Asia's satellite and video industry is ready for the next version of the DVB-S2 standard, although many players could take one to two years to implement it, according to survey figures released by Newtec.
The survey asked satellite operators, broadcasters, service providers integrators, system houses and government/defense players about their timeframe for implementing the upcoming "S2 extensions" for DVB-S2, which promise efficiency gains of up to 20% for DTH networks and 64% for other professional applications compared to DVB-S2.
In Asia Pacific a quarter of respondents said they would use the extensions as soon as they became available later this year, while another 22% said they would implement them six months to a year after the extensions are released.
However, another 19% said it would take them one to two years while almost a third said they would wait until the S2 extensions becomes widely accepted in their market before adopting them.
Still, the findings are roughly in line with the survey's global results, which found a little over half of respondents would be ready to deploy S2 extensions within a year of release.
On a global scale, integrators, system houses and satellite operators are more likely to adopt S2 extensions as soon as they become available, Newtec says.
The survey also found that cost, compatibility and interoperability are the chief concerns that need to be tackled when implementing the S2 extensions.
The new extensions are currently being developed by the DVB industry consortium to give DVB-S2 a badly needed upgrade to cope with ever-growing volumes in data and video traffic over satellite, especially with ultra-HD video (4K/8K) and High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) video compression starting to hit the market.