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www.inbroadcast.com | IBC2016 InShow Guide | 9-13 September

Cobalt Digital
at IBC2016

Cobalt Digital is highlighting a wide range of products at this year's show...

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obalt Digital is showing a range of
new and updated tools to assist
in monetising content, including the
new +SCTE104-FAST option that adds
frame-accurate DPI trigger insertion
to the already extreme flexibility and
density of the openGear® and BBG1000 Series of audio, video, and data
signal processors. The ANC-MON
series of ancillary data decode and
display products has enhanced signal
monitoring and logging capabilities
that allow Cobalt to offer an end-toend system for broadcast metadata
management.
New Fibre-Optic and SDI-Over-IP
SMPTE 2022-6 openGear® Cards
9991-SDI-to-IP-10GE and 9991-IPto-SDI-10GE Series Cards: Visitors to
IBC2016 will be the first to see Cobalt
Digital's new 9991-SDI-to-IP-10GE and
9991-IP-to-SDI-10GE Series cards for
the openGear® platform. These 3G/HD/
SD-SDI SMPTE 2022-6 encapsulators
and de-encapsulators offer AES/
analogue audio embedding and deembedding, and they interface to
10GigE equipment over fibre.
9433-EMDE Series Fibre-Optic
Audio
Embedder/De-embedder
Cards: New at IBC2016 will be
the 9433-EMDE Series openGear®
fibre-optic audio embedder and
de-embedder products, which will
be available in a single-channel,
unidirectional EO/OE configuration
and a dual-channel, bidirectional EOOE
transport solution. The latter version
will provide bidirectional extension
of two 3G/HD/SD-SDI video signals
and multiple analogue and AES audio

signals over two fibres. When paired
with the +DT licensing option, the card
set will also provide bidirectional serial
data and GPIO connectivity, which can
be used for remote PTZ camera control
and signal backhaul.
9410DA Fibre Cards: Also new at
IBC2016 will be the 9410DA Series of
3G/HD/SD-SDI single-channel, dualchannel, and transceiver fibre cards,
which provide up to 40 channels of
3G/HD/SD-SDI extension in just two
rack units. Even with such high signal
density, the 9410 card modules include
several distribution amplifier outputs
on both the transmit and receive sides
of the link.
9415DA-SFP Video SFP Cards: On
display at IBC2016 will be the 9415SFP Series, a set of dual-path fibre
transport cards with an external
SFP cage on the rear module. This
arrangement allows the user to pull
the openGear® card out from the front
of the chassis while keeping the SFP
and cabling in place. The user can also
hot-swap the SFP module from the
rear for maintenance, or to repurpose
the card for different signal types. This
flexible SFP design supports 3G/HD/
SD-SDI single-channel, dual-channel,
and transceiver modes.
New openGear® SDI Routers
and Signal Processors
9941-RTR Series Router Cards: At
IBC2016, Cobalt Digital will present
a new series of compact 3G/HD/
SD-SDI multirate router cards for
openGear®. Designed to complement
Cobalt's wide range of terminal gear
solutions, these modular router cards

European debut for the Cobalt Digital BBG MK2 series

will be available in 12 x 4, 12 x 12,
and 24 x 24 configurations for 3G-SDI
requirements. The 12 x 4 matrix will
also be available in a 12G-SDI version.
9934-AUD-PRO: On display at
IBC2016 will be the new 9934-AUDPRO. This card represents the
next generation of Cobalt's widely
deployed 3G/HD/SD-SDI AES/analogue
audio embedder/de-embedder with
advanced mixing, loudness processing,
and Dolby integration.
New Blue Box Group™ (BBG)
SDI-Over-IP and Fibre-Optic
Throwdown Converters
MK2 - The Next Generation of
Fibre-Optic BBG Converter Boxes:
IBC2016 will mark the European debut
of version MK2, the second generation
of Cobalt Digital's popular Blue Box
Group™ (BBG) fibre-optic interface
converter boxes. The MK2 version
of the BBG units supports Cobalt's
BBGConfig software GUI for setup
and status monitoring over USB. The
following throwdown fibre-conversion
products will be on display at the
show:
* BBG-SDI-to-IP-10GE 3G/HD/SDSDI-to-SMPTE 2022-6 IP Encapsulator;
* BBG-IP-to-SDI-10GE
3G/
HD/SD-SDI-to-SMPTE
2022-6
IP
De-encapsulator;
* BBG-EO-MK2 Single 3G/HD/SDSDI/ASI/MADI Transmitter;
* BBG-OE-MK2 Single 3G/HD/SDSDI/ASI/MADI Receiver;
* BBG-2EO-MK2 Dual 3G/HD/SDSDI/ASI/MADI Transmitter;
* BBG-2OE-MK2 Dual 3G/HD/SDSDI/ASI/MADI Receiver;
* BBG-EOOE-MK2 3G/HD/SD-SDI/
ASI/MADI Transceiver;
* BBG-SFP-SXH External Access
Video SFP 3G/HD/SD-SDI Transmit or
Receive with Stereo Analogue Audio
and HDMI Outputs.

The Blue Box
Fibre-To-HDMI
(BBG-F-To-H) throw-down converter unit

Updates and Enhancements
to Existing Products
9922-2FS Dual-Channel Frame-Sync
and Signal-Processing Platform: The
9922-2FS brought home a Best-ofShow award from the 2016 NAB Show
for its density-to-function ratio and
innovative list of optional features.
IBC2016 visitors will see some new
and enhanced options for the 2FS,
including:
* +T-SLATE - "Trouble Slate"
intelligent air path protection and
image replacement system;
* +LOGO - Logo inserter option.
Cobalt can support up to 40 paths of
branding in just two rack units;
* +SCTE104 - In addition to the
basic DPI message insertion that this
option already provides, the option
now offers SCTE104 reading and autoresponse. Users can set up presets to
recall or define actions to occur when a
specified SCTE104 message is received;
* +SCTE104-FAST
-
Provides
frame-accurate SCTE104 insertion into
SDI per SMPTE 2010. DPI message and
Insertion Timestamp data is sent to the
inserter via XML which references to
either UTC or Timecode to perform the
frame-accurate insertion:
* +ANC - Ancillary data insertion
and extraction option for SDI signals
that now supports multicast IP;
* +EAS - Emergency alert crawl
generator and programme audio
mixer;
* +TTS - Text-to-speech automatic
voice-over generator.
New Features for the 9970-QS and
BBG-1070-QS Multiviewers: Cobalt
Digital has added new capabilities to
its 9970-QS openGear® multiviewer
card and corresponding Blue Box
Group™ BBG-1070-QS standalone
multiviewer. Both products now allow
users to upload a user-definable
background image for customised
looks, with the ability to capture fullresolution (up to 1080p) still-frame
images from the multiviewer's output
for remote viewing backhaul over TCP/
IP.
Additional enhancements include
new DashBoard™ GUI optimisations
that greatly reduce the time required
to set up large cascade system designs,
and native support for Lawo's theWALL
control application. This integrated
solution provides intuitive operation
of large multiviewer systems and is
the perfect package for production
and broadcast applications of all sizes.
Cobalt will demonstrate the Lawo
integration at IBC2016, where Cobalt
staff will use theWALL app to control a
QS Series multiviewer system.
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