Real Time, 1 RU, Linux® and Intel® Xeon® 4 Core Based, Bidirectional Dual ASI Port to IP Gateway for Forwarding Bidirectional SPTS or MPTS Transport Streams over High Speed IP Backbones... Consisting of a Single 1 RU Rackmountable Unit. Each Unit Comes with 4 ASI Ports: 2 for Input and 2 for Output and Two Gig/E IP Ports. Supports Advanced Jitter Management and a Solid CBR. Management via SNMP or Local GUI.

Carrier Grade, 1 RU, 1 to 12 Channel DVB to IP or IP to DVB Gateway that Routes any Number of Selected DVB ASI Streams That May Come from a Bank of Professional IRD's to any MAC Address via IP. The Desired Streams are Streamed Using UDP or RTP Unicast or Multicast in Real Time via Gig/E to your VOD Server. Supports IGMP v2/v3, FEC SMPTE 2022, QOS and Other Standards. OPT 1+1 Redundancy with Dual IP.

Standard Features:

• Full Duplex  IP to Dual ASI and Dual ASI to IP converter
• Converts HD and SD MPEG-2 or H.264/MPEG-4 AVC transport streams from DVB-ASI to IP in real time
• Receives HD and SD MPEG-2 or H.264/ MPEG-4 AVC transport streams over Ethernet-based Internet Protocol (IP) networks and converts them to DVB-ASI
• Inputs:
• Two DVB-ASI inputs
• Two GigE IP inputs
• Outputs:
• Two DVB-ASI outputs
• GigE IP output
• IP Maximum rate of 150 Mbps per ASI channel
• Network jitter correction
• Supports constant bit rate ASI output
• IP address assignment from DHCP server and static IP address. IP address also configurable through the web interface.
• Configuration for Time To Live (TTL) for Multicast
• Remote Web-based configuration management and remote firmware upgrade
• Saved configuration setting. No re-configuration needed after system reboot.
• Multiple units can be rack mounted if needed
• An alternative to dedicated satellite links –connects digital video equipment to computer networks
• Ships with  HLS streaming enabled – for instant QA of functionality

Applications:

• Studio to Transmitter Links
• ENG (Electronic News Gathering) – Stream content to and from remote locations
• ASI input to Cable System
• Distance education/Corporate training
• Converting ASI out from encoders to IP, or vice versa
  

IP Caster II BD Scheduled Input (Click to enlarge)

IP Caster II BD IP Output (Click to enlarge)

Standard Features:

• Embedded HTTP server
• Rich & interactive user interface (flash based)
• Alarms and SNMP traps configuration
• Front panel for key settings
• Full SNMP v2 support (gets, sets and traps)
• Instant upgrade: No service interruption while the upgrade is in progress. GigaCaster restarts after the upgrade and resumes its processing within seconds.
• High throughput: Up to 100 Mbps per ASI port; up to 400 Mbps overall ASI with FEC
• Incorporates special jitter removal features

Network:

• UDP and RTP
• Unicast and Multicast addressing
• IGMP v2/v3 support
• VLAN support
• Quality of Service, QoS (ToS / DSCP)
• Time To Live (TTL)
• Network jitter removal: Configurable from 10 to 900 ms
• 400 Mbps maximum throughput
• FEC (Forward Error Correction) -- Pro MPEG Forum CoP3 (SMPTE 2022)

• Up to 12 DVB-ASI interfaces enabled with licenses
• 2 Ethernet 10/100/1000 BT interfaces for control
• 2 Ethernet 10/100/1000/1000bT interfaces for data
• External 10 MHz input
• Full SNMP v2 support + MIB
• High protection against network jitter
• Optional redundant power supply
• Optional 48V DC power supply

Applications:

• Mobile TV or DTTV (Digital Terrestrial TV)
• Distribution to transmitters
• Head-ends interconnection
• Primary or secondary distribution
• Contribution video

Pro-MPEG Code of Practice #3:

• The Pro-MPEG standard recommends  forward error correction for transmission protocol such as RTP/UDP/IP mapping which improves issues such as timing recovery, jitter tolerance and latency. This unit supports Pro-MPEG.
  
• CoP3 Forward Error Correction generation on all streams

Quick Start Guide (pdf)

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