Description:
TANDBERG Television’s Mediaplex-20™ video headend “speaks telco”. The Mediaplex-20 is a multifunctional, carrier-grade and NEBS-certified IPTV headend in a chassis. It holds 48 professional-quality MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC or PiP encoders in 19.6 rack units of height. This includes fan and power modules, therefore making it one of the densest switched digital video platforms in the industry. A broad array of video functions is combined in a blade-based chassis, which makes the headend extremely versatile and simple to configure. The video functions include pre-processing, real-time video encoding, transcoding, transrating, VBR-to-CBR conversion, switching, routing, and MPEG encapsulation into ATM or IP. Due to the large number of channels supported, the Mediaplex-20 is ideally suited for large to medium-sized headends.
The Mediaplex-20 video headend supports industry-leading quality and offers telco operators the latest in video and audio compression technology available today. The Mediaplex-20 is part of TANDBERG Television’s Plex family of products, consisting of the Mediaplex-20 and the iPlex video headends. |
Features:
Mediaplex [N011001]
• Support of multiple applications, such as MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 encoding, transcoding, transrating, IP encapsulation, and Quality of Service tagging.
• NEBS Level 3 compliance
• Powerful video preprocessing functions, with full support of MPEG-4 AVC main profile
• Chassis and blade level redundancy: 1+1 (chassis or blade), n+1 (blade), and n+m (blade)
Platform Processing Capacities
• Up to 48 MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 AVC encoders
• Up to 64 ASI interfaces (input or output)
• Up to 144 transrated streams (bit rate dependent)
• Up to 48 MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 AVC transcoded streams
• 4 GigE interfaces (standard with SCM modules)
• Up to 2 SCM cards and 12 TRM cards or 8 MCM cards
• 3 fans and up to 3 AC or DC power supplies per chassis |
