Multi – Unit Dwellings • A Multi – Dwelling unit (MUD) is typically a building housing two or more dwelling units like apartments, condominiums, townhouses and attached residences. • For conflict free – viewing – The user has to connect ONE LNB cable to each tuner/ decoder to allow each “tuner” to select any quadrant without affecting other “tuners”. That means that each decoder/ tuner must be connected as a “Master”. In a MUD environment there are multiple decoders/ tuners each requiring a cable from the multi-switch. Each multi-switch has to carry the 4 – quadrants as its inputs, with as many outputs as required by each tuner / master. The result is “ lots of cables” SMATV • A Satellite Master Antenna Television (SMATV) system is a system which is intended for the distribution of television and sound signals to households located in one or more adjacent buildings sharing the same resources among several users for satellite and terrestrial reception. • There are many distribution solutions available to Trans- modulate the satellite signal (QPSK/ 8PSK) to specific end user needs: S-band, IF Coaxial, IF Fiber Optical, SatCR/CSS/Unicable/ QAM (DTT-T or T2) and IP (Ethernet). • In order to use our Dstv Communal  Satellite decoders, the installer has to ensure that “all” users are able to use the signal, which must SAT- IF or SAT- CR. The Explora/Dstv Communal  Multi – switch can convert a SAT – IF signal to SAT- CR but not the converse. Why 4- cables for Dstv Communal  from August? • Dstv Communal  on IS20 satellite currently uses two quadrants of the LNB ( so called Low Frequency band) and will have to expand its capacity to a co-located satellite, which has capacity on the high frequency band and therefore require installations that can cater all 4 quadrants from the LNB . The maximum number of Dstv Communal  transponders can grow to is 132 (4×33). • Some MUD installations only caters for the two quadrants by way of transposing the horizontal transponders to vertical and therefore limiting the incoming satellite frequencies to a single quadrant. One transpose modulator is required for every satellite frequency that has to be.

3. In a Dstv Communal installation set up where there is 1 cable system in the unit on a 2 cable back bone .On this installation we recommend the use of Dstv Communal set up on Fibre installation or Smart Multi Switch which has 16 user bands per port and universal functionalities which will work on all the IS20 services with any DSD unit ie Dstv Communal , OVH, DTT. 1. In a Dstv Communal installation set up where there is 2 cable system in the unit on a 5 cable back bone .On this installation we recommend the use of Dstv Communal set up on Fibre installation or Smart Multi Switch which has 16 user bands per port. If we are to install both cable the communal installation will have 32 user bands.