CINCINNATI — For its domestic clients, the next-generation Maxiva XTK software-defined exciter from GatesAir has already gotten attention. For those in Europe, the exciter is being positioned as a next-generation signal processing engine for GatesAir’s Maxiva family of digital television and DAB/DAB+ radio transmitters. Designed to support broadcasters across worldwide digital transmission standards, the Maxiva XTK combines signal processing power, advanced Transport over IP (TSoIP) capabilities and software-defined flexibility. The Maxiva XTK comes standard across GatesAir’s newest Maxiva television transmitter platforms and is fully compatible with previous-generation Maxiva UHF and VHF transmitters, as well as many Harris legacy digital television systems. The platform’s backwards-compatible design enables broadcasters to modernize signal processing while preserving existing transmission infrastructure, reducing upgrade costs and simplifying transitions to new digital standards, GatesAir adds.