It features a modern open architecture API, making it easy to integrate measurements and alarms into any third party system. This flexibility means that the ECP is not only an indispensable tool for monitoring broadcast content, it is an important tool in automating testing in R&D and system QA applications. It epitomizes the ideal solution to measure the end-to-end process in a television delivery chain. It is available in four models, each with different inputs: HDMI, Composite, DVI and VGA.

DVMon DVB-T/T2 provides full I/Q constellation display and modulation distortion measurements, and extracts the embedded transport stream for QoS/QoE analysis and monitoring.

DVMon DVB-S/S2 is a multi-user, affordable satellite transport stream probe. Its key attributes include HTML5 Remote GUI, Monitoring and Engineering Analysis, Combined Technical Analysis, Video Thumbnails, Video Wall, Service Component Validation, Combined IP Monitoring, as well as Historical Logging and Graphing.

DVMon DVB-S2X provides in-depth technical analysis and supports both real time as well as historical log measurements – ideal for satellite operators, teleports, content playout centres and DTH operators.

DVMon 10G provides a 10 Gigabit interface option, fitted with a standard SFP+ modulator connector, and can connect to single or multimode fiber. Supporting both direct IP monitoring and IGMP, the DVMon 10G enables analysis of key QoS and QoE parameters.

DVMon QAM supports all three J.83 technical standards and provides integrated RF and MPEG-TS quality of service monitoring in a compact, affordable package. It sports two RF inputs with built-in demodulation and RF signal analysis, as well as two independent ASI output ports for monitoring.

DVMon ATSC was launched at NAB 2019. With this model, RF measurements can be continuously logged for later inspection or trend analysis. From there, the demodulated transport stream is extracted from the RF signal, where full MPEG-TS monitoring and analysis is possible, including in-depth analysis of complex PSIP.

Overview

The explosive growth in OTT services, live video streaming, the move to file-based workflows and  the adoption of streamed video in corporate and security environments, has resulted in an ever increasing demand for encoding and transcoding capabilities. This is especially true for OTT services which require multiple profiles spanning a very wide range of bit rates in order to reach devices ranging from low speed mobile phones all the way to high-end 4K TV sets.

The Pelican transcode platform can help overcome these challenges by providing an economical, flexible and high density transcoding solution that fits a wide variety of applications.

Live Contribution

Long-distance transmission via fiber or satellite links continues to be a major cost factor for live production operators. The Pelican can help operators optimize costs by encoding contribution content into high resolution HEVC streams, thus lowering the bit rate without sacrificing quality.

Live OTT & eSports

The Pelican provides a compact and economical alternative to expensive CPU and/or GPU server solutions when creating the multiple output bit rates needed for OTT streaming. Reading a high-resolution input stream, the Pelican easily creates multiple output bit rates. For each output profile, “chunk” files are written to an external origin server. Manifest files are automatically created.

Preparing content for Video On Demand services also requires transcoding. Original IPTV-based VOD services usually serve a single bit rate, meaning only one file must be transcoded for each title. However, OTT-based on-demand services must accommodate the same wide range of devices and bit rates as live OTT. The consequence, of course, is a large number of transcodes are required for each title.

Inbound media files can be submitted to different Pelican transcode “engines” via NFS/CIFS watch folders, FTP upload (with automatic FTP transfer of output files) and simple upload from web browser. The straightforward GUI provides fine control over each job queue, allowing change of queue order and designate certain jobs as “priority” to transcode immediately.

Overlays consist of an image, text or both. The text can either be static, as entered by the user, or it can be dynamically sourced via an RSS feed. RSS feeds are scrolled across the screen like a “stock ticker”.

This live content overlay operating in the compressed domain, leads to significant cost savings compared to traditional baseband graphics generators: less equipment, eased rack space and reduced power consumption.

The Pelican is available in two models: the affordable 1RU platform for cost-sensitive applications that provides up to 8 HD encoders, while the slot-based model provides user-expandability for up to 64 HD encoders, also in a 1RU space.

The system offers an easy-to-use web based GUI for direct control, along with a straightforward REST API for integration into other control systems. Both models leverage the unique NetInt Codensity™ hardware codec technology, which offloads intensive operations to highly parallel VLSI compute elements.