Hybrid Dish Signals

[DBordello]

About two years ago I posted a thread to get my head around what was going on between the satellite in the sky, and my receivers: http://www.dbstalk.com/topic/211199-dish-premise-signals/#entry3238836

However, with the new Hybrid LNB (DPH), I think it is time to refresh that discussion.

• A premise can receive up to 4 orbital slots. For the western arc, 110, 119, 129 + Sidecar. Therefore, we are dealing with 8 500 MHz IF signals.
• In a solo Hopper scenario, the hopper can be directly connected to the Hybrid LNB,

Up until the Hopper 3 announcement, I would have assumed the DPH was doing a triple-stack configuration.

The Hopper 3 has 16 tuners. Therefore, we have two options:

• Up to 16 individual transponders are being transmitted by the DPH, similar to DirecTV SWM.
• All 8 500 MHz IF signals are being transmitted by the DPH.

Seeing as most people use 3GHz cable, the later option doesn't seem feasible. Therefore, is the DPH splicing individual transponders?

(For the purpose of discussion, let's ignore MoCA for the time being. It appears the hub acts to splice MoCA in and out).

 

[rglore]

The new DPH LNBF does indeed stack individual transponders when powered by a Hopper3 or Wally.

 

[DBordello]

Well isn't that fancy. Any technical details? How is the signaling done? What is the maximum number of transponders?

 

[DBordello]

Now that the Hopper 3 is in the wild, any new insight into what is coming down the line?