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This paper discusses in-house designed and developed scale-down DVB-RCS hub intended to support the Satellite Based e-Learning initiative in India. The scale-down DVB-RCS HUB is implemented around a single PC with other subsystems making it very cost effective and unique of its kind. Due to the realization of this scale-down hub the total cost of realization of a Satellite based Education Network has drastically been reduced as very low cost commercially available Satellite Interactive Terminals (SITs) complying to open standard could be used at remote locations. The system is successfully tested to work with a commercial SIT using a GEO satellite EDUSAT which is especially dedicated for satellite based e-Learning.
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Vasantha Kumar, N.G. et al. (2011). Scale-Down Digital Video Broadcast Return Channel via Satellite (DVB-RCS) Hub. In: Meghanathan, N., Kaushik, B.K., Nagamalai, D. (eds) Advances in Networks and Communications. CCSIT 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 132. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17878-8_12
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