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MD8000 Rev. H MD8000 Series Transport System Summary 2.1
MD8000 Series Transport System Summary
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Introduction — page 2.1
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Features — page 2.3
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Applications — page 2.7
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Block Diagram — page 2.9
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Network Management — page 2.9
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Redundancy Mode of Operation — page 2.10
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Trunk to Trunk Connection — page 2.14
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Hitless Switching — page 2.22
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Dual SWCNT Operation — page 2.33
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Bandwidth Control — page 2.37
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Source Video MAC Address — page 2.37
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Advance Warning — page 2.38
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Network Log Messages — page 2.38
Introduction
The MD8000 Multimedia IP Transport System (Hereinafter referred to as MD8000 Series
system) encapsulates the HD-SDI/SD-SDI/DVB-ASI signals, AES audio signals, E1/T1 circuit
signals, and/or 10/100Base Ethernet signals into IP frames to transport over SDH/SONET
and/or 10 Gbit/1Gbit Ethernet networks.
The MD8000 Series system has the following four (4) types of boards:
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SWCNT boards to switch the IP packets
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Trunk boards to interface with the transport network
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Channel Service boards for the user interface
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Stream Processing Units (SPU) boards provide various kinds of additional functions to
IP packet stream processes by operating between either Trunk board to interface with
networks or Channel board to interface with user signals.
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