle them.

From a commercial point of view, MMIC component manufacturing will enable Televes to develop a new generation of equipment in the field of television signal distribution and measurement. But surely the progress goes further along, since it will boost access to sectors as technologically demanding as Avionics, Defense, Energy or Automotive.

This investment, vast and intense in human and economic resource allocation, is only available to a company that has innovation in its core DNA, and it confirms the strategic vision of Televes to remain a leader in its core business, while gravitating towards incipient emerging technological markets, an orientation led by the European Digital Agenda and within the framework of the EU Horizon 2020 Program  

Marketing and Communications designer Carlos Rolando past away last February 3rd in Barcelona, at the age of 83. Argentine by birth, Rolando had been established in the catalonian capital since the late 60s, and from there he embarked on a path that would place him as an icon of his profession in Spain. Televes trusted him in the beginning of his career, and he is credited with one of the most successful decisions in the history of the company, at least from a marketing point of view.

Rolando was a great defender of adopting orange color Pantone 137 as the corporate identity and its application to satellite dishes. It was 1972 and building roofs began to be populated with the distinctive color that to date has been the authentic Televes flagship. Bestowed in 2005 with the National Design Award; Rolando was a great advocate of the role of visual elements in marketing and communication, and throughout his long career he developed countless logos and identifying icons for private companies, institutions and sector events. Amongst the latter, we recall the logo for the Universal Exposition in Seville in 1992 or, more recently, the image design for the Madrid 2016 Olympic bid.

We remember him for his bold vision, good craftsmanship and the great contribution he made to the Televes brand  

In the AWO residence home in Cadolzburg (Bavaria),  as the distance between the satellite dish and the headend is greater then  50 m fibre optic technology was the best option.

Within the first stage of the project, 220 users have received high quality TV. A 100 cm dish with an optical LNB (Ref. 2353) received the signal from Astra 19.2 º. This signal is transmitted by fibre to avoid losses and the conversion into RF is carried out by a converter (Ref. 237002). The RF signal is then injected into a 5x12 multiswitch connected directly to a Televes transmodulation headend which converts its DVB inputs into a 8 QAM multiplexes and also a DVB-T into a QAM. Once every channel is in QAM, an optical transmitter will send the signal to the different buildings using a 1310nm wavelenght and 10dBm of optical power.

In the first stage of the project, 5 building were commissioned. Once the optical signal is received, 16 optical receivers per building (Ref.2311 and 231201), this signal will be converted back into RF