SMART DVB brochure 2015.pdf

SMART DVB Transport stream analyzer and multiviewer

SMART DVB

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About AXON Axon is a global leader in broadcast network infrastructure products and solutions. For over 25 years, major broadcasters, network operators and service providers worldwide have trusted our groundbreaking technology to control and monitor their operations - delivering insight, efficiency and performance at the highest level.

As the industry faces the challenge of managing new standards and multiple formats for an ever-increasing number of complex delivery platforms, Axon continues to offer the widest and most advanced range of ultra compact modular systems for audio and video signal processing available today. We pioneer ever-more reliable, cost-effective and space-saving products that have a big impact in the machine room, and to the bottom line.

We are a company built on innovation and excellence, with a strong team of R&D experts whose experience and dedication is unrivalled. Actively and tirelessly pushing research and development to the foreground, our mission is to develop forward-thinking technologies that anticipate and satisfy the needs of customers – to save time, mitigate risks, dramatically reduce capital and operational costs and deliver competitive advantage.

Through our partnerships and association with leading industry bodies, such as SMPTE and IEEE, and with numerous awards and accolades for delivering gamechanging solutions, Axon is a key player in shaping the future of broadcast.

But it is our razor-sharp focus on customer support coupled with passion and belief in the quality of our products that sets Axon apart. Guided from our headquarters in the Netherlands, our reach is growing on every continent with regional offices worldwide – all supported by an extensive network of distributors and specialist systems integrators. Together we are driven to continually bring value to our customers.

Ultimately, we enjoy being a great company to do business with. Axon has the commitment and vision to keep focused on meeting today’s demands and the challenges of the future – always delivering at the very heart of broadcast.

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SMART DVB

SMART DVB... The integrated platform for Service Monitoring, Analysis & reporting of Transport Streams SMART DVB is a complete suite of tools to monitor,

standards ensuring compliance and service

report and analyze live MPEG-2 and DVB transport

configurations. It significantly simplifies and

streams. Powerful and versatile, it enables owners

reduces the cost and time to monitor increasingly

and operators to ensure health, conformity and

complex transport streams from a single channel

quality across the complete digital distribution

to large and complex channel lineup in both

chain and to drive performance at the highest

centralized and distributed network.

level.

When DVB performance matters, make the SMART choice

SMART DVB advantages JJ

Full feature set

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Proven scalability and stability

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Stream details

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Visualization and multiview

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Deep level monitoring & analysis

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Simple, practical licenses model

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No extra input modules

To maintain quality of service for viewers – and meet commercial and legal obligations – it is critical for broadcasters and network operators to monitor transport streams and to communicate and resolve issues easily adn quickly. Failure to do so could result in contractual penalties, loss of advertising revenue, overloaded service resources, poor quality of experience and ultimately subscriber churn.

SMART DVB addresses these challenges by providing comprehensive insight into operational integrity and MPEG-2 DVB stream availability through monitoring, displaying, analyzing and recording stream content, parameters and

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INtroduction JJ

Monitor the health of your conditional access

This brochure introduces SMART DVB, a complete

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Bitrate monitoring

product line for visual analysis and monitoring for

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Deep analysis of all signalling and content

digital broadcast distribution system operators.

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Drag and drop multiviewer

SMART DVB delivers comprehensive insight of

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Service demux and streaming

operational integrity and stream availability

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Alarm aggregation and remote control tool

through monitoring, analysing and recording

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Reporting tool

stream content, its parameters, standards

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Open database holding alarm and metadata info

compliance and service configurations. SMART DVB

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Webviews for status display on PC, phone, tablet

provides the following high level features:

Product philosophy JJ

TS monitoring against known good template

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TR 101.290 prio 1/2/3

Our products are designed to meet the real world

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Video black frame/freeze frame monitoring

needs from a distribution NOC and engineering

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Audio level and silence monitoring

perspective. Furthermore we are committed to the

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Loudness monitoring

performance of our products, which is the reason

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Subtitle monitoring

why, although our products are based on COTS

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EPG monitoring

server hardware, we deliver our products from an appliance philosophy.

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SMART DVB

The SMART DVB product line The SMART DVB suite fulfills all stream analysis and monitoring requirements, with tools for NOC, edge & aggregation.

Monitoring Capabilities

SMART DVB 10-series

SMART DVB 50-series

SMART DVB 90-series

SMART DVB IP-viewer

Advanced

Advanced

Advanced

Basic*

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TR 101.290

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Timing

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Bitrates

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Snapshot comparison

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EPG monitoring

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Basic view

CA monitoring

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Advanced*

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Max verified video services

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Black/Freeze frame

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Audio level

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Audio loudness

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Single service display

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Multiviewer

4 SD or 2 HD

32 SD or 16 HD

32 SD or 16 HD

Content verification

Content Viewing

Recording and streaming Triggered recording

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Demux and forward stream

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Gateway support

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4 MPTS or 20 SPTS

8 MPTS or 60 SPTS

8 MPTS or 40 SPTS

8 MPTS or 32 SPTS

Specifications TS support Inputs

RF/ASI/IP

IP

ASI/IP

IP

Height

1 RU

1 RU

1 RU

1 RU

Depth

25 cm

64 cm

64 cm

64 cm

Power

< 60 Watts

< 740 Watts

< 740 Watts

< 740 Watts

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Refer to pages 13,14 and 15 for an explanation which features are supported by advanced and basic monitoring and verification capabilities.

Only the probe status is displayed in the SDC, no remote configuration.

Smart DVB 10-series: Compact stream probe and analyzer

Marking a clear difference from other transport stream probes, SMART DVB 10-series offers multiple facilities to provide remote insight and

A powerful stream probe in a compact (1RU,

local visual and audible insight in content. Catering

25cm) and low power (typ. 35W) case. Input

for bandwidth limitations from remote sites, the

options are DSAT, ASI and IP networks. Full scope

Probe can de-multiplex, and forward individual

monitoring and analysis is performed against

services (with user defined option to transcode

standards defined criteria such as TR 101 290, and

them) as well as provide JPEG mosaic of the

more importantly assessing the streamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s signalling

analyzers local multi-viewer display (next to

parameters, including comparison against an

providing a running mosaic display on the unit

operatorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capture of a known good stream.

itself). In this configuration the Probe can display 4

Furthermore, essential encryption parameters and

SD or 2 HD services in a single multi-tile display.

EPG content are included in this analysis. If problems occur or custom alarm thresholds are

SMART DVB 10-series is ideal for distribution

triggered the Probe generates local alarms,

networks spanning multiple processing sites but

forwards alarms to an aggregation server, and may

can also be applied as a versatile engineering tool

even be triggered to record the stream.

at head-end sites or even SNG vehicles and OB-vans.

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SMART DVB

Smart DVB 50-series: High performance eyes-off stream and content probe

SMART DVB IP-Viewer: High performance IP Multiviewer The IP-Viewer multiviewer provides a

This model solves the monitoring demands for

comprehensive display of video, audio, subtitles,

operators that deal with a large number of streams

audio levels and EPG data (now/next). Equally well

that need to be inspected and monitored not only

positioned in network operation rooms or the

for the signalling and stream integrity as the

regional HQ of content providers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; seeing content

SMART DVB 10-series does, but also need to be

remains the preeminent method of confidence

verified with regard to the actual content payload

monitoring. The growing number of turnaround

(i.e. checking the encoded video and audio for

service providers may decide that high fidelity

video black / freeze and audio level). The SMART

monitoring of the content backed by TR 101 290

DVB 50-series will do this as a background process

checks is sufficient as their obligation and control

(so without having decode the entire service) and

over more detailed parameters is limited.

thereby increasing efficiency in multi-channel control environments.

The IP-Viewer has a capacity for 16 HD AVC or 32 SD MPEG2 video tiles each with detailed ancillary

Smart DVB 90-series: Fully integrated probe and multiviewer

stream data. The inputs can be derived from up to 8 MPTS or 32 SPTS on IP input. Supporting as standard two full resolution HD outputs with custom screen templates ensures nothing is

The SMART DVB 90-series blends together the

missed. When content is too sensitive to be shown

capabilities of the SMART DVB 10/50-series and

in full, the IP-Viewerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s picture mask obscures the

SMART DVB IP-Viewer. Supporting up to 8 MPTS or

picture as required. In the background IP Viewer is

40 SPTS, the SMART DVB 90-series delivers

monitoring the signal for essential TR 101 290

monitoring, analysis and display. Designed for

stream errors.

operators or content providers that must not only know the current status of their services in detail, but also quickly identify problems, their cause and remedy. Ideally located in central or main regional sites the SMART DVB 90-series offers a complete and uncompromising service integrity tool for those with premium content and or high performance SLA targets.

In addition to the extensive features of the SMART DVB 10-series and SMART DVB IP-Viewer combined, the SMART DVB 90-series also provides black and freeze frame detection running continually on all services as a background process.

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SMART DVB Gateway: Remote control and aggregation tool

customized web-views can be created, with AXON supporting and making available some PHP based examples, that can be extended by operators, system integrators or as part of an add-on

The SMART DVB gateway can tie together multiple

professional services offer by AXON.

SMART DVB devices into one centralized control

Base supported PHP scripts exist for:

and data aggregation surface. From the gateway GUI it is possible to monitor and configure multiple

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Alarm overview

probes. Local and/or remote multiviewers can be

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Service status overview (aggregated service status in one view)

monitored by means of an overview page with frequently updated mosaic thumbnails.

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Aggregated or single view on connected multiviewers, in the form of updating screenshots.

The SMART DVB gateway also provides means to forward alarms by e-mail, where a matrix can be

With these database driven views, web browsers

populated that allows subscribing different user

can be addressed, for desktop, tablet and

groups to different alarm levels, in a schedule that

smartphone use. Thus addressing the needs of

even allows forwarding rules based on time-of-day

NOC/Customer call centre and on-call engineers

or day of the week, following on-call rosters.

and service managers.

The gateway supports reporting functions for

Input options

line-up, bitrates and alarms, exportable in various

SMART DVB 10-series and SMART DVB 90-series

formats. Besides this, the gateway can also

are available in versions that allow IP, ASI, DVB-S/

support a connected MySQL database for logging

S2 inputs. The SMART DVB 50-series and SMART

several parameters. From this database,

DVB IP-Viewer allow IP input only.

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SMART DVB

Feature highlights Comprehensive multiviewer

Layouts can be stored for easy reconfiguration.

Service allocation to tiles can be done in

The SMART DVB 90-series and SMART DVB

configuration mode and in run mode.

IP-Viewer include a comprehensive multiviewer.

The SMART DVB 10-series supports a restricted

A special case for service visualization is the

multi-viewing capacity. The multiviewer has a set

Show-view display that can be recalled in the

of features dedicated to distribution environments

probe GUI in order to zoom in on a particular

such as the under monitor display of service name

service selected from the transport stream tree.

(from SDT or manually configured), Teletext or

The Show-display window also allows selecting the

DVB subtitle display, multichannel and surround

audio stream that will be made audible. Show-

audio bars. Tile borders show the color

display can be controlled from the Gateway.

representing the alarm category with the highest severity and dynamic layout elements to depict transport stream status or clocks.

Snapshot based signalling check

Furthermore for sensitive or offending content,

The SMART DVB probe allows a snapshot of the

parts of the video tile can be masked while still

signalling within a known good stream to be taken,

retaining enough visibility to assess that a service

acting as a baseline that then can be edited to

is running or not.

enable alarms when selected parameters change during subsequent measurements. The granularity

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The multiviewer layout can be easily constructed

of selections that can be made are extremely

using a simple drag-and-drop layout editor.

detailed, down to the individual descriptor level

and table version numbers. Every measured parameter can be assigned to one of several alarm levels which in turn direct notification of changes to the correct stakeholder.

Snapshot file and alarm properties are stored in XML format and allows deployment in other probes that may carry the same content.

Content verification The SMART DVB 50-series, SMART DVB 90-series and SMART DVB IP-Viewer can inspect the contents of MPEG video and audio streams.

Besides parsing and alerting on stream header information these services can also be checked for frozen or black video (tied to a tolerance level for noisy analog inputs further upstream) as well as

values are logged into file for later evaluation.

for audio level and audio silence. For data

Loudness measurements are available as add-on

components on these services (such as DVB

licenses with the SMART DVB 50 and 90-series.

subtitles) data freeze detection is available. These features are particularly useful to automatically

The loudness measurements are powered by

identify issues in playout with severe intermediate

algorithms and definitions based on BE.1770-2,

transmission issues.

EBU R128 and using implementations by Grimm Audio B.V.

With the SMART DVB 90-series the content verification process can run in background, i.e.

Conditional Access

with no need for the verified service to be displayed. On the SMART DVB 50-series the

The SMART DVB supports a sophisticated

content verifications will always run in background.

mechanism to verify conditional access and trigger alarms when anomalies are found. These functions

loudness measurements

include measuring the crypto period to ensure that DVB simulcrypt processes are still running and

A special case of content verification is audio

keys are refreshed, validating if signalling is

loudness measurement. This enables an operator

consistent, i.e. CAT / PMT CA descriptors and MPEG

to identify services that exceed a pre-determined

scrambling control field are in-line with each other

reference level, based on the station loudness

as well as verifying if a service is scrambled or

measurements procedures outline in EBU Tech

clear.

3344. The system also allows setting alarms on momentary or short term loudness in order to

Furthermore measurements can be done on the

further pin down uncompliant content. I and M

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SMART DVB

or to other ECM’s in a DVB simulcrypt environment.

Service streaming

This is useful to reveal timing or ECMG/SCS related issues that are otherwise very difficult to track

Service streaming allows the local or remote

down, while in the field producing inconsistent

operator to select a service and stream it to

decoding glitches.

configurable IP destinations. The stream will be de-multiplexed from the original transport stream

Additional analyzer

and will include all PSI/SI from that original transport stream. The operator or system

The “Start Additional Analyzer” function allows the

integrator can define custom forwarding methods,

virtual replication of a service in a transport stream

which may include 3rd party transcode to lower

to produce a second copy (or more). A different set

bitrates or other codecs. The streaming function

of alarm parameters and thresholds can be

can be invoked through local GUI, gateway GUI or

configured against this virtual copy, which can

by means of a SOAP call.

notify a different set of stakeholders. This proves useful if the NOC is only interested in e.g. TR 101

Streaming is useful when a probe is located on a

290 alarms that will have direct service impact, but

remote site and the operator wants visual insight

second line engineering wants to follow non-

of a service without consuming a large portion of

immediate service affecting anomalies on the same

bandwidth on the return channel to the NOC.

monitored parameters for long term trend analysis

Alternatively, streaming can be used to select a

or troubleshooting.

service using GUI and sending a service to a dedicated specialized analyzer or an IP STB driving

Data re-purposing Monitoring does not only provide valuable insight in the technical status and service delivery integrity of your broadcast network; it can also provide data that can be re-purposed to add value to the service offering (operator to subscriber) or other key stakeholders (business to business or for legal/public purposes). Simple applications could be EPG extraction or providing compliance data, but more integrated solutions can cover fingerprint generation or content recognition and deep metadata generation.

Data re-purposing is based on the gateway’s database functions or on the streaming functions in the probes. We can offer integrations that allow you to exploit the deeper knowledge gathered about your monitored content.

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separate screen in a monitor wall.

Monitoring Capabilities (detailed) Basic

Advanced

Alarm

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PCR accuracy and repetition rate views

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PTS-PCR timing

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DTS-PCR timing

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Bitrate graphs on TS, Service, PID and pool level

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Minimum and maximum bitrates on TS or component level

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Burst check per PID

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CBR/VBR measurements

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TS structure tree breakdown into descriptors

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Hexadecimal view

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EPG grid display on TS and service level

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EPG GAP analysis

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EPG horizon analysis

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Parental rating check in p/f and schedule

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EMM availability

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EMM signaling in CAT

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PMT-MPEG scrambling control field correlation

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Scrambling control v. crypto period check

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Scrambled or unscrambled alarm according to desired setting

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Timing (beyond TR 101.290)

Bitrate monitoring

Snapshot comparison Monitor TS, PSI/SI and component signalling according to known good (editable) snapshot, with ability to alert on descriptor and table version properties in a very granular way

PDI/SI analysis

EPG view and monitoring

Conditional access

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SMART DVB

Content verification Basic

Advanced

Alarm

Freeze frame/black frame detect in background process

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Picture format

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Stream ID

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Exclude/include area for freeze frame/black frame check

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GOP structure

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Packet view with packet structure tree, hex/ASCII view and per packet informational elements

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MPEG2 sequence header info (VBV buffer size/width/height/ aspect ratio/frame rate)

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MPEG2 sequence header extension (profile/level Chroma format, low delay option, scan mode, AFD,

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AVC profile/level/chroma format/picture height (macroblocks and map units) sample aspect ratio (width/height), display aspect ratio, frame BMS flag value, SEI info-tree, bit depth luma/chroma

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Audio stream transparent forwarding to HDMI

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Audio level and silence detect in background process

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Audio level and silence detect in foreground process

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Loudness monitoring (short, momentary and station loudness)

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Stream ID

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Packet view with packet structure tree, Hex/ASCII view and per packet informational elements

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MPEG1L2-MPEG2 mode, mode extension, layer, copyright, protection, original/home, bitrate index, emphasis, sampling frequency

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AAC transport type

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AC3

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Video content checks

Video content analysis

Audio content checks

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Audio content analysis

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Audio level and silence detection, as well as loudness measurements, on AC3 encoded audio content requires additional AC3 licenses

Basic

Advanced

Alarm

Subtitle visualization in mosaic

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Subtitle visualization in info tab

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Data freeze

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Decodability

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EBU subtitles visualization in mosaic

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EBU subtitles visualization in info tab

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Data freeze

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Data freeze

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Recognition of MPE/DSM-CC, AIT parse

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MPEG-2 (simple/main/high) 4.2.0 – 4.2.2

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H.264/AVC (main/high) 4.2.0

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MPEG-2

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AC3 (2.0 / 5.1)

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DVB subtitle

Teletext support

Closed Captioning Visualization of ATSC A/53 EIA608/EIA708

Data PID support

Codec support Video codec support

Audio codec support

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SMART DVB

Visualization features 10-series

50-series

90-series

IP-viewer

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Max SD services (MPEG2)/HD services (AVC)

4SD/2HD

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32SD/16HD

32SD/16HD

Multiple display outputs

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Mosaic layout tool

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Configurable multiviewer layout using preset editors and service allocation maps

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Full frame rate decode

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I frame only decode

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Audio bars/stereo and multichannel

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EPG p/f on UMD

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Service name on UMD

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TXT subtitle viewer (selectable magazine)

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DVB subtitle viewer (selectable PID)

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TS status block (inherit color from probe alarm status)

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Clocks

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Arbitrary text panel

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Modesty filter on video, mask sensitive content

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50-series

90-series

IP-viewer

File input (reads input TS from files)

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TSoIP (TS over IP, UDP/RTP/FEC support)

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ASI input (188/204 bytes support

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DVB-T/T2

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DVB-C

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Single service display Show view, display a single service

Multiviewer display

JPEG generation from mosaic (update interval 8 seconds)

Service recording Service recording as TS from multiviewer

TS interfaces

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Miscellaneous features 10-series

50-series

90-series

IP-viewer

Multiple alarm groups (A to E)

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Multiple alarm levels (5), coupled to user defined log line and tile border coloring

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Alarm setting import and export

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Alarm allocation through user defined templates

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Alarm template editor

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Include or exclude periods on service and component level

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Free definable alarm text per alarm id

Gateway

Gateway

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Multiple analyzers per service

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Triggered recording (buffered 6 seconds, starting 3 seconds before the event) on up to 2 streams simultaneous. Saved to local HDD for (FTP) fetch

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Constant (manual triggered) recording of 1 stream to disk (alarm and measurement functions inhibited)

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SNMPv2 trap and query (3 trap destinations)

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E-mail alarms and reports with configurable user/time/severity filtering

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XML export of alarm and threshold

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Remote control via UltraVNC (UVNC)

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Remote UI aggregation via ACC

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SQL database support

Gateway

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Define PSI/SI tables as XML (import)

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Export PSI/SI tables as XML

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Alarms/PID plans/bitrates/configuration reporting

Gateway

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SLA view

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Run arbitrary PID as audio/video/data

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Alarm specifics

TS recording

Streaming Stream of de-muxed service as SPTS including all PSI/SI. User definable processing of the service through customizable methods and 3rp party processing utilities (e.g. FFMPEG transcode). Controlled via GUI, Gateway or from 3rd party using SOAP interface.

Third party interfacing

Miscellaneous

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Th e N eth e r l a n ds ( HQ )

Asia

Address

Hercules 28

Address

Room 804, 2nd Department,

5126 RK Gilze,

No. 1 Building Beijing Image,

The Netherlands

No. 115, Fucheng Road

Phone

+31 161 850 450

Haidian District,

100036 Beijing, China

Phone

+86 10 8814 4199

Email info@axon.tv

Email info-cn@axon.tv Un i ted Ki n g do m Address

1 Forest Court, Oaklands Park,

Wokingham Berkshire,

RG41 2FD United Kingdom

Address

9 Tagore Lane

Phone

+44 118 974 0480

9@Tagore, #03-23

Singapore 787472

Phone

+65 66 523 016

Email info-uk@axon.tv

Sou t heast Asia

Email info-sg@axon.tv Ger m a n y/Sw i t z e r l a n d/ Au stri a Phone

+49 163 887 0190

Email info-de@axon.tv

Address

P.O. Box 10718

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Phone

+971 50 651 1982

Email info-me@axon.tv

Fr a n ce Phone

Mid d le East

+33 695 448 144

Email info-fr@axon.tv U SA/Canad a Toll free Belg i u m Phone

+1 866 757 9890

Email info-us@axon.tv

+32 475 665 083

Email info-be@axon.tv Lat in America Phone e a ster n e ur o p e Address

Stremyannyi Pereulok 38

Floor 6, Room 9

115093 Moscow,

The Russian Federation

Phone

+7 985 217 3218

+1 786 299 5226

Email info-br@axon.tv

Email info-ru@axon.tv

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