The designer should meet three main requirements: the installation is to serve 5 apartment houses, distribute DVB-T signals from a local transmitter, subscribers with old televisions without MPEG-4 tuners (CRT TVs and plasma/LCD TVs equipped only with MPEG-2 tuners) are to receive the DVB-T broadcasts converted into analog TV channels.

The signal from the UHF antenna DIPOL Tri Digit 44/21-69 A2670 has been split into two paths, digital and analog. The digital circuit contains a dual channel DVB-T amplifier with AGC (Terra at420 R82510) and multiband amplifier Terra ma400 R82520. The analog path consists of Terra MMH-3000 headend with OFDM receivers / DSB modulators Terra RT-316 R81707 and MPEG2/H.264 TS decoders / DSB modulators Terra DM-316 R817121. The analog and digital signals are combined in the 2-way TV/FM splitter Signal R-2 R60102.

To ensure the highest quality signals (DVB-T channels can be broadcast in HD resolution), the designer employed fiber optic connections to the buildings. There has been used professional and cost-effective solution based on TERRA equipment.

The whole system consists of three subnetworks:

Diagram of the MATV system for 5 apartment houses,
employing fiber optics and distributing both the original DVB-T multiplexes
as well as their channels, as trans-modulated analog signals

The composite signal is distributed to the four individual buildings via fiber optic cables (from the building with the signal processing unit). The output optical signal goes from the optical transmitter TERRA MOS-211B R81720B (output power of 8 dBm), and then is split into four optical lines terminated in each of the four building by the optical node Terra OD-120 R81724. The node converts the optical signal into RF electrical signals, with a maximum output level of 113 dBuV, which is sufficient for their further re-distribution in a passive network with forty or so outlets (without a need for additional amplifiers).
In the first building, the composite signal is not converted into optical form, and after amplification by the HA-126 R82303 amplifier it is directly distributed in the building (also to about 40 outlets).