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The Densité 3+ XIP-3901 from Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, is an agile processing platform that focuses on high-quality live production for HD, 1080p, 4K UHD and HDR. This platform is a bridge for the hybrid world, consisting of today’s proven SDI technology and the IP connectivity of tomorrow. To meet customers’ needs both now and in the future, the XIP-3901 uses a flexible “virtualized” hardware platform. Based on a powerful FPGA engine, the XIP-3901 can be reconfigured with software updates for different applications as requirements change.

The XIP-3901 agile processing platform with a rear XIP-3901-3+DRP comes with all the 12G/quad link 3G/3G/HD-SDI connectivity to support two 4K UHD processing paths with dual 25 GbE SFP cages for future IP I/O migration. The XIP-3901 is installed in the established Densité modular frame. Due to advanced processing capabilities and power requirements, the XIP-3901 is supported by the Densité 3+ FR1 and FR4 frames. The initial applications for the XIP-3901 agile IP/SDI processing platform provides full functionality of up/down/framesync-gearbox processing capability delivered through three applications that allow your live productions — either from trucks, venues or stadiums — to make the most of the new 4K UHD and HDR formats. This includes playout channels where output of a 4K UHD HDR channel needs to be downconverted for an HD SDR simulcast version.

Densité 3+ XIP-3901-UC is an application that provides a dual-channel 12G/quad link 3G/3G/HD-SDI upconverter, which is designed to synchronize, upconvert and process HD and 3G 1080p signals for both 1080p and 4K UHD 2160p broadcast production. The XIP-3901-UC application features broadcast-quality scalers, motion-adaptive de-interlacers and color space conversions from ITU-R BT.709 to ITU-R BT.2020. Densité 3+ XIP-3901-DC* is an application that provide a dual-channel 12G/quad link 3G/3G/HD downconverter, which is designed to synchronize, downconvert and process 4K UHD 2160p and 1080p for both 1080p and HD broadcast production. The XIP-3901-DC application features broadcast-quality down-scalers, interlacers and color space conversions from ITU-R BT.2020 to ITU-R BT.709. Densité 3+ XIP-3901-FS* is an application that provide a dual-channel 12G/quad link 3G/3G/HD frame synchronizer with gearbox functionality, which is designed to synchronize and convert color space between ITU-R BT.2020 and ITU-R BT.709 in 4K UHD, 1080p and HD broadcast productions. All applications will delay 12G/3G/HD embedded audio and metadata to maintain synchronization with video. The optional HDR processor, XIP-3901-UDCHDR, allows conversion between SDR and HDR formats, supporting HLG (ITU-R BT.2100), PQ (SMPTE ST 2084, ITU-R BT.2100) and S-Log3/S-Gamut3 formats, with conversion between formats.

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The IQUCP50 is a user configurable multi-channel video over IP transceiver developed for use within low latency and high bandwidth Ethernet IP networks. Using RTP VSF TR-03 (SMPTE 2110), TR-04 and SMPTE 2022-6 encoding and encapsulation schemes, along with clause 74 FEC, enables the IQUCP50 to encode or decode up to 16 SDI signals and transport them over redundant 50GbE links (SMPTE 2022-7) with either dual or single port options. To enable hardware processing flexibility IQUCP50 has a variety of Software Defined Cores (SDCs) available that can be purchased and loaded as operational needs demand. SDCs can be installed via a licensing mechanism and include; essence processing for SDI to IP gateway type applications, signal monitoring for multi-viewer style applications, network processing for IP transcoding and NAT firewall applications, and signal processing for broadcast quality conversion and processing requirements. With it’s essence processing SDC IQUCP50 provides frame synchronized SDI outputs along with both uncompressed and compressed (using SMPTE-2042 - VC2) modes of IP operation. Encapsulation of signals in a SMPTE 2022-6 transport stream is also catered for. IQUCP50 is fully compatible with GV’s new broadcast centric IP routing and network management solution designed to migrate Broadcasters from a traditional baseband routing and control environment to new Hybrid SDI and IP workflows.

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The Aperi A1105 1RU Switch/Compute platform comprises of 10/40 GbE, industry-leading wire-speed switching silicon and five accelerated, pluggable microservers providing unequaled density and integration of low-latency switching and high performance computing.

The consolidation of Ethernet switching fabric and microserver compute elements enables the lowest rack density and power efficiency possible while ensuring optimal reliability for service aggregation in an architecture that scales perfectly for data center and network access low-latency service applications. Depending on applications the microserver hardware acceleration can achieve multiples of compute over traditional x86 processing at a fraction of the consumed power resulting in tens of rack units of servers, associated cabling and switching collapsing into a 1RU A1105. The 10/40GbE switch executes all standard and high performance L2/L3 protocols through the Broadcom Fastpath networking software. The A1105 is Open Flow capable. Integrated network clock synchronization is achieved using PTPv2 or externally fed sync. The A1105 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch offers 6 ports of 10/100/1000BASE-T with 8 ports of wire-speed 10 Gigabit Ethernet via SFP+ cages and 2 ports of 40 Gigabit Ethernet via QSFP cages. Exceptional reliability and serviceability are ensured with dual redundant hot-swappable AC or DC power supplies and hot-swappable redundant fans featuring front to back airflow.

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A key building block of Nevion’s virtualization strategy, Nevion Virtuoso is a software-defined media node platform, designed to perform a variety of real-time media transport, processing, and monitoring in both LANs (e.g. facilities) and WANs (e.g. contribution). Its functionality is upgradable and configurable through software, known as media function virtualization. It is standards based and ready to be deployed rapidly in a modern NMOS and ST 2110 environment, as well as a more traditional SDI setting.

Proven

Nevion Virtuoso is the culmination of over 20 years of Nevion experience in the media and broadcasting industry, and 15 years delivering IP solutions. It is being used in applications as diverse as IP in the facilities, contribution, remote production and DTT, by broadcasters and service providers across the world, including TV2 (Norway), Plazamedia (Germany), Portugal Telecom, ALTICE (Portugal), Synterra Media (Russia), as well as large media organizations in the US and Asia.

Media functions

Nevion Virtuoso is all about the software, or Media Functions.

Since it was first launched at IBC 2016, Nevion Virtuoso has undergone regular software updates, enhancing and increasing its functionality. Nevion Virtuoso’s Media Functions now number over 50, designed to handle all of the challenges associated with IP-based, live production environments in which the distinction between local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs), used in contribution, remote production and distribution) is becoming blurred.

These Media Functions include:

• video & audio processing (embedding/de-embedding; audio routing, shuffling, delay and gain; clean switching)


• transport adaption (SDI / ST 2110 / ST 2022-6)


• protection (ST 2022-7, ST 2022-1/5)


• monitoring and switching (TS and SDI)


• encoding/decoding for SD, HD. 3G, 4K/UHD, HDR, slo-mo, HFR (High frequency rate), stereoscopic 3D and 2K/4K cinema, including JPEG 2000, JPEG XS, H.264, and TICO


• encryption (BISS-1, BISS-2, BISS-CA)

Media servers

Uniquely amongst software-defined media nodes, the Nevion Virtuoso platform has been designed to allow for the provision of Media Servers (appliances) with different characteristics, such as size, number of Media Accelerators they can accommodate and level of modularity, in order to suit virtually any requirement.

Management

Centrally managing Nevion Virtuosos in the field could not be simpler – thanks to Nevion VideoIPath orchestration and SDN management software. Nevion VideoIPath can be used to set-up Media Functions on the Nevion Virtuosos (in a plan and organized way), route signals to and from Media Functions on any Nevion Virtuoso in the media network, and the appliances in the network.

Virtuoso also supports NMOS IS-04 and IS-05.

Backed by expertise

Behind Virtuoso is a whole organization, with experts in all the relevant fields (broadcasting, telecoms, baseband, IP and more), ready to help plan and deliver projects, as well as provide the required training and any support needed.

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The vm_udx “virtual module” is a software app that provides format conversions between SD, HD, 3G and UHD formats in the Lawo V__matrix ecosystem. In addition to up, down and cross conversion the vm_udx also provides audio embedding/de-embedding, proc amp and RGB/YUV color correction and color space conversion (SDR to/from HDR) functionality. Designed from the start for IP networking, the vm_udx app natively supports ST2022-6 and ST2110-20 IP video plus ST2110-30/-31/AES67 and Ravenna IP audio streams. Conversion between IP video and IP audio standards – ST2022 to ST2110, for example – is also possible. To ensure high availability, ST2022-7 hitless protection switching is natively supported.

The vm_udx app provides a format conversion engine capable of processing four SD, HD, 3G or one UHD path for IP and/or SDI signals. Each path provides audio embedding/de-embedding/shuffling functionality. Audio gain, delay and sample rate conversion can be accessed through independent processing blocks, which can be inserted at any point of the processing chain. Eight instances of broadcast quality RGB and YUV color correction and video proc are also available as processing blocks for use by any video source, whether SDI or IP, and available both pre- and post-format conversion.

For even more functionality, add the +HDR option to enable four instances of SDRHDR color space conversion using 3D lookup tables. A large selection of LUTs especially developed for live production are included, and custom LUTs can also be uploaded too. The included LUTs allow for conversion between SDR and HDR in HLG and PQ.

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The vm_avp “virtual module” app is a versatile audio and video processing software application that provides routing, processing and glue functionality for the V__matrix eco-system — a complete IP infrastructure solution that also provides a multitude of audio and video processing functions.

In base form, vm_avp provides encapsulation and de-encapsulation of 3G, HD and SD-SDI (ST2022-6/7 only) to IP ST2022-6 and ST2110-20/21/30/31/40, making vm_avp is the logical choice for both gateway and purely IP-based A/V processing, providing up to 160 SDIIP conversions in 3RU. ST2022-7 seamless protection switching is standard, with IP stream format conversion and frame accurate video switching using destination-timed clean and quiet switching (MBB & BBM) with audio V-fade during switching.

To further expand the usefulness of vm_avp, several optional add-on licenses are available:

• +audio – adds embedding/de-embedding and shuffling of audio from both IP and baseband I/O with sample rate conversion. 40 TX and RX instances of RAVENNA/AES67/ST2110-30/-31 streaming and an audio crossbar of 512 x 512.


• +audio_matrix – an additional upgrade to the +audio option, the +audio_matrix option provides a total of 88RX and 128TX instances of RAVENNA/AES67/ST2110-30/-31 streaming and an increased audio crossbar of up to 5,312 x 5,312.


• +madi – enables use of V__matrix BNC inputs and outputs to interface with MADI signals (AES10, 48kHz, 64 channels).


• +fs – adds framesync, frame phaser, sample rate conversion and audio/video delay functionality for both IP and baseband video inputs; also provides Dolby-E® auto-alignment functionality.


• +vc2 – adds visually lossless VC2/DiracPro ultra-low latency encoding and decoding; ST2042 low-delay profile.


• +proc_cc – adds YUV & RGB color correction, test pattern generator/inserter, and test tone generator.


• +12g – Adds support for 12 Gbps video standards and provides cross conversion capabilities between UHDTV1 Single-Link and Quad-Link.

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The XC Platform is the modular head-end platform for IPTV and broadcast, supporting content acquisition, compression, stream processing including scrambling and multiplexing, with distribution options for cable, satellite and terrestrial networks.

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The X Platform is a high-capacity, versatile, ultra-low latency platform for high-speed video networking, enhanced IP security and advanced compression for the remote production, contribution and distribution markets.

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Easy Statistics Access

All incidents are stored in a database. Through a web interface, both Intinor support and the customer can retrieve statistics for several measuring points connected to the video links. Users logs into the ISS management system and gets access to detailed graphs for all the measuring points. This feature is specifically useful if running a complex system using several IP links.

Troubleshooting

ISS is a powerful tool for troubleshooting video links. In a few seconds, the problem can be found and identified to render the right correctional response.

Alarms

ISS management can be configured to report alarms via email or text messages. Alarms can be triggered by loss of connectivity, loss of input signal, abnormal temperatures or hardware malfunctions. The alarms can be sent to Intinor and/or to the customer.

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Direkt routers are used for connecting video links, change IP streams between unicast and multicast or to add or remove error correction. Direkt router can be customized with transcoding, multiview and SDI/NDI outputs. It then becomes an advanced receiver with many different areas of use.

Standard Features

• Receive video streams from a number of different units


• Multiple output streams on each channel


• HDMI out for monitoring


• Easy to configure via display and keypad


• Can be controlled via web interface over network


• Settings can be stored in profiles


• Peak programme meter (PPM) shows if audio is present


• By connecting a USB storage, Direkt router can record to files


• ISS – Intinors system for statistics, supervision and troubleshooting


• Backup settings and upgrade software via web interface or ISS


• BRT™ (Bifrost Reliable Transport)


• Web baser router panel


• VPN


• SRT

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Easy Configuration

Direkt receiver is easy to configure from the keypad and the web interface. It is robustly constructed with few moving parts.

Standard Features

•  Easy to configure via display and keypad


• Can be controlled via web interface over network


• Peak Programme Meter (PPM) for calibration of sound level


• ISS – Intinors system for statistics, supervision and troubleshooting


• Backup settings and upgrade software via web interface or ISS


• Can receive video streams from a number of different units


• Black burst sync in


• Automatically detects whether streams are MPEG2 or H.264


• Select output format via web interface – PAL, NTSC or HD


• Automatically scales input streams into selected output format


• Test picture can be customized


• Management via IP2 (secondary network interface)


• BRT™ (Bifrost Reliable Transport)

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Intinor develops different models of Direkt links that are used for high quality live broadcast over the internet. The Direkt link is easy to use, robust and supports many different transport protocols.

Send To:

• Intinors own receivers for SDI/NDI-out


• Intinor Direkt router to re-stream with other protocols or transcode(TCP, UDP, RTP, RTP+fec, SRT, BRT)


• CDNs for web-TV (RTMP/ RTMPS)


• Digital-TV-box for IP-TV


• PC with software VLC (TCP or SRT-pull)


• Receivers from other manufactures (MPEG-ts)

Flexible & Versatile

The Direkt link is offered in a range of models that can be tailored to the needs of each customer using add-on features and individual adaptations. In this way the Direkt link range is extremely flexible and versatile whilst retaining easy-to-use handling characteristics.

How it Works

Video from a camera or video mixer is connected to the Direkt link. Compressed video streams are broadcasted to one or more receivers. The configuration can be adjusted using the display and keypad on the encoder from a local web-interface or via ISS. The Direkt link can also record a broadcast to be used for on-demand-video or file based productions.