New Solutions for Cable - DEPS

New Solutions for Cable

David Mitchinson Solutions Manager [email protected]

Paal Gulbrandsen Regional Account Manager [email protected]

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Company Introduction

Head-end Solutions for Broadcast & IPTV Focus on R&D Strong performance

• Private company founded in June 2004, based in Oslo, Norway

• Manufacturing outsourced to Hadeland Produkter (Hapro), a company founded in 1973 in Norway

• Majority of employees work in research development

• International company with 85 employees from 20 countries

• Constantly developing new solutions

• AAA ranking with award winning financial results

• Strong balance sheet to fund organic growth

• Global footprint in 5 continents (78 countries)

Company Introduction

Agenda Cable Headend systems Distribution Network Cable Modulation (digital and analogue) Redundancy options OTT & Multiscreen Theme of ‘What’s new’ for Cable

A typical cable solution for linear video transmission

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Acquisition solutions

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Feature Conventional IRD Appear TV modular solution

Tuner density 1 tuner per receiver 4 tuners per card

CAM density 1 or 2 CAMs per receiver

2 CAMs per card

Architecture Limited to box functionality

Flexible. The 4RU chassis offers 17 card slots for you to use in a flexible way.

Video decoding functionality and costs

You generally must have this in every IRD

A card option, so can be tailored to the requirement

Real life turnaround example

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Off- Air Services acquired from the NSS6 satellite Channel Transponder Encryption Chassis Demod CA card /

CAM TV5 Monde 11037H Conax 1 1 1/1 History TV 18 11037H Conax 1 1 1/1 Nat Geo Adventure

11037H Conax 1 1 1/1

UTV Movies 11037H Conax 1 1 1/1 Neo Sports 11037H Conax 1 1 1/1 National Geographic

11037H Conax 1 1

½

Disney XD 11037H Conax 1 2 ½ Disney Channel 11037H Conax 1 2 ½ CNN IBN 11037H Conax 1 2 ½ ETV 2 11037H Conax 1 2 ½ ETV Oriya 11037H Conax 1 2 2/1 ETV Urdu 11037H Conax 1 2 2/1 ETV Bihar 11037H Conax 1 2 2/1 ETV Telugu 11037H Conax 1 2 2/1 ETV Gujarati 11037H Conax 1 2 2/1 ETV Kannada 11037H Conax 1 2 2/1 Times Now 11172H Conax 1 3 2/2 Star News 11172H Conax 1 3 2/2 Disha 11172H Conax 1 3 2/2 Sony Aath 11172H Conax 1 3 2/2 Bindass 11172H Conax 1 3 2/2 Fox Crime 11172H Conax 1 3 3/1 Star Gold 11172H Conax 1 3 3/1 Zee Classic 11172H Conax 1 3 3/1 Zee Action 11172H Conax 1 3 3/1 Star Sports 11172H Conax 1 3 3/1 Pogo 11172H Conax 1 3 3/2 VH1 11172H Conax 1 3 3/2 Star World 11172H Conax 1 3 3/2 UTV Action 12522V Conax 1 4 4/1 Movies Now 12535V Conax 1 5 4/2 India Talkies 12535V Conax 1 5 4/2 Sahara Filmy 12535V Conax 1 5 4/2 NDTV Good Times

12535V Conax 1 5 4/2

Sahara One 12535V Conax 1 5 4/2 Imagine 12535V Conax 1 5 5/1 Zoom 12535V Conax 1 5 5/1 The MGM channels

12535V Conax 1 5 5/1

Discovery Channel

12647H Conax 2 1 1/1

NDTV India 12647H Conax 2 1 1/1 UTV Bloomberg 12647H Conax 2 1 1/1 Sab TV India 12647H Conax 2 1 1/1 AXN India 12647H Conax 2 1 1/1 Sony Pix 12647H Conax 2 1 ½ Ten Sports 12647H Conax 2 1 ½ Discovery Turbo 12647H Conax 2 1 ½ Discovery Science

12647H Conax 2 1 ½

Animal Plannet 12647H Conax 2 1 ½ Animax 12647H Conax 2 1 2/1 Nickelodeon India

12647H Conax 2 1 2/1

MTV India 12647H Conax 2 1 2/1 Nat Geo Wild 12647V Conax 2 1 2/1 Tarang Music 12647V Conax 2 1 2/1 Zee Khana Khazana

12647V Conax 2 1 2/1

Aaj Tak 12688H Conax 2 2 2/2 Sun TV 12688H Conax 2 2 2/2 Sun News 12688H Conax 2 2 2/2 Sun Music 12688H Conax 2 2 2/2 KTV 12688H Conax 2 2 2/2 Gemini TV 12688H Conax 2 2 3/1 Surya TV 12688H Conax 2 2 3/1 Kiran TV 12688H Conax 2 2 3/1 Star Jalsha 12688H Conax 2 2 3/1 Udaya TV 12688H Conax 2 2 3/1 Hungama 12688V Conax 1 8 8/2 Cartoon Network

12729V Conax 2 3 3/2

Colors 12729V Conax 2 3 3/2 NDTV 24x7 12729V Conax 2 3 3/2 ET Now 12729V Conax 2 3 3/2 Mastiii 12729V Conax 2 3 3/2 PTC Punjabi 12729V Conax 2 3 4/1 HBO 12729V Conax 2 3 4/1 CNBC TV 18 12729V Conax 2 3 4/1 Star Cricket 12729V Conax 2 3 4/1 Ten Action Plus 12729V Conax 2 3 4/1 CNN International

12729V Conax 2 3 4/1


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Off air services acquired from the Measat 3 satellite Channel Transponder Encryption Chassis Demod CA card /

CAM Warner Brothers 12315H Irdetto 1 9 9/1 Headlines Today 12523V Mediaguard 2 4 4/2 News X 12523V Mediaguard 2 4 4/2 Aaj Tak Tez 12523V Mediaguard 2 4 4/2 Chardikla Time TV 12523V Mediaguard 2 4 4/2 Vissa TV 12597H Irdeto 1 10 9/2 Aakaash Bangla 12603V Mediaguard 1 11 10/1 Sony 12643H Irdetto 1 12 10/2 9X 12643V Mediaguard 2 5 5/1 DD India 12643V Mediaguard 2 5 5/1 NTV 12643V Mediaguard 2 5 5/1 DD News 12643V Mediaguard 2 5 5/1 DD Panjabi 12643V Mediaguard 2 5 5/1 DD Kashir 12643V Mediaguard 2 5 5/1 Delhi Aaj Tak 12683H Mediaguard 2 6 5/2 DD Rajya Sabha 12683H Mediaguard 2 6 5/2 IBN7 12683V Mediaguard 2 7 6/1 Sahara Samay NCR 12683V Mediaguard 2 7 6/1 DD Bharati 12723H Mediaguard 2 8 6/2 Imagine Showbiz 12723H Mediaguard 2 8 6/2 DD Sports 12723H Mediaguard 2 8 6/2 9XM 12723H Mediaguard 2 8 6/2 Aastha 12723H Mediaguard 2 8 6/2 Sanskar 12723H Mediaguard 2 8 6/2 MH 1 Shardha 12723H Mediaguard 2 8 6/2 MH 1 12723H Mediaguard 2 8 6/2 DD Lok Sabha 12723V Mediaguard 2 9 7/1 DD Bangla 12723V Mediaguard 2 9 7/1

Off air services acquired from the Asiasat 3S satellite Channel Transponder Encryption Chassis Demod CA card /

CAM Zee Studio 3V Conax 2 10 7/2 Zee Cafe 3V Conax 2 10 7/2 Zee Trendz 3V Conax 2 10 7/2 Jagran 5V FTA 2 11 N/A Zee TV 5V Conax 2 11 8/1 Zee Premier 5V Conax 2 11 8/1 Zee Jagran 5V FTA 2 11 N/A ETC Music 5V FTA 2 11 N/A Zee Salaam 5V FTA 2 11 N/A Star Utsav 9V FTA 2 12 N/A Star Movies 9V Videoguard 2 12 8/2 Channel V 9V Videoguard 2 12 8/2 24 Ghanta 13V FTA 3 1 N/A Smile TV 13V FTA 3 1 N/A Zee Cinema 13V Conax 3 1 1/1 Zee Business 13V Conax 3 1 1/1 Zee Punjabi News 13V Conax 3 1 1/1 Zee Bangla News 13V Conax 3 1 1/1 Zee Marathi News 13V Conax 3 1 1/1


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Off air services acquired from the Asiasat 5 satellite Channel Transponder Encryption Chassis Demod CA card /

CAM Star World HD 3980V Videoguard 3 2 ½ Star Plus HD 3980V Videoguard 3 2 ½ Raj Digital Plus 12522V Conax 3 3 2/1 Cbeebies 12522V Conax 3 3 2/1 UTV world movies 12522V Conax 3 3 2/1 CBS Love 12522V Conax 3 3 2/1 BBC Entertainment 12522V Conax 3 3 2/1 UTV Star HD 12582V Conax 3 4 2/2 Sony Max 12582V Conax 3 4 2/2 FX Asia 12582V Conax 3 4 2/2 Zee Cinema HD 12642V Conax 3 5 3/1 Movies Now HD 12642V Conax 3 5 3/1 MTV Tunes HD 12642V Conax 3 5 3/1 Zee Studio HD 12642V Conax 3 5 3/1 Zee TV HD 12642V Conax 3 5 3/1 Colors HD 12702V Conax 3 6 3/2


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Chassis 2 (recovering services from NSS6, Measat 3 and Asiasat 3S)

Chassis 1 (recovering services from NSS6 and Measat 3)

Chassis 3 (recovering services from Asiasat 3S and Asiasat 5)

~ 100-240 VAC5.5A 50-60Hz

Fuse: T6.3A H 250VCAUTION: DOUBLE POLE/

NEUTRAL FUSING

Apparaten skall anslutas til jodat nätuttag

Appear TVDC2001Status

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~ 100-240 VAC5.5A 50-60Hz


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Chassis 2 (recovering services from NSS6, Measat 3 and Asiasat 3S)

Chassis 1 (recovering services from NSS6 and Measat 3)

Chassis 3 (recovering services from Asiasat 3S and Asiasat 5)

3 x 4RU chassis taking 12RU rack space …….Compared to an estimated 40RU if done using professional IRD’s. Appear TV offers; • Neat and tidy solution • Very compact • Multiple options for redundancy • Significant power and heat

reductions • Ability to include other functions

in the same chassis (eg. transcoding)

~ 100-240 VAC5.5A 50-60Hz


NEUTRAL FUSING



Control

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ASI Monitor

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~ 100-240 VAC5.5A 50-60Hz


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Control

SWITCHIPIO Control

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DESCRAMBLER

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Integrated and modular satellite architectures

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Reasons for Transcoding

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Transcoding implementations

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Transcoding Implementations

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System options

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System options

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DVB Scrambler card

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CA

Status

SCS

• Scrambling for up to 256 services • Supports BISS mode 1 scrambling by itself

• Easy to implement, low cost DVB compliant scrambling • Supports all of the major CA types via simulcrypt interface

• Nagra • NDS • Irdetto • Latens • Verimatrix • Conax etc. ………

System Options

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Audio Levelling Card

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AudioLeveling

StatusAudio Leveling of encoded sound without decoding • Supports MPEG-1 layer 1 and 2 encoded audio • Audio leveling of up to 250 audio tracks (maximum 850

Mbit/s for the audio services

System Options


New DVB-T / T2 input card

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• Standards ETSI EN 300 744 and EN 302 755 • 4 x DVB-T/T2 receivers per module. • Input ports option:

– 1 F connector, signal is split and distributed internally – 4 F connectors, one per demodulator

• Frequency range 47-862MHz • Carrier mode:

– DVB-T: 2k, 8k – DVB-T2: 1k, 2k, 4k, 8k, 16k, 32k

• Modulation: – DVB-T: QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM – DVB-T: QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM, 128QAM, 256QAM

• Supports reception of MPTS and SPTS • Service filtering on input

DVB-T/T2INPUT

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DVB-T/T2INPUT

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Encoding Trends

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Mpeg 2 SD in 12RU (6RU if lucky!)

Better quality MPEG-2 SD on one card (2RU and then 1RU encoders!

MPEG-2 (even HD) on a chip

MPEG-4 still a whole card

Everything now available on a chip. Performance and functionality increasing…

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Encoding Trends

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Mpeg 2 SD in 12RU (6RU if lucky!)

Better quality MPEG-2 SD on one card (2RU and then 1RU encoders!

MPEG-2 (even HD) on a chip

MPEG-4 still a whole card

Everything now available on a chip. Performance and functionality increasing…

- Dramatic changes in technology - Huge increases in silicon densities and speeds Premium performance on a dense platform is now possible

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• Encodes up to 2 HD or 4 SD channels per blade - Dual HD encoder offers HDSDI with the addition of AES unbalanced audio inputs - SD encoder supports 4 services per blade and is license key upgradeable to 2 x HD - Imminent software option will provide premium video quality in exchange for a 50% reduction in density (eg. 1HD or 2SD per card) • Rate Control Modes:

– Constant Bit Rate (CBR) – Variable Bit Rate (VBR) – Capped VBR (CVBR) – Statistical Multiplexing (in future release)

• Adjustable GOP structure • External clock reference (Frame sync) • 2 encoded stereo audio pairs per video

HD/SD MPEG-2/4 Encoder with SDI/HDSDI input

Analogue input option

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• Significant advantages since it will handle COMPONENT video as well as composite! • Available Q4 2012

The problems with Composite

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1. Analog Broadcast studio, no problems since high quality rubidium or other accurate oscillator used. 2. Digital distribution to a professional IRD. This depends upon the following;

• Where the 27MHz MPEG clock comes from • This may be internally generated (poor) • Derived from PCR (locked to clock source in the encoder) – potentially better • Derived from a high stability external source (frame sync input) – best.

3. Consumer or pro-sumer set top box. Almost certainly internally generated from a low-cost crystal oscillator. Poor.

F(csc) = 4.43361875 MHz

Composite and component video

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With digital distribution of analogue signals, the best solution is to keep the chrominance and luminance signals separate and AVOID using composite!


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System options


Every output card has A multiplexer for maximum flexibility!


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The NMS

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• Compression vendors will usually want to sell an NMS with their system • It will be their own NMS • It will be proprietary and designed to work with their equipment only • If third party equipment is supported, it will only be for limited products that are needed to make their portfolio complete • It can provide vendor lock-in and restrict the equipment choices you can make in the future!

The NMS

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• Appear TV takes a different approach.

• We try and build redundancy options into our chassis so that an NMS becomes optional. This can reduce system complexity and cost • When an NMS is required, we provide a choice of open NMS platforms to match any price and functionality requirement that are equipment vendor agnostic Appear TV can provide leading NMS solutions, when they are needed, using Partners who have integrated our solutions. This approach avoids vendor lock-in!


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Protecting the distribution network

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• For cable, the distribution mechanism is almost always over IP • Redundant networks, supporting video and broadband / internet services • Video services delivered efficiently via RTP over UDP multicasts • Transient network disturbances provide the biggest risk of QOS affecting issues • Typically, QOS is protected by adding SMPTE2022 FEC • Only one delivery network is used at any one time.

• FEC overheads can be significant (40% or more of total video traffic) • Still not effective in coping with long duration burst errors

Appear TV can of course provide the same solution, ….but we also have a better way……

Protecting the distribution network

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What if it was possible to;

• Make an edge device that monitored the traffic arriving via both the A and B networks simultaneously • Align and take IP packets from either network, seamlessly, to re-construct the output from both networks • You would have a seamless solution using both networks to provide 100% FEC without having to add SMPTE 2022 FEC at all! The new Appear TV seamless IP switch delivers all of these features!

Appear TV seamless IP switch

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Appear TV seamless IP switch: Performance

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Appear TV seamless IP switch: Performance

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QAM modulator card

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QAM Output • 16 DVB-C modulated carriers, 4x4 paired • Digital QAM modulation and up-conversion • DOCSIS 3.0 RF compliant • 32, 64, 128, 256 QAM Modulation • 49 – 861 MHz frequency range • 4.5-7.0 Mbaud • Up to 250 services per module • Multiplexing on each QAM frequency • PSI/SI re-generation

DVB-C / J.83MODULATOR

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RF Out

A+B

C+D

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DVB-C / J.83MODULATOR

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RF Out

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QAM modulation: 1RU example

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QAM modulation: 4RU option

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Adds: • More space for future expansion • Hot swap replacement of all modules, including PSUs and fans • Dual redundant PSUs

Output card source redundancy

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Notice the example if for an RF modulator card. We can provide A range of analogue video modulators and FM radio modulators as well!

Other key redundancy options

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• You can nominate an input to act as a back-up. • For example, if an IP input fails, use the satellite input as back-up. • Or use a DTT input to back up a satellite feed etc. • This is the INPUT PORT redundancy feature. • The same concept can be used for SERVICE LEVEL redundancy where incoming transport streams are different

Output redundancy

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Digital distribution for analogue cable TV

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Digital distribution for analogue cable TV

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New solutions: OTT / multiscreen

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• Targeting linear video applications • Offering hardware based encoding and transcoding to provide high density and best compression performance • Works alongside other vendors equipment so great for headend expansion / upgrade • Works with many 3rd party segmenters. • Enables you to have the density and performance only hardware solutions can provide and works with your chosen segmentation equipment provider.

Thank you

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