Note added 2022: Hughes HX is now listed as legacy service on the Bentley Walker web site: https://bentley-walker.com/hx50
11 May 2010: Announced here.
Hughes have released a new Network Management System product in the form of a major software upgrade of the management interface for the Hughes HX VSAT DVB-S2 teleport hub system.
The new facilities allow local resellers and agents to access the HX NMS in read-only mode to observe the detailed status of the customer terminals that thue look after.
This is intended to help local agents and resellers to answer queries from end user customers, particular regarding site configuration, site and network traffic flows and general network operation.
Starting from a top level network overview (see below), it is possible to look at progressively more detail to verify and check the status of individual sites, right down to modem receive signal strength.
Outroute traffic for the past 6 minutes, approx 18 Mbit/s.
Inroute traffic (VSATs to hub) approx 1.6 Mbit/s.
Geographic map showing HX sites locations in Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria.
Green shows normal operation.
Red shows some anomaly, such as powered off temporally.
The information for this page has been kindly provided by Bentley Walker who operate 5 HX networks covering Europe, Africa, Middle East, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Kazakhstan.
Summary status table showing listing individual sites, identifying any that
may be power off or not operational.
Any alarms, together with times for site anomalies.
Detailed traffic graphs for a site including breakdown of traffic types.
Detailed configuration and diagnostics for a site, together with VSAT signal strength
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