April 2017
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Revision 1.8
AG 2600 Receiver Card
User Manual
Страница 1: ...April 2017 8129I www sencore com 1 605 978 4600 Revision 1 8 AG 2600 Receiver Card User Manual...
Страница 2: ...uld be made directly to those companies This document may also have links to third party web pages that are beyond the control of Sencore The presence of such links does not imply that Sencore endorse...
Страница 3: ...2015 1 1 Update for 2 3 0 Release CDP 6 16 2015 1 2 Update for 2 3 3 Release CDP 7 20 2015 1 3 Update for 2 4 0 Release CDP 11 1 2015 1 4 Update for 2 5 0 Release CDP 3 2 2016 1 5 Update for 3 0 0 Rel...
Страница 4: ...have fallen into the apparatus the apparatus has been exposed to rain or moisture does not operate normally or has been dropped Do not expose this apparatus to dripping or splashing and ensure that no...
Страница 5: ...AG 2600 User Manual Page 5 77...
Страница 6: ...ion If you have a question about the application or operation call Sencore for assistance WARNING To reduce the risk of fire or electrical shock never allow your equipment to be exposed to water rain...
Страница 7: ...frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communications Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely t...
Страница 8: ...e 3 Quick Start Guide Note If any option cables were ordered with the AG 2600 they will be included in the box as well If any of these items were omitted from the packaging of the AG 2600 please call...
Страница 9: ...nfiguring ASI Input 26 Configuring MPEG IP Input 26 Configuring DVB S S2 Input 29 Configuring 8VSB QAM Input 31 Configuring DVB T2 C2 ISDB T Input 32 Configuring DVB CI Descrambling 34 Configuring BIS...
Страница 10: ...AG 2600 User Manual Page 10 77 Acronyms and Glossary 64 Error and Event List 67 Specifications 69 8VSB QAM Input Module Option 72 Open Source Software 74 Warranty 76 Support and Contact Information 76...
Страница 11: ...AG 2600 User Manual Page 11 77 Section 1 Overview Introduction This section includes the following topics 1 1 Product Introduction 12 1 2 Cooling 12 1 3 Rack Information 12...
Страница 12: ...IP interfaces the AG 2600 is adaptable to most turnaround use cases The card also maintains Sencore s long tradition of ease of use with a web interface accessible via all major browsers once an IP a...
Страница 13: ...13 77 Section 2 Getting Started Introduction This section includes the following topics 2 1 Installation 14 2 2 Onboard Controls and LEDs 14 2 3 Backplane 16 2 4 Maintenance 16 2 5 Setting up the AG 2...
Страница 14: ...n This lever can be used to remove the card easily if required The openGearTM frame can be operated with the front panel open however if enough cards are fitted the warning buzzer will sound indicatin...
Страница 15: ...out 10 seconds Once in the recovery image the user can push new software to the card Card Reset The user can press this button to reset the card Status LEDs Three LEDs are located on the front edge of...
Страница 16: ...rface Once an IP address is assigned the card can be controlled through the Web GUI Installing DashBoardTM To install the DashBoardTM user interface software use the following steps 1 Insert the inclu...
Страница 17: ...dTM screen layout overview Figure 4 shows the startup DashBoardTM screen DashBoardTM has discovered an accessible frame Note the Sencore 4800A Frame1 icon near the top of the Basic Tree View pane Clic...
Страница 18: ...d the Sencore AG 2600 card are available in slots 0 and 3 and are currently showing no alarms Hovering the mouse pointer over each LED icon will give a tooltip style summary of status Clicking on the...
Страница 19: ...Figure 6 Configuration and Web Interface in Basic Tree View Network setup using DashBoardTM Double clicking Configuration will launch the setting and status window panes for the AG 2600 card shown in...
Страница 20: ...will be set to DHCP by default Follow the following steps to provide a static IP address to the card 1 In the setting pane change Mode to Static 2 Set the IP Address Subnet Mask and Default Gateway t...
Страница 21: ...age 21 77 Section 3 Operating the Web Interface Introduction This section includes the following topics 3 1 AG 2600 Web Interface Overview 22 3 2 Main Panel 24 3 3 Admin Panel 45 3 4 Reporting Panel 5...
Страница 22: ...ce in the basic tree view of DashBoardTM The user will need to login to the web interface By default the admin user account is available without a password Press the login button in order to login to...
Страница 23: ...LED Status is good No errors are present and function is operating normally Red LED Status indicates function is affected by active error To view the errors navigate to Alarms panel to view Active Er...
Страница 24: ...s menu allows the user to configure a primary and backup input In case there is a TS sync loss on the primary input the AG 2600 is capable of detecting the failed state and switching to a secondary ba...
Страница 25: ...lyst for what causes the unit to switch to this input is configured in the following setting Switch On Manual Only TS Sync Loss Manual Only the unit will not switch inputs automatically The user must...
Страница 26: ...on Port Enabled Disabled This setting allows the user to enable or disable the ASI Input to the AG 2600 Null Stripped Disabled Enabled Enabling Null Stripped allows the AG 2600 to receive streams that...
Страница 27: ...rd that will be used to receive the input Mode Multicast Unicast Multicast setting allows the unit to receive multicast streams Multicast streams originate from the IP range 224 0 0 0 239 255 255 255...
Страница 28: ...Null Stripped allows the AG 2600 to receive streams that do not contain null packets i e VBR TS Streams RTP SSRC Enabled Disabled Enabling RTP SSRC allows the AG 2600 to filter the input by the user d...
Страница 29: ...tatistics menu Configuring DVB S S2 Input If the care is equipped with the DVB S S2 Input option the following menus and options shown in Figure 13 will be available for configuration This menu allows...
Страница 30: ...ther the input is DVB S or DVB S2 Satellite Frequency C Band 4GHz 8GHz Ku Band 11 2Ghz 14 5Ghz L Band 950MHz 2150MHz Dependent on LO Offset If LO Offset is set to 0 then L Band frequency is entered in...
Страница 31: ...ide the necessary voltage to power an LNB Select the correct voltage to supply to the LNB 22kHz Tone Enabled Disabled Enabling or disabling the 22kHz tone allows the AG 2600 to trigger the LNB to swit...
Страница 32: ...this setting allows the user to choose which Cable scheme is used Channel Off Air 2 69 FCC HRC or IRC Cable 2 158 This setting is for the desired channel to be received Low RF Level dBmV 34 40 This i...
Страница 33: ...Mode DVB T DVB T2 DVB C DVB C2 ISDB T This setting allows the user to choose between DVB T T2 C C2 or ISDB T modulation schemes Channel Plan Australia Eur Asia Afr Ireland New Zealand Taiwan South Afr...
Страница 34: ...this field automatically based on the user selected channel plan A user can mannualy select channel bandwidth if desired PLP ID Unique PLP ID used to select a particular stream within the DVB T2 or D...
Страница 35: ...to these changes and will not be able to descramble Selected Services sets the AG 2600 to descramble Services set in the Descramble Services window Refer to Section 3 2 7 2 If the Services change in...
Страница 36: ...crambling this menu will only allow the user to drag over one service for descrambling regardless of the number of CAMs present in the unit The button will also not be present Figure 15 DVB CI Service...
Страница 37: ...This icon allows the user to unlock and modify the Injected ID Figure 16 BISS Menu Setting Range Description Operation Mode Disabled Descramble Selected Services Descramble All PIDs Descramble Selecte...
Страница 38: ...menu as shown in Figure 17 allows the user to select the services the AG 2600 will descramble using the BISS keys configured in Section 3 2 8 1 These options are applicable only if Operation Mode in...
Страница 39: ...or each PID filtered stream and select different table inclusion options Setting Range Description Select PID Filter PID filter 1 10 Select which PID filter to configure TS Bitrate Mbps 25 to 160 Conf...
Страница 40: ...d Input will pass the incoming TS to the output without applying any BISS or DVB CI decryption Descrambled will output the TS with any applied BISS or DVB CI decryption PID Filter will output the TS f...
Страница 41: ...to the output without applying any BISS or DVB CI decryption Descrambled will output the TS with any applied BISS or DVB CI decryption PID Filter will output the TS from the PID filter menu option Ph...
Страница 42: ...fault increases network overhead Differentiated Services Default Assured Forwarding 1 1 to 4 3 Expedited Forwarding Define the quality of service QoS classification the packets carry when transmitted...
Страница 43: ...will be used to transmit the MPE data PID Selected MPE PID from the transport stream to use for MPE output MAC Filter State Enabled Disabled Enable or Disable the filtering of output data based on a M...
Страница 44: ...This will open a new window that displays all of the PSIP information for the applied TS The tables displayed will include PAT PMT and CAT and tables associated with the stream type DVB ATSC SDT tabl...
Страница 45: ...AG 2600 User Manual Page 45 77 3 3 Admin Panel Figure 20 Admin tab To access the Admin Control Panel click on the tab This menu allows the user to control many aspects of the AG 2600...
Страница 46: ...ured settings to multiple profiles Profiles can be saved locally renamed and saved to external storage to be used on other AG 2600s with the same hardware licensing and software version Profiles can b...
Страница 47: ...ned an alias which is displayed in the upper right hand corner of the web interface as shown in Figure 22 The alias can help define which AG 2600 the operator is currently logged into The BISS E Injec...
Страница 48: ...dress entries are accepted as Nameserver addresses If the AG 2600 contains a 26127 option card the unit can be configured to have an optional 2nd control port NOTE Exercise extreme caution when perfor...
Страница 49: ...rface To make changes to which port is the 2nd management port click the configure control ports button under the Unit Network Configuration section MPEG IP Network Configuration The MPEG IP option is...
Страница 50: ...rt Subnet Mask 255 0 0 0 255 255 255 254 This setting is the subnet mask assigned to the port Gateway 1 0 0 0 126 0 0 0 128 0 0 0 191 255 0 0 192 0 1 0 223 255 255 0 This setting is the gateway addres...
Страница 51: ...tab Figure 26 Date Time Configuration Menu Setting Range Description Update Mode NTP Manual Setting to NTP uses the local network s NTP server to synchronize date and time Manual allows the user to d...
Страница 52: ...read only or read write SNMP rights These two communities are given unique names The default names for these communities are Read Only Community public Read Write Community private To modify the names...
Страница 53: ...MP trap manager IP addresses will be removed Delete Single Entry Highlight a single SNMP trap manager IP address and click this button to delete the entry A prompt will appear confirming the deletion...
Страница 54: ...specified Syslog server Figure 30 Syslog Configuration Menu Action Range Description State Enabled Disabled Enable or Disable sending messages to Syslog server Network Protocol UDP TCP Select which ne...
Страница 55: ...led Disabled Enable or Disable the In Band Control PID 1 8190 Sets the unit to look for commands on the PID that is set Group None 1 128 This setting assigns the unit to a corresponding Group or No Gr...
Страница 56: ...r the Uploaded Version status of the Software Versions section Update Software to Uploaded Version Clicking the button starts the software update process The AG 2600 will prompt the user to confirm th...
Страница 57: ...reboot click the button The AG 2600 will prompt the user to confirm the reboot Once the reboot is complete the login screen will appear allowing the web interface to be logged into Reset Defaults The...
Страница 58: ...f the unit Once an error is cleared it will be cleared from the active alarms window The event log can be used to view alarm and event history Both the active alarm and event logs can be configured to...
Страница 59: ...periencing the active error Last Changed This column displays the date and time the error was raised This date and time correlates with the Date and Time settings configured in Section 3 3 7 Event Log...
Страница 60: ...te and time correlates with the Date and Time settings configured in Section 3 3 7 Transition This column indicates the type of alarm transition that took place When an error is raised the icon is dis...
Страница 61: ...tion Name This column displays the name of the error or condition This is informational data no options can be set here Location This column displays the hardware or function that the alarm or event a...
Страница 62: ...ed this error will be hidden SNMP Trap This column allows the user to send an SNMP Trap if this alarm is raised If this box is checked an SNMP Trap is sent when this alarm is raised If this box is unc...
Страница 63: ...63 77 Section 4 Appendices Introduction This section includes the following appendices Acronyms and Glossary 64 Error and Event List 67 Specifications 69 Open Source Software 74 Warranty 76 Support an...
Страница 64: ...Digital Program Insertion DTVCC Digital Television Closed Captioning DVB Digital Video Broadcasting EBU European Broadcasting Union EIA Electronic Industries Alliance EIT Event Information Table EPG E...
Страница 65: ...818 1 Systems 13818 2 Video 13818 3 Audio 13818 4 MPTS Multiprogram Transport Stream NTP Networking Time Protocol NTSC National Television System Committee OSD On Screen Display PAL Phase Alternating...
Страница 66: ...urce STD input buffer A first in first out buffer at the input of a system target decoder for storage of compressed data from elementary streams before decoding STD System Target Decoder A hypothetica...
Страница 67: ...crambled by the CAM is not present in the incoming stream CAM Service Not Found Service selected to be descrambled by the CAM is not present in the incoming stream CAM Reset Manual CAM has been reset...
Страница 68: ...The AG 2600 has detected that the transport stream from the active input is no longer present TS Sync Loss Transport stream sync for input component is not detected Unicast Receiver Not Found Error T...
Страница 69: ...Power Operating Voltage 100 240VAC PSU Max Power 350W Frame Current Draw Base Unit with ASI and no option cards 6 7W DVB T2 C2 ISDB T option card with active input 5W additional Base Unit with ASI an...
Страница 70: ...1 Adds Individually selectable elementary streams in multiple services Maximum TS bitrate DVB CI 100Mb s CAS Supported All major CA vendors supported BISS Descrambling Option Compatibility Standard DV...
Страница 71: ...ber of inputs 2 A and B Connector 2x BNC Female Impedance 75 Return Loss 15dB 3 5 to 270 MHz Separation 50 dB adjacent 60 dB non adjacent RF frequency 950 MHz to 2150 MHz in 100 kHz steps Tuning Diffe...
Страница 72: ...te 5 60 MSym s DVB S2 Standard EN 302 307 Decoding type LDPC and BCH Modulation QPSK 8PSK Modulation Coding supported CCM FEC Framing Type Short frame size 16200 Normal frame size 64800 Supported rate...
Страница 73: ...er I 1 128 J 128 1 Nyquist Roll Off Alpha 12 18 8VSB Standard ATSC A 53E Decoding Levels 8 Nyquist Roll Off Alpha 11 5 DVB T2 C2 ISDB T Input Module Option General Frequency Range 42 MHz 1002 MHz Numb...
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Страница 76: ...ed In order to obtain a RMA number use the following steps 1 Contact the Sencore service department by going online to www sencore com and select Support 2 Select Service and Repair from the options g...
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