Robinson describes it as the company's own version of an encoding and decoding system. He notes that a client normally must already have deployed digital video with a hub digital encoder and digital receivers at all remote sites to use the company's products to achieve high-speed data broadcast in a VSAT market. At the hub end, the gateway plugs into the encoder and feeds it the data stream. The user obtains a channel on the encoder and transmits it off the satellite, where it is received by the decoders. The company's remote box then sends the signal to the network.
Expos overcomes the lack of digital video by being video independent.
If the client has not yet installed digital video, then the capability to perform high-speed data broadcast can be incorporated into the existing architecture. From the hub out, the signal is all digital. This allows video files, real-time video or data files to be broadcast in the network without the customer adding expensive digital video. This technology can be added later without discarding the IDI equipment, Robinson explains. A user can achieve VSAT capability without having a VSAT antenna.