CommunicAsia 2008

Time flies! The CommunicAsia / BroadcastAsia 2008 is already behind us!

We are back to the office and ready to tackle all the good opportunities that we found on the show floor.

For those who couldn't visit us on the booth in Singapore, here are some pictures that will give you a good idea of the great demos we had there:

Overall Demonstration :

All components of a Broadcast ecosystem were demonstrated on the booth:

- We had a Canon HD camera with HD-SDI output.

- Our TS process tool Village Flow was used to encode the HD channel and stream it over IP.

- The TSoIP HD service was displayed on an HD LCD panel thanks to a Motorola IP Set Top Box.

- The MuxXpert was multiplexing several TS streams to several outputs.

- The DekTec modulation card were used to generate an RF signal to a DVB-T and a DVB-S STB.

- We also had the StreamXpert Analyzing software.

- and also the the recording software DtGrabber+ and the monitoring tool VI Monitor.

- Finally, we had the new DekTec Power over Ethernet adapter for remote analyzing.

Here is the graphic that explains all that:

Village Flow software:

Here we were using Village Flow for the real time encoding of 1 HD video stream coming from an HD camera and also of 4 SD video streams coming from the same camera and from some DVD players. 1 server was used for the HD channel and another one for the 4 SD channels. All channels were then streamed over IP on the network.

MuxXpert:

The MuxXpert (DTC-700) was giving it's best here, taking the HD stream and the SD ones, multiplexing them in 3 different outputs:

- One ASI output using the DTA-160 card which has both Ethernet and ASI interfaces.

- One DVB-T RF output thanks to the DTA-115. This one was connected to the 2 DVB-T set top boxes installed on the booth.

- One DVB-S (QPSK) RF output thanks to the DTA-107 which was as you can guess connected to a DVB-S Satellite set top box.

StreamXpert and RFXpert:

The StreamXpert (DTC-320) was decoding and analyzing virtually all the streams on the booth:

- With the DTU-245, it could take any ASI in.

- With the new DTE-3120 we had a remote, over IP access to the ASI stream. (read below)

- With the DTU-235 even an DVB-T RF signal was analyzed. And that's also with the same DTU-235 that we were doing an RF analysis thanks to the RFXpert software.

Monitoring:

Monitoring was not left aside:

- DtGrabber+ (DTC-325) which allows to do advanced recordings of TS streams from DekTec input interfaces, was constantly backing up our videos.

- VI Monitor was also here to monitor all our streams and make sure that no DVB errors were being broadcasted. VIMon can send standard SNMP traps when errors are detected in the stream.

PoE Adapter, the new DTE-3120

The brand new Power over Ethernet adapter from DekTec was demonstrated For the first time in Asia at the CommunicAsia 2008.

Promised to a great success, this tool of a new genre allows monitoring your ASI remotely. You can for example keep this device in the server room plugged on the ASI output of all your encoders, IRDs and other Broadcast equipment and access it remotely to check whether all these equipments are functioning correctly.

Another use of the DTE is a stand-alone converter that can take any ASI in and send it out on the network as a TSoIP multicast stream.

You can check more details on the new DTE in the news published previously on this same page.