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VB2-series

Users' Manual

Sw version 5.0

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PROBE USERS' MANUAL VERSION 5.0

2014© BRIDGE Technologies Co AS - Bentsebrugata 20 - N-0476 Oslo, Norway - tel: +47 22 38 51 00

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Summary of Contents for VB20

Page 1: ...is always found in the log in area of the www bridgetech tv site Refer to section 1 2 of this manual for more information PROBE USERS MANUAL VERSION 5 0 2014 BRIDGE Technologies Co AS Bentsebrugata 2...

Page 2: ...Module VB220 Option 24 4 7 4 The VB252 COFDM Dual Demodulator Module VB220 Option 25 4 7 5 The VB260 QAM Demodulator Module VB220 Option 26 4 7 6 The VB262 Dual QAM 8VSB Demodulator Module VB220 Optio...

Page 3: ...thernet Join 106 6 8 5 Ethernet FSM requires AET OPT 107 6 8 6 Ethernet Multicasts 110 6 8 7 Ethernet Ethernet thresh 114 6 9 ETR 290 Option 117 6 9 1 ETR 290 ETR Overview 117 6 9 2 ETR 290 ETR Detail...

Page 4: ...SAT RF overview 213 6 16 SAT Redundancy Switch VB272 and VB273 Option module for VB220 214 6 16 1 Tuning setup 214 6 16 2 SAT Tuning setup 215 6 16 3 Threshold setup 216 6 16 4 Redundancy status and...

Page 5: ...larms 248 2 Appendix Monitoring Practices 249 3 Appendix OTT Profile Health 255 4 Appendix Software Upload 257 PROBE USERS MANUAL VERSION 5 0 2014 BRIDGE Technologies Co AS Bentsebrugata 20 N 0476 Osl...

Page 6: ...upported streaming formats include Apple tm HSL Adobe tm HDS and Microsoft tm SmoothStream The ETR 290 software option performs extended ETSI TR 101 290 analysis enabling detailed transport stream mon...

Page 7: ...thernet and one Engine for ASI Each additional RF interfaes get their own ETR Engine No Requires ETR290 OPT can be licensed with up to 4 ETR290 Engines for ethernet and one Engine for ASI Eacb additio...

Page 8: ...RDP using the regular video data network or the management network to return a stream A faulty signal can then be further analysed at the studio premises when necessary The recording functionality all...

Page 9: ...probe management IP address A step by step quick installation guide is found in section 4 1 Chapter 5 contains a quick setup guide a step by step description of how to setup a probe once the initial...

Page 10: ...monitoring engine either the Ethernet video data port or the SFP optical input Management of the probe is conducted via the Ethernet management port or alternatively in band via the Ethernet video da...

Page 11: ...ld values alarms will be generated The overall alarm settings further make it possible to enable and disable alarms thus defining which alarms should be reported in the probe alarm list and sent as SN...

Page 12: ...rained and qualified personnel should be allowed to install replace or service this equipment This equipment must be installed and maintained by service personnel as defined by AS NZS 3260 Incorrectly...

Page 13: ...3 modules and it is equipped with two 100 240V AC 75W power supplies The unit is forced air ventilated the air flow going from front to back The maximum power consumption of the chassis with optional...

Page 14: ...re will be indicated by a red LED located rightmost on the front of the chassis Figure 5 Red LED indicating failure for one of the power supplies 4 2 2 Cooling System The chassis is equipped with six...

Page 15: ...V DC connectors located on the the right The Enhanced Chassis EC is delivered with two 48V DC 75W power supplies providing power redundancy Each EC unit consists of a 1RU chassis with 3 option slots I...

Page 16: ...ntial that these venting holes are not covered 4 3 3 ECDC Power Supply The ECDC unit is equipped with two 48V DC 50W power inlet connectors The power plug is a male 3 PIN D sub 15 connector Matching f...

Page 17: ...ated on the components side of the modules All serial numbers can also be found on the shipping box All modules except the demodulator interface modules have a serial number that is available via the...

Page 18: ...it is equipped with fans that suck in air from front of the chassis The air exits at the back of the unit It is recommended that the venting holes are not covered up 4 5 3 Serial number location The s...

Page 19: ...fault all connectors and the power plug are located at the front of the unit However the rack ears of the chassis may be moved to provide for rear mounting of the unit The rack ears are designed to su...

Page 20: ...ng the Female 3 PIN D sub 15 Connector to the Power Cable 4 6 4 Serial Number Location The serial number of the ACC DCC unit is located at the rear of the unit The serial numbers of the individual opt...

Page 21: ...0 input signal selected from software MANAGEMENT Management eth2 For optionally running management of the probe on a separate network RJ 45 This interface supports T10 100 A number of LEDs serve the f...

Page 22: ...E The associated ASI input is not currently being monitored The VB242 module operates by default in continuous mode where the connectors ASI1 and ASI2 are transmitted across the backplane of the chass...

Page 23: ...off Pins 6 7 Contacts closed Pins 6 7 No connection Pins 7 8 No connection Pins 7 8 Contacts closed Pin 5 Gnd Pin 5 Gnd An LED indicates whether the demodulator locks to the incoming RF signal or not...

Page 24: ...male GPI Pinout of alarm relay output to be implemented Normal operation Alarm Power off Pins 6 7 Contacts closed Pins 6 7 No connection Pins 7 8 No connection Pins 7 8 Contacts closed Pin 5 Gnd Pin...

Page 25: ...t of alarm relay output to be implemented Normal operation Alarm Power off Pins 6 7 Contacts closed Pins 6 7 No connection Pins 7 8 No connection Pins 7 8 Contacts closed Pin 5 Gnd Pin 5 Gnd An LED in...

Page 26: ...nput 75 ohm F connector GPI Alarm relay output 9 PIN D sub male GPI Pinout of alarm relay output to be implemented Normal operation Alarm Power off Pins 6 7 Contacts closed Pins 6 7 No connection Pins...

Page 27: ...m relay output 9 PIN D sub male GPI Pinout of alarm relay output to be implemented Normal operation Alarm Power off Pins 6 7 Contacts closed Pins 6 7 No connection Pins 7 8 No connection Pins 7 8 Cont...

Page 28: ...EqC 1 2 75 ohm F connector DVB S S2 2 RF L band input with DiSEqC 1 2 75 ohm F connector GPI Alarm relay output 9 PIN D sub male GPI Pinout of alarm relay output to be implemented Normal operation Ala...

Page 29: ...e RF out 1 and RF out 2 should be connected to their corresponding connector on the VB272 blade The VB273 is built with high reliability and redundancy in mind The switching operation is performed by...

Page 30: ...Description Input A Primary Pushing this button ensures IF 1 is switched to the output as well as changing the operating mode to SuperLocal The button lights up to indicate the signal path Input B Sec...

Page 31: ...scenarios The operating mode can be directly seen via the light of the AUTO button Off Manual mode Permanently on Auto mode Slowly flashing SuperLocal mode Basic specifications IF frequency range 50 t...

Page 32: ...Block diagram PROBE USERS MANUAL VERSION 5 0 2014 BRIDGE Technologies Co AS Bentsebrugata 20 N 0476 Oslo Norway tel 47 22 38 51 00 www bridgetech tv 33...

Page 33: ...e sure there is sufficient space surrounding the unit to allow efficient cooling refer to section 4 2 2 Enhanced Chassis and 4 3 1 ACC DCC Chassis Use four rack screws to install the unit in the rack...

Page 34: ...an be powered up by connecting the power cable to a mains source When the power cable is connected the power LEDs of the individual optional modules should light up and the chassis fans should operate...

Page 35: ...set to match the probe factory setting the permanent network settings can be configured through the probe web browser interface Refer to sections 4 6 3 and 6 15 3 for details on how to launch the prob...

Page 36: ...he driver has not passed Windows Logo testing select Continue anyway 7 Open the Device Manager located in Control Panel System then select the Hardware tab and click Device Manager open Ports the prob...

Page 37: ...in Linux users should check var log messages to see what device to use The following serial port parameters should be used Baud rate 9600 Data bits 8 Parity None Stop bits 1 Flow control None Press E...

Page 38: ...s will be automatically set to 1 1 1 1 by the probe To configure the management interface edit values for J K and L alternatively use DHCP I NB Set the gateway interface to eth2 by selecting P Make su...

Page 39: ...so known to function 2 Type the IP address of the probe in the browser URL field and press ENTER The IP address of the probe is that of the eth0 or eth2 port the one used for management as set in the...

Page 40: ...gateway and the network interface are not the same Verify that the appropriate Ethernet link indicators of the PC and probe are lit Verify that web browser proxy settings are not interfering Verify th...

Page 41: ...290 Default Default and Default may be used 5 2 2 Ethernet Input IP Option Only 1 Define multicasts either by using the multicast detect feature Traffic Detect or by defining multicasts manually Ethe...

Page 42: ...ng the OTT Active testing dialogue Useful information on OTT monitoring can be found in Appendix III in this document 5 2 4 Demodulator Input VB220 1 Define one frequency in the COFDM QAM VSB RF SAT T...

Page 43: ...alarm thresholds and alarm on off selection By default Ethernet thresholds are set to raise alarms when service affecting errors occur that are caused by the network There may however be reasons for...

Page 44: ...n order to mask an alarm generated by an unreferenced PID or to ensure an alarm is raised if a service or PID bitrate is outside preset limits Creating a new threshold template is done either by copyi...

Page 45: ...s Note that different web browsers behave differently with respect to memory leaking and if the probe GUI should be available at all times the browser should be selected carefully Browser memory leak...

Page 46: ...esolution of 1024x768 pixels Tool tip is available for most buttons and labels To access tool tip information simply navigate the mouse pointer towards a button or a label and leave it hovering for a...

Page 47: ...lock is locked to an external time reference signal Green indicates that the probe is locked to an external reference whereas grey indicates that the probe runs in unlocked mode Updated The time since...

Page 48: ...recording Counters and alarms Clear all Click the Clear all button to reset all counters graphs and alarms All probe measurement and alarm history is cleared Note that it is not possible to undo this...

Page 49: ...nterface netmask as defined by the user in the Setup Ethernet view ETH info Joined The number of joined streams multicasts and unicasts Unicasts The number of unicasts currently being joined monitored...

Page 50: ...R monitoring engine has been configured to analyse a single transport stream only or if monitoring has been manually locked to a transport stream the roundtime figure is irrelevant as the stream will...

Page 51: ...ues can potentially arise if the System indicator becomes high 80 By selecting Current the instantaneous values are sampled and displayed every 2 seconds Selecting Last 60 seconds displays the peak in...

Page 52: ...h window remains open The graph starts again with zero history if the window is closed and then opened again Up to 5 streams are possible to plot on the same graph using the dropdown menus named Strea...

Page 53: ...in the alarm lists These alarms will also be sent as SNMP traps to support third party management systems Refer to Appendix 1 for a description of alarm handling in the VideoBridge Controller VBC Fig...

Page 54: ...arm list will be continuously updated with new alarms Active alarms are always located at the top of the list Clicking the View list offline button gives the user the opportunity to view all stored al...

Page 55: ...ponding alarm list as an XML file This file will open in a new window 6 2 2 Alarms Alarm setup The Alarm setup represents the final probe filtering stage for alarms The user selects whether an alarm s...

Page 56: ...ur orange Major If enabled the alarm will be present in the alarm list colour red Fatal If enabled the alarm will be present in the alarm list colour black The following alarms and events are configur...

Page 57: ...ast source changed The multicast source changed to one of the valid multicast sources specified by the operator Default Enabled severity Error Bitrate overflow The stream bitrate exceeds the maximum b...

Page 58: ...led severity Major SI Rep Rate Wrong repetition rate for SI tables Default Enabled severity Major Unref PID PID is unreferenced Default Enabled severity Major SDT Service Description Table error Defau...

Page 59: ...Default Enabled severity Major Service checks Service check error Default Enabled severity Major MIP Megaframe Insertion Packet error Default Enabled severity Major Pre FEC BER Bit error rate prior t...

Page 60: ...between received and configured symbol rate exceeds specified threshold VB262 Default Enabled severity Major Post BCH FER DVB T T2 BCH Frame Error Rate exceeds speficied threshold VB252 Default Enabl...

Page 61: ...Connection failed Default Enabled severity Error Send error Could not send data to host Default Enabled severity Error Receive error Could not receive data from host Default Enabled severity Major Emp...

Page 62: ...ther The probe will parse a channel s manifest file and for a live stream one of the latest chunks in each OTT profile s chunk sequence will be analysed The engine then moves on to the next OTT channe...

Page 63: ...s transmitted in clear the encryption field will read No Profile info Channel and profile information is resolved from the manifest files At channel level the OTT format is displayed Smoothstream HLS...

Page 64: ...ned bitrate and alarm representation for individual profiles Refer to Appendix III for a description of these graphs The timeline duration is 2 hours and the graph resolution is one minute Profile bps...

Page 65: ...g Profiles The number of profiles associated with a channel Profile status The channel health bar displays the current status for individual channel profiles Profiles are separated by vertical black l...

Page 66: ...ent or VoD for stored content The distinction between the two is done based on whether the profile sequence numbers update or not Seq age The profile sequence age Manifest size The size in bytes of th...

Page 67: ...ected channel is also provided here In the right corner of the popup window is a free text search field used to narrow down the entries in the alarm log The alarms are the same ones as explained for t...

Page 68: ...en the Edit channel pop up view associated with the highlighted channel Batch editing is supported this is convenient if a new threshold template should be assigned to a number of channels or if monit...

Page 69: ...hreshold template assigned to the channel by the user telling the system when to generate alarms VBC thresholds The alarm threshold template used to configure when alarms are generated towards the VBC...

Page 70: ...to a number of seconds Default 15 seconds Note The round time may not be set to any value less than 1 second Press Apply to confirm changes made PROBE USERS MANUAL VERSION 5 0 2014 BRIDGE Technologie...

Page 71: ...pop up view with all threshold template parameters duplicated except the threshold template name Clicking the Delete selected will delete the highlighted list entry Clicking the Edit selected will ope...

Page 72: ...when measured actual bitrate is compared to profile bitrate If the actual bitrate goes below the threshold an actual bitrate alarm will be raised Max actual bitrate The maximum allowed bitrate when me...

Page 73: ...rrent bitrate When the Current page button is clicked it is possible to select the page from a drop down menu The associated thumbnails are shown in the leftmost column of the list of measurements Cli...

Page 74: ...cal parameters view lists sum or peak values for parameters over the interval indicated by the selected time button Last 4d Last 24h Last 8h Last 20m Last 1m Clicking a stream brings up the Detailed m...

Page 75: ...iscontinuity has been detected for all the MPEG 2 Transport Stream continuity counters This value is the total number of discontinuities detected for all PIDs present Note that this value does NOT rep...

Page 76: ...minimum registered time between two consecutive IP frames carrying video Units are in milliseconds IAT max The Maximum Inter Arrival Time is the maximum registered time between two consecutive IP fra...

Page 77: ...number of consecutive dropped RTP packets The sequence 1 2 3 10 11 12 15 gives a min hole size of 2 Max hole size Maximum number of consecutive dropped RTP packets The sequence 1 2 3 10 11 12 15 give...

Page 78: ...r of seconds during selected period with bitrate overflow ES nosig Number of seconds during selected period without signal Peak IAT Peak Inter packet Arrival Time during selected period Sum MLR Sum of...

Page 79: ...to decode a thumbnail picture and more precise status information has not yet been obtained This icon is typically displayed after probe reboot or if new streams have recently been joined Shown if the...

Page 80: ...etected MPEG 2 TS services by analysing the PSI SI tables and provides the following aggregate information for each service Service Pid For each service the service name or service id is obtained from...

Page 81: ...clude the minimum and maximum IAT readings The IAT histogram is a very useful and intuitive measure of how well the network is performing in terms of forwarding real time traffic A predictable and tig...

Page 82: ...reenshot above displays the IAT distribution for a CBR stream Thumb View The Thumb View pop up is accessed by clicking an information icon in the Detailed Monitoring Services view This view displays a...

Page 83: ...cond Audio level An audio level bar displaying the average audio level as a green bar referenced to the peak audio level the peak level being indicated by a white line PROBE USERS MANUAL VERSION 5 0 2...

Page 84: ...cted service as reported by the decoding engine Service Service ID PSI SI Name The name of the selected service as derived from SI Service ID The service ID of the selected service Controlbit scramble...

Page 85: ...crambling The value may be yes or no Bitrate The audio PID bitrate of the selected service Language The language of the audio as defined in the Program Map Table PMT Peak level The peak audio level in...

Page 86: ...s it is easy to see the jitter characteristics of the signal and if there is packet loss or CC errors present in the signal Periods of no signal are also displayed The measurements are always aggregat...

Page 87: ...s for a selected bar in a selected graph the denotation is IAT MLR The current graph value displayed under Running provides the maximum MLR and IAT values measured during the last 3 seconds Red colour...

Page 88: ...arting several browser sessions When in the popup Media Window by pressing some where in the graph the field will get zoomed in This hi resolution version of the Media Window reveals more details than...

Page 89: ...responding to the Mon parameter Curr bitrate The bandwidth error threshold is configured in the Ethernet Ethernet thresh menu RTP graph By clicking the IAT RTP button the graph displays the packet jit...

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Page 91: ...insertion and PSI SI multiplexing introduces lots of unknowns in remote locations Bringing the signal back for analysis could be very useful RDP Relay A stream can be RDP forwarded to a specified IP...

Page 92: ...ired The recorded file may be saved to an external disc e g a PC usually by clicking the filename and selecting the save option but this depends on the web browser being used If the browser does not s...

Page 93: ...le size is reached In the resulting recording the error event will be located in the middle of the recording To activate the alarm triggered recording mode click the Alarm mode activate button When in...

Page 94: ...video and audio PIDs however this depends on the equipment receiving the forwarded stream When this field has been edited click the Modify button for the changes to take effect Destination For Etherne...

Page 95: ...ecording Service info Tuning The tuning is either locked or unlocked depending on round robin status Service Id The service ID as signalled in PAT Name The stream name as signalled in SDT Provider The...

Page 96: ...trigger mode the resulting recording will consist of 12MB of data from before the alarm was raised and Size 12MB of data from after the alarm occurrence 1MB 1000000 bytes Protect When in alarm trigger...

Page 97: ...may not be enough memory to store the new sw image during the upgrade process 6 7 Traffic 6 7 1 Traffic Protocols requires AET OPT The Traffic Protocols view allows monitoring of IP traffic on the dat...

Page 98: ...with FEC enabled COP3 Fec columns Total bitrate of all column FEC streams COP3 Fec rows Total bitrate of all row FEC streams COP3 Correctable Total count of dropped payload IP packets that are correct...

Page 99: ...robe to update the list click the Refresh button The source address makes it possible for the probe to distinguish between multicasts with the same destination IP address and port provided that Source...

Page 100: ...hat monitoring is disabled The following Ethernet parameters are shown Eth streams with active alarms Shows the number of streams that are presently in an alarm state 0 50 Note that the number of alar...

Page 101: ...counters button in the Main view Bulb The bulb indicates the most severe active alarm for any of the streams on the page Active alarms are located on top of the alarm list The alarm severity is reflec...

Page 102: ...s The histogram is updated every minute Any subset of the following parameters can be selected click the Apply button for changes to take effect No signal The number of streams that reported the No si...

Page 103: ...responding to joined multicasts CRC errs Detected CRC errors Ethernet CRC errors are most likely caused by a bad cable or a misconfigured router A CRC error may impact packet loss measurements such as...

Page 104: ...as XML by clicking the Export button and the list is cleared by clicking the Clear list button Click the blue information icon to open the IGMP record pop up view No The message number since the list...

Page 105: ...view using the arrow Changes should be confirmed by clicking the Apply changes button The probe can join a maximum of 50 uni multicasts these may be freely associated with the 20 probe pages The stre...

Page 106: ...ill be raised FSM Monitor The following parameters are continuously monitored for each service Status Current alarm status Red active alarm Green No alarm Name User defined service name Protocol Type...

Page 107: ...he user to trace the network route to a specified IP address Ethernet FSM Setup Each of the 10 FSM services may be defined or edited by clicking on the corresponding Edit button in the left hand table...

Page 108: ...nds to wait between each activation A value below 30 is not recommended Fails threshold The number of consecutive errors needed to raise an alarm Hostname The IP address for the target Host names are...

Page 109: ...tries the current dialogue values will be used as the template with the values for Name and Address incremented for each The search field in the upper right corner of the view allows the user to type...

Page 110: ...used by the VideoBridge Controller to generate alarms These thresholds are only relevant if the VBC is used VBC threshold templates are defined in the Setup VBC thresh view Join stream Check the Join...

Page 111: ...ined in the ETR 290 ETR thresh view The round robin cycling time is also defined by this threshold template This parameter is only relevant if the probe is ETR enabled PID thresholds The PID threshold...

Page 112: ...ata PID The container stream PID carrying the inner stream PLP ID The PLP ID for the inner stream Select a fixed PLP ID value from the drop down menu or specify that the first detected PLP ID should b...

Page 113: ...Add new threshold button A pop up window will appear allowing the user to define alarm conditions Another way of creating a user defined threshold template is by highlighting one of the threshold tem...

Page 114: ...m MLR err thresh will be raised The severity and hence the colour used in the MediaWindow view for IAT MLR errors depend on the severity assigned to these alarms in the Alarms Alarm Setup view Note th...

Page 115: ...gnal before the No signal alarm is raised RTP drop limit If the number of lost RTP packets exceeds the RTP drop limit an alarm will be raised Note that error seconds based on packet drops are counted...

Page 116: ...making it possible to reduce the analysis round trip time or allowing simultaneous full time ETR analysis of several multicasts The ETR 290 analysis engines operate in parallel It is possible to hide...

Page 117: ...to deactivate individual ETR 290 alarms by defining appropriate ETR thresholds If the user wants to examine one particular Ethernet or demodulator stream in more detail he can lock the ETR 290 analysi...

Page 118: ...ndicates the current status of that parameter check green indicates status ok whereas red indicates an active alarm When the probe has not yet received data relevant for a particular check the corresp...

Page 119: ...und robin operation are represented by grey By using the arrow buttons it is possible to view alarm occurrences up to 24 hours back in time even if the highest graph time resolution is selected If ala...

Page 120: ...on indicates the analysis mode The analysis mode is defined as part of the ETR thresholds When tree nodes are selected detailed information will be displayed on the right hand side of the view If the...

Page 121: ...the service and service components will be displayed If a PID is scrambled this is indicated in the service tree by the colour green or blue for even and odd scrambling respectively A missing PID is...

Page 122: ...T table IDs are configured in the Setup ETR view EIT present following is displayed If EIT schedule is present in the stream a blue Show full EPG link is displayed By clicking the link it is possible...

Page 123: ...mation about the current control word is displayed Even 0x3 or Odd 0x2 Number of CC errors The number of CC errors detected during the monitoring period References A list of PSI SI references to the c...

Page 124: ...icon By clicking the lock icon the round robin tuning process is stopped locked to the current frequency or resumed A DVB or ATSC icon indicates the analysis mode The analysis mode is defined as part...

Page 125: ...n By clicking the lock icon the round robin cycling is stopped or resumed A DVB or ATSC icon indicates the analysis mode The analysis mode is defined as part of the ETR thresholds Clicking the Section...

Page 126: ...dump byte s because some of the table entries do not add up to whole bytes By hovering the cursor over the items in the tree a tooltip is displayed showing the start position of the data in the hexad...

Page 127: ...indicates the analysis mode The analysis mode is defined as part of the ETR thresholds By clicking the button Clear counters the minimum and maximum bitrates and the CC error counters will be reset N...

Page 128: ...the user clicking on Clear status in the ETR Overview Max Bitrate The maximum bitrate measurement for this PID since the start of the monitoring period Num CC errors The number of CC errors for the s...

Page 129: ...e stream info above the histogram shows if the analysed stream contains null packets or not A colour indicator above the PCR jitter histogram indicates whether the signal is of constant bitrate or not...

Page 130: ...lds defined by the user as part of the ETR threshold template Out of view The number of PCR values that are out of the currently displayed view PROBE USERS MANUAL VERSION 5 0 2014 BRIDGE Technologies...

Page 131: ...ismis Says wheter Single or Multiple Input Streams are used Ccmacm Wheter the stream uses Constant Coding and Modulation or Adaptive Coding and Modulation Issy The Input Stream SYnchronizer value Ma t...

Page 132: ...yload type of this PLP PLP Group The group signaled for this PLP The PLPs in a group shares one common PLP and when analyzing a PLP both the data in the specified PLP and the common PLP in the same gr...

Page 133: ...ream name Name specified by the user when adding a multicast or tuning interface The input source of the transport stream Services incl SCTE 35 The number of services in the transport stream which has...

Page 134: ...t ads or splice out event switch back to the audio video in the stream Splice mode Specifies whether the splice message applies to the entire serivice Program splice mode or individual PID s Duration...

Page 135: ...affected by errors By clicking any of the Service view service or component nodes it is possible to view the same details that are available in the ETR 290 Service view plus status and alarm informati...

Page 136: ...e interfaces Clicking Show streams results in a list of selectable transport streams and services and clicking Show services results in a list of selectable services For a transport stream to be selec...

Page 137: ...arameters for services or streams to be viewed side by side Key parameters are presented in one column for each service stream and it is easy to recognise differences in signal contents or alarm statu...

Page 138: ...selected service Max eff bitr The maximum effective bitrate null packets removed measured for the selected stream or the stream containing the selected service Min tot bitr The minimum total bitrate...

Page 139: ...how long the stream has been affected by errors compared to the total monitoring time green colour representing OK and red colour Error Service alarms If a transport stream is selected for comparison...

Page 140: ...ective bitrates of a service component are also shown in addition to the number of continuity counter errors and the maximum measured PCR jitter if relevant Coloured PIDs indicate scrambling blue and...

Page 141: ...view ETR Details The ETR details subview shows the same alarm overview as the ETR ETR details view Clicking a check will open a pop up view displaying alarm details Please refer to the ETR ETR details...

Page 142: ...es of the different parameters settings are in accordance with the ETSI TR 101 290 specification Another way of creating a user defined threshold template is by highlighting one of the threshold templ...

Page 143: ...ted Error timeout s The number of seconds after an error has occurred before the alarm is cleared as long as no new alarms are generated For all table related alarms the actual alarm timeout which is...

Page 144: ...fault value 70 s Sync loss tuning duration s The time in seconds the probe will stay tuned to a frequency multicast with TS Sync loss during the round robin tuning process Usually there is no need to...

Page 145: ...arming of Continuity Counter errors PMT Enable or disable alarming of Program Map Table errors PMT Maximum interval ms The maximum allowed section repetition interval for the PMT tables Default 500 ms...

Page 146: ...rs PCR Accuracy Jitter threshold ms The maximum allowed PCR jitter Default 500 ms PTS Enable or disable alarming of Presentation Time Stamp errors PTS Maximum interval ms The maximum allowed interval...

Page 147: ...wed an alarm will be generated if the Cable descriptor is present Default Optional NIT Satellite descriptor If set to Required an alarm will be generated if a Satellite descriptor is not present in th...

Page 148: ...e found in the PAT does not have a service name or if the service name is empty Default Disabled SDT Require BAT Presence If enabled an alarm will be generated if BAT is not present in the stream Defa...

Page 149: ...le Require CVCT Require presence of the Cable Virtual Channel Table VCT Maximum interval ms The maximum allowed section repetition interval for the VCT table Default 400ms PIM PNM Enable or disable al...

Page 150: ...rrors Only relevant when ATSC mode is selected ETT Maximum interval ETT 0 ms The maximum allowed section repetition interval for the ATSC ETT 0 table Default 2000ms ETT Maximum interval ETT 1 to ETT 3...

Page 151: ...ks Maximum control word period ms The maximum allowed control word period the maximum time that can go by without a change in the scrambling control bits for scrambled PIDs Default 25 000 ms PID check...

Page 152: ...um signal strength threshold value or above the maximum signal strength threshold value associated with the stream Only relevant for demodulators SFN drift check Enable or disable alarming of SFN drif...

Page 153: ...s present in the chassis Packet error count check Enable or disable alarming of one or more erroneous packets after FEC Only relevant when a VB270 DVB S S2 demodulator is present in the chassis Input...

Page 154: ...holds table the Refs column shows how many streams are associated with each threshold template There are two different ways of creating user defined thresholds To create a new threshold template from...

Page 155: ...e PID bandwidth goes below the specified minimum bandwidth bandwidth in kbit s or Mbit s and monitoring is enabled Monitor max BW An alarm is raised if the maximum PID bandwidth specified is exceeded...

Page 156: ...e associated with each threshold template There are two different ways of creating user defined thresholds To create a new threshold template from scratch the operator should click the Add new thresho...

Page 157: ...sitive An alarm will be raised if there is not a perfect match Require presence If this field is checked an alarm will be raised provided that the specified service is not present in the stream This c...

Page 158: ...vice or service type in effect masking alarms during selected intervals Scheduling templates are defined in the Setup Scheduling view The predefined scheduling templates Never and Always will always b...

Page 159: ...ot Green colour indicates sync whereas red indicates no sync Grey colour shows that the ASI input is disabled Packet length Indicates if the transport stream packets are 188 or 204 bytes Original Netw...

Page 160: ...the ASI Setup view ETR thresholds The name of the ETR threshold template assigned to the ASI transport stream PID thresholds The name of the PID threshold template assigned to the ASI transport stream...

Page 161: ...ASI transport stream ETR thresholds The name of the ETR threshold template assigned to the ASI transport stream PID thresholds The name of the PID threshold template assigned to the ASI transport str...

Page 162: ...ld be selected The selected PLP_ID will be selected as current PLP in the ETR 290 T2MI Section T2MI Data PID The container stream PID carrying the inner stream Default 4096 PROBE USERS MANUAL VERSION...

Page 163: ...e visible as only one ASI stream from the VB242 is monitored at any time If two optional VB242 ASI interface modules are present in the chassis the associated ASI tabs will be labelled ASI 2 ASI 3 ASI...

Page 164: ...ove shows the GUI for a chassis with one optional VB242 module installed and continuous monitoring mode selected Setup ETR view ASI 1 is the ASI input of the probe module ASI 2 and ASI 3 are inputs 1...

Page 165: ...also possible to disable one or more ASI inputs in which case these streams will not be monitored Click the Edit link associated with an input to associate threshold groups with the stream Refer to s...

Page 166: ...ssed from the ETR 290 Services view 6 12 1 COFDM Status VB250 The COFDM Status view gives an overview of the key input interface parameters The COFDM status view displays the following information COF...

Page 167: ...ed indicates no lock Frequency lock A bulb indicating frequency lock when green red indicates no lock Time lock A bulb indicating time lock when green red indicates no lock TPS lock A bulb indicating...

Page 168: ...channel spacing in MHz Spectrum inversion Spectrum inversion may be normal or inverted Guard interval The guard interval may be Auto 1 32 1 16 1 8 or 1 4 FFT Size The transmission mode can be Auto 2k...

Page 169: ...To add a new frequency to the list click the Add new tuning button A pop up window will appear allowing the user to enter tuning parameters When one set of tuning parameters has been defined it is pos...

Page 170: ...utton is clicked Naming policy The probe will automatically name tunings according to the naming policy selected by the user Frequency TS ID or TS ID and frequency Rename existing If the Rename existi...

Page 171: ...ent frequency Service thresholds Selection of the Service threshold template that should be assigned to the current frequency COFDM thresholds Selection of the COFDM threshold template that should be...

Page 172: ...hreshold template To add a new threshold template to the list click the Add new threshold or Duplicate selected button A pop up window will appear allowing the user to enter parameters One or more thr...

Page 173: ...xpressed according to the level mode selection made in the Setup ETR view dBm in decibels relative to a reference value of 1mW dBuV in decibels relative to a reference value of 1 V dBmV in decibels re...

Page 174: ...um inversion normal or inverted TS sync Transport stream sync yes or no Min level The minimum RF signal level Max level The maximum RF signal level Min SNR The minimum signal to noise ratio Min MER Th...

Page 175: ...e SECOND RF INPUT OPTION license key Thumbnails of COFDM services are accessed from the ETR 290 Services view 6 13 1 COFDM Status VB252 Constellation diagram requires The Advanced RF Option The COFDM...

Page 176: ...uV in decibels relative to a reference value of 1 V dBmV in decibels relative to a reference value of 1mV Signal to noise ratio The signal to noise ratio in dB Modulation error ratio The modulation er...

Page 177: ...ed to the current frequency Service thresholds The name of the Service threshold template assigned to the current frequency DVB T T2 thresholds The name of the DVB T T2 threshold template assigned to...

Page 178: ...nforms if L1 Post scrambling is enabled supported from DVB T2 v1 3 1 True or false DVB T2 profile Determines current profile of DVB T2 Signal Base Lite supported form DVB T2 v1 3 1 Base compatible wit...

Page 179: ...DVB T2 guard 14 DVB T2 32K mode with DVB T2 guard Mixed Mixed signalling indicator 0 Not mixed 1 Mixed from S2 field FFT Mode Specifies window size of Fast Fourier Transform from S2 signalling 1K 2K...

Page 180: ...rame Regen Regeneration count indicator Post ext L1 post extensions enabled Number RF Freqs The number of RF frequencies in use RF Index The current RF index PLP count Number of PLPS Physical Layer Pi...

Page 181: ...Indicates whether PLP carries in band signalling True or False In band B TS rate In band B signalling TS rate Payload The payload carried by the PLP GFPS Generic Fixed length Packetized Stream GCS Gen...

Page 182: ...EF Future Extension Frames part FEF length The length of the FEF Future Extension Frames as part of the elementary period FEF interval The number of T2 Frames between two FEF Future Extension Frames p...

Page 183: ...y be edited by clicking the Edit field To add a new frequency to the list click the Add new tuning button A pop up window will appear allowing the user to enter tuning parameters When one set of tunin...

Page 184: ...f the PID threshold template that should be assigned to the current frequency Service thresholds Selection of the Service threshold template that should be assigned to the current frequency DVB T T2 t...

Page 185: ...sed Information in the selected NIT will be used to generate a tuning list when the Import tunings button is clicked Naming policy The probe will automatically name tunings according to the naming pol...

Page 186: ...hreshold template To add a new threshold template to the list click the Add new threshold or Duplicate selected button A pop up window will appear allowing the user to enter parameters One or more thr...

Page 187: ...hold level for calculated modulation error ratio Minimum signal to noise ratio Threshold level for signal to noise ratio dB Minimum signal strength Threshold level for minimum signal strength This is...

Page 188: ...ulses may be defined Impulse response checking Impulse detection limit The impulse detection limit in dB Signal peaks with lower level than the detection limit will be regarded as noise and not consid...

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Page 190: ...er are listed at the right hand side of the COFDM impulse graph Power peaks that are lower than the impulse detection limit are not listed The impulse detection limit is displayed in the graph as a bo...

Page 191: ...c Transport stream sync yes or no Min level The minimum RF signal level Max level The maximum RF signal level Min SNR The minimum signal to noise ratio Min MER The minimum calculated modulation error...

Page 192: ...ame is user selectable in the Setup ETR view Thumbnails of QAM services are accessed from the ETR 290 Services view 6 14 1 QAM Status Constellation diagram requires the Advanced RF option The QAM Stat...

Page 193: ...o SNR in dB Front end lock A bulb indicating front end lock when green red indicates no lock AGC lock A bulb indicating AGC lock when green red indicates no lock Carrier lock A bulb indicating carrier...

Page 194: ...hresholds The name of the PID threshold template assigned to the current frequency Service thresholds The name of the Service threshold template assigned to the current frequency VBC thresholds The na...

Page 195: ...appear allowing the user to enter tuning parameters When one set of tuning parameters has been defined it is possible to click the button Import from NIT in order to have the other frequencies automat...

Page 196: ...ally be ETR 290 analysed and hence be part of the round robin loop unless the Disable tuning box is checked The following parameters are defined for each QAM frequency QAM Tuning setup Name A name sho...

Page 197: ...of the RF threshold template that should be assigned to the current frequency VBC thresholds Selection of the VBC threshold template that should be assigned to the current frequency Disable tuning If...

Page 198: ...fs column shows how many streams are associated with each RF threshold template To add a new threshold template to the list click the Add new threshold button A pop up window will appear allowing the...

Page 199: ...e value of 1mW dBuV in decibels relative to a reference value of 1 V dBmV in decibels relative to a reference value of 1mV Signal strength offset It is possible to use the signal strength offset adjus...

Page 200: ...a measurement close to zero The auto threshold functionality does this automatically Only relevant for VB262 PROBE USERS MANUAL VERSION 5 0 2014 BRIDGE Technologies Co AS Bentsebrugata 20 N 0476 Oslo...

Page 201: ...will open the Auto threshold pop up view Using the Create RF threshold drop down menu select wheter one common threshold template should be used for all streams or if individual threshold templates sh...

Page 202: ...4 128 or 256 QAM Mode The QAM transmission mode DVB C Annex A QAM B Annex B or 8VSB TS sync Transport stream sync yes or no Min level The minimum RF signal level Max level The maximum RF signal level...

Page 203: ...seen from the front of the unit Thumbnails of SAT services are accessed from the ETR 290 Services view 6 15 1 SAT Status Constellation diagram requires the Advanced RF option The SAT Status view gives...

Page 204: ...ctive bitrate Current transport stream bitrate excluding null packets Min effective bitrate Minimum transport stream bitrate excluding null packets Max effective bitrate Maximum transport stream bitra...

Page 205: ...olds The name of the ETR threshold template assigned to the current frequency PID thresholds The name of the PID threshold template assigned to the current frequency Service thresholds The name of the...

Page 206: ...on diagram displays the recevied symbols with respect to phase and amplitude PROBE USERS MANUAL VERSION 5 0 2014 BRIDGE Technologies Co AS Bentsebrugata 20 N 0476 Oslo Norway tel 47 22 38 51 00 www br...

Page 207: ...ncy to the list click the Add new tuning button A pop up window will appear allowing the user to enter tuning parameters Multi edit functionality makes it possible to edit selected streams simultaneou...

Page 208: ...olicy selected by the user The following parameters are defined for each SAT frequency SAT Tuning setup Name A name should be assigned to each frequency channel Transponder frequency The transponder f...

Page 209: ...be assigned to the current frequency VBC thresholds Selection of the VBC threshold template that should be assigned to the current frequency Disable tuning Disable tuning for frequencies that should n...

Page 210: ...iew Input interface checks To add a new threshold template to the list click the Add new threshold button A pop up window will appear allowing the user to enter parameters The predefined threshold tem...

Page 211: ...ew dBm in decibels relative to a reference value of 1mW dBuV in decibels relative to a reference value of 1 V dBmV in decibels relative to a reference value of 1mV Maximum signal strength Maximum thre...

Page 212: ...rom the selected RF input The parameters and measurements in this list refer to the last completed monitoring period or for a stream currently monitored the current monitoring period PROBE USERS MANUA...

Page 213: ...entical signals delivered over two different mediums that will have to be connected into each IF input Each IF input will have to be tuned into the same transponder for the redundancy switch to work p...

Page 214: ...mitted switches Set to OFF when used with VB273 Symbol rate The SAT symbol rate in Msymb s Set to the corresponding symbol rate used by the modulators Alternatively set to a sufficiently high value to...

Page 215: ...thresholds where the option is located next to every alarm parameter To set up switching on a ETR alarm case both the alarming and the redundancy has to be enabled in the dropdown list and checkbox E...

Page 216: ...SuperLocal When a physical signal button is pressed on the device the signal will be switched to the specified signal The GUI will also be overridden and set in a SuperLocal redundancy mode It is also...

Page 217: ...e status Input status A square with solid color means that the input signal has both alarming and redundancy enabled on a PID service A square divided diagonally color grey means that the input signal...

Page 218: ...picture generation is switched off This does not affect the accuracy of the measurements Alarms Freeze log when full When enabled the alarm list will freeze when full an event will show that it is fu...

Page 219: ...y have an ASI interface this input will be used as the clock source For probes with one or more demodulator interfaces the first frequency on the first RF interface will be used When TOT time synchron...

Page 220: ...gged traffic and not only traffic with the Native VLAN ID tag The Mon Detect list will be able to detect and list all VLAN tagged traffic Note that the probe will only issue IGMP messages on the nativ...

Page 221: ...e management interface eth2 and the data video interface eth0 The link statuses for the two interfaces are updated live to reflect the current settings All changes except changes to Speed Medium and D...

Page 222: ...sk IPv4 netmask of management interface Enable management If enabled a web server will be started on eth0 next time the probe boots Speed copper Whether to set the management interface to 10MBit s 100...

Page 223: ...on eth0 Enable IPv6 autoconf If IPv6 auto configuration is enabled the probe will receive IPv6 address IPv6 prefix and gateway address from a network router when booting Note that auto configuration...

Page 224: ...FTP TELNET SNMP It is also required for the probe to access an NTP server or DNS server with IPv6 address outside the probe s subnets If IPv6 auto configuration is enabled this field is disabled Examp...

Page 225: ...esses of each interface configure eth2 to a non existing address Netmask 255 255 255 2 55 255 255 255 0 The netmasks the subnet for eth2 contains only one address Enable management No Yes Only run web...

Page 226: ...r IPv6 management IPv4 and IPv6 can be used simultaneously In theory the probe s web server can be accessed using four different IP addresses provided that the network architecture allows it PROBE USE...

Page 227: ...and probes for auto detection to work If DHCP is used the VBC server s DNS name may be typed in the VBC server address field The IP address associated with the DNS name will be displayed If DHCP is n...

Page 228: ...s control is activated a READ ONLY access message is displayed under the alarm list for users that are not logged in It will be necessary to log in each time a web browser application is launched and...

Page 229: ...access rights apply 6 17 7 Setup ETR The Setup ETR view allows the user to select miscellaneous ETR handling modes PROBE USERS MANUAL VERSION 5 0 2014 BRIDGE Technologies Co AS Bentsebrugata 20 N 0476...

Page 230: ...tation from the drop down menu and click the Apply changes button ETR 290 tuning control By default authorised users will be allowed to lock the ETR 290 analysis to one stream for an infinite length o...

Page 231: ...R 290 ETR details view Note that a large screen size is required for proper service name displaying EIT table IDs The user defines which DVB EIT table IDs should be analysed by the probe By default on...

Page 232: ...and therefore have been disabled Mark the Hide inactive inputs checkbox to hide disabled inputs PROBE USERS MANUAL VERSION 5 0 2014 BRIDGE Technologies Co AS Bentsebrugata 20 N 0476 Oslo Norway tel 47...

Page 233: ...er to a monitoring window of one hour meaning that if the number of error seconds summed over any one hour period exceeds the associated error second threshold an alarm will be raised by the VBC If a...

Page 234: ...n the TS layer seconds when media loss rate is non zero This is equal to the number of error seconds with CC errors IAT error Number of seconds when the inter packet arrival time exceeds the threshold...

Page 235: ...y be found in PID and service threshold templates The search field in the upper right corner of the view allows the user to type a text string and the schedule list is updated to display only scheduli...

Page 236: ...as been modified click the Apply changes button Defined scheduling templates become available as selections in the ETR 290 PID thresh Edit and ETR 290 Service thresh Edit views PROBE USERS MANUAL VERS...

Page 237: ...de the default interface for one or more types of traffic select the interface from the drop down menu and click the Apply changes button Note that routing for Full Service Monitoring FSM is selected...

Page 238: ...access the Setup Security view To disable a protocol deselect it by removing the associated check mark and click the Apply changes button Available security parameters are A Enable telnet If telnet i...

Page 239: ...ollowed by a probe reboot for changes to take effect Reboot is performed from the Setup Ethernet view PROBE USERS MANUAL VERSION 5 0 2014 BRIDGE Technologies Co AS Bentsebrugata 20 N 0476 Oslo Norway...

Page 240: ...s generated by an probe can be imported by the probe To import documents that have been manually edited the CRC attribute at the very top of the document must be deleted i e delete crc from the file T...

Page 241: ...e flash button will store the new software to flash Note that the probe must not be powered down during the flash save process Flash save progress is indicated by progress bars Note that the probe wil...

Page 242: ...ridge Technologies reseller for more information about private descriptors 6 18 4 Data Eii The External integration interface Eii allows inclusion of Bridge Technologies equipment into 3rd party NMS s...

Page 243: ...n NMS system via the regular Eii interface Please refer to the document Eii External Integration Interface for detailed information about Eii PROBE USERS MANUAL VERSION 5 0 2014 BRIDGE Technologies Co...

Page 244: ...functionality that must be configured before the kernel loads This has no direct effect on monitoring features but is an important part of the operating system Click the Upgrade button to start the pr...

Page 245: ...urrent probe license details By clicking the blue information icon associated with each option it is possible to view option details A basic probe may be upgraded to include the ETR 290 option This ca...

Page 246: ...ogies This view shows a description of some of the technologies used by the probe PROBE USERS MANUAL VERSION 5 0 2014 BRIDGE Technologies Co AS Bentsebrugata 20 N 0476 Oslo Norway tel 47 22 38 51 00 w...

Page 247: ...nd statistics gathered from probes during a selectable time period default 60 minutes sliding window Ethernet measurement data are sent from the probe together with Ethernet error second threshold val...

Page 248: ...ackets 15 16 Monitoring page RTPdrop 2 Alarms events RTP Packet drop 2 10 12 13 16 17 18 19 1 and 2 dropped packets 11 14 15 Monitoring page RTPdrop 3 Alarms events RTP Packet drop 3 10 11 15 12 14 16...

Page 249: ...6 7 PID 51 9 10 11 PID 50 has 1 CC discontinuity of 6 13 4 Monitoring page CCerr 1 If no more CC errors for at least 1 second Alarms events CC skips 9 discontinuities 3 Depending on the thresholds yo...

Page 250: ...7 but maybe 6 or even 5 assuming the mapping is 7TS UDP Systems typically do not mix the mappings among their streams so there is seldom a need to remember the mapping for streams in order to interpre...

Page 251: ...ket loss will always affect the IAT component for CBR streams For VBR streams that are jittery by default the extra time gap may have no effect since there may already be other larger gaps within the...

Page 252: ...4 with no jitter component As a rule of thumb the co existence of small MLR readings 1 4 and no IAT readings can be assumed to have been caused by packet loss in the original TS data The pink line in...

Page 253: ...be set to 50 above the max IAT value observed over a considerable period of time the last 24h or so The IAT error threshold could be set a little below the maximum jitter the system can tolerate usual...

Page 254: ...rts of the timeline indicate profile download time versus chunk length The graph is scaled so that 100 indicates a chunk download time identical to chunk length in seconds chunk length being signalled...

Page 255: ...n a one minute period the graph colour will reflect the most severe alarm Historical alarms can be examined in more detail by viewing the OTT alarm list PROBE USERS MANUAL VERSION 5 0 2014 BRIDGE Tech...

Page 256: ...er build date and possibly hardware version should be part of the file name As an example gbprobe_hw1 2_420 15_14dec09 tea is the 4 2 0 15 software release built 14 December 2009 valid for HW1 and HW2...

Page 257: ...ply use the other software image if the first one was incorrect PROBE USERS MANUAL VERSION 5 0 2014 BRIDGE Technologies Co AS Bentsebrugata 20 N 0476 Oslo Norway tel 47 22 38 51 00 www bridgetech tv 2...

Page 258: ...s 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 txqueuelen 1000 RX bytes 778479 760 2 Kb TX bytes 4267641 4 0 Mb Base address 0x8400 Base address 0x8400 means that the hardware version is 1 or 2 and t...

Page 259: ...oftware has been successfully transferred to the probe click the Save flash button and confirm Progress bars are displayed to show flash save status Note that the probe will reboot when new software i...

Page 260: ...ternative B Using a terminal based ftp client In a terminal window type the following commands replacing the software image name with the relevant one the path to the folder in which the software is l...

Page 261: ...ed Contact your Bridge Technologies reseller for details To verify that the probe is unable to start the user program connect the USB cable as explained in section 4 7 2 and reboot the probe The diagn...

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