DVB-S2
Digital Satellite TV
About DVB-S2
DVB-S2 is the "second generation" modulation and channel coding system developed by the DVB Project as a successor to the DVB-S system. It covers a variety of applications by satellite, such as broadcast services, interactive services, TV contribution and data content distribution.
It makes use of advanced modulation and coding techniques to deliver performance that approaches the theoretical limit (Shannon) of a communication channel.
It was published as ETSI EN 302 307 in 2005 and it is now defined as Part 1, with Part 2 being the DVB-S2X standard.
Patent owners
The DVB-S2 patents licensed by Sisvel are owned by:
DTVG Licensing, LLC
RAI – Radiotelevisione Italiana S.p.A.
ST Engineering iDirect (Europe) CY N.V.
The European Space Agency (ESA)
WORK Microwave GmbH
Patents
Sisvel has the right to grant non-exclusive licences to the patents listed in the documentation provided via the below link.
The table in this document allows interested parties to understand how the SEPs offered under the DVB-S2 are utilised by products complying to such standard and, to this end, indicates relevant standard, versions of the standard and sections of the standard, in relation to the DVB-S2 offer.
Patent call
Sisvel is organising this licensing programme to make DVB-S2 technology accessible to all users on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms and conditions.
Sisvel invites all parties that have patents or patent applications they believe to be essential to the DVB-S2 standard to submit their patent(s) and application(s) for an evaluation of essentiality by the independent patent experts indicated by Sisvel.
Licence Terms
Sisvel offers a royalty-bearing, non-transferable, non-assignable, non-exclusive licence, with no right to grant sublicences, to patents essential to the DVB-S2 standard (adopted by ETSI as formally specified in the ETSI document EN 302 307 Part 1).
The DVB-S2 Portfolio Licence Agreement offered by Sisvel covers any professional product implementing a DVB-S2 encoding or decoding functionality.
The DVB-S2 Portfolio Licence Agreement does not cover transport streams or audio or video coding specifications that may be referenced in such ETSI document.
The DVB-S2 Portfolio licence has a non-refundable entrance fee of 3,000.00 Euros and the royalty rates during each calendar year are as follows:
Type of S2 Licensed Product | Royalty Rate per Unit |
|---|---|
S2 Licensed Consumer Products | € 0.60 |
S2 Licensed Professional Products Retail value less than € 800 per unit | € 0.60 |
S2 Licensed Professional Products Retail value € 800 or more per unit | € 18.00 |
Royalty statements and payments for royalties accrued during each calendar quarter are due within one month after the end of that quarter.
Our standard DVB-S2 Patent Portfolio Licence Agreement for Professional Products can be found here.
List of licensees
Company | Country |
|---|---|
Appear AS | NORWAY |
ASAT Co., Ltd. | KOREA |
Astro Strobel Kommunikationssysteme GmbH | GERMANY |
Axing AG | SWITZERLAND |
Bridge Technologies Co. AS | NORWAY |
Com Dev Europe Limited | UNITED KINGDOM |
Comtech Telecommunications Corp. | USA |
Datum Systems, Inc. | USA |
DekTec Digital Video B.V. | NETHERLANDS |
Dexin Digital Technology Corp. Ltd. | CHINA |
Elber S.r.l. | ITALY |
Enensys Technologies SA | FRANCE |
Evertz Microsystems Ltd. | CANADA |
Fracarro Radioindustrie S.r.l. | ITALY |
GatesAir S.r.l. | ITALY |
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. | ISRAEL |
Haivision Systems Inc. | CANADA |
Harmonic, Inc. | USA |
MK Systems USA Inc. | USA |
Nevion A.S. | NORWAY |
Novelsat Ltd. | ISRAEL |
Polytron-Vertrieb GmbH | GERMANY |
RF-Tuote Oy | FINLAND |
RO.VE.R. Laboratories S.p.A. | ITALY |
Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG | GERMANY |
ST Engineering iDirect, Inc. | USA |
System Engineering Solutions S.r.l. (Sy.E.S. S.r.l.) | ITALY |
Tecsys do Brasil Industrial Ltda | BRAZIL |
Teleste Corporation | FINLAND |
Televés S.A.U. | SPAIN |
Terra UAB | LITHUANIA |
Unitron NV | BELGIUM |
Wilhelm Sihn jr. GmbH & Co. KG | GERMANY |
WORK Microwave GmbH | GERMANY |