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Live ABR Monitor is a Telestream Cloud service that enables robust OTT Stream monitoring that is spun up on demand in almost any location around the globe. Live ABR Monitor measures stream performance, across multiple geographic regions with actionable insights delivered in real-time. Live ABR Monitor primarily focuses on measuring the performance at the CDN edge; providing delivery performance, asset availability, and video impairment analysis.

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Designed to be used in video Engineering, Operations, Live Acquisition and Post Production – PRISM SDI/IP Waveform Monitor includes market leading analysis tools,and is software-based to evolve with your network.

• Supports SDI and IP standard to simplify purchase decisions and use in hybrid environments


• SD, HD, 3G, 4K and 8K SDI capable with support for 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 formats


• Enhanced IP Monitor for ST2110-20/30/40; ST2022-6/7


• Software upgradeable connectivity for SDI up to 12G and for IP up to 25G


• Analyze PTP & Redundant Paths


• Advanced HDR/WCG false color gamut error and CIE charts


• Provides comprehensive Audio support in Dolby and PCM formats.


• Comes in a range of form factors to optimize integration into rack-rooms, production-consoles or post-suite environments


• Simple to use and easy to configure with application specific customizable user interface and button layouts


• Easily Integrate & Manage Using NMOS with Full API


• Affordable and capable base unit that can be tailored for every position in your workflow. Pay only for what you need in each position, simplify training and consolidate tools

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Inspect 2110 enables automated monitoring of ST 2110 video networking, providing operations teams with visibility and alert by exception of their entire video networks. It provides high performance software-based monitoring up to 100Gbps of ST 2110 video, audio, and data across dual 100GE interfaces. SDP file comparison confirm that video streams are working as expected at the same time as providing automated confirmation and comparison of redundant streams.

 

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Tektronix’s forward-looking PRISM platform now boasts comprehensive monitoring capabilities across both operations and engineering workflows. “Our focus with PRISM was initially to help the early adopters solve the hardest problems associated with IP deployments,” said Charlie Dunn, general manager, video product line, Tektronix. “Now that the market has become more mature, we’re dialing in the features that the larger set of customers most need: full IP/SDI operational capabilities, a 2.5” depth dual screen display for space-constrained environments, integrated audio monitoring, and a path for customers looking to upgrade to 25G.”

Here are the highlights of the expanded line:

A Robustly Featured Base with Modular Additions

The next generation of PRISM has been designed to be the single instrument that customers need to address the range of requirements from Broadcast Operations to Broadcast Engineering. The new platform is available in both a 3RU ½ Rack or a 1RU 19” rack form factor. The 3RU unit comes with an integrated touchscreen that provides unmatched screen real estate for easy operation. The base units come with IP connectivity enabled and tools such as IP status, SDI timing measurements, event log, waveform, vector, and diamond all provided as standard. PRISM’s modular design and a broad range of options enables customers to tailor their PRISM to meet their targeted applications such as high-end Editing and Technical QC needs with features like HDR False Color, WCG Vector, and CIE charts; or full Engineering capability including timing measurements, audio measurements, compliance measurements, IP measurements and graphing. Control for the configuration and when that is done is completely at the discretion of the customer.

Extended Screen Option for Greater Display Area and Space Efficiency

Tektronix is also pleased to introduce the industry’s first ever extended display, available to use with both of the new form factors. By extending PRISM’s full touch screen architecture into a fifth window or tile on a second screen, Live production customers can now view full size waveform and vector side by side without needing to purchase a second measurement instrument. The new internal power supply also creates space efficiencies. Customers in space constrained environments can rackmount PRISM remotely and then use a purpose built 2.5” depth dual display touch screen, establishing PRISM as one of the narrowest depth tools in mobile production environments.

New Audio Monitoring Capabilities

The 1RU version of PRISM will now include a speaker option and associated volume and balance knob. Operators can save cost by effectively having the waveform monitor and audio unit functionality combined into a single 1 RU instrument. Customers will be able to easily and quickly select and listen to the audio channels they are interested in on either headphones or through high quality integrated speakers.

All PRISM Products Have a Path to 25G

All generations of the PRISM family will be upgradable to a 25G interface board. The broad availability of upgrade kits to all PRISM generations is part of Tektronix’s commitment to safeguarding customer investments.

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GatesAir’s Intraplex® LiveLook application for IP Link, NetXpress™, and HD Link™ provides advanced network analytics and monitoring capabilities at an affordable price. It is an invaluable tool for optimizing and monitoring network performance. Broadcasters are increasingly using IP networks for audio contribution and distribution. While IP networks provide clear benefits for both cost and flexibility, there are network impairments which must be overcome to realize the reliability required for broadcast application. While the Intraplex® IP Link platform provides several packet loss mitigation techniques, it is essential to understand the patterns of packet losses as well as other impairments on the network connection to optimize these techniques.

Intraplex LiveLook provides both a real-time analytics as well as a monitoring and notification platform for the IP Link audio codec systems. The analytics capability of LiveLook uses Burst Packet Loss modeling technique to analyze the patterns of packet losses, which is then used by the internal decision tree to provide recommendation on the most effective packet loss mitigation technique of the IP Link to apply.

The monitoring capability can simultaneously collect long-term statistics on multiple audio streams, which can be used for historical analysis. The notification capability creates a separate alarm log for each audio stream and can optionally send email notification to the user on the state of the audio stream.

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Maxiva™ StreamAssure provides broadcasters and network operators with a centralized platform for monitoring transport streams, transmitter parameters and modulated RF, to ensure full compliance with standards and customer Quality of Experience. This cloud-based system allows on-premises and off-site, managed service-based monitoring of physical, transport and audio/video streams from a single dashboard. This simplifies the traditional component-based architecture that traditionally employs disparate monitoring systems to understand network-wide performance.

Rapid isolation of performance issues across signal transport and RF infrastructure is another key value proposition for broadcasters. The ability to separately analyze multiple IP, ASI and other streams ahead of the transmitter versus the RF and decoded audio/video streams coming out allows users to quickly identify and address the source of the problem

The StreamAssure system is fully scalable from a single transmitter deployment to a large-scale network, comprising a vast number of sites deployed over a wide geography.

Options are available from an simple and economic monitoring solution to a comprehensive end-to-end system, including compliance recording and streaming.

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Industry leading Paragon PTP testing HW with features for conformance testing to SMPTE ST-2059-2 at 100M, 1G and 10G rates. Control of PTP packet generation including Synchronisation Metadata, Time Error measurements to 5ns accuracy, PTP Profile conformance analysis and packet impairment capability.  1pps Time Error and E1/T1/2MHz Clock wander measurements also included.

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The VB330 probe is the flagship in Bridge Technologies product offering towards broadband and media operators. With dual 10G Ethernet connectivity and a massive multiprocessor architecture, the VB330 can deliver monitoring and analytics of thousands of streams and a multitude of technologies in real-time and in parallel. The VB330 is deployed either on dedicated embedded hardware, as a pre-configured and pre-installed appliance or as a software-only solution.

This gives operators greater flexibility when it comes to tailoring the monitoring solution towards the underlying system architecture in the best possible manner. Feature parity is ensured across the various deployment options, varying only in factors such as scalability, power consumption and longevity. The web-based user experience and feature availability stays the same across all the deployment alternatives.

The VB330 is aimed at monitoring the full cross section of services commonly found in media related network operations. As such the VB330 is very much a multi-use tool to monitor network performance involving signal formats and areas as diverse as video IP multicast, video OTT/ABR streaming, voice trunks, video-on-demand unicast, Ethernet packet micro bursts, PCAP recording and general traffic protocol inspection.

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The Calnex SNE is a highly flexible solution for both network emulation and network simulation allowing you to build your network in seconds via a multi-user, multi-port environment.

SMPTE 2110-21 (ideal traffic model for broadcast) and SMPTE 2022-7 (seamless protection switching and path redundancy) testing is supported.

Using the SNE's unique visual user interface to build emulations, you take control by linking together impairments in the order you require while directly controlling the flow of packets around your simulated Broadcast network.

SNE supports:-

• Multi-port—market leading port density with up to 16 ports 1GbE, up to  12 ports 10GbE & up to 8 ports 25GbE, 50GbE, 100GbE


• Flexible configuration—mix and match interface cards to meet your needs


• Flexible interfaces; RJ-45, SFP+, SFP28, QSFP28 (or a mixture)


• AV Pack: Audio and video MPEG (H.264 & H.265) modification and corruption plus RTP filter.


• 20Mbyte bandwidth throttle buffer for video applications


• Integrated Wireshark Decode


• Easy Automation via Restful API or using new Timeline feature for easy automation via the GUI.


• Flow packets between any port, no limitations


• Up to 12 minutes of storage for wire-rate recording at 10Gbps


• Delay emulation up to 4 seconds at 10GbE/1GbE


• Fast visual emulation design creates networks in seconds

Broadcast SNE available: NWEMULATOR-BCAST

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Features and performance

• Display of various signal inputs such as ASI, IP, SD / HD / 3G-SDI on one screen


• Supports HLS, RF (DVB, ISDBT, QAM) input with additional options


• Convert different input resolution and frame rate, display in a unified output format


• Maximum 45 CH input support for 1 enclosure


• By using multiple chassis, more than 45 CH / 1 screen display is possible


• Input signal loss, black screen, etc detected as an error, notification to the screen


• By voice signal bar, voice input of each input CH can be confirmed


• The size of each signal screen can be freely changed by setting

Application areas

• Monitoring multiple TS, SDI, OTT signals at low-cost monitor monitoring


• Construction of mobile multiviewer using notebook PC

Advanced options

• 4K resolution output


• Cascade processing, input signals of 45 channels or more, 1 screen output supported


• Video output to multiple screens


• Output video signal to other multi viewers TS TS streaming delivery


• Penalty box


• Error notification by SNMP output


• Multilingual voice input support


• Dolby voice codec input support


• Supports HEVC (H.265) input


• 4: 2: 2 Video input support


• Dynamic layout change by the user interface


• Input bit rate display function

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Features and performance

• High-performance monitoring complying with TR101 290 standards


• PID / service rate monitoring (maximum / minimum rate) correspondence


• TOT / TDT time monitoring


• Up to 8 TS can be monitored by 1 U server


• TS monitoring supported by RF input


• Monitor log management per TS


• Simple synchronous recording for a certain period of time


• External failure notification function by XML format


• Time calibration by NTP

Applications

• Multi-channel multi-TS monitoring at low cost


• Built-in monitoring function in the digital broadcasting system


• Inexpensive TS logging / TS monitoring for independent broadcasting


• Since it is fully developed in-house, it can be customized development

Monitoring Specifications

• Monitoring Standard: TR101 290（P1、P2、P3）Rate


• PCR: PID rate monitoring


• TOT,TDT : TOT, TDT time monitoring function


• DATA Broadcasting: DSM-CC, DDB, DIII, DL compatible

Example of system achievement

• Multi-channel TS monitoring system


• Multi-channel TS registration system


• Adopted as oversea TS monitoring

 

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