
Aperi’s Network Address Translation & Firewall app (“NAT app”) is an FPGA-based application designed for the microserver platform, and is available from the Aperi
App Store. Providing seamless inbound and outbound re-routing of RTP streams within your network infrastructure, NAT app also includes RTP stream health monitoring, which will automatically shut down streams that deviate from a specified policy. Stream replication allows for two distinct output streams with independent IP addresses, ports, and VLANs. Failover can merge multiple source streams, selecting the highest quality single stream and automatically switching to a perfect replication should the
original stream degrade in quality or deviate from policy. The supports the SMPTE 2022 standard for transporting both compressed (2022-2) and uncompressed (2022-6) media flows via IP. NAT app provides an open bandwidth budget across the 10 GbE interfaces, and can route varying numbers of compressed (2022-2) streams depending on size, and up to 6 uncompressed (2022-6) streams per SFP port. It also provides support for the SMPTE 2110 standard, and can route video (2110-20), audio (2110-30), and ancillary data (2110-40) flows independently through networks. NAT app provides an open bandwidth budget across the 10 GbE interfaces, and can route up to 64 independent media flows per port. It offers stream duplication for media flows via SFP, and A/B failover for flows outputting through SFPs.
Technical Information
Firewall
4-layer inspection for basic ACL:
Ethernet: mac.dst, mac.src, vlan, vlanid
IP: ip.dst, ip.src
UDP: udp.dst, udp.src
RTP: rtp.src
Additional inspection of RTP payloads for ACL
Ensure 2022-2 payloads conform to transport stream structure and have correct packet count
Ensure 2022-6 payloads include RTP header extension, SDI types in headers match configured values, and detect if frame size of encapsulated SDI matches configured value
Ensure presence of RFC4175 payload header and indicated frame size matches configured values; ensure encapsulated raster video frame size matches configured value
Address Translation
4-layer packet header rewrite enforces complete re-addressing of every packet before egress
All unicast/multicast mappings are supported
For multicast flows, flood, IGMPv2 and v3 are supported
Monitoring and Stats
Ingress statistics include:
Ethernet: Frames received, FCS errors, packet rate, and total average bandwidth
Firewall-overall & firewall-per-flow counts total packets dropped, accepted, average speed and bandwidth
RTP flow shows RTP type (and payload header if applicable), sequence number, transport stream checking, and PDV/inter packet arrival time
For 2022-2, shows TS packets per payload, TS lock, TS rate, and payload alignment
For 2022-6, shows SDI type indicated by payload header versus one detected by line/sample counting, and SDI TRS lock and errors
For RFC4175, shows video raster type indicated by payload header versus type detected by line/sample counting
Egress statistics show total packet count, packet speed, and average rate per flow and for Ethernet
Hitless Merge
Configurable PDV buffer depth
Creates a new regenerated hitless transport with new addressing
Counts total number of recovered and unrecoverable packets, along with the differential delay between input flows
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Virtualization Stack (V-Stack)
Aperi A1105 1RU Ethernet Switch/Compute Platform
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.
Aperi H.264 Encoder & Decoder Apps
Technical Information
- Detection of two unidirectional channels of SDI video compliant with SMPTE 259, SMPTE 292/274, and SMPTE 424/274.
- H.264 transport stream mapping compliant with IEC 13818-1. ▪ YCrCb 4:2:2, 8-bit or 10-bit, and 4:2:0, 8-bit code streams.
- Compressed ES rates of up to 150Mbps (I-frame only) and down to 5Mbps for IP frame GOP.
- Per-channel encapsulation and de-encapsulation into RTP/UDP/IP packets per SMPTE 2022-2.
- FEC insertion as per SMPTE 2022-1. ▪ Transparent transfer of ancillary data per video in accordance with SMPTE 2038 and TR-01.
- Configurable to Baseline, Main, High, High 10, and High 4:2:2 H.264 profiles.
- Ultra-low latency, configurable to less than 1ms.
- Configurable GOP structure.
- Automatic Dolby E audio pass-through.
- MPEG-1 Audio Layer II audio compression up to 384 Kbps.
- Dual presentation of packets via two separate physical interfaces for optimum per-channel hitless protection in compliance with SMPTE 2022-7.
- Dual path IGMP V2 and V3 Multicast with fast leave.
- Decoder PDV buffer for network jitter, configurable up to 200ms.
- Decoders with and without B-frame Decoding available.
- RESTful HTTP open media API, automatically discoverable, exposing all primitives.
- Intuitive, automatically discoverable user interface via integrated web server.
Aperi IP Multiviewer
Multiviewer receives IP video input from three sources: on the leftmost “SFP 1” 10 GbE front panel port, and on the two 10 GbE back plane Ethernet ports. The two 10 GbE backplane Ethernet ports support up to six SMPTE 2022-6 (uncompressed) feeds per port (12 total). The front input supports up to six SMPTE 2022-6 (uncompressed) feeds via the Aperi Uncompressed over IP App.
Multiviewer output is split into a 16 tile HD-SDI for display, forming a 4x4 mosaic which is outputted via HD-SDI on the rightmost front panel “SFP 4” port. Each tile can be labeled to show its multicast address, as well as incorporating dynamically definable and static text.
Each input includes an analyzer, which detects for frozen picture, blank screen, or audio loss from any particular source. If an error is detected, the UI will indicate an issue with that particular tile via the alarm system. This alarm system is available via a common interface, and is exposed in the Multiviewer API.
Technical Information
- Supports up to six SMPTE 2022-6 IP video inputs from the 10 GbE SFP 1 port on an Aperi Microserver.
- Supports up to six SMPTE 2022-6 IP video inputs from each of the 10 GbE backplane Ethernet ports (6 + 6) on the Aperi A1105 Chassis.
- 16-tile 4x4 mosaic display of all video sources, outputted via HD-SDI on SFP 4.
- Support for quick-switching any stream from the 16x16 mosaic into full screen display.
- Full labeling support for each tile, displaying multicast address or user-definable text.
- Detection of frozen picture, blank screen, and audio loss via a common alarm interface.
- Graphical user interface available via HTTPS, accessible via any modern web browser.
- Built upon a RESTful API according to industry best practices, along with full API documentation accessible directly via the Multiviewer UI.
- Included Multiviewer User Guide PDF document packaged with the app, and available directly from the UI.
Aperi JPEG 2000 Encoder & Decoder
Technical Information
- Detection of 4 unidirectional channels of SDI video compliant with SMPTE 259M, SMPTE 292M or SMPTE 424M.
- JPEG 2000 mapping compliant with TR-01.
- YCrCb 4:2:2, 10 bit, J2K ISO/IEC 15444-1 code stream.
- Compressed ES rates of up to 460Mbps for HD-SDI.
- Per-channel encapsulation and de-encapsulation into RTP/UDP/IP packets per SMPTE 2022-2.
- Selectable two or four AES uncompressed audio per video in accordance with SMPTE 302 and TR-01.
- Transparent transfer of ancillary data per video in accordance with SMPTE 2038 and TR-01.
- Dual presentation of packets via two separate physical interfaces for optimum per-channel hitless protection in compliance with SMPTE 2022-7.
- Dual path IGMP V2 and V3 Multicast with fast leave.
- PDV buffer for network jitter, configurable up to 200ms.
- RESTFUL HTTP open media API, automatically discoverable, exposing all primitives.
- Intuitive, automatically discoverable user interface via integrated web server.
Aperi MPEG Transport Stream ASI over IP (SMPTE 2022-1,-2,-7)
Technical Information
- Detection of 4 uni-directional channels of ASI compliant with EN 50083-9 carrying single or multi-program transport streams.
- Extracts 188 byte or 204 byte transport streams from ASI inputs.
- Encapsulation and de-encapsulation into RTP/UDP/IP packets per SMPTE 2022-2.
- FEC protection compliant with SMPTE 2022-1.
- Dual presentation of packets via two separate physical interfaces for optimum per-channel hitless protection in compliance with SMPTE 2022-7.
- Dual path IGMP V2 and V3 Multicast with fast leave.
- De-encapsulator PDV buffer for network jitter, configurable up to 200ms. - ASI transport stream outputs linearized in packet mode.
- RESTFUL HTTP open media API, automatically discoverable, exposing all primitives.
- Intuitive, automatically discoverable user interface via integrated web server.
Aperi Network Address Translation (NAT) & Firewall App
App Store. Providing seamless inbound and outbound re-routing of RTP streams within your network infrastructure, NAT app also includes RTP stream health monitoring, which will automatically shut down streams that deviate from a specified policy. Stream replication allows for two distinct output streams with independent IP addresses, ports, and VLANs. Failover can merge multiple source streams, selecting the highest quality single stream and automatically switching to a perfect replication should the
original stream degrade in quality or deviate from policy. The supports the SMPTE 2022 standard for transporting both compressed (2022-2) and uncompressed (2022-6) media flows via IP. NAT app provides an open bandwidth budget across the 10 GbE interfaces, and can route varying numbers of compressed (2022-2) streams depending on size, and up to 6 uncompressed (2022-6) streams per SFP port. It also provides support for the SMPTE 2110 standard, and can route video (2110-20), audio (2110-30), and ancillary data (2110-40) flows independently through networks. NAT app provides an open bandwidth budget across the 10 GbE interfaces, and can route up to 64 independent media flows per port. It offers stream duplication for media flows via SFP, and A/B failover for flows outputting through SFPs.
Technical Information
Firewall
4-layer inspection for basic ACL:
Ethernet: mac.dst, mac.src, vlan, vlanid
IP: ip.dst, ip.src
UDP: udp.dst, udp.src
RTP: rtp.src
Additional inspection of RTP payloads for ACL
Ensure 2022-2 payloads conform to transport stream structure and have correct packet count
Ensure 2022-6 payloads include RTP header extension, SDI types in headers match configured values, and detect if frame size of encapsulated SDI matches configured value
Ensure presence of RFC4175 payload header and indicated frame size matches configured values; ensure encapsulated raster video frame size matches configured value
Address Translation
4-layer packet header rewrite enforces complete re-addressing of every packet before egress
All unicast/multicast mappings are supported
For multicast flows, flood, IGMPv2 and v3 are supported
Monitoring and Stats
Ingress statistics include:
Ethernet: Frames received, FCS errors, packet rate, and total average bandwidth
Firewall-overall & firewall-per-flow counts total packets dropped, accepted, average speed and bandwidth
RTP flow shows RTP type (and payload header if applicable), sequence number, transport stream checking, and PDV/inter packet arrival time
For 2022-2, shows TS packets per payload, TS lock, TS rate, and payload alignment
For 2022-6, shows SDI type indicated by payload header versus one detected by line/sample counting, and SDI TRS lock and errors
For RFC4175, shows video raster type indicated by payload header versus type detected by line/sample counting
Egress statistics show total packet count, packet speed, and average rate per flow and for Ethernet
Hitless Merge
Configurable PDV buffer depth
Creates a new regenerated hitless transport with new addressing
Counts total number of recovered and unrecoverable packets, along with the differential delay between input flows
Aperi SDMP-4S Microserver
Any app running on the microserver has as an integrated web server with an automatically discoverable intuitive user interface. The web server is accessed via the management port of the platform in which the microserver running the app is populated. Comprehensive information related to the microserver hardware on which the app is running is also accessible via this UI.
• Chassis - Populatse Aperi A1105 1RU Ethernet Switch/Compute Platform
• Module Form Factor - Industry standard telecommunications form factor defined by PICMG specifications
• Data Plane Processor - Xilinx FPGA with 2.5GBytes of DDR3–1.6GHz (also available with a quad core FPGA)
• Control Plane Processor - Processor with quad core using full Linux operating System
• App Staging on Microserver - Includes 16GBytes of flash memory to enable many different apps and app versions and instantaneously switch between them
• Networking - Dual 10GbE connections via card edge IEEE802.3 (also available in with dual 40GbE connections via card edge)
• Synchronization - Dual reference timing input for GPS, 1PPS or application layer (video) clock. IEEE 1588 capable.
• Application Layer Physical Interface - 4 x small form factor pluggable (SFP/SFP+) cages for any standards compliant modules
• Application Programming Interface - Open RESTFUL API using standard cloud model
• Graphical User Interface - Integrated web server with intuitive UI via HTTPS for all apps including microserver hardware status and authentication and authorization for security
• App Store - Apps can be managed and downloaded from an ‘app
store’ or app repository and run using an Aperi app license
• Applications - The microserver is ideal for low latency and intense computational processing applications including live
production, financial trading and image processing
Aperi TICO Encoder & Decoder App
The TICO Encoder and Decoder app enables a 4K UHD channel that provides virtually lossless quality. The 4K UHD signal is received as four 3G feeds and employs the TICO mezzanine compression to create a codestream that is packetized and encapsulated per SMPTE RDD35, conforming to SMPTE 2110/VSF TR-03 standards. It’s formatted as a quad-link 2SI.
Audio data is de-embedded from the first channel, and mapped into IP with either AES67 or RFC-3190. Ancillary data is encapsulated into IP with the SMPTE 2038 specification.
In the 3G quad link SDI mode, up to four bidirectional channels can simultaneously process all de-embedding, compression, and encapsulation, effectively bypassing the quad-link formatter, and processing independently. SMPTE 2022-7 RTP replication and merging is used for network protection.
Extensive flexibility and precise configuration options make Aperi’s TICO encoder and decoder ideal for a variety of scenarios. It effectively can encode and decode 4K UHD with near mathematically lossless 4K and 3G SDI quality, all at extremely low-latencies.
Technical Information
Supported Formats
- 4K UHD Quad-Link 3G-SDI per ST 425-5 with one simultaneous encoding or decoding channel.
- 4x 3G-SDI with up to four simultaneous encoding or decoding channels. Compression
- Offers TICO Encode (Profile 2) and TICO Decode (Profile 1 & 2).
- Visually lossless at 4:1 CBR, and virtually mathematically lossless at 2:1 CBR. RTP Encapsulation
- Video encapsulated according to SMPTE RDD35.
- Audio encapsulated according to AES67.
- Ancillary data encapsulated according to SMPTE 2038. Timing and Synchronization.
- SMPTE 2059-2 PTP (Precision Time Protocol) used when available.
- High quality reference if PTP isn’t available.
Networking
- RTP replication and hitless merging according to SMPTE 2022-7.
- Dual path IGMP v2 and IGMP v3.
- Multicast with fast leave.
- PDV buffer for network jitter, configurable up to 200ms.
User Interface
- Open RESTful HTTP HAL & JSON open media API
- Automatically discoverable, highly intuitive interface offering extensive monitoring and configuration
Aperi Uncompressed Transport (SMPTE 2022-5,-6,-7) over IP App
An integrated web server is included with the app, which is automatically detected and can be easily accessed via the chassis management port and viewed in any modern internet browser. The UI is built above an open, highly accessible RESTful API that provides numerous monitoring and configuration parameters. It's designed to adhere to the standard cloud model and comply with evolving industry standards for device discovery and registration. It easily integrates under any orchestration platform.
- Detection of 4 bi-directional channels of SDI video compliant with SMPTE 259M, SMPTE 292M and SMPTE 424M.
- SDI jitter management per SMPTE RP184YCrCb 4:2:2, 8-bit or 10-bit, and 4:2:0, 8-bit code streams.
- Per-channel encapsulation and de-encapsulation into/from RTP/UDP/IP packets per SMPTE 2022-6.
- Per-channel protection via FEC in compliant with SMPTE 2022-5.
- Dual presentation of packets via two separate physical interfaces for optimum hitless protection in compliance with SMPTE 2022-7.
- Dual path IGMP V2 and V3 Multicast with fast leave.
- PDV buffer for network jitter, configurable up to 200ms.
- Network over-subscription policing on all SDI inputs.
- RESTful HTTP open media API, automatically discoverable, exposing all primitives.
- Intuitive, automatically discoverable user interface via integrated web server.
Virtualization Stack (V-Stack)
As a single point of view for chassis management, V-Stack manages all of the microservers, Aperi Apps logistics, and provides dynamic information about the operation of a chassis. With V-Stack, Aperi SDMP microservers are automatically configured for use and kept track of within the software. Aperi Apps can be easily imported via V-Stack from the Aperi App Store, and then launched directly to installed microservers with just a few clicks.
V-Stack also offers an intuitive web-based user interface that adheres to standard design principles, along with a documented REST API for developers to automate their chassis management.
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original stream degrade in quality or deviate from policy. The supports the SMPTE 2022 standard for transporting both compressed (2022-2) and uncompressed (2022-6) media flows via IP. NAT app provides an open bandwidth budget across the 10 GbE interfaces, and can route varying numbers of compressed (2022-2) streams depending on size, and up to 6 uncompressed (2022-6) streams per SFP port. It also provides support for the SMPTE 2110 standard, and can route video (2110-20), audio (2110-30), and ancillary data (2110-40) flows independently through networks. NAT app provides an open bandwidth budget across the 10 GbE interfaces, and can route up to 64 independent media flows per port. It offers stream duplication for media flows via SFP, and A/B failover for flows outputting through SFPs.
Technical Information
Firewall
4-layer inspection for basic ACL:
Ethernet: mac.dst, mac.src, vlan, vlanid
IP: ip.dst, ip.src
UDP: udp.dst, udp.src
RTP: rtp.src
Additional inspection of RTP payloads for ACL
Ensure 2022-2 payloads conform to transport stream structure and have correct packet count
Ensure 2022-6 payloads include RTP header extension, SDI types in headers match configured values, and detect if frame size of encapsulated SDI matches configured value
Ensure presence of RFC4175 payload header and indicated frame size matches configured values; ensure encapsulated raster video frame size matches configured value
Address Translation
4-layer packet header rewrite enforces complete re-addressing of every packet before egress
All unicast/multicast mappings are supported
For multicast flows, flood, IGMPv2 and v3 are supported
Monitoring and Stats
Ingress statistics include:
Ethernet: Frames received, FCS errors, packet rate, and total average bandwidth
Firewall-overall & firewall-per-flow counts total packets dropped, accepted, average speed and bandwidth
RTP flow shows RTP type (and payload header if applicable), sequence number, transport stream checking, and PDV/inter packet arrival time
For 2022-2, shows TS packets per payload, TS lock, TS rate, and payload alignment
For 2022-6, shows SDI type indicated by payload header versus one detected by line/sample counting, and SDI TRS lock and errors
For RFC4175, shows video raster type indicated by payload header versus type detected by line/sample counting
Egress statistics show total packet count, packet speed, and average rate per flow and for Ethernet
Hitless Merge
Configurable PDV buffer depth
Creates a new regenerated hitless transport with new addressing
Counts total number of recovered and unrecoverable packets, along with the differential delay between input flows
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