Harris Magellan RouterControl by MonitoR magazine

Router Control

Open the Door to Fast, Flexible and Intuitive Router Control The control system is the “face” of the router, providing operators with intelligent user interfaces and engineering staff with logical system configuration and maintenance tools. Harris offers a wide range of advanced hardware and software solutions that enable powerful, comprehensive control of Harris routers — including the Panacea™ small routers and Platinum™ medium-to-large scale routers — as well as third-party routers, within any broadcast network. Our versatile portfolio of control systems includes support for both traditional and hybrid environments, enabling you to future-proof your control infrastructure as baseband and broadband media continue to converge. Fast setup that saves time and money. Flexible and intuitive configuration that lowers the learning curve for operators. Cost-effective and compact design, yet packed with functionality. And easy maintenance that reduces the need for technical support. Harris control systems provide all the power and versatility you need to simplify even your most complex routing applications.

Hardware Panels Magellan™ Router Control Panels The Most Advanced Line of Router Control Panels Available As the functionality of routing switchers evolves, so too does the need for a versatile router control panel with a feature set that can evolve with your operation. The award-winning Magellan™ family of router control panels (RCPs) provides a fast, powerful and simple way to control your Harris or third-party routing systems. These feature-rich, cost-effective and highly customizable panels — ranging from simple, button-per-source, single-bus panels to multilevel, multi-bus, relegendable LCD-button panels — are sure to meet both your budget and routing operational requirements today and tomorrow. Available as a series of 10 programmable hardware panels in 1 or 2RU versions, Magellan RCPs offer intuitive, Web-based configuration — enabling the industry’s fastest setup in both local and remote operations. With Magellan, you can go from out of the box to fully configured and operational by simply setting IP addresses and an ID. Designed with an understanding of the physical layout of a typical facility or OB truck, these compact RCPs — less than 2 inches deep — integrate easily into console-mount or any other space-constrained environment, enabling you to rapidly optimize the navigation and control of your routers. Several feature-rich versions of Magellan router control panels are available, including:

Magellan RCP LCD+OLED Display • Compact 1- and 2RU versions • Completely programmable and relegendable LCD buttons standard • Template-driven to facilitate easy panel layout changes • Automatic updates for source, destination, and salvo additions, deletions and name changes • Ability to create local aliases at the panel • Unicode support • Flexible configuration; can operate in grouping mode, Cat/Idx mode or enhanced button-per-source Magellan 1RU Back Panel

Magellan RCP Push-Button+OLED Display • Compact 1- and 2RU versions • Completely programmable rubber push-buttons standard • Template-driven to facilitate easy panel layout changes • Fast and intuitive operation • Follow/breakaway support • Ability to view and switch all levels of the router • Flexible configuration; can operate in Cat/Idx mode, multibus or single-bus mode

Magellan RCP LCD Only • Compact 1- and 2RU versions • Completely programmable and relegendable LCD buttons standard • Template-driven to facilitate easy panel layout changes • Ability to create local aliases at the panel • Automatic updates for source, destination, and salvo additions, deletions and name changes • Ability to switch router via status name, long name and aliases • Unicode support • Flexible configuration; can operate in grouping mode, Cat/Idx mode or enhanced button-per-source

Magellan RCP Push-Button Only • Compact 1- and 2RU versions • Completely programmable rubber push-buttons standard • Template-driven to facilitate easy panel layout changes • Fast and intuitive operation • Follow/breakaway support • Easy operation for button-per-source, single-bus and multibus applications

Magellan 2RU Back Panel

NUCLEUS™ User-Configurable Network Control Panel Unifying the Operation of Key Functions in Your Workflow Content delivery in today’s fast-paced digital environment places heavy demands on network control panels — they must be tailored to individual needs and support interactions with a minimum number of keystrokes. NUCLEUS™, a fully user-configurable 2RU network control panel, and NUCLEUS-DM, a deskmount network control panel, unify and streamline the operation of routers, as well as processing products and remote monitoring products. By means of an intuitive panel wizard, each network control panel can be tailored to meet your specific, exacting demands. NUCLEUS enables the control of many devices using a logical menu/navigation structure, so you can quickly execute a series of complex device control changes with only a few simple button presses. Harris also offers the NUCLEUS-TRAX router follow option, which integrates router source selection and upstream processing product control. NUCLEUS-TRAX simplifies workflow in master control and quality control stations, speeds up access to the controls of devices upstream from the router, and significantly reduces the possibility of mistakes — enabling you to save both time and money.

Features • Fully customizable user interface for practical, real-time router control (single- and multi-bus operation, X/Y operation, category/index selection, direct source selection and salvo buttons), as well as multiviewer control • Storing of up to eight router destination(s), router source or custom router salvo per routing device • NUCLEUS-TRAX option to automatically track router crosspoint selection • Support for SNMP for controlling third-party products • Support for up to five password-protected configurations

RCP-GPI Contact Closure Interfaces Flexible Interface Mechanisms for Harris Routers The RCP-GPI32p and RCP-GPI64p provide input and output contact closure interfaces for use with Harris routers. The GPI inputs can be used to select router crosspoints. A source will be selected whenever the corresponding GPI input pair is momentarily shorted. Harris offers the RCP-GPI32p, a remote 32-input contact closure interface; the RCP-GPI64p, a remote 64-input contact closure interface; and the RCP-GPIEX expander module, which converts GPI32p to GPI64p.

Features • • • • •

Simple contact closure inputs and outputs Contact closure inputs select router inputs Contact closure outputs tally router status Single-Bus or X-Y Control (X-Y control GPI-40 only) Configurable for Joystick Override

Software Control and Configuration Advanced Harris software applications offer powerful configuration and control — locally or remotely — using Ethernet, coaxial or serial connections. SNMP is supported directly to our Ethernet-based control systems, and third-party router control is provided via our Edge protocol gateway.

DB Editor A Quick, Intuitive and Powerful User Interface to Router Editing A powerful CCS-Navigator™-based tool, the DB editor greatly enhances your ability to create and maintain your routing system via a feature-rich interface. You’ll save time – from the simple, initial hardware setup and configuration to the familiar Excel-like editing functions and Excel-based configuration templates. Highly intuitive, the DB editor’s editing features are available from an easy-to-use toolbar/menu that has the look and feel of a spreadsheet for a low learning curve. You’ll have easy access to information with .zip-based files for ease of export, import, backup and restore. And powerful capabilities continue to be added, such as tieline configuration and monitoring, enabling you to perform more advanced functions when and if your needs dictate.

Features • Quick setup and updating of both database and system - Fast Excel-like editing functions (multi-column sort, filtering, etc.) and Excel-based configuration templates - Straightforward initial hardware setup and system reconfiguration • Intuitive to use, with easy access to information - Editing features available from toolbar and right mouse-click menus - Tab-based organization - Look-and-feel of a spreadsheet • Powerful capabilities for today’s and tomorrow’s needs - Device type and template driven - Tieline configuration and monitoring - Mono-source highlighting - Diagnostics in routing panel - Importing logical names of a routing system

CCS Navigator™ Advanced Graphical Navigation Application Providing a Centralized View of Your Operation A Windows®-based software application, CCS Navigator™ provides graphical tools to create easy-to-use Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) that visually represent operational environments. These GUIs consolidate and ease network-wide status monitoring and control by representing broadcast systems with familiar and intuitive interfaces, with graphical feedback of status tailored to your requirements. CCS Navigator primarily uses the Harris-developed CCS™ Protocol (CCSP), a binary open source protocol that provides real-time parametric adjustment and enhanced alarm management and correlation. CCSP allows a tighter integration with Harris products, easy setup and the ability to scale networks while conserving precious network bandwidth.

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User-configurable network views Wizards enable quick creation of control panel surfaces to control/monitor routers Network control panel configuration Searchable alarm logging Client-Server configuration, allowing centralized administration and streamlined change management to Navigator instances UNICODE or multi-lingual support GUI supports video thumbnails and MPEG-4 streaming through Q-SEE™ technology Rendering of events across multiple pages Browsing (backward and forward) across CCS Navigator pages

Protocol Support Edge Router Protocol Translator Seamless Harris/Third-Party Router Control Integration Today, many broadcast facility system designs require interoperability among router systems form different manufacturers. Harris understands that you might also favor one manufacturer’s control system over another and are simply looking to expand current routing capabilities. The Edge router protocol translator is a 1RU device that acts as a bridge between Harris X/Y router protocols and other third-party router control/monitoring protocols. Edge can support third-party TCP/IP protocols, as well as serial protocols. A bidirectional solution, Edge can control third-party routers or be controlled by third-party control panels — making it ideally suited to any system design. Edge also acts as an SNMP agent for Harris routing systems. Any Harris router can be mapped to an SNMP-based monitoring and control system.

Current Third-Party Protocol Support: • • • • • •

EDGE-SMS7000 EDGE-Jupiter EDGE-nVision EDGE-Utah EDGE-Pro-Bel EDGE-RTR-WEB

Built-in/Native Protocol Support: Platinum and Panacea routers feature built-in/native support for: • Harris X/Y passthrough protocol over serial and Ethernet • SNMP (via optional software license) • Harris CCS protocol over serial and Ethernet • Harris LRC protocol over Ethernet (Platinum only)

ONE Company for Workflow Solutions Throughout the Media Chain Harris is the ONE company delivering interoperable workflow solutions across the entire media delivery chain — providing today’s broadcaster with a single, integrated approach to capitalize on the benefits of IT and mobile applications. By providing unparalleled interoperability across our product portfolio, Harris is able to offer customers integrated solutions that improve workflows, save money, enable new revenue streams and provide a migration path to emerging media business models. To meet the evolving needs of broadcast, distribution, government agencies and entertainment businesses, Harris is the ONE answer for change.

Service And Support At Harris, we are committed to customer service excellence. It is our goal to provide the highest level of support by applying a simple rule: We take ownership of helping our customers succeed. Our support teams consist of innovative technical experts who support all situations regarding product performance, integration and operational processing. We are adept at providing proven solutions, making workflows better and ensuring reliability of the product and system. At Harris, our experienced and dedicated teams stand ready to help you meet your goals for premium product performance, 100% up-time and reduced maintenance investment.

Warranty Because we want to assure you that Harris stands beside its products and system solutions, our products carry a standard set of warranty services, which are competitive with — and in some cases outperform — others in the industry.

Service Packages We offer value-add services that allow you to customize the level of services you need in meeting mission-critical performance levels. Our service package options offer many ways to upgrade your standard warranty by choosing the All-Inclusive OnePak, or by selecting individual services from our extensive portfolio. Our service and support advisors can assist in the selection of the individual services that best suit your requirements.

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