"Push Config" Capability
Vocality products can be used on a basic point to point link. They can, however, be used in a complex star topology, with numerous remote sites, and changing requirements to connect units into the network. A good example is a Satellite News Gathering network, with trucks and flyaway terminals connecting into a centralised hub. One day, they are using their own trucks - and the next, they have major events taking place, and they need to bring in some third party trucks. They are equipped with Vocality, but are not configured to connect to your network.If the network was static - never changing - then users would configure their Vocality equipment and just leave it to be used as and when it's needed. However, in the world of Satellite News Gathering, the communications network is normally changing, with third party operators needing to connect in for occasional broadcasts, and remote site equipment being moved from place to place.
The Feature
Push Config was a feature developed to address such a need : to centralise the management of Vocality equipment, and to de-skill the remote location, allowing any user with Vocality equipment to connect their device into an aggregate to a Vocality hub, and the hub site automatically configures the remote unit with the correct configuration for that network.Using Push Config, a major VSAT hub operator could be running 30 remote sites back to a hub. They could add the 31st, and the hub V200 would push the configuration out to the remote unit with no user input required at the remote site.
For applications where the remote user has to be knowledgeable in numerous disciplines, this is one less area that the engineer needs to know about - the hub site takes care of it all.