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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 8 - Issue 5 | May 2018

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R&S PRISMON Audio /
Video Monitoring and
Multiviewer-Solutions
A

t NAB, Rohde & Schwarz
showcased a number of new and
interesting features for its awardwinning audio/video monitoring and
multiviewer solution R&S PRISMON.
Driven by recent advances in
standardisation,
there
is
an
industrywide
trend
for
high
performance
Ethernet/IP-based
networking and IP-based configuration
and control of next-generation
workflows in production/contribution
environments. R&S PRISMON helps
customers to master these trends by
adding support for SMPTE 2110 and
AMWA IS-04 to its latest software
release.

Additionally,
the
versatile set of I/O
interfaces has been
extended up to 100
GE, and the high
performance platform
R&S PRISMON ULTRA
(1RU) has been added
to the portfolio. With
this, the latest R&S
PRISMON
meets
even the highest
customer
demands
for throughput and
processing power.
Today
each
channel
requires
simultaneous monitoring of multiple

broadcast and OTT streams carrying
identical content. Depending on the
actual distribution path, each stream

R&S PRISMON

is encoded with different quality and
bit/framerate. The resulting diversity
causes high technical complexity and
many sources of possible errors. R&S
PRISMON now provides simultaneous
multi-delivery
monitoring
to
successfully address this challenge for
providers of broadcast and streaming
media services on a single, converged
platform.
Other recent feature enhancements
of R&S PRISMON are
e.g. certification for
Dolby
Digital/Dolby
Digital Plus/Dolby E,
enhanced root cause
analysis via a new
Incident
Recording
function,
SCTE-35
monitoring for MPEGTS and OTT streams,
and the addition of
CMAF to the already
comprehensive
PRISMON Screen protocol suite for OTT
monitoring.
Leveraging the experience from
previous interoperability showcases,
R&S PRISMON was again actively
deployed in the NAB 2018 IP
Showcase, running interoperable
implementations of SMPTE 2110 in a
live environment.

Matrox Unveils X.mio5 Q25
SMPTE ST 2110 Network Card
T

he Matrox X.mio5 Q25, is a
SMPTE ST 2110 network interface
controller (NIC) card with multichannel video I/O supporting HD to 4K,
with zero CPU utilisation.
Equipped with 10GbE and 25Gbe
interfaces, X.mio5 Q25 features onboard multi-channel HDR conversions
along with motion adaptive deinterlacing, pristine scaling, and
powerful compositing engines for highdensity 4K video processing.
The game-changing card enables
OEMs to effortlessly build and deploy
the world's most advanced IP-based
broadcast graphics systems, channelin-a-box platforms, and capture/
playout video servers designed for
today's HD and emerging 4K/UHD
workflows. In addition to being in
the Matrox booth, X.mio5 Q25 was
instrumental at the AIMS IP Showcase
at NAB, feeding uncompressed 4Kp60
signals via SMPTE ST 2110 throughout
the booth.

Architected as a video-aware COTS
SMPTE ST 2110 NIC card, X.mio5
Q25 delivers 24/7 reliability
and interoperability required
of broadcast equipment, while
offering the flexibility and scalability
expected of IP infrastructures
including standard network stack
functionality. With support for four
SFP28 transceivers, X.mio5 Q25 allows
for PC-based platforms to receive
and transmit four 4K/UHDp60, 16
1080p60, 32 HD, or any equivalent
combination of flows over 25GbE.
X.mio25 Q25 also includes high-quality
on-board video processing to offload
CPU and GPU resources. The X.mio5
Q25 card is furthermore supported
by the robust, field-proven Matrox
DSX SDK, ensuring rapid application
development and system deployment.
"Matrox X.mio5 Q25 is purpose-built
for SMPTE ST 2110, which means it
meets and exceeds the industry's
most stringent reliability, quality,

Matrox X.mio5 Q25
SMPTE ST 2110 Network Card

interoperability, and performance
requirements when it comes to IP
workflows," said Alberto Cieri, Senior
Director of Sales and Marketing,
Matrox Video. "Over the last 40 plus
years, Matrox has helped customers
seamlessly navigate from analog to

SDI, SD to HD then UHD, and with
X.mio5 Q25, the story remains the
same for OEMs looking to transition
from SDI to IP - with minimal
interruption and maximum impact."
The Matrox X.mio5 Q25 card will be
available Q2 2018.
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