KONA IP Transport, Capture, Display v16.0r1 5
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Chapter 1 – Introduction
Overview
KONA IP is a powerful video and audio I/O card for professional IP based
workflows. As part of AJA’s industry leading KONA line of PCIe capture and
playback cards, KONA IP works seamlessly with the most popular creative
software applications, such as Adobe Premiere® Pro, Apple FCP X, Avid Media
Composer®.
Designed as a flexible platform with support for SMPTE ST 2022-6 and ST 2110
uncompressed IP video/audio workflows, KONA IP brings the highest quality
4K/UltraHD, 2K, HD, and SD video and audio over IP to computers running Mac,
Windows or Linux Operating Systems. KONA IP can also support 4K p60 (2SI)
capture or playback, via SMPTE ST 2110-23.
KONA IP is also supported through the very same SDK as the rest of the KONA
family, making it straight forward for developers to make the transition to Video
over IP.
About IP Media Transports
IP media transport can take various forms, with differing capabilities and
requirements. Two basic IP mechanisms are supported by KONA IP cards: Unicast
(point to point transport) and Multicast (single source to multiple destination
transport). Different IP address configurations are required for each of these
methods.
The KONA IP card is equipped with two SFP cages, requiring one or two optionally
purchased SFP modules that are compatible with you intended application.
Other transport variations include:
ST 2022-6
This transport passes full resolution SDI material over a network using IP
technology. Because the content is not compressed, 10 GigE throughput on the
IP Ethernet network is required. The entire SDI signal (video, audio, metadata) is
transported as a single stream.