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European IRS Certification Scheme

Association For Audio Visual Professionals

multiple technologies are expected to work in adjacent spectrum bands without causing interference to one another. Similarly, interoperability between receivers and switching equipment is essential to support platform delivery as well as having industry agreed requirements and independent verification of properties such as signalling and power levels being sent between receivers and switches. Therefore, the EICS gives installers, specifiers, distributors and retailers, manufacturers, broadcasters and platform operators confidence that products will perform as intended and are compatible with platform requirements, providing system integrity.

The European IRS Certification Scheme (EICS) outlines a set of tests to verify the efficient use of spectrum by dSCRs and multiswitches as well as interoperability with satellite and DTT receivers, providing an industry agreed test regime for these types of equipment. Currently there are no harmonised standards for satellite launch amplifiers, dSCRs and multiswitches to demonstrate compliance to the Radio Equipment Directive, meaning there is no industry-wide specification to test how spectrally efficient their performance is. Spectral efficiency is a key aspect of a performance and criteria such as isolation, dynamic range, interference rejection, and gain control, all indicate whether a product can perform well in today’s environment where

dSCRs/plug-in dSCRs

Company

Product Name/Part Number

Certificate Number EICS-DC-1037 A EICS-DC-1038 A EICS-DC-1031 A EICS-DC-1032 A EICS-DC-1044 A EICS-DC-1045 A EICS-DC-1001 B EICS-DC-1002 B EICS-DC-1048 A

Antiference Antiference

ADM04 5-4 ADM08 5-8

Fracarro Fracarro

SWI8508 dSCR multiswitch SWI8504 dSCR multiswitch

Global Invacom Global Invacom

dSCR GTU

dCSS Switchblade

Inverto Inverto Inverto

dSCR multiswitch 4o/p dSCR multiswitch 8o/p dSCR multiswitch 12o/p

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