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SMART Penguin User Manual 1.01
1.
INTRODUCTION
1.1.
About KVARTA
For more than 20 years, Kvarta has been developing products for Broadcasters and CATV providers.
Our devices are used by major radio and television broadcasters and regulatory agencies.
Broadcasting is our passion. We know what you want and we have designed many devices, which are
perfectly adapted to your needs. These include RDS encoders, FM Radio monitors and CATV systems.
KVARTA has a reputation for excellence and innovation among its clients and partners.
Our CATV, DVB Monitoring devices and RDS/RBDS encoders are growing in popularity due to their
reliability, quality and functionality at exceptional prices. All of our products have been designed for
professional broadcast use and fully meet the standards. Our devices incorporate embedded web
site and SNMP communication.
1.2. About DVB
Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) is a suite of internationally accepted open standards for digital
television. DVB standards are maintained by the DVB Project, an international industry consortium
with more than 270 members, and they are published by a Joint Technical Committee (JTC) of
European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), European Committee for Electrotechnical
Standardization (CENELEC) and European Broadcasting Union (EBU).
Our comprehensive digital video system monitoring products ensure consistent, high-quality content
delivery by providing continuous logging and monitoring of multiple signal types in digital TV.
1.3.
About IPTV
IPTV means
Internet Protocol Television
. It is a system of distribution for digital television under the
Internet Protocol that works over broadband data networks.
The main difference between traditional television and IPTV is that traditional television broadcasts
simultaneously all channels (the user selects one and ignores the rest). In IPTV, the receiver only
receives the channel selected. To change channel, the decoder sends a request to the content server,
which sends a new data stream to the client with the selected channel.
IPTV uses two transmission modes depending on the network:
Multicast
and
Unicast
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