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4xQAM inputs

F connector

0.87-6.9 Ms/s

Supports reception of MPTS and SPTS

Service filtering

PCR regeneration

ASI Monitoring port

10/100/1000BaseT management port (RJ45)

Enables WEB management

2 slots wide

A.6

COFDM Input Module

Function: Receiving a DVB-T modulated transport stream. Optional MMI interface.

4xCOFDM inputs

F connector

1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 5/6, 7/8 FEC

2k and 8k carrier mode

QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM modulation

Supports reception of MPTS and SPTS

Service filtering

PCR regeneration

ASI Monitoring port

10/100/1000BaseT management port (RJ45) Enables WEB
management

2 slots wide

COFDM INPUT

CONTROL

Status

Control

COFDM

ASI Monitor

Quad Input

A.7

Descrambler Module

Function: Descrambling of incoming services

Summary of Contents for DC1000

Page 1: ...TV SW Version 2 04 Document Revision A 30 January 2009 Appear TV AS PO Box 8 Lilleaker NO 0216 Oslo Norway Tel 47 24 11 90 20 Fax 47 24 11 90 21 Email info appeartv com appeartv com Product User Manual DC1000 1100 SC2000 2100 MC3000 3100 ...

Page 2: ...nd Stereo sound 9 3 4 6 FM Radio output 10 4 CONFIGURATION 11 4 1 ADMINISTRATIVE SETTINGS 11 4 1 1 Accessing the Web Interface 11 4 1 2 Assigning an IP Address 12 4 1 3 Internal Time Clock Setting Network Time Protocol NTP Server 14 4 1 4 Password Protected Login 14 4 1 5 Optional Languages 15 4 2 LICENSING 16 4 2 1 Installation 16 4 3 CONFIGURING INPUTS 16 4 3 1 Input Analysis 17 4 3 1 1 Input Po...

Page 3: ...Module Controlled Input Handling Redundancy 68 4 7 CONFIGURING TRANSPORT STREAM OUTPUTS 70 4 7 1 PSI Base Value Settings Defaults 70 4 7 1 1 Editing the TOT table 72 4 7 1 2 NorDig Logical Channel Descriptor Support 73 4 7 2 PSI Settings for Individual Outputs 74 4 7 2 1 Service Order in MPTS PAT 75 4 7 3 Generation of IP OUT SPTS Streams 76 4 7 3 1 Service Properties 78 4 7 3 2 Port Settings 79 4...

Page 4: ...08 7 4 NO AUDIO BUT VIDEO PRESENT 109 7 5 UNABLE TO DESCRAMBLE A SERVICE 109 A HARDWARE MODULES 110 A 1 SWITCH MODULE 110 A 2 IP INPUT MODULE 110 A 3 QPSK RECEIVER MODULE 110 A 4 ASI INPUT MODULE 111 A 5 QAM INPUT MODULE 111 A 6 COFDM INPUT MODULE 112 A 7 DESCRAMBLER MODULE 112 A 8 DUAL DECODER MODULE 113 A 9 DUAL DECODER WITH DVB CA 113 A 10 DUAL DECODER WITH RF OUTPUT 114 A 11 DUAL DECODER WITH ...

Page 5: ...T MODULE 123 C 14 QAM OUTPUT MODULE 124 D TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS 126 D 1 GENERAL 126 D 2 INPUT SPECIFICATIONS 126 D 3 BASEBAND OUTPUT SPECIFICATIONS 126 D 4 RF OUTPUT SPECIFICATIONS 127 D 5 STEREO SOUND SPECIFICATIONS 128 D 6 ENVIRONMENTAL SPECIFICATIONS 128 ...

Page 6: ...ontrol Message QPSK Quadrature Phase Shift Keying CI Common Interface NTP Network Time Protocol DVB Digital Video Broadcasting EBU European Broadcasting Union VBI Vertical Blanking Interval DDM Dual Decoder Module SPTS Single Program Transport Stream MPTS Multiple Program Transport Stream VPS Video Programming System SI Service Information ...

Page 7: ...h quality product range is aimed at the professional segment of the video distribution market This manual describes how to install configure and operate your new equipment This manual is written for professional operators of video distribution systems and assumes a prerequisite level of technical knowledge ...

Page 8: ... DC1000 configuration a second switch module can be placed in slot 17 The remaining 16 slots are identical and can be occupied by any of the functional modules available A 4 RU chassis including a mandatory switch module power supply connectors and module slots is shown in Figure 1 Power modules and switch modules are inserted from the back not shown Figure 1 4RU chassis with power connectors swit...

Page 9: ... the 1 RU chassis including a mandatory switch module power supply connectors and module slots is shown in Figure 2 Figure 2 1RU chassis with power connector switch module and available slots front and rear view A full list of available modules is included in Appendix A ...

Page 10: ...er supply is rated for maximum 325W The 48 V DC power is rated for maximum 300W The 1 RU chassis can be supplied with a 100 240 V AC 50 60 Hz power rated for maximum 200W Power supply module replacement The 4RU can be fitted with either one or two power supply modules Power supply modules can be hot swapped from the back of the unit A chassis delivered with single power can later be upgraded in th...

Page 11: ...is available for monitoring Any of the four QPSK inputs can be copied to the ASI output without affecting the services in use The ASI connector is a 75Ω BNC connector The QPSK module is equipped with an electrical RJ45 connector for management The connection supports an auto sense 10 100 1000 Mbit connection For a 1000 Mbit connection the Ethernet cable must be a category 6 cable The QPSK input mo...

Page 12: ...ernet cable must be a category 6 cable 3 4 Connecting Output Signals 3 4 1 IP Output The IP output card is equipped with both an electrical RJ45 connector and one optical via SFP module for data The RJ45 connector marked control is not in use The Ethernet copper connection supports auto sensing of a 10 100 1000 Mbit connection For a 1000 Mbit connection the Ethernet cable must be a category 6 cabl...

Page 13: ...ng Figur 3 QAM Modulator 3 4 4 Decoder with Composite Output 3 4 4 1 Video Output For modules with composite output the upper BNC is video A while the lower BNC is video B The dual decoder with composite out is 1 or 2 slots wide 3 4 4 2 Audio Output 1 slot decoder module The 1 slot composite video output card has a DSUB9 male connector for audio carrying both services The pin out of the male conne...

Page 14: ...ne for each TV channel The upper connector is channel A while the lower connector is channel B The standard version of the RF output covers the complete band from 47 MHz to 862 MHz Alternatively the RF modules can be delivered with a low spurious option For the low spurious option the frequency range is divided into the following three bands Low Band 47 MHz to 340 MHz Medium Band 330 MHz to 620 MH...

Page 15: ...k to OK and the DSUB9 interface configuration will change according to Error Reference source not found The RF output can be muted by an eternal system by applying 5 V to the mute connector Channel A and channel B can be muted individually The Dual Decoder with RF Modulation and Stereo Sound is 3 slots wide 3 4 5 3 High Performance Dual Decoder with RF Modulation and Stereo sound The High Performa...

Page 16: ... and up conversion to the FM band the FM up converted output is a female F connector Each module can offer up to eight channels The FM output can cover the complete band from 47 MHz to 862 MHz The options to enable RDS or insert RDS information as well as enable outside management are presented in the GUI The RF output can be muted by an external system by applying 5 V to the mute connector Muting...

Page 17: ...n be configured as the MMI module Only one module in the chassis should be configured with the MMI option All modules with MMI are configured with a default IP address of 192 168 1 100 To change the network settings of the device please follow the steps described below Connect a PC directly to the device the Ethernet port marked control on the master module usually in slot 1 with an Ethernet cable...

Page 18: ...ooter displays alarms Note Please note that if you have previously connected to a unit with the same IP address the arp table on your computer might be wrong Please type at a DOS prompt arp d 192 168 1 100 to delete the old arp entry 4 1 2 Assigning an IP Address Open the Admin folder click on it in the navigation pane and the window in Figure 5 will be displayed The window displays the installed ...

Page 19: ...6 Figure 6 Admin Properties Page For the Management Port and Data Port if available fields configure the following IP Address Specify the IP address of the management interface Gateway address Enter the gateway address of your network in order to access external resources Subnet Mask Specify the subnet mask Save the settings by selecting the Apply button Please reboot the card by re powering the u...

Page 20: ...Man daylight saving Enabling this setting adds the summertime hour to the clock To set the internal time manually Click the Edit Time Date button to produce the following dialog Figure 7 Time and date properties page Select the data and insert the time then press apply Save the settings by clicking the Apply button When the internal time has been configured it is shown in the Current time section ...

Page 21: ... It is possible to specify one or two default languages which will always be available when configuring a decoder module Since the drop down list of available languages only includes the languages currently present in the transport stream this enables the operator to select languages expected to be present in the transport stream at a later point in time Open the Admin folder in the navigation pan...

Page 22: ...on A license file must be acquired to get a license It contains one or more serial numbers The serial number of the MMI card must be included for the license file to be valid The file format is human readable but signed and it is invalidated by changing the file This might happen if the file is transferred with ftp in ASCII mode Figure 9 Licensing When the file is available from a machine with acc...

Page 23: ...input PSI The next sections will first describe these common features before the configuration of each available input module will be described 4 3 1 Input Analysis For each listed input module the unit provides detailed MPEG DVB transport stream analysis for all the available input streams The following information is provided by the input analysis engine Port specific status PSI SI analysis of a...

Page 24: ...d side in the top pane and the port specific information will be displayed For the IP input card there is no more information available then the one shown on the top pane only The QPSK port detailed view For a description of the actual parameters please refer to the configuration section for the respective input type in this chapter 4 3 1 2 Input Service Analysis It is possible to apply filters on...

Page 25: ...the top pane For an input containing scrambled services the colour of the scrambled PIDs will toggle between Blue and Read as the ODD EVEN bit toggles In the above view wee can see that PID 2101 is scrambled it is coloured and that it contains PCR it is in bold and that one or more CC errors has occurred for PID 20 It is possible to reset the CC error counters This reset is a global operation for ...

Page 26: ... instance be used to predefine some services for a dynamic VOD usage To manually define input PSI go to the Inputs Manual PSI tab in the Navigation tree Enter the appropriate values matching the incoming stream Note that the PMT PID may be defined to any value between 32 8190 but make sure it is unique in an MPTS configuration scenario Also be aware if this input is part of an outgoing digital str...

Page 27: ...ow example input 20 is represented with PSI even if the input is not yet added into the system Note If manual PSI is defined for an input port then all the incoming services must be defined It is not possible to define one service manually and use the incoming PSI to represent the rest 4 3 3 QPSK Input Each QPSK module can receive up to 4 individual QPSK input streams To configure the module pleas...

Page 28: ... list Mode Switch between DVB and MPEG mode Default is DVB Please use the MPEG mode if the incoming transport stream is not DVB compliant SATF GHz Satellite Frequency Set the satellite transponder frequency LNBF GHz Low Noise Block Frequency Set the L SRate Symbol Rate Set the symbol rate of the incoming QPSK signal The valid range is 1 ICode Inner Code Set the FEC overhead fraction E g LNBV Low N...

Page 29: ...nput Power Input Power for the QPSK signal in dBm EbNo Energy per bit Noise per 1 Hz BW CNR SNR Channel to Noise Ratio Signal to Noise Ratio LNB Voltage Actual LNB voltage Lock Status Lock status of the tuner The status parameters EbN0 and CNR will be 0 when the tuner is not locked 4 3 4 DVBS2 Input The DVBS2 module supports both QPSK and DVBS2 inputs The DVBS2 functionality is licensed and will o...

Page 30: ...cket Identifier When selected all available PIDs from the selected input port are displayed instead of the service list Mode Switch between DVB and MPEG mode Default is DVB Please use the MPEG mode if the incoming transport stream is not DVB compliant SATF GHz Satellite Frequency The satellite transponder frequency LNBF GHz Low Noise Block Frequency SRate Symbol Rate The symbol rate of the incomin...

Page 31: ...or monitoring of the transport stream Normal operation will not be affected by using the monitoring port Save the settings by clicking the Apply button To analyze the input please see the general input analysis description in the start of this chapter Additionally the status parameters for the DVBS2 module are shown in figure below Clicking on the letter representing the Input channel A B C or D w...

Page 32: ... input module can receive up to 3 individual ASI input streams Each ASI input can support up to 213 Mbit s In total each module can handle up to 250 services in total The number of ASI input ports and number of services can be increased by adding more modules to the chassis Please follow the procedure below to configure the module Open the Inputs folder click on the ASI tab in the navigation pane ...

Page 33: ...e Apply button The status parameters for the ASI module are shown in figure below Click on the letter representing the Input channel A B or C to display the status parameters for the specific input port Figure 16 ASI status view Sync MPEG sync No 188 or 204 Effective Bitrate The effective bitrate of the input Total Bitrate The total bitrate of the input 4 3 6 QAM Input The QAM input module can rec...

Page 34: ...nput port are shown PID Packet Identifier All available PIDs from the selected input port are shown RF Freq MHz Set the QAM frequency in MHz Valid range is 170k 887 MHz Symbol Rate MBd Set the symbol rate in Mega Baud Valid range is 0 452 7 23 Mega Baud Modulation Set the type of modulation Valid entries are QAM4 QAM16 QAM32 QAM64 QAM128 and QAM 256 Spectral Inv Set the Spectral Inversion to Auto ...

Page 35: ...ignal State Current State Carrier Status Status of the tuning process Front End Locked Current Tuner lock status Yes or No 4 3 7 COFDM Input The COFDM input module can receive up to 4 individual COFDM frequencies The number of COFDM frequencies can be increased by adding more modules to the chassis Please follow the procedure below to configure the module Open the Inputs folder in the navigation p...

Page 36: ...ering of the displayed service information Shows only the services available from the selected input port PID Packet Identifier Shows all available PIDs from the selected input port RF Freq MHz Set the QAM frequency in MHz Bandwidth MHz Choose the bandwidth to be 6 7 or 8 MHz Spectral Inv Set the Spectral Inversion to Normal or Inverted Enable Enable the corresponding input port Save the settings ...

Page 37: ...gured frequency and the actual lock in kHz Bandwidth The Bandwidth of the currently tuned channel Spectral Inversion The current spectral inversion Normal or Inverted Modulation Current Modulation of the tuned channel Guard Interval Current Guard Interval of the tuned channel FFT Current FFT size of the downstream signal BER Bit Error Rate CBER Channel Bit Error Rate SNR Signal to Noise Ratio Powe...

Page 38: ...n display window Figure 21 IP input page The IP input window shows all configurable settings as well as the current bit rate and service information The following parameters are available Input Shows the input number IP Shows the IP address of the multicast unicast Port Shows the port Service Filtering of the displayed service information Shows only the services available from the selected input p...

Page 39: ... PIDs to get more detailed information about that PID 4 3 8 2 IP Input Redundancy Overview Input redundancy is designed to handle redundancy on the input streams Input redundancy will remedy failures from outside the system such as with a cable break down which result in link loss on the IP input module and the absence of a bitrate on the dataport The chassis will have two IP input modules One IP ...

Page 40: ...rigger source switching MMI Input redundancy does not affect MMI functionality If the main input module is configured as supporting the Man Machine Interface MMI this configuration will remain even though all input sources are switched from Main to Backup card It is for that reason that there is always a mirror configuration on both cards Before implementing redundancy Before configuring input red...

Page 41: ...the alarms above or due to user interaction will raise an alarm indicating the cause of the switch This alarm will remain active until a manual switch from backup to main is performed In addition when an alarm leading to a switch has been triggered on the main module all routed streams are switched from the main input module to the spare input module The switch will be implemented even if an alarm...

Page 42: ...ng configuration must be known at set up Therefore both IP input cards must have MMIs though one will be redundant It should be noted that both IP input modules do not need to have the same configuration Input redundancy it should be noted that dual input and decoder controlled input handling redundancy on one unit is not supported Alarms that cause switching Decoder controlled input handling redu...

Page 43: ...witch for Backplane 1 The blue one The effect will be that the Decoder will stop communicating on the blue link and connect to the second backplane the red one If a problem is detected in the configured Decoder Channels i e if transport stream is missing on both the channels when both are configured then decoders will switch to the other backplane This can be simulated by actually removing the dat...

Page 44: ...shows two sections Twin MMI card and Internal redundancy supported cards First section is used to add IP address of the twin MMI board second section lists a row for each decoder on the module The decoded service is displayed and can take the values of either the service name or off Twin MMI card In order for the internal redundancy GUIs to know about each other it is important to enter the IP add...

Page 45: ...st be selected to enable redundancy on the card Each Decoder can be configured at anytime no matter which backplane is logged in to Switch Delay Once the decoder meets the described conditions to log in to the twin MMI automatically it still needs to wait a determined switch delay period of time This hysteresis period is configurable for each decoder card in the Switch Delay text field located in ...

Page 46: ...unit These functions are regarded as processing elements and therefore not listed in the input or output sections in the The configuration of these functions is found as part of the output service configuration 4 4 1 Descrambling The unit is capable of descrambling a number of incoming services with the installation of a descrambler module The descrambler module comes with two Common Interface slo...

Page 47: ... smartcard is able to descramble up to 10 services then the maximum number of streams out from the descrambler will be 40 10 x 4 4 4 2 CAM Configuration Interaction Inside the CAM Configuration page Figure 27 the user can find a list of available CAM Modules with its corresponding module name the chassis slot where the DDM Descrambler card is placed and the CAM Slot each DDM Descrambler has two CA...

Page 48: ...a key to descramble a service The CAM Interface feature allows the operator to access and interact with these menus with ease through the Web GUI By clicking on Open under the CAM Interface column a pop up box appears over the CAM Configuration page This is the CAM Interface dialog Navigation As can be seen on Figure 28 the standard CAM Interface dialog provides two buttons in the bottom and a lis...

Page 49: ... called Lists Lists are bottom level menu items and for that reason the only possible operations are to go back to previous menu or to close the CAM Interface Figure 29 Figure 29 Example of List from CryptoWorks Another type of dialog is the Enquiry Figure 30 This dialog is displayed when the CAM Module requires user input such as a PIN code The CAM defines the maximum length of the input data and...

Page 50: ...it to have the correct communication with the CAM Module an error message will be displayed There are different conditions that can lead to an error and the error messages that correspond to it Error Message Description Error No session Refresh to recover communication The user is trying to answer a menu or enquiry and the session has been closed Error Session ID Refresh to recover communication T...

Page 51: ...owed for the CAM is the last element listed in the CAM Configuration page The user can choose among three values 43 default 58 and 68 Mbps 4 4 3 Scrambling This section gives a brief overview of how scrambling is performed within the unit It introduces the different modules required and their purpose It explains how to do the initial setup of the CA cards required for establishing the ECM and EMM ...

Page 52: ...where to contact the encryption system Next step is to define an ECM The ECM definition associates a CW id and access criteria The output can now be defined and scrambled When configuring the output to be scrambled the ECM selection list implicitly represents the CW and access criteria while the scrambler indicates which scrambler card to use for the new platform the scrambler must match the card ...

Page 53: ...led during the configuration of the output stream 4 4 3 3 ASIO Scrambler Card Configuration The ASIO scrambler card runs both the SCS functionality and the scrambler functionality on one single card The Scrambler supports both the CSA and AES scrambling algorithms The algorithm is implemented in separate FPGA images which are loaded during boot Consequently the card cannot support both algorithms ...

Page 54: ... ECM Generator Port TCP UDP port of ECM generator It is possible to add more than one ECMG connection These connections may be to different CA system vendors or to multiple instances to CA systems from the same vendor Note however if the same system ID is used a real Simulcrypt will not work as the CA Descriptor in the PMT will be the same for both ECMs To change an ECMG channel connection click o...

Page 55: ...se the 0x prefix If multiple ECMG connections have been defined the same SCG may be used for two ECMs given that they are connected to different ECMGs Note that at this point the ECM stream is defined and the CA system and the SCS module can start to exchange CW and ECMs However the ECM is still not linked to any outputs Go to output configuration chapter for details on how to do this To change an...

Page 56: ...A Vendor specific sub id IP IP Address of EMM Generator Port TCP UDP port of EMM generator To change an EMMG channel connection click on the EMMG tab in the navigation tree enter the new configuration and click the apply button Figure 40 Editing EMM generator 4 4 3 7 Configure an EMM Stream The definition of an EMM is done from the EMM tab in the navigation tree The EMM links a particular EMM to a...

Page 57: ... not mapped to any outputs Please refer to the chapter on output configuration for details on how to do this To change an EMM configuration click on the EMM tab in the navigation tree enter the new configuration and click the apply button Figure 42 Edit an EMM 4 4 3 8 Multiple CA System Support The scrambling solution supports simultaneous support of several CA systems There are no particular conf...

Page 58: ...splays the following information Slot Slot position in the chassis Output Shows either channel A or B Service Name Assigning a service to the output The service list is automatically generated from the input modules For an MPTS input stream all available services will be listed If Service Definition Table SDT tables are available in input streams the service list will consist of service names toge...

Page 59: ...and a valid smart card into the decoder module with CAM slots the service will be automatically routed through the descrambler and the service will be descrambled No configuration is required 4 5 2 Baseband Parameter Configuration Clicking Edit for the decoder you want to configure the page shown in Figure 44 will be displayed The configuration parameters are organized into different sections and ...

Page 60: ...ndard chosen affects the AR conversion and WSS value See table 2 below Signal Standard Select the video signal standard Options are PAL default and SECAM SECAM L This parameter is not configurable for the HP RF Decoders it is defined by the firmware installed on the Decoder module Figure 45 Illustration of the video aspect ratio conversion parameter AR Conversion Standard Description Normal The se...

Page 61: ...ngth The value entered has to be in the range from 10 to 6 dB The default value is 0 If none of the selected priority audio languages are available from the incoming service the first audio language listed in the service will be chosen Teletext Enable Enable Teletext by ticking the indicated box Teletext will be inserted into the VBI field of the output video signal Subtitling The subtitling drop ...

Page 62: ...ld in order to allow WSS enabled widescreen TVs to display the aspect ratio as intended WSS follows ETSI EN 300 294 The WSS information can be extracted From Video or From AFD The default value is Off VPS signalling The Video Programming Stream VPS is enabled by ticking the indicated box The VPS data is then inserted into the VBI data field is they exist VPS follows ETSI TS 101 231 The default val...

Page 63: ...turned off when this is not enabled AVCR This parameter adjusts the Audio carrier output level compared to the video carrier output level The resulting output level will be the selected value down from the video carrier Please note that this is power and not amplitude Nominal value and range will depend on the Decoder module being configured VMD Video Modulation depth This level can be adjusted fr...

Page 64: ...urn back on the service from the main input page When the fine level adjustment has been enabled the automatic calibration is turned off since this only have an accuracy of 1 0 dB All power calibration settings are stored in the flash At a power recycle these power calibration settings are recovered When the unit comes back to the operational temperature the power accuracy is within 0 25 dB assumi...

Page 65: ...o Stereo Stereo audio Dual Mono Static Dual Mono Controlled by VPS Audio is dynamically set according to information retrieved from the VPS Controlled by SI Audio is dynamically set according to information retrieved from the SI A2 Enable Enables the A2 carrier Only available on HP RF Decoders A2 Video CR A2 Video Carrier Ratio The nominal output level for the A2 carrier is 20 dB down from the vid...

Page 66: ...how on textbox Only one Message Text can be displayed at a given channel at a given time and therefore all selected channels will be removed from the Available textbox Write the message to be displayed in the Message Text box The message can contain up to 255 ASCII characters Select the vertical position by choosing Top or Bottom position Select the message appearance to be either Scrolling or Fix...

Page 67: ...play OSD Messaging window by clicking on the OSDM tab Choose which message number to disable 0 4 by clicking on the appropriate message number The message numbers are listed in red Deselect Enable OSD Messaging to disable the message Note that the message will still be available and can be enabled again later Click the Submit button to register the message see Figure 48 for example configuration ...

Page 68: ...ction of services frequency RDS etc In addition it offers the option of configuration for redundancy For a quick installation the default module configuration can be used allowing the operator to skip straight to the services configuration 4 6 1 Configuring Global Parameters for a Module To configure the global module parameters open the FM radio sub tree then click Card Setup in the navigation pa...

Page 69: ... 5 kHz The FM radio settings interface displays the following values in the MPX section Test signal source The port number of the test signal source The default is A Total output level dB The sum of the output levels in dB of individual carriers Valid adjustment is from 6 0 dB to 6 0 dB with a default of 0 0 dB Please note that the range of values changes with the number of carriers Please note th...

Page 70: ...ve audio output level in dB The audio output level can be adjusted in the Edit field Testtone This field indicates if a testtone has been enabled on this service A c s Audio Clipping second This function reports audio clipping It is updated every 10 seconds Clipping of audio can be reduced by configuring the audio level adjustment in the Edit field described further on To configure each service se...

Page 71: ... deviation Adjustments between 12 and 12dB can be made in 0 5dB steps Audio clipping per second This is a read only parameter that gives an indication of digital clippings per second this should ideally be 0 if the audio level is correctly adjusted As an aide to audio level adjustment a deviation histogram is provided on the right To view this diagram a browser or browser add on that supports SVG ...

Page 72: ...RDS Mode dropdown list the default is no RDS transmission Off Three different sources of data are supported Manual Auxiliary UECP and Ancillary UECP Manual enables the operator to enter PTY PS and RT data Ancillary requires that UECP information has been inserted in band into the MPEG stream according to CENELEC European Standard EN 50067 Specification of the radio data system RDS for VHF FM sound...

Page 73: ... enables access to UECP data filtering settings If the auxiliary ancillary data only contains information about one service this should not need to be used If there is more than one radio service signalled in the UECP data the following optional filtering elements can be specified to obtain the correct RDS information Figure 55 Advanced UECP addressing setup PSN Programme Set Number Manually selec...

Page 74: ...onfiguration is currently only supported for IP input modules Hardware requirements The following hardware is required for the implementation of FM radio module controlled input handling redundancy 2 IP input modules The unit must be equipped with at least two IP input modules 2 Switches FM radio cards For FM radio module controlled input handling redundancy to be implemented switching configurati...

Page 75: ...tatus is displayed and can take the values of either logged in or off In addition a Switch button is present Enabling redundancy The Enabled check box must be selected to enable redundancy on the card The Status column displays whether the module in the slot is logged into the MMI board or not To enable FM radio module switching to occur the status of the card must be logged in It should be noted ...

Page 76: ...tream is easily done from the outputs configuration view present for each output card Before an output can be created the input card s must be configured correctly such that the list of input services is present Then adding a service to an output is done via drag and drop from the list of available inputs The unit supports two types of output streams SPTS and MPTS The difference between the two is...

Page 77: ...0x0010 will not be transmitted The NIT supports the Nordig Logic Channel Descriptor SDT A 1000 The Service name can be modified The SDT sorting is based on the input slot port and the incoming SDT I e the service listed first in the SDT is the first service from port 0 in slot 1 SDT O Not supported EIT P F A 1000 Regenerated from input Supported in MPTS mode only EIT P F O 5000 Regenerated from in...

Page 78: ...al Edit Some tables provides editing of the table content 4 7 1 1 Editing the TOT table The time offset table configuration is completely detached from the unit time configuration Hence both the current and the next time offset needs to be entered Press the Edit button to the right of the TOT table to produce the TOT Dialog box The following fields are displayed for DVB region settings Country Cod...

Page 79: ...e the change will take place at The fields presented include Year The year of the next change Month The month of the next change Day The day of the next change Hour The hour of the next change Minute The minute of the next change Second The second of the next change Click Apply 4 7 1 2 NorDig Logical Channel Descriptor Support From the NorDig NorDig Rules of Operation The logical_channel_descripto...

Page 80: ...quired in order to include services generated in other units The dialog shows a LCN with two services the first one was detected via the Import Local Services button while the other was added manually The Service name is not part of the LCN but is displayed for local services for convenience only To change an existing setup just change the channel number and press apply To remove an existing chann...

Page 81: ... on the global settings described above Uncheck the box to make local changes Click Apply to store the changes 4 7 2 1 Service Order in MPTS PAT The sorting algorithm for the service order in PAT for MPTS streams is relatively simple However in most cases this is not of that great interest If a specific channel line up is required consider to add the NorDig Logic Channel Descriptor in NIT This is ...

Page 82: ...ed to 8000 slot id of the output card and the TS ID is automatically selected from the range 1 250 Hence the first SPTS output on an IP output card in slot 16 would typically be NETWID 8016 TSID 1 The following procedure shows how to create an SPTS Navigate to the Outputs folder click on the IP module you want to configure and a window similar to the one in Figure 60 will be displayed Figure 60 IP...

Page 83: ...details Time to Live Set the time to live TTL value defined for the IP multicast protocol 0 restricted to the same host 1 restricted to the same subnet 32 restricted to the same site 64 restricted to the same region 128 restricted to the same continent 255 unrestricted SPTS Enabled Enable SPTS RTP Enable Real Time Protocol EMM Passthrough Forward CAT EMM tables for service that are received scramb...

Page 84: ...stream to a decoder card within the chassis The stream sent to the decoder is an exact copy of the outgoing stream The packet copying is done on the descrambler card to ensure that the monitored stream is identical to the outgoing one It is possible to change the PID Component Mode Here the mode manual is added compared to the default parameter list described above In the manual mode it is possibl...

Page 85: ...y be configured for each output port CBR Mode The Constant Bit Rate option enables an SPTS output to be sent with constant bit rate The user will need to provide the desired output rate If the service exceeds this rate then the system will report an output buffer overflow alarm and drop packets Source Port The IP Source port of the output multicast In a output redundancy configuration this value w...

Page 86: ...otects against Burst loss COP3 Level B Use both FEC Columns and Rows Provides an additional protection against Random Packet Loss A FEC matrix is generated and transmitted on two separate UDP ports FEC columns on UDP port 2 FEC rows on UDP port 4 The importance of this is that when FEC is enabled it is important the UDP ports reserved for the FEC system is not occupied by other traffic Dimensions ...

Page 87: ... relative to the GOP structure Startcode User defined startcode insertion point RAI Random Access Insertion point as specified by MPEG Note Not all encoders use this field This option is available for selected customers only ECM AP Offset ECM Access Point offset Insert the ECM before or after the above specified point Note This option is available for selected customers only PVR Mode This field sh...

Page 88: ...et the Transport related parameters which is done in the Edit Multiplex dialog The next step is to add services to the MPTS Adding services is drag and drop based An MPTS stream provides some more PSI options than SPTS as well as it provides the option to map through External PIDs which will not be signaled in the PSI The next paragraph describes how to create a Multiple Program Transport Stream M...

Page 89: ...down the signal chain it is possible to add the QAM parameters which then will be added into the NIT Check the NIT Generation check box and enter the QAM parameters Frequency Set the carrier frequency in MHz Inner FEC Valid inner FEC values are 1 2 2 3 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 9 3 5 4 5 or 9 10 Modulation Modulation type can be 16 QAM 32 QAM 64 QAM 128 QAM or 256 QAM Symbol Rate Set the Symbol Rate of the QA...

Page 90: ...s through the output card is 250 The Port Settings tab is card specific and will differ according to whether it is for an IP or an ASI output card For the IP output card the following dialog yields This dialog is identical to the one for the IP SPTS configuration Please refer to the SPTS configuration description for details The CA Settings In MPTS mode it is possible to add EMM streams from the c...

Page 91: ...n order to add services to the Multiplex just created just drag and drop services from the Input pane to the output pane As for the IP SPTS mode it is possible to edit a service which has been added to an MPTS To edit expand the MPTS node on the right hand pane of the output window The following dialog will appear The service dialog allows for the change of both service name and service ID These c...

Page 92: ...bled or not etc This setup is done in the Edit Multiplex dialog This dialog is activated by double clicking on the respective port on the ASI output card The next step is to configure the services to be mapped to this port This service setup is drag and drop based The following procedure shows how to configure ASI Output Port Settings Navigate to the Outputs folder click on the ASI module you want...

Page 93: ...s The ASI output stream in spread mode guarantees that each data byte is preceded with two idle symbols This effectively reduces the maximum data rate to 1 3 of the maximum ASI output rate i e 213 3 Mbps If higher rates are required use burst mode 4 7 4 3 QAM Output The QAM output card can output up to 8 separate MPTS s The QAM output configuration is similar to the configuration of an IP MPTS out...

Page 94: ...y be tuned for the first carrier of the modulator the remaining three will automatically be tuned as an offset from the first with the channel spacing specified by the user Parameter limit values Symbol rate 4 48 7 0 MBd RF Level 23 3 dBm Constellation QAM16 QAM256 Channel spacing 5 8 MHz The relationship between Symbol rates and bitrates are given by the following formula This value is displayed ...

Page 95: ... and ASI output for streams which will eventually be part of a QAM network For an IP output this is possible by adding MPTS nodes and inserting the QAM parameters which for the relevant transport streams which then will be added to the NIT For the QAM output the virtual QAM output provides this feature The virtual output may be added from the QAM output page top right in the picture below In the d...

Page 96: ...one or more redundant units with IP output cards service outage may be prevented given the error is a isolated error 10 10 30 x 10 10 40 x 10 10 10 x 10 10 20 x 10 10 50 x 10 120 12 1 Distribution network Main and backup service uses Same source IP address OSPF messages signalling state of service PIM messages requiring defined RP point RP point Spare IP scrambler Main IP scrambler OSPF PIM MCAST ...

Page 97: ...hich network subnet to use as the source address The second step is to specify the unique source for the actual multicast 4 7 5 3 OSPF Configuration OSPF is used to configure the routers The routing decision is made on every step in the path The choice is based on the metric The metric is based on the number of hops taken and the cost added manually The redundancy scheme does currently not support...

Page 98: ...ong to the next Area The summarization doesn t need to reduce perfectly to a single route for each Area But the fewer LSAs you need to pass between Areas the better OSPF will scale Each Area has a 32 bit identifier number which is often represented in dotted decimal notation similar to IP addresses Every OSPF network should have an Area 0 or 0 0 0 0 and every ABR must be a member of Area 0 This en...

Page 99: ...ion of the password but they cannot deduce the original password If you use authentication in an OSPF area you must configure all of the routers in the area to support authentication Every interface on a router doesn t have to be configured with authentication But if you require authentication in any part of an area you must include authentication support throughout the area 4 7 5 8 Defining the S...

Page 100: ...SW Version 2 04 30 January 2009 Page 94 of 128 Figure 65 IP Settings Source IP The source IP address in a redundancy setup This address must be identical to the stream on the redundant source ...

Page 101: ... displayed as shown in Figure 66 Figure 66 Service view The information in the Service View can be sorted by clicking on the column headers The Service View shows all configured services by default and the following information is available Input input information about the corresponding service The notation is X Y Z where X is the slot position of the input module Y is the port on the input modul...

Page 102: ...ce 5 1 2 Hardware View The hardware view shows graphically the unit s status In the below figure there are 3 modules with an associated critical alarm status shown in red A description of the alarm status is shown in the status pane at the bottom of the screen Figure 67 Hardware view 5 1 3 Active Alarms Expand the Status folder in the navigation pane and click the Active Alarms icon All active ala...

Page 103: ...OR Orange WARNING Yellow NOTE White Set When the alarm was set Application Which module the alarm is referring to Error Code Type of alarm Please see Appendix C for further details 5 1 4 Alarm History Expand the Status folder in the navigation pane and click the Alarm History icon The alarm history will be displayed as shown in Figure 69 ...

Page 104: ...active alarms view it is not recorded in the alarm history and not indicated on the LED on the module To define an alarm filter go to the Alarm Filter page Figure 70 Alarm filter The alarm filter page lists all the relevant alarms for the card type selected if no specific card is selected all alarms are listed When an alarm filter is removed any active alarms which are filtered will re appear with...

Page 105: ...MG Channel Error alarm This alarm is visible in the filter list as shown below Then when the card detects a problem with the channel the alarm is triggered with some additional information conveyed in the alarm description in this case the channel error is no connection with the CA system Figure 71 Registered alarms Figure 72 Actual alarm with specialized alarm description 5 2 SNMP 5 2 1 Overview ...

Page 106: ...d to determine whether traps should be forwarded To enable traps towards a specified address the corresponding tdRowStatus field must be set to active 1 To disable traps set the tdRowStatus field to notInUse 2 Errors are reported when trying to send traffic towards IP address 0 0 0 0 which is the default IP address 5 2 4 Interpretation of Traps Each trap is uniquely identified with the combination...

Page 107: ...f needed to new community string snmpset c private m ALL v 2c src ip address APPEARTV TRAPDESTINATION MIB tdCommunityString 1 s new community string Finally the entry must be activated with snmpset c private m ALL v 2c src ip address APPEARTV TRAPDESTINATION MIB tdRowStatus 1 i 1 To send the traps to stderr without forking the shell snmptrapd m ALL f Le 5 3 Soap XML Interface The Soap XML interfac...

Page 108: ...guration and create a new database with the exported data Note A module reboot is necessary for the new configuration to be activated this is automatically done by the restore script Some useful commands atvdbsnapshot dist dumps the live configuration to file on a remote card within the unit atvsdbsnapshot restore database restores the earlier files dumped to the remote card For ex ample atvsdbsna...

Page 109: ...e chassis it is important to align the module s edges with the module guides in the chassis Make sure the jack on the module is in open position as illustrated in Figure 73 Slide the module into the unit on the module guides until the jack touches the chassis Move the jack upwards This will insert the module all the way into the unit Figure 73 Module jack in open position 6 4 2 Input Module Hot sw...

Page 110: ...Hot swap Output modules can be replaced during normal operation only affecting the services related to the relevant modules The unit will automatically re configure the new output module with identical values to the board that has been replaced 6 5 Adding Replacing Removing Modules Before upgrading a unit with additional channels please check that there is sufficient space in the chassis to suppor...

Page 111: ... remove the missing modules from the database When replacing an existing card please note that a module configuration always follows the slot position and not the module itself Consequently if a module is moved from one slot in the chassis to a new slot the unit will report the original slot position as hardware missing while the new slot position will be configured as a new card with default conf...

Page 112: ...ation 6 7 Restoring the Default IP Address It is possible to restore to the factory configured IP address on the MMI module This can be useful if the software configured IP address is lost The restore is done by setting a jumper on the two pins identified in Figure 76 or in Figure 77 depending on which module the MMI is installed Please note that your PCB layout can be slightly different When the ...

Page 113: ...SW Version 2 04 30 January 2009 Page 107 of 128 Figure 76 Restore default IP address GB IP IO based board Figure 77 Restore default IP address ASI based board ...

Page 114: ...sages The error messages will provide more information about why the DDM card is not operating properly If the status LED is green there might be issues with the configuration of the module Verify that the input stream is set up correctly Access the inputs list as described in section 4 2 Ensure there is incoming data on the input stream which is serving the decoder module in question If the bit r...

Page 115: ... question Please follow the procedure below Make sure your smart card has been updated with the necessary entitlements Please refer to section 4 4 2 for details on how to read smartcard info Alternatively Contact your CA provider for further instructions on how to do this Given the access criteria s are correct it may be necessary restart the CAM or the descrambler Decoder board itself The CAM may...

Page 116: ...all configurations No external connectors 1 slot wide Must be placed in slot position 0 A 2 IP Input Module Function Receiving the IP input data 10 100 1000BaseT input RJ45 for control interface 10 100 1000BaseT input RJ45 or SFP optical input for data interface Only connect one interface at a time Automatic detection of interface connected Supports UDP RTP Multicast Unicast System status LED 1 sl...

Page 117: ...0BaseT MMI optional System status LED 2 slots wide A 4 ASI Input Module Function Receiving an ASI transport stream Optional MMI interface 3 BNC connectors for ASI input 10 100 1000BaseT for management RJ45 System status LED 1 slot wide A 5 QAM Input Module Function Receiving a QAM modulated transport stream Optional MMI interface ...

Page 118: ...e Function Receiving a DVB T modulated transport stream Optional MMI interface 4xCOFDM inputs F connector 1 2 2 3 3 4 5 6 7 8 FEC 2k and 8k carrier mode QPSK 16QAM 64QAM modulation Supports reception of MPTS and SPTS Service filtering PCR regeneration ASI Monitoring port 10 100 1000BaseT management port RJ45 Enables WEB management 2 slots wide COFDM INPUT CONTROL Status Control COFDM ASI Monitor Q...

Page 119: ... services 2 decoders per module MPEG 2 DVB 4 2 0 MP ML decoding VBI re insertion Wide Screen Signaling WSS o World Standard Teletext WST EBU o Video Programming System VPS o Teletext Subtitling o VITS Video Inserted Test Signals DVB subtitling Composite PAL Video output Balanced Stereo Audio output 2 BNC connectors for PAL output 1 for each channel 1 D sub audio connector carrying both channels 1 ...

Page 120: ...ervice is independently PAL modulated and up converted to programmable frequency in the VHF UHF band 2 decoders per module MPEG 2 DVB 4 2 0 MP ML decoding AES descrambling option VBI re insertion o Wide Screen Signaling WSS o World Standard Teletext WST EBU o Video Programming System VPS o Teletext Subtitling o VITS Video Inserted Test Signals DVB subtitling 2 DVB Common Interfaces 1 per channel R...

Page 121: ...wo MPEG 2 encoded services Each service is independently PAL modulated and up converted to programmable frequency in the VHF UHF band The module comes with an A2 Stereo encoder that will add an A2 Stereo carrier to each output 2 decoders per module MPEG 2 DVB 4 2 0 MP ML decoding AES descrambling option VBI re insertion Wide Screen Signaling WSS World Standard Teletext WST EBU o Video Programming ...

Page 122: ...stems Supports scrambling using multiple CA systems 2 System Status LEDs 1 slot wide A 14 IP Output Module Function Transmitting the IP output data 10 100 1000BaseT input output RJ45 Supports UDP RTP Multicast Unicast Optional SFP for optical input Single Mode Multi Mode System Status LED 1 slot wide A 15 ASI Output Module Function Transmitting ASI output data ...

Page 123: ...s 213 Mbit s per output 4 Different multiplexed outputs Maximum 250 services per card PSI SI regeneration PCR regeneration 1 slot wide A 16 Dual Power Supply Function Enables power supply redundancy 2 Male Power Connectors 85 264 VAC 47 63 Hz 5AT 250V Fuse 2 System Status LEDs ...

Page 124: ...2 04 30 January 2009 Page 118 of 128 B Software options B 1 Latens Conditional Access for Descrambler module Function Descrambling of Latens AES scrambled services SW option Descrambling is performed on CA module ...

Page 125: ...Audio Data Error MAJOR The decoder found errors in the decoded audio Audio Frames missing MAJOR The decoder has not decoded Audio the last second May be due to no audio in the Audio PID Audio PID Missing CRITICAL No TS packed with this PID has been received by the decoder the last second Audio PID Scrambled CRITICAL Audio Output PCM underflow MAJOR Audio buffer is running low Signal error Try to t...

Page 126: ...tch alarm is raised A2 board mismatch MINOR The decoder is configured with an option file that specifies that a A2 board shall be present but no A2 board is detected No Latens SSM MINOR Missing Latens SW Bad backplane frame MAJOR Communication error with backplane Switched reason Link Down INFORMATION The internal redundancy module switched to the other input card due to a LINK DOWN condition on t...

Page 127: ...w alarms are general alarms which will contain more specific information upon triggering of the alarm Error Code Alarm Level Description Transport stream missing CRITICAL The scrambler module is not receiving configured transport stream Bad backplane frame MAJOR An invalid IP frame arrived at the IP interface on the backplane Missing SCG Update The scrambler expects regular updates of control word...

Page 128: ...uation where the internal clock needed to re synch to the reference clock C 9 COFDM Input Module Error Code Alarm Level Description Input buffer overflow Packet dropped CRITICAL Transport stream input buffer is overflowing Packages are dropped See description for the same alarm on the ASI input card Output buffer overflow Packet dropped CRITICAL Transport stream output buffer towards backplane is ...

Page 129: ...input temporarily disabled CRITICAL The same multicast stream arrives to the unit from different sources The input will automatically be disabled until one source is detected only Frame length error CRITICAL An incoming IP packet had an illegal length field IP fragmentation detected format not supported CRITICAL Fragmented packets are not supported TS packet sync byte error CRITICAL Sync byte erro...

Page 130: ...rror Code Alarm Level Description Qam module unreachable CRITICAL The SNMP agent on the QAM card is not responding QAM module error CRITICAL The QAM module reported an error on a channel The alarm text will give more details List of status codes added to the alarm 1 Modulation standard is invalid 2 Frequency is out of range 3 Symbol rate is out of range 4 QAM mode is invalid 5 Jitter tolerance is ...

Page 131: ...ard This causes the QAM module to restart the channel The reason could be either 1 No services are configured such that only NULL packets are sent to the QAM hence the QAM does not find a PCR 2 The PCR that it receives is too jittery which may happen when the services being sent to the modulator has been descrambled from an IPIN MPTS If this is the case try to use the Alt CAM descrambling mode for...

Page 132: ...ber of inputs per module 4 Symbol rate range TBD Input level TBD Frequency range 950 2150 MHz LNB voltage 0 13 18 Volt Maximum LNB supply current TBD DVB S2 input Available Q3 2007 LNB signaling TBD D 3 Baseband Output Specifications Decoding Decoding of MPEG2 MP ML Video DVB max bit rate 15Mbits s The following resolutions shall be supported Note 525 line resolutions will not be supported in the ...

Page 133: ...ons Analogue modulation PAL B G RF Output Frequency Range 47 862MHz RF Tuning Step Size 12 5 kHz TBD Output Level 105 to 117 dBµV Output Level Adjustment Step Size GUI 0 1 dB Connector Type F female Output Impedance 75ohm Return loss 14dB typical 16dB Audio Carrier Output Level relative to video carrier 13dB min 15dB max 12dB Video Carrier frequency stability 30 kHz Audio inter carrier frequency s...

Page 134: ...Hz A2 Stereo Audio output modes Stereo Dual Mono Mono D 6 Environmental Specifications Operational Temperature 0ºC to 40 ºC Operational Humidity 0 to 95 non condensing Storage Temperature 20ºC to 70 ºC Conditions Storage Humidity 5 to 95 non condensing Power Input voltage 110V 240V 47 63 Hz Power supply rating 300W each Fuse T250V 5A Number of power supplies 1 or optionally 2 Control Power supplie...

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