Electra XOS 1.9.

0 Specifications

Electra XOS 1.9.0 Specifications

Release: x.x
Date:  17 July 2019

  

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Table of Contents
1 New features ............................................................................................................................................ 6
2 Version information and History ............................................................................................................... 8
3 Electra XOS 1.9.0 Firmware Licenses ..................................................................................................... 9
4 Supported Platforms............................................................................................................................... 12
4.1 Appliances....................................................................................................................................... 12
4.2 Appliance Options ........................................................................................................................... 12
4.3 Supported Configurations (Appliance and HW cards) .................................................................... 13
4.4 Reference Platforms........................................................................................................................ 15
5 Detailed Feature List .............................................................................................................................. 17
6 Timings ................................................................................................................................................... 37
7 Differences with Electra X2 .................................................................................................................... 40
8 Hardware Specifications......................................................................................................................... 42
8.1 HWR-XOS-CHS-7000-02................................................................................................................ 42
8.1.1 Specifications ........................................................................................................................... 42
8.1.2 Bill of Material........................................................................................................................... 42
8.2 HWR-XOS-CHS-7000-01................................................................................................................ 43
8.2.1 Specifications ........................................................................................................................... 43
8.2.2 Bill of Material........................................................................................................................... 43
8.3 HWR-XOS-CHS-4000-01................................................................................................................ 44
8.3.1 Specifications ........................................................................................................................... 44
8.3.2 Bill Of Material .......................................................................................................................... 44
8.3.3 HWR-ELCXOS-CHS-1RU-2AC-C1-01..................................................................................... 45
8.3.4 Specifications ........................................................................................................................... 45
8.3.5 Bill Of Material .......................................................................................................................... 45
8.4 HWR-ELCXOS-OPT-1UHD-01 ....................................................................................................... 46
8.4.1 Specifications ........................................................................................................................... 46
8.4.2 Bill Of Material .......................................................................................................................... 46
8.5 HWR-ELCXOS-OPT-SDI-8IN-01 .................................................................................................... 46
8.5.1 Specifications ........................................................................................................................... 46
8.5.2 Bill Of Material .......................................................................................................................... 47
8.6 HWR-ELCXOS-OPT-SDI-8x3G-01 ................................................................................................. 47
8.6.1 Specifications ........................................................................................................................... 47

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8.6.2 Bill Of Material .......................................................................................................................... 47

9 Device Compliance ................................................................................................................................ 48
9.1 Product Safety Compliance............................................................................................................. 48
9.2 Product EMC Compliance - Class A Compliance............................................................................ 48
9.3 Product Environmental Compliance summary ................................................................................ 49
10 Third Party Software............................................................................................................................... 50
10.1 See here Third-Party Libraries Used by RMP Controller SDK ........................................................ 50
11 Glossary ................................................................................................................................................. 51

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• Electra XOS 1.9.0 New Features

• Electra XOS 1.9.0 Version information and History
• Electra XOS 1.9.0 Firmware Licenses
• Electra XOS 1.9.0 Supported Platforms
• Electra XOS 1.9.0 Detailed Feature List
• Electra XOS 1.9.0 Timings
• Electra XOS 1.9.0 Differences with Electra X2
• Electra XOS 1.9.0 Hardware Specifications
• Electra XOS 1.9.0 Device Compliance
• Electra XOS 1.9.0 Third party software
• Electra XOS 1.9.0 Glossary

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1 New features

This version is adding the following features

Feature Description Licensed First Release

Available

Video Input

SCTE104 in SDI XOS 1.9.0

Video Pre-Processing

Black Pattern XOS 1.9.0

DVB subtitles burn in XOS 1.9.0

Repeat Field Detection (MPEG-2/HEVC) XOS 1.9.0

Improved VQ for upscaling interlaced sources XOS 1.9.0

Broadcast Video Encoding

PIP encoding XOS 1.9.0

Custom descriptor and signalling support XOS 1.9.0

Mixed pools HEVC UHD/AVC HD XOS 1.9.0

New setting to limit maximum PTS occurence interval to 700ms XOS 1.9.0
(interop with DVB analyzers to pass P2 tests)

Increased flexibility in VQ/Density for AVC/HEVC  XOS 1.9.0

Encoding Styles extended to VBR SD AVC XOS 1.9.0

Multiscreen Video Encoding

New setting to limit maximum PTS occurence interval to 700ms XOS 1.9.0
(interop with DVB analyzers to pass P2 tests)

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Audio Processing

Dolby to AAC metadata transcoding XOS 1.9.0

Ancillary Data Support

SMPTE 2031 pass through from SDI XOS 1.9.0

WSS Extraction from SDI XOS 1.9.0

TS output

Dual Port streaming XOS 1.9.0

Redundancy

HHP for TS/ATS outputs (beta) XOS 1.9.0

Monitoring & Networking

NMI input: 1+1 LSM XOS 1.9.0

SAG support with SDI XOS 1.9.0

Platform support

New SDI card supporting UHD 2SI XOS 1.9.0

OTT Packaging

See Packager XOS for new features XOS 1.9.0

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2 Version information and History

Version XOS version XOS version NMX version
(ISO, BIN) (vos_bundle)

XOS 1.9.0.0 LA 1.9.0.0.25  (ISO,BIN) 1.9.0.0.43 (vos_bundle) 8.3.0.0.50_B

1.9.0.0.17 (RPM)

XOS 1.8.0.0 LA 1.8.0.0.19 1.8.0.0.27 8.2.0.0.32

XOS 1.7.0.0 LA 1.7.0.0.7 (ISO,BIN) 1.7.0.0.32 8.1.0.0.32

1.7.0.0.5 (RPM)

XOS 1.6.0.0 LA2 1.6.0.0.56 1.6.0.0.148 8.0.1.0.43

XOS 1.6.0.0 LA1 1.6.0.0.12 1.6.0.0.24 8.0.0.0 GA

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3 Electra XOS 1.9.0 Firmware Licenses

Firmware Licenses

Licensing enables specific Electra firmware features; contact Harmonic Technical Support to purchase licenses.

Name Description Electra NMX

XOS Release
Release

Electra XOS Platform Licenses

SWR-XOS-BASE-APPLIANCE Base software for running Electra XOS on an 1.6 8.0

appliance
SWR-ELCXOS-BASE-
APPLIANCE (obsolete)

SWR-XOS-BASE-SOFTONLY Base software for running Electra XOS on a 1.6 8.0

reference platform
SWR-ELCXOS-BASE-
BAREMETAL (obsolete)

Electra XOS Service Licenses

LIC-XOS-ENC-UHD-PLUS Encoding of one broadcast service or one OTT 1.6 8.0

service with one maximum resolution at
LIC-ELCXOS-ENC-UHD-PLUS
2160p60. Includes video decoding, logo
(obsolete)
insertion, MPEG1Layer II & AAC audio codecs,
audio pass through.

LIC-XOS-ENC-UHD Encoding of one broadcast service or one OTT 1.6 8.0

service with one maximum resolution at 1440p60
or 2160p30. Includes video decoding, logo
LIC-ELCXOS-ENC-UHD insertion, MPEG1Layer II & AAC audio codecs,
(obsolete) audio pass through.

LIC-XOS-ENC-HD-PLUS Encoding of one broadcast service or one OTT 1.6 8.0

service with one maximum resolution at 1080i30
LIC-ELCXOS-ENC-HD-PLUS
or 1080p60. Includes video decoding, logo
(obsolete)
insertion, MPEG1Layer II & AAC audio codecs,
audio pass through.

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Name Description Electra NMX

XOS Release
Release

LIC-XOS-ENC-HD Encoding of one broadcast service or one OTT 1.6 8.0

service with one maximum resolution at
LIC-ELCXOS-ENC-HD
1080p30. Includes video decoding, logo
(obsolete)
insertion, MPEG1Layer II & AAC audio codecs,
audio pass through.

LIC-XOS-ENC-SD-PLUS Encoding of one broadcast service or one OTT 1.6 8.0

service with one maximum resolution at
LIC-ELCXOS-ENC-SD-PLUS
525i25/480i30 or 540p60. Includes video
(obsolete)
decoding, logo insertion, MPEG1Layer II & AAC
audio codecs, audio pass through.

LIC-XOS-ENC-SD Encoding of one broadcast service or one OTT 1.6 8.0

service with one maximum resolution at 540p30.
LIC-ELCXOS-ENC-SD
Includes video decoding, logo insertion,
(obsolete)
MPEG1Layer II & AAC audio codecs, audio pass
through.

Electra XOS Additional Service Licenses

LIC-XOS-HDR HDR cross conversion and tone mapping 1.6 8.0

LIC-ELCXOS-HDR (obsolete)

LIX-XOS-HDR-BCOM HDR cross conversion and tone mapping 1.8 8.2

+ Tone Expansion

LIC-XOS-AUD-DOLBY Dolby audio codecs (Dolby Digital, Digital+, 1.6 8.0

Dolby AC-3, Dolby AC-4, Dolby E)
LIC-ELCXOS-AUD-DOLBY
(obsolete)

LIC-XOS-ALC Harmonic Automatic Loudness Control 1.6 8.0

LIC-XOS-ENC-EYEQ EyeQ encoding 1.6 8.0

LIC-XOS-MEZZA-NMI Lightly compressed source with Sony NMI 1.8 8.0

LIC-XOS-UNCOMP Uncompressed baseband 2022-6 source 1.8 8.0

Electra XOS OTT Packaging Licenses

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Name Description Electra NMX

XOS Release
Release

LIC-XOS-OTT-EGRESS-S RTMP & OTT packaging for 3 Mbps 1.6 8.0

LIC-ELCXOS-OTT-EGRESS-S
(obsolete)

LIC-XOS-OTT-EGRESS-M RTMP & OTT packaging for 100 Mbps 1.6 8.0

LIC-ELCXOS-OTT-EGRESS-M
(obsolete)

LIC-XOS-OTT-EGRESS-L RTMP & OTT packaging for 1 Gbps 1.6 8.0

LIC-ELCXOS-OTT-EGRESS-L
(obsolete)

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4 Supported Platforms

4.1 Appliances
Appliances are standard servers selected and configured by Harmonic. The following appliances are supported
in this release:

Server Sales Reference Industrial Part Number Description Ports

label

XOS-400 HWR-ELCXOS- HWR-ELCXOS- 1RU HP DL360 Gen9 server with 8x

0 CHS-1RU-2AC-C1 CHS-1RU-2AC-C1-01 dual 2690v4 capable of 1GbE

• SD/HD encoding
• UHD encoding with HW
accelerator

XOS-400 HWR-XOS- HWR-XOS- 1RU HP DL360 Gen10 server 8x

0 CHS-4000 CHS-4000-01 with dual 6130 capable of 1GbE

• SD/HD encoding
• UHD CBR encoding with HW
accelerator

XOS-700 HWR-XOS- HWR-XOS- 1RU HP DL360 Gen10 server 8x

0 CHS-7000 CHS-7000-02 with dual 6148 capable of 1GbE
HWR-XOS-
• SD/HD encoding
CHS-7000-01
• UHD CBR/VBR encoding
without HW accelerator

4.2 Appliance Options

Option card Sales Reference Description

SDI HWR-XOS-SDI-8IN SDI input card with 8 ports configurable as

• 8 SD/HD-SDI
HWR-ELCXOS-CHS-1RU-OPT-
• 4 3G-SDI level A/B
SDI-8IN (obsolete P/N)
• 1 UHD in quadrant mode

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Option card Sales Reference Description

SDI-2SI HWR-XOS-SDI-8x3G SDI input card with 8 ports configurable as

• 8 SD/HD-SDI
• 4 3G-SDI level A/B
• 1 UHD in quadrant/2SI mode

UHD HWR-XOS-XOS-1UHD HW accelerator to encode one HEVC UHD in CBR

HWR-ELCXOS-CHS-1RU-OPT-1UHD
(obsolete P/N)

4.3 Supported Configurations (Appliance and HW cards)

Each server has 3 PCI slots. UHD encoding and SDI capacity depends on cards present in slots. The following
configurations are supported in this release.

 Note:
All of these configurations include NMX as a Management Interface and SAG.

 Slot numbering refers to numbering in NMX UI.

Server Slot 2 Slot3 Slot4 SDI inputs UHD Note

Left Middle Right encoding

XOS-400 0 None
0

XOS-400 UHD 0 1 UHD CBR

0

XOS-400 UHD UHD 0 2 UHD CBR

0

XOS-400 SDI 8 HD-SDI or 4 3G-SDI None

0

XOS-400 SDI UHD 8 HD-SDI or 4 3G-SDI 1 UHD CBR

0

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Server Slot 2 Slot3 Slot4 SDI inputs UHD Note

Left Middle Right encoding

XOS-400 SDI-2S UHD 8 HD-SDI or 8 3G-SDI 1 UHD CBR

0 I

XOS-400 SDI UHD UHD 8 HD-SDI or 4 3G-SDI 2 UHD CBR

0

XOS-400 SDI-2S UHD UHD 8 HD-SDI or 8 3G-SDI 2 UHD CBR

0 I

XOS-400 SDI SDI 16 HD-SDI or Obsolete

0 8 HD-SDI+4 3G-SDI or
8 3G-SDI

XOS-400 SDI SDI 16 HD-SDI or

0 8 HD-SDI+4 3G-SDI or
8 3G-SDI

XOS-700 0 1 UHD UHD SW

0 CBR/VBR encoding
or more

XOS-700 SDI 8 HD-SDI or 4 3G-SDI 1 UHD UHD SW

0 CBR/VBR encoding
or more

XOS-700 SDI-2S 8 HD-SDI or 8 3G-SDI 1 UHD UHD SW

0 I CBR/VBR encoding
or more

XOS-700 SDI SDI 16 HD-SDI or 1 UHD UHD SW

0 8 HD-SDI + 4 3G-SDI or CBR/VBR encoding
8 3G-SDI or more Obsolete

XOS-700 SDI SDI 16 HD-SDI or 1 UHD UHD SW

0 8 HD-SDI + 4 3G-SDI or CBR/VBR encoding
8 3G-SDI or more

 Obsolete configurations are still supported but not recommended for future deployments.

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 Note:
Additional software licenses are requested to enable encoding and optional features.

 Always ask for a benchmark to get the best density with UHD SW encoding

4.4 Reference Platforms

Electra XOS can be deployed as a Linux application (RPM package) on a reference platform.

Reference platforms are standard servers running Linux. These servers can be provided by Harmonic or directly
by the customer.

Available features on reference platforms may differ from appliances:

• Reference platforms do not support PCI cards such as SDI input cards or UHD HW acceleration cards,
• Hardware monitoring of reference platforms is performed using tools provided by the hardware
manufacturer (iLO and HP One View for HP servers),
• Software deployment and updates are performed by third party mechanisms or by HIM (Harmonic
Infrastructure Manager),
• Network set-up is part of Operating System set-up and is not available in NMX or in StandAlone user
interface.

The following table lists tested reference platforms. Other reference platform might be supported. Please contact
Harmonic for more details.

Sales Reference BOM Description Description Ports SDI

inputs

HPE DL360 Gen10 1RU Encoder capable of encoding SD/ 4x None

HWR- server HD. Deployed for a specific project 1GbE
CHS-5000-00N Dual Xeon 6140 with a specific BIOS and OS
96GB RAM (12 x 8GB)
1 x 240GB SSD
OS (Pre-loaded)

No Sales HPE DL360 Gen10 Encoder capable of encoding SD/ 2x None

Reference Blade HD/UHD from IP/NMI input 10GbE
Dual Xeon 6148
192GB RAM (12 x 16GB)
2 x 240GB SSD
OS (Pre-loaded)

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Sales Reference BOM Description Description Ports SDI

inputs

HWR-CHS-10RU- HPE Blade System 10 RU Blade System with 16 slots 20x10 None
AC C7000 enclosure with AC for processing blades hosting dual GbE
PSUs Flex-10 cards (10x10G I/O ports per
Flex-10)

HWR-OPT- HPE Blade BL460c Processing blade class 7000 to use 2x10G None
BLD-7000 Gen10 in HWR-CHS-10RU-AC chassis bE
Dual Xeon 6148
96GB RAM (12 x 8GB)
1x 480GB SSD

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5 Detailed Feature List

Available XOS features dependent on the interface used for control&command.

Some features are only accessible via NMX or SAG.

All features are available through the API.  

Feature Description Specific licenses in First Release

addition to channel Tested
licenses and base
licenses

IP inputs

IP inputs and redundancy  XOS 1.6 LA1

• 2 Ethernet ports
Video PID
• With or without port teaming 
missing added
• IP v4
in XOS 1.7
• IGMP v2 and v3 ASM
• Multicast streams over UDP 
• Source redundancy
• 1 alternate source received on the same port or
on the second port
• Automatic redundancy triggered by
• Stream not received
• CC errors in stream
• Threshold not configurable:
120 CC errors in 60s
• Video PID missing
• Automatic or manual revert redundancy

TS over IP inputs

SPTS, MPTS format XOS 1.6 LA1

• TS with null packets and valid MPEG timestamps

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Video PID decoding XOS 1.6 LA1

• HEVC 4:2:0/4:2:2 8/10 bit SD/HD/UHD
• H.264 4:2:0/4:2:2 8/10 bit SD/HD HEVC 4:2:2
• MPEG-2 4:2:0 8 bits SD/HD decoding
• AVS+ added in XOS
• UHD up 100 Mbps 1.8
• SD/HD up to 45 Mbps
AVS+ added in
• CBR & VBR
XOS 1.8
• UHD means 2160p24/p25/p29.97/p50/p59.94
• SD means 576i25 (aka 576i50), 480i29.97 (aka 480i59.94)
• HD means 720p50/p59.94, 1080i25, 1080i29.97 (aka
1080i59.94), 1080psf24, 1080p50/p59.94

Audio decoding Dolby processing XOS 1.6 LA1

license
• MPEG1 Layer II decoding (stereo)
• LC-AAC, HE-AAC v1 decoding (stereo / 5.1)
• AC-3/ E.AC-3 decoding (stereo / 5.1)

Audio pass through XOS 1.6 LA1

• MPEG1 Layer II pass through

• AAC pass through
• AC-3/E-AC-3 pass through 2.0 and 5.1 up to 512 kbps
• Dolby ATMOS pass through
• Dolby AC-4 pass through

Data pass through XOS 1.8

• SCTE-35 pass through  
See below DPI processing

Sony NMI support

NMI decoding XOS 1.7.1 LA

Clean source switching and hitless redundancy XOS 1.7.1 LA

SDI inputs

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Video formats XOS 1.6 LA1

• UHD 2160p50/59.94 x3840 as 4x 3G-SDI Level A/B

quadrant/2SI formats
• UHD 2160p25/29.97 x3840 as 4x HD-SDI quadrant/2SI
formats
• HD 1080p50/59.94 x1920 as 3G-SDI Level A/B
• HD 1080i25/29.97 x1920 as HD-SDI
• HD 1080psf25/29.97 x1920 as HD-SDI
• HD 720p50/59.94 x1250 as HD-SDI
• SD 575i25 x720 as SD-SDI
• SD 480i29.97 x720 as SD-SDI

Note: Switching between quadrant and 2SI formats requires to

restart the channel.

Embedded audio support Dolby processing XOS 1.6 LA1

license
• up to 8 tracks (PCM stereo/5.1 or pre compressed)
• For UHD, audio is extracted from first SDI
• Precompressed audio formats and processing
• Dolby E decoding for re-encoding
• PCM fall back on loss of stream
• AC-3/E-AC-3 pass through
• Dolby ATMOS pass through
• received encapsulated in E-AC-3
stream
• Dolby AC-4 pass through
• 32kbps to 1024 kbps

Embedded data support

• VANC
• SMPTE 2031
• OP47 (RDD08)
• ARIB STD37
• SMPTE 2010 (SCTE104 in SDI)
See below DPI processing
• WSS Support

Video Pre-Processing

Downconversion XOS 1.6 LA1

• UHD to HD/SD
• HD to SD

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Bit depth XOS 1.6 LA1

• 10bit to 8bit conversion

• 8bit to 10bit conversion

Noise Reduction XOS 1.6 LA1

• UHD: Disable
• SD/HD: Disabled, Auto, Moderate, Strong

Picture enhancement XOS 1.6 LA1

• UHD: Disable, Tone Expansion Tone

• SD/HD: Disable, Weak Expansion
added in XOS
1.8

Stress Bias XOS 1.6 LA1

• UHD: Balanced
• SD/HD: Clean, Balanced, Sharp

HDR & Color space signalling XOS 1.6 LA1

• Supported signaling
• SDR BT.601
• SDR BT.709
• SDR BT.2020
• HDR-10 BT.2020
• HDR-10 BT.2020 Dolby Vision 8.1
• HLG BT.2020
• HLG BT.709
• For IP sources, signaling pass through
• HDR-10 metadata
• when signaling is pass through  
• maxFALL & MaxCLL values are pass
through
• when converting to HDR-10 :
• maxCLL and maxFALL are fixed and
not configurable
• maxCLL=1000 cd/m2 &
maxFALL=400 cd/m2

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HDR & Color space/Dynamic Range conversions HDR processing license XOS 1.6 LA1

• Cross Conversion (HDR → HDR) Dolby Vision

Tone expansion requires
• BT.2020 HDR-10 → BT.2020 HLG added in XOS
a specific HDR
• BT.2020 HLG → BT.2020 HDR-10 1.7 LA but
processing license
• BT.2020 HDR-10 → BT.2020 Dolby Vision (8.1 finalized in
profile 5) XOS 1.8
• Tone Mapping (HDR → SDR)
• BT.2020 HDR-10 → BT.709 HLG
Tone
• BT.2020 HDR-10 → BT.709 SDR
Expansion
• BT.2020 HLG → BT.709 HLG
added in XOS
• BT.2020 HLG → BT.709 SDR
1.8
• Tone Expansion (SDR → HDR)
• BT.709 → BT.2020 HDR-10
• BT.709 → BT.2020 HLG

Black pattern/Custom slate XOS 1.6 LA1

• File format for Slate: PNG Black pattern

• Triggers: Manual, SCTE35, loss of input (SDI/IP inputs) added in XOS
1.9

Video Inlay XOS 1.6 LA1

• Logo insertion
DVB subtitles
• on SDR BT.709 signal
burn in added
• File format: PNG
in XOS 1.9
• DVB subtitles burn-in

Frame rate conversions (SAG/API only)

• p50 → p59.94
• p59.94 → p50

OTT/Mobile Web Video Encoding

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Multi profile encoding synchronized for ABR EyeQ requires EyeQ XOS 1.6 LA1
license
• Global settings
Single PPS
• Single PPS HEVC mode
HEVC mode
• Selectable per profile:
added in XOS
• Service ID (aka Program Number)!
1.7 LA
• Resolution
• Codec
• Profile & Level
• Frame rate
• Bit rate
• Output Color Space/Dynamic Range
• Min GOP duration
• Multicast destination (single or dual)
• Output mode: single or dual
destinations
• Destination IP address & destination
port
• Source IP address
• TTL
• SDT table insertion
• Selectable per profile list:
• EBP mode: CableLabs ATS
• IDR interval (from 1s to 10s)
• Inserted logo
• EyeQ mode
• Quality level (High fidelity, Balanced,
High compression)
• TS CBR/VBR (no null packet)
• VBV delay
• AVC / OTT encoding
• Normal: 3s
• HEVC / OTT encoding
• Normal: 1s

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HEVC UHD OTT/Web Encoding without HW accelerator (beta) EyeQ requires EyeQ XOS 1.7 LA
• Output Resolutions: license
• UHD: 3840x2160p
• WQHD 2560x1440p
• Chroma 4:2:0
• Color Space: BT.2020, BT.709
• Dynamic Range: SDR, HDR-10, HLG, , Dolby Vision
• Encoding profiles : Main, Main10
• Progressive frame rates: 59.94, 50, 29.97, 25
• Rate control: CBR, EyeQ
• Output bit rate:
• UHD: 6-35Mbps

HEVC UHD OTT/Web Encoding (with 1 HW accelerator per EyeQ requires EyeQ XOS 1.6 LA1
UHD/WQHD) license
• Output Resolutions:
• UHD: 3840x2160p
• WQHD 2560x1440p
• Chroma 4:2:0
• Color Space: BT.2020, BT.709
• Dynamic Range: SDR, HDR-10, HLG, Dolby Vision
• Encoding profiles : Main, Main10
• Progressive frame rates: 59.94, 50, 29.97, 25
• Rate control: CBR
• Output bit rate:
• UHD: 6-35Mbps

HEVC SD/HD OTT/Web Encoding EyeQ requires EyeQ XOS 1.6 LA1
• Output Resolutions: license
• Everything up to 1920x1080p
• Chroma: 4:2:0
• Color Space: BT.2020, BT.709
• Dynamic Range: SDR, HDR-10, HLG, Dolby Vision
• Encoding profiles : Main, Main10
• Progressive Frame rate: 60, 59.94, 50, 30, 29.97, 25, 24,
23.97, 20, 15, 14.98, 12.5, 10, 8, 7.5, 7.49, 6.25, 5, 3.74, 3,
2, 1
• Rate control: CBR

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AVC OTT/Web Encoding EyeQ requires EyeQ XOS 1.6 LA1

license
• Output Resolutions:
• SD/HD: Everything up to 1920x1080p
• Output frame rate: progressive or interlaced
• Chroma 4:2:0
• Color Space: BT.709
• Dynamic Range: SDR
• Encoding profiles : Baseline, Main, High
• EyeQ Mode
• Progressive frame rates: 60, 59.94, 50, 30, 29.97, 25, 24,
23.97, 20, 15, 14.98, 12.5, 10, 8, 7.5, 7.49, 6.25, 5, 3.74, 3,
2, 1, same/half as input
• Interlaced frame rates: i25, i29.97
• Rate control: CBR, Capped VBR

Broadcast Video Encoding

VBV Delay

• AVC / Broadcast:
• Normal: 1s
• HEVC / Broadcast
• Normal: 3s

PIP encoding XOS 1.9

• same input as main video

• select TS output bit rate (500 kbit/s by default)
• 1 PIP video encoding
• 1audio encoding distinct from main audios (select the
audio source)
• user defined PID for audio and video

Repeat Field Detection XOS 1.9

• User configurable
• Available with
• AVC: 1080i29.97, 720p59.94, 1080p59.94,
480i29.97
• MP2: 1080i29.97, 720p59.94, 480i29.97

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HD MPEG-2 CBR Broadcast encode XOS 1.6 LA1

• Encoding Profiles: Main

• Encoding Levels: High
• Chroma 4:2:0
• Color Spaces: BT.709
• Bit-depth: 8 bit
• VQ mode: High VQ
• Dynamic Range: SDR
• Resolutions
• 1080i x 1920/1440/1280/960 @ 29.97 Hz
• 720p x 1280/960/640 @ 59.94 Hz
• Bit rate: 6.0 to 25 Mbps
• Rate Control: CBR
• M (mini GOP): 1, 2, 3
• N (GOP size) 1-96 (multiple of M)
• GOP Mode: Variable, Capped, Fixed, Fixed M
• GOP Type: Open, Closed
• SCTE-20-MOT(DVS-157) encapsulation
• Support for DCT 1000/2000 set top box model

SD MPEG-2 CBR Broadcast encode XOS 1.6 LA1

• Encoding Profiles: Main

• Encoding Levels: Main
• Chroma: 4:2:0
• Bit-depth: 8 bit
• Color Spaces: BT.601
• VQ mode: High VQ
• Dynamic Range: SDR
• Resolution 480i x 352/480/528/544/640/704/720 @ 29.97
Hz
• Bit rates: 0.5 Mbps to 15 Mbps
• Rate Control: CBR
• M (mini GOP): 1, 2, 3
• N (GOP size) 1-96 (multiple of M)
• GOP Mode: Variable, Capped, Fixed, Fixed M
• GOP Type: Open, Closed
• SCTE-20-MOT(DVS-157) encapsulation
• Support for DCT 1000/2000 set top box model

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Full HD AVC(H.264) Broadcast encode VBR added in

• Encoding Profiles High and Main XOS 1.7.1 LA
• Encoding Levels: Up to 4.2
Encoding
• Chroma 4:2:0
Styles in VBR
• Bit-depth: 8 bit
added in XOS
• VQ mode: High VQ
1.9
• Color Spaces: BT.709
• Dynamic Range: SDR
• Resolutions
• 1080p x 1920 @ 59.94 Hz
• 1080p x 1920 @ 50 Hz
• Bit rates: 2.5 Mbps to 30 Mbps
• Rate Control: CBR, VBR
• M (mini GOP): 1, 2, 3, 4, 8
• N (GOP size) 1-96 (multiple of M)
• GOP Mode: Variable, Capped, Fixed, Fixed M
• GOP Type: Open, Closed
• Encoding Styles (AI technology) with VBR

HD AVC(H.264) Broadcast Encode VBR added in

XOS 1.7.1 LA
• Encoding Profiles: High and Main
• Encoding Levels: up to 4.1 Encoding
• Chroma: 4:2:0 Styles in VBR
• Bit-depth: 8 bit added in XOS
• VQ mode: High VQ 1.8
• Color Spaces: BT.709
• Dynamic Range: SDR
• Resolutions 1080i x 1920/1440/ 1280/960 @ 59.94 Hz
• 1080p x 1920 @ 23.97 Hz
• 720p x 1280/960/640 @ 59.94 Hz
• 1080i x 1920/1440/ 1280/960 @ 50 Hz
• 720p x 1280/960/640 @ 50 Hz
• Bit rates: 2.5 Mbps to 30 Mbps
• Rate Control CBR, VBR
• M (mini GOP):
• 1080i: 1, 2, 3, 4
• 720p: 1, 2, 3, 4, 8
• N (GOP size) 1-96 (multiple of M)
• GOP Mode: Variable, Capped, Fixed, Fixed M
• GOP Type: Open, Closed
• Statistical Multiplexing
• Encoding Styles (AI technology) with VBR

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SD AVC(H.264) Broadcast Encode XOS 1.6 LA1

• Encoding Profiles: High, Main VBR added in

• Encoding Levels: up to 3 XOS 1.7.1 LA
• Chroma: 4:2:0
Encoding
• Bit-depth: 8 bit
Styles in VBR
• Color Spaces: BT.601
added in XOS
• Dynamic Range: SDR
1.9
• Resolutions
• 480i x 352/480/528/544/640/704/720 @ 29.97
Hz
• 576i x 352/480/528/544/640/704/720 @ 25 Hz
• Bit-depth: 8 bit
• Bit rates: from 0.8 Mbps to 12 Mbps
• Rate Control CBR, VBR
• M (mini GOP) 1, 2, 3, 4
• N (GOP size) 1-96 (multiple of M)
• GOP Mode: Variable, Capped, Fixed, Fixed M
• GOP Type: Open, Closed
• Statistical Multiplexing
• Encoding Styles (AI technology) with VBR

UHD HEVC (H.265) Broadcast Encode without HW accelerator XOS 1.7 LA

• Encoding Profiles: Main, Main 10
• Encoding Levels and Tiers: up to 5.1, Main Tier VBR added in
• Chroma: 4:2:0 XOS 1.7.1 LA
• Bit-depth: 8, 10 bits
• Color Spaces: BT.709, BT.2020
• Dynamic Range: SDR, HLG, HDR-10, Dolby Vision
• Resolutions
• 2160p x 3840 @ 59.94 Hz
• 2160p x 3840 @ 50 Hz
• Rate Control: CBR, VBR
• M (mini GOP) 8
• N (GOP size) 1-96 (multiple of M)
• GOP Mode: Variable, Capped, Fixed, Fixed M
• GOP Type: Open, Closed
• Statistical Multiplexing

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UHD HEVC (H.265) CBR Broadcast Encode with HW XOS 1.6 LA1
accelerator
• Encoding Profiles: Main, Main 10
• Encoding Levels and Tiers: up to 5.1, Main Tier
• Chroma: 4:2:0
• Bit-depth: 8, 10 bits
• Color Spaces: BT.709, BT.2020
• Dynamic Range: SDR, HLG, HDR-10, Dolby Vision
• Resolutions
• 2160p x 3840 @ 59.94 Hz
• 2160p x 3840 @ 50 Hz
• Rate Control: CBR
• M (mini GOP): 8
• N (GOP size) 1-96 (multiple of M)
• GOP Mode: Variable, Capped, Fixed, Fixed M
• GOP Type: Open, Closed

HD HEVC (H.265) Broadcast Encode XOS 1.6 LA1

• Encoding Profiles: Main, Main10
• Encoding Levels & Tiers: up to 4.1, Main Tier VBR added in
• Chroma: 4:2:0 XOS 1.7.1 LA
• Bit-depth: 8, 10 bits
• Color Spaces: BT.709, BT.2020
• Dynamic Range: SDR, HLG, HDR-10, Dolby Vision
• Resolutions
• 1080p x 1920/1440/ 1280/960 @ 59.94 Hz
• 1080i x 1920/1440/ 1280/960 @ 59.94 Hz
• 720p x 1280/960/640 @ 59.94 Hz
• 1080p x 1920/1440/ 1280/960 @ 50 Hz
• 1080i x 1920/1440/ 1280/960 @ 50 Hz
• 720p x 1280/960/640 @ 50 Hz
• Bit rates: from 2 Mbps to 20 Mbps
• Rate Control: CBR, VBR
• M (mini GOP)
• 720p/1080p: 4, 8
• 1080i: 2, 4
• N (GOP size) 1-96 (multiple of M)
• GOP Mode: Variable, Capped, Fixed, Fixed M
• GOP Type: Open, Closed

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SD HEVC (H.265) Broadcast Encode XOS 1.6 LA1

• Encoding Profiles: Main, Main10

VBR added in
• Encoding Levels & Tiers: up to 3, Main Tier
XOS 1.7.1 LA
• Chroma: 4:2:0
• Bit-depth: 8, 10 bits
• Color Spaces: BT.601, BT.709, BT.2020
• Dynamic Range: SDR
• Resolutions
• 480i x 352/480/528/544/640/704/720 @ 29.97
Hz
• 576i x 352/480/528/544/640/704/720 @ 25 Hz
• Bit rates from 0.75 Mbps to 6 Mbps
• Rate Control CBR, VBR
• M (mini GOP:) 1, 2, 4
• N (GOP size): 1-96 (multiple of M)
• GOP Mode: Variable, Capped, Fixed, Fixed M
• GOP Type: Open, Closed

IDR insertion based on SCTE-35 messages XOS 1.6 LA1

Audio

Audio Processing

Silence insertion on loss of audio input (SDI/IP) XOS 1.6 LA1

Language code in AC-3 descriptors for compatibility with older XOS 1.6 LA1
STB models

Loudness Control: 3 Presets Loudness Control XOS 1.7 LA

License
• EBU R128 (-23 LUFS)
• A-Weighting (-23 dB)
• ATSC A/85 (-24 LFFS)

Dolby metadata transcoding to AAC metadata XOS 1.9

Audio Encoding

MPEG1 Layer II encoding XOS 1.6 LA1

• Channel Mode: Single channel (1/0), Stereo (2/0)

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LC-AAC encoding XOS 1.6 LA1

• Channel Mode: Single channel (1/0), Stereo (2/0),

Surround (3/2)
• MPEG-2 ADTS/MPEG-4 ADTS/MPEG-4 LATM

HE-AAC v1 encoding (also known as AAC+) XOS 1.6 LA1

• Channel Mode: Single channel (1/0), Stereo (2/0),

Surround (3/2)
• MPEG-4 ADTS/MPEG-4 LATM

HE-AAC v2 encoding XOS 1.6 LA1

• Channel Mode: Stereo (2/0),

• MPEG-4 ADTS/MPEG-4 LATM

AC-3 (Dolby Digital) encoding Dolby processing XOS 1.6 LA1

license
• Channel Mode: Single channel (1/0), Stereo (2/0),
Surround (3/2)

E-AC-3 (Dolby Digital+) encoding Dolby processing XOS 1.6 LA1

license
• Channel Mode: Single channel (1/0), Stereo (2/0),
Surround (3/2)

Dolby AC-4 encoding Dolby processing XOS 1.6 LA2

license
• Channel Mode: Single channel (1/0), Stereo (2/0),
Surround (3/2)
• Audio Level Adjustment: Manual, ATSC A85, EBU R128,
ARIB TR32, FreeTV OP49
• Manual: -31..-1 dB
• Sample Rate (KHz): 48
• Bit rates (Kbit/s):
• Single Channel (1/0): 32, 48
• Stereo (2/0): 48, 64, 96
• Multi channel (3/2): 96, 128, 192, 256
• Metadata pass through when source is
• AC-3 
• E-AC-3

+/- 125 ms manual audio delay for AV Sync adjustment XOS 1.6 LA1

DPI processing

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Incoming SCTE104 processing (SDI input) XOS 1.8

• SCTE104 immediate mode

• SCTE104 differed mode with VITC
• Supported messages
• Splice Requests
• Splice Start immediate
• Splice Start normal
• Splice Start normal with
break duration
• Splice Cancel (to be
confirmed)
• Splice end immediate
• Splice end normal
• Splice_null
• Time Signal
• Time_Signal_request_data(
)               
• Insert_segmentation_descri
ptor_request_data()
• Descriptors
• insert_descriptor_request_
data
• Insert_avail_descriptor_req
uest_data
• insert_DTMF_descriptor_re
quest_data
• insert_time_descriptor()
• Various
• DPI time offset (offset in the
splice point in the output
SCTE35 message)

• SCTE35 Message insertion

• Silence period
• Table repetition
Note: 8, 6 & 4 s prior to pointed PTS
(splice time)
• No table repetition possibility

• Video/Audio conditioning
• IDR insertion
• with splice normal
• with splice normal & break
duration

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• with time signal

• with segmentation
descriptors
• Switch to CBR during splice duration
(to be confirmed)
• Audio AC3 conditioning  (to be
confirmed)
• Audio AAC conditionning (to be
confirmed)
• VBV buffer management (To be
confirmed)

Incoming SCTE-35 processing (MPEG Compressed input)

• SCTE35 pass through

• Splice immediate
• Splice Normal
• Time signal
• No Possibility of incoming SCTE35 filtering
• ESAM interface on transcoding Side
• Video/Audio conditioning
• IDR insertion
• with splice normal
• with splice normal & break duration
• with time signal
• with segmentation descriptors
• Switch to CBR during splice duration (to be confirmed)
• No audio AC3 conditioning  (to be confirmed)
• No Audio AAC conditionning (to be confirmed)
• VBV buffer management (To be confirmed)

PAT, PMT generation XOS 1.6 LA1

• Editable language code
• Editable custom descriptors XOS 1.9:
custom
descriptors
supported in
Broadcast
mode

SDT generation and modification XOS 1.6 LA1

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Outputs

IP Outputs

Dual streaming on dual ports XOS 1.6 LA1

SPTS Multicast over IP XOS 1.6 LA1

• Broadcast mode:
• TS CBR over UDP
• OTT/Mobile Web mode:
• TS CBR or TS VBR (no null packet)
• UDP or RTP

Selectable port/multicast address per OTT profile XOS 1.6 LA1

Packaged outputs

See XOS Packager for detailed features Packaging licenses XOS 1.6 LA1

• DASH
• HLS
• Smooth Streaming
• RTMP

Management and Monitoring interfaces

NMX NMX license XOS 1.6 LA1

RESTful API XOS 1.6 LA1

SNMP Agent XOS 1.6 LA1

Stand-alone User interface XOS 1.6 LA1

• Web based (requires Javascript)

• In NMX systems, SAG is only accessible when NMX is set
in Monitoring mode

NMX Management Features

Configuration and Monitoring of services from NMX XOS 1.6 LA1

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Hardware monitoring from NMX (appliances only) XOS 1.6 LA1

Software Update from NMX (appliances only) XOS 1.6 LA1

N:M redundancy from NMX with XOS 1.6 LA1

• IP inputs
• SD/HD SDI inputs (appliances only)

N:M redundancy from NMX with XOS 1.6 LA2

• UHD-SDI (4x 3G-SDI) (appliances only)

• Mix of IP & SDI inputs (appliances only)

Remote restart from NMX (appliances only) XOS 1.6 LA1

Discovery of IP input streams XOS 1.6 LA1

RESTful API Features

Support for LDAP, Authentification to be compatible with XOS 1.6 LA1

freeIPA

Configuration and Monitoring of services from API XOS 1.6 LA1

Editable PMT, SDT descriptors from API XOS 1.6 LA1

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STB modes

For broadcast encoding XOS 1.7.1 LA

• IPTV Media Room
• IPTV Cable SCTE 20 Proprietary
• IPTV Cable ATSC and SCTE 20 Mode 762 in
• IPTV Cable ATSC and SCTE 20 (608 to 708 Always) XOS 1.9
• IPTV Cable ATSC and SCTE 20 (608 to 708 Autosense)
• IPTV Cable SCTE-20-MOT (DVS-157)
• ARIB ext1
HEVC, AVC and AAC signaling per ARIB B.32
AVC syntax and colorimetry per ARIB B1/20
Audio and Video Mode Change per ARIB B.39
Extraction of stereo pair from 7.1 input per ARIB B.39
Closed Caption per ARIB B.3
• Proprietary Mode 762
Limit PTS occurence interval to 700ms for interoperability
with DVB analyzers

For Mobile/Web encoding

• MBR Generic
• Media Room
• eMBMS
• HEVC Single PPS
• Proprietary Mode 762
Limit PTS occurence interval to 700ms for interoperability
with DVB analyzers

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6 Timings
Boot time  Measured with

Boot time is measured with SPTS output until a valid signal is decoded and displayed. XOS 1.9.0

• Cold boot: 6mn 10 (2)

• Warm boot
• Restart triggered by NMX or SAG: 4mn 48s (2)

(2) Measured on Class 4000 server, 1 broadcast service

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Glass-to-glass latencies  Measured with

Broadcast mode, SPTS output XOS 1.6 LA1

• SDI input VBR measures

• 2160p59.94 source, HEVC Main10, 2160p59.94 (UHD): 3s (1) (3) with XOS 1.8
• 1080p59.94 source, HEVC Main10, 1080p59.94 (Full HD): 3.9s (1) LA
• 1080i29.97 source, H.264, 1080i29.97 (HD): 3.1s (2)
• 1080i25 source, H.264, 1080i25 (HD): 3.4s (2)

• IP input
• H.264 1080i25 source, H.264 encoding, 1080i25 (HD): 3.8s (2)

Broadcast mode, VBR, MPTS output (after ProStream X)

• SDI input
• 1080i25 source, H.264 1080i25 (HD): 5.0s (2)

Mobile/Web mode, SPTS output

• SDI input
• 2160p59.94 source, HEVC Main10 profiles, p59.94: 5.1s (1) (3)
• 1080i29.97 source, H.264 profiles, p29.97: 5.4s (2)
• 1080i25 source, H.264 profiles, p25: 5.4s (2)

• IP input
• H.264 1080i25 source, H.264 profiles, p25: 5.9s (2)

(1): Latency measured with ViXS HEVC UHD 4K golden reference decoder GRD2.1.

(2): Latency measured with ProView 7100

(3): with UHD HW accelerator

Upgrading a unit Measured with

• Total with HWR-ELCXOS-CHS-1RU-2AC-C1-01 : 13m5s XOS 1.6 LA1

• Downloading + upgrade (7mn5s)
• rebooting (6mn)

Note: Output is offline only at rebooting period

Note: Timing may vary on future upgrades depending on the size of the file to download
and the network speed.

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Disturbances on output signals Measured with

• When editing a non-seam less parameter: XOS 1.9.0 LA

• SDI input: 5.5s
• IP input: X.Xs
• When adding a new profile in an OTT channel: 7s
• Redundancy
• N:1 config
• Manual switch: 4-6s
• Manual switch in reduced mode: 3-4s
• Reboot active encoder (automatic mode): ~30s
• 1:1 config
• Manual switch: Output not affected
• Offline/Reboot active encoder (automatic mode): < 1s
• When losing main stream with source redundancy (auto redundancy): ~Xs
• When losing main port with port redundancy (auto redundancy): ~Xs
• When upgrading software of a unit: Xmn (reboot time)

 Detailed redundancy timings are in the following page  https://
confluence360.harmonicinc.com/display/QA/
Redundancy+Timings+Comparison

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7 Differences with Electra X2

Electra XOS and Electra X2 are distinct products with distinct feature sets. Electra XOS is not a super set of
Electra X2.

The goal when designing XOS was to simplify usage of the product, add new features and drop features which
are no more relevant.

Integrating features of Electra X2 takes time and this task is done progressively.

This section is listing Electra X2 features not present with current XOS version.

Some of them might be added in the coming releases.

Missing Electra X2 feature

System Seamlessness in parameter changes

2020-6 inputs

2110 inputs

Multiple encoding from one source

License enforcement

VLAN tagging

Redundancy Input TS redundancy and Port redundancy  (only port teaming and alternate source
redundancy are available)

More than 1 alternate source

Configurable triggers for alternate source redundancy (triggers are fixed)

Video Graphics overlays (only one static logo is supported)

TS file to replace missing input 

DVB AU Information

JPEG2000 decoding

Audio Junger Loudness Control (but Harmonic Loudness Control is available)

PCR insertion

Audio description

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Missing Electra X2 feature

Data DVB teletext to DVB subtitles

PCR data stream

Teletext pass through from IP

VBI pass through

Broadcast SRCC Id sync with RTP output

encoding
Single input multiple encode output

Mobile/Web ATS outputs without EBP

encoding
Selectable audios per profile  (all audios are included in each ATS output)

Selectable logo per profile (logo if present is inserted on all profiles)

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8 Hardware Specifications

8.1 HWR-XOS-CHS-7000-02

8.1.1 Specifications
• HP DL360 Gen10
• Dual Xeon 6148
• 96GB RAM
• 240 GB SSD
• 8 GigEth ports
• 3 PCI slots
• Dual 800W Platinum Power Supplies
• Electrical Consumption: 420 W
Note: For any detailed power study, check with https://paonline56.itcs.hpe.com

8.1.2 Bill of Material

HP P/N Description Qty

867959-B21 HPE DL360 Gen10 8SFF CTO Server 1

860673-L21 HPE DL360 Gen10 Xeon-G 6148 FIO Kit 1

860673-B21 HPE DL360 Gen10 Xeon-G 6148 Kit 1

815097-B21 HPE 8GB 1Rx8 PC4-2666V-R Smart Kit 12

875503-B21 HPE 240GB SATA RI SFF SC DS SSD 1

867982-B21 HPE DL360 Gen10 LP Riser Kit 1

629135-B22 HPE Ethernet 1Gb 4P 331FLR Adptr 1

865414-B21 HPE 800W FS Plat Ht Plg LH Pwr Sply Kit 2

BD505A HPE iLO Adv 1-svr Lic 3yr Support 1

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HP P/N Description Qty

872252-B21 HPE 1U Gen10 SFF BB Rail Kit 1

867990-B21 HPE DL360 Gen10 SFF Internal Cable Kit 1

8.2 HWR-XOS-CHS-7000-01

8.2.1 Specifications
• HP DL360 Gen10
• Dual Xeon 6148
• 96GB RAM
• 240 GB SSD
• 8 GigEth ports
• 3 PCI slots
• Dual 800W Platinum Power Supplies
• Electrical Consumption: 420 W
Note: For any detailed power study, check with https://paonline56.itcs.hpe.com

8.2.2 Bill of Material

HP P/N Description Qty

867959-B21 HPE DL360 Gen10 8SFF CTO Server 1

860673-L21 HPE DL360 Gen10 Xeon-G 6148 FIO Kit 1

860673-B21 HPE DL360 Gen10 Xeon-G 6148 Kit 1

815097-B21 HPE 8GB 1Rx8 PC4-2666V-R Smart Kit 12

877740-B21 HPE 240GB SATA RI SFF SC DS SSD 1

867982-B21 HPE DL360 Gen10 LP Riser Kit 1

629135-B22 HPE Ethernet 1Gb 4P 331FLR Adptr 1

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HP P/N Description Qty

865414-B21 HPE 800W FS Plat Ht Plg LH Pwr Sply Kit 2

BD505A HPE iLO Adv 1-svr Lic 3yr Support 1

872252-B21 HPE 1U Gen10 SFF BB Rail Kit 1

867990-B21 HPE DL360 Gen10 SFF Internal Cable Kit 1

8.3
HWR-XOS-CHS-4000-01

8.3.1 Specifications
• HP DL360 Gen10
• Dual Xeon 6130
• 96GB RAM
• 240 GB SSD
• 8 GigEth ports
• 3 PCI slots
• Dual 800W Platinum Power Supplies
• Electrical Consumption
Note: For any detailed power study, check with https://paonline56.itcs.hpe.com

8.3.2 Bill Of Material

HP P/N Description Qty

867959-B21 HPE DL360 Gen10 8SFF CTO Server 1

860687-L21 HPE DL360 Gen10 Xeon-G 6130 FIO Kit 1

860687-B21 HPE DL360 Gen10 Xeon-G 6130 Kit 1

815097-B21 HPE 8GB 1Rx8 PC4-2666V-R Smart Kit 12

877740-B21 HPE 240GB SATA RI SFF SC DS SSD 1

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HP P/N Description Qty

867982-B21 HPE DL360 Gen10 LP Riser Kit 1

629135-B22 HPE Ethernet 1Gb 4P 331FLR Adptr 1

865414-B21 HPE 800W FS Plat Ht Plg LH Pwr Sply Kit 2

BD505A HPE iLO Adv 1-svr Lic 3yr Support 1

872252-B21 HPE 1U Gen10 SFF BB Rail Kit 1

8.3.3 HWR-ELCXOS-CHS-1RU-2AC-C1-01

8.3.4 Specifications
• HP DL360 Gen9
• Dual Xeon 2690v4
• 128GB RAM
• 240 GB SSD
• 8 GigEth ports
• 3 PCI slots
• Dual 800W Platinum Power Supplies

8.3.5 Bill Of Material

HP P/N Description Qty

755258-B21 HP ProLiant DL360 Gen9 8SFF Europe-Multilingual Localization Configure-to-order 1

Server

818186-L21 HPE DL360 Gen9 Intel Xeon E5-2690v4 (2.6GHz/14-core/35MB/135W) FIO Processor 1
Kit

818186-B21 HPE DL360 Gen9 Intel Xeon E5-2690v4 (2.6GHz/14-core/35MB/135W) Processor Kit 1

836220-B21 HPE 16GB (1x16GB) Dual Rank x4 DDR4-2400 CAS-17-17-17 Registered Memory Kit 8

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HP P/N Description Qty

764642-B21 HP DL360 Gen9 Low Profile PCIe Slot CPU2 Kit 1

749976-B21 HP H240ar 12Gb 2-ports Int FIO Smart Host Bus Adapter 1

629135-B22 HP Ethernet 1Gb 4-port 331FLR Adapter 1

720479-B21 HPE 800W Flex Slot Platinum Hot Plug Power Supply Kit 2

E6U64ABE HPE iLO Advanced including 3yr 24x7 Technical Support and Updates E-LTU 1

663201-B21 HP 1U Small Form Factor Ball Bearing Rail Kit 1

AC111A HP ProLiant Door/dock Small Logistic Service 1

875503-B21 HPE 240GB SATA 6G READ INTENSIVE SFF (2.5IN) SC 3YR WTY DIGITALLY 1
SIGNED FIRMWARE SSD

8.4 HWR-ELCXOS-OPT-1UHD-01

8.4.1 Specifications
• PCI card for one HEVC UHD CBR encoding
• Half Height, Normal Length
• Electrical Consumption: 13W

8.4.2 Bill Of Material

• Manufacturer: Advantech
• P/N: VEGA-3300-A0E0

8.5 HWR-ELCXOS-OPT-SDI-8IN-01

8.5.1 Specifications
• PCI card for 8 SD/HD-SDI inputs or 4 3G-SDI inputs, UHD with quadrant mode only
• Half Height, Normal Length
• Electrical Consumption: 13W

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8.5.2 Bill Of Material

• Manufacturer: Deltacast
• P/N: DELTA-3G40-HD40-ELP-D-BB Rev 4.2 

8.6 HWR-ELCXOS-OPT-SDI-8x3G-01

8.6.1 Specifications
• PCI card for 8 3G-SDI inputs, UHD with quadrant mode or 2SI mode
• Half Height, Normal Length
• Electrical Consumption: XXW

8.6.2 Bill Of Material

• Manufacturer: Deltacast
• P/N: DELTA-3G-ELP-D80-PC-BB

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9 Device Compliance

9.1 Product Safety Compliance

• UL60950 - CSA 60950 (USA / Canada), EN60950 (Europe), IEC60950 (International)
• CB Certificate & Report, IEC60950 (report to include all country national deviations)
• GS Certification (Germany)
• GOST R 50377-92 - Certification (Russia)
• Ukraine Certification (Ukraine)
• CE - Low Voltage Directive 2006/95/EC (Europe)
• IRAM Certification (Argentina)
• BSMI CNS14336 Emissions (Taiwan)

9.2 Product EMC Compliance - Class A Compliance

• FCC /ICES-003 - Emissions (USA/Canada) Verification
• CISPR 22 - Emissions (International)
• EN55022 - Emissions (Europe)
• EN55024 - Immunity (Europe)
• EN61000-3-2 - Harmonics (Europe)
• EN61000-3-3 - Voltage Flicker (Europe)
• CE - EMC Directive 2004/108 EC (Europe)
• VCCI Emissions (Japan)
• AS/NZS 3548 Emissions (Australia / New Zealand)
• BSMI CNS13438 Emissions (Taiwan)
• GOST R 29216-91 Emissions (Russia)
• GOST R 50628-95 Immunity (Russia)
• Ukraine Certification (Ukraine KC Certification (Korea)
• Europe - European Directive 2002/95/EC - Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Threshold limits
and banned substances are noted below. Quantity limit of 0.1% by mass (1000 PPM) for: Lead, Mercury,
Hexavalent Chromium, Polybrominated Biphenyls Diphenyl Ethers (PBB/PBDE) Quantity limit of 0.01%
by mass (100 PPM) for: Cadmium
• California Code of Regulations, Title 22, Division 4.5, Chapter 33: Best Management Practices for
Perchlorate Materials
• China - Restriction of Hazardous Substances (China RoHS)
• WEEE Directive (Europe)
• Packaging Directive (Europe)
• REACH Directive (Europe)

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9.3 Product Environmental Compliance summary

• Europe - European Directive 2002/95/EC - Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Threshold limits
and banned substances are noted below. Quantity limit of 0.1% by mass (1000 PPM) for: Lead, Mercury,
Hexavalent Chromium, Polybrominated Biphenyls Diphenyl Ethers (PBB/PBDE) Quantity limit of 0.01%
by mass (100 PPM) for: Cadmium
• California Code of Regulations, Title 22, Division 4.5, Chapter 33: Best Management Practices for
Perchlorate Materials
• China - Restriction of Hazardous Substances (China RoHS)
• WEEE Directive (Europe)
• Packaging Directive (Europe)
• REACH Directive (Europe)

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10 Third Party Software

10.1 See here Third-Party Libraries Used by RMP Controller SDK

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11 Glossary

This glossary is common to all products. Defined words do not necessarily apply to this product.

100/1000Base-T             An Ethernet standard designed to generate, monitor and capture 100/ 1000 Ethernet
traffic.

3:2 pull-down                 A technique used when converting film material (which operates at 24 pictures per
second) to 525-line video (operating at 29.97 pictures per second).

3G-SDI                             3 Gbps High-Definition Serial Digital Interface.

4:2:0                                A chrominance sub-sampling system in which the difference signals are sampled on
alternate lines at half the luminance rate.

4:2:2                                A chrominance sub-sampling system in which the difference signals are sampled on all
lines at half the luminance rate.

AAC                                  Advanced Audio Compression algorithm that has been ratified for both MPEG-2 (ISO/
IEC 11818-7) and MPEG-4 (ISO/IEC 14496-3).

AAC-LC                             Low Complexity-Advanced Audio Coding.

ABR                                  Average bitrate or Adaptive bitrate

AC-3                                 Audio Coding 3. AC-3 is a digital audio encoding, also called Dolby Digital, technique
developed by Dolby® for multi-channel sound applications.

ADTS                                Audio Data Transport Stream. ADTS is a method for encapsulating AAC bitstreams
into transport streams. AAC bitstream is packaged in a streaming format called Audio Data Transport Stream
(ADTS), consisting of a series of frames, each frame having a header followed by the AAC audio data.

AES                                   Audio Engineering Society. Professional organization of electrical engineers whose

concern is with the standards of audio engineering.

AFD                                  Active Format Descriptor. Standard set of codes that can be sent in the MPEG video
stream or in the baseband SDI video signal that carries information about their aspect ratio and active picture
characteristics. AGC Automatic Gain Control.

AMOL I and II                  Automatic Measure of Lineups. Data inserted in the VBI lines and used by automated
equipment to measure program-viewing ratings (NTSC). AMOL I: 48 bits/line, AMOL II: 96 bits/line.

ANSI/SCTE-20                 Methods for Carriage of Closed Captions and Non-Real Time Sampled Video. It
defines how to implement VBI (Vertical Blanking Interval) services using the user data field of the picture layer of
the MPEG-2 video bitstream, and according to ISO/IEC 13818-2.

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ANSI/SCTE-21                 The Standard for Carriage of NTSC VBI Data in Cable Digital Transport Stream. It
defines a standard for the carriage of VBI services in MPEG-2 compliant bitstreams constructed according to
ISO/IEC 13818-2.

ARIB                                 Association of Radio Industries and Businesses. ARIB is a standardization

organization in Japan. It is a designated center for the promotion of efficient use of the radio spectrum and
frequency change support agency. Its activities include those previously performed by the Research and
Development Center for Radio Systems (RCR) and Broadcasting Technology Association (BTA).

ARP                                  Address Resolution Protocol. Internet protocol used to map an IP address to physical

(hardware) addresses on local area networks.

ASI                                    Asynchronous Serial Interface.

ATS                                   Adaptive Transport Stream

ATSC                                Advanced Television Standards Committee. ATSC is a set of standards developed for

digital television transmission over terrestrial, cable, and satellite networks for the USA.

AVC                                  Advanced Video Coding.

B-Frame                           Bidirectional-Frame. A frame type in the MPEG compression scheme that is predicted

from past and future reference frames.

Balanced Audio              An audio signal that consists of two wires carrying an audio signal in anti-phase with
each other. Balanced audio has greater ability to reject interference.

BAT                                  Bouquet Association Table. The BAT provides information about bouquets. It gives the
name of the bouquet and a list of associated services.

BISS                                  Basic Interoperable Scrambling System. BISS is a satellite signal scrambling system

developed by the European Broadcasting Union and a consortium of hardware manufacturers.

Bouquet                          A collection of services (TV, radio, and data, or any combination of the three) grouped
and sold together, and identified in the SI as a group. A single service may be in several bouquets.

Buffer                              A memory store used to provide a consistent rate of data flow.

CA                                    Conditional Access. System to control subscriber access to services, programs and

events.

CABAC                             Context-based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding CABAC is a form of entropy coding

used in H.264 video encoding. It is notable for providing much better compression than CAVLC but is more
computationally expensive. CABAC is not supported in Baseline and Extended profiles.

 CAT                                 Conditional Access Table CAT table is used for conditional access to the streams. It
provides association with the EMM stream.

CAVLC                              Context Adaptive Variable Length Coding. CAVLC is a form of entropy coding used in
H.264 video encoding. CAVLC has lower coding efficiency than CABAC but is less computationally expensive.

CBR                                  Constant Bit-rate. The bit-rate of the bit-stream is constant. (see VBR)

CC                                     Close Caption.

Chrominance                  Chrominance (chroma or C for short) is the signal used in video systems to convey the
information of the picture, separately from the accompanying luma signal (or Y for short).

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CIF                                    Common Intermediate Format. A format used to standardize the horizontal and vertical
resolutions in pixels of YCbCr sequences in video signals, commonly used in video teleconferencing systems
(video size: 352p x 288p).

Closed Caption               A TV picture subtitling system used with 525-line analog transmissions.

Composite Video           A baseband representation of a video signal containing luminance and chrominance

information.

Compression                   The process of removing redundant data from audio or video streams to reduce the
amount of data transferred or stored.

CPU                                  Central Processing Unit.

CrCb                                 Digital difference signals. These signals, in combination with the luminance signal (Y),
define the and brightness of each picture element (pixel) on a TV line. See: Chrominance.

CRC                                  Cyclic Redundancy Check. A cyclic redundancy check (CRC) is an error-detecting

code designed to detect accidental changes to raw computer data, and is commonly used in digital networks and
storage devices such as hard disk drives.

CVBS                                Composite Video, Blanking, and Sync.

CVCT                                Cable Virtual Channel Table (ATSC).

CW                                   Control Word.

CWG                                 Control Word Generator.

dB                                     Decibel The decibel is a logarithmic unit that indicates the ratio of a physical quantity
(usually power or intensity) relative to a specified or implied reference level. A ratio in decibels is ten times the
logarithm to base 10 of the ratio of two power quantities. A decibel is one tenth of a bel, a seldom-used unit.

dBFS                                 Decibel Full Scale

De-blocking Filter           An in-loop de-blocking filter is designed to smooth out artifacts introduced by the
compression process in the reconstructed image in both the encoder and decoder.

Decoder                           The device containing the electronic circuitry necessary to decode encrypted signals.
Some Decoders features a receiver.

DTS                                  Decoding Time Stamp A field that may be present in a PES packet header that
indicates the time that an access unit is to be decoded in the system target Decoder.

DET                                  Data Event Table (ATSC)

DID                                   Data Identifier DID is used for embedded audio within the SDI or HD-SDI signal. The
Data Identifier word indicates the type of ancillary data that the packet corresponds to.

Dolby Digital                   Formerly AC-3. An audio coding system based on transform coding techniques and
psycho acoustic principles.

Downconvert                  The process by which the frequency of a broadcast transport stream is shifted to a

lower frequency range.

Downmixing                   Combining (or mixing down) the content of n original channels to produce m channels,
where m < n.

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DPI                                   Digital Program Insertion.

DSNG                               Digital Satellite News-Gathering.

DSP                                  Digital Signal Processor.

DTVCC                              Digital Television Closed Captioning.

DVB                                  Digital Video Broadcasting. The Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB) is an

industry-led consortium of around 250 broadcasters, manufacturers, network operators, software developers,
regulatory bodies and others in over 35 countries committed to designing open technical standards for the global
delivery of digital television and data services. Services using DVB standards are available on every continent
with more than 500 million DVB receivers deployed.

DVB-H                              Digital Video Broadcasting - Handheld. A technical specification for bringing broadcast

services to mobile handsets. DVB-H was formally adopted as ETSI standard EN 302 304 in November 2004.

DVB-T                              Digital Video Broadcasting baseline system for digital terrestrial television.

DVB SI                              Digital Video Broadcasting Service Information.

DVS 053                           See ANSI/SCTE-21.

DVS 157                           See ANSI/SCTE-20.

DVS 706                           The Carriage of Vertical Blanking Information Data in North American Digital Television
Bitstream. Based on the ETSI EN 301 775 standard and provides extensions for the carriage of VBI data. VBI
data is carried in MPEG-2 packetized elementary stream (PES) packets as private stream 1, which in turn is
carried in MPEG2 transport packets. The Data_unit_ID values identify the type of data as AMOL 1, AMOL II, or
TV Guide. Data encoded in the data fields are supposed to be transcoded into the VBI of 525-line video but may
be interpreted directly by a decoder.

EBU                                  European Broadcast Union.

ECM                                 Entitlement Control Message. Private Conditional Access information that specifies

control words and possibly other stream-specific, scrambling, and/or control parameters.

ECMG                               ECM Generator

EDI                                   Ethernet Data Input.

EIA 708-B                         Digital Television Closed Captioning specifies the standards for DTV technology. DTV
closed captioning is transported in the bit stream as a logical data channel in MPEG-2 picture user data field of
the DTV digital bit stream (as defined in the ATSC A/53 and ISO/IEC 13818 standards). To ensure compatibility,
the transport channel is designed to carry analog (EIA-608-B) and digital closed captioning (EIA-708-B).

EIT                                    Event Information Table A.  Mandatory Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) SI table that
transmits information relating to the events in the MPEG transport stream.

Elementary Stream        A generic term for a coded bit-stream, be it video, audio or other.

EMC                                 Electromagnetic Compatibility.

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EMM                                Entitlement Management Message. Private Conditional Access information that

specifies the authorization level or services of specific decoders.

Encryption                      Encoding of a transmission to prevent access without the appropriate decryption

equipment and authorization.

EPG                                  Electronic Program Guide. Provides users of television, radio, and other media
applications with continuously updated menus displaying scheduling information for current and upcoming
programming.

ES                                     Elementary Stream A generic term for a stream of data of one particular type.
Typically, these streams are of Video or Audio Types.

Ethernet                          The most widely used local area network (LAN) defined by the IEEE as the 802.3
standard.

ETSI EN 300 706              The European Television Standards Institute’s (ETSI) specification for World Standard
Teletext (WST).

ETSI EN 300 775              The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) specification for the

Carriage of Vertical Blanking Information Data in DVB bitstreams. VBI data is carried in MPEG-2 packetized
elementary stream (PES) packets as private stream 1, which in turn is carried in MPEG2 transport packets. The
packet identifier (PID) of a VBI data stream associated with a service is identified in the program map table
(PMT) of the program specific information (PSI) for that service. A VBI PES packet contains data for only one
video frame and always carries a PTS. A Data_unit_ID identifies the type of data as EBU teletext non-subtitle
data, EBU teletext subtitle data, video program system (VPS), or wide screen signaling (WSS). Data encoded in
the data fields are supposed to be transcoded into the VBI of 625-line video but may be interpreted directly by a
decoder.

ETT                                   Extended Text Table

FCC                                   Federal Communications Commission.

FEC                                   Forward Error Correction. A system of error control for data transmission, whereby the
sender adds systematically generated redundant data to its messages. The carefully designed redundancy
allows the receiver to detect and correct a limited number of errors occurring anywhere in the message without
the need to ask the sender for additional data. FEC enables the receiver to correct errors without the need for a
reverse channel to request retransmission of data, but this advantage is at the cost of a fixed higher forward
channel bandwidth

Field                                 For an interlaced video signal, a "field" is the assembly of alternate lines of a frame.
Therefore, an interlaced frame is composed of two fields, a top field and a bottom field.

Fps                                   Frame Per Second.

FTP                                   File Transfer Protocol. A standard network protocol used to copy a file from one host to
another over a TCP-based network.

Frame                              A frame contains lines of spatial information of a video signal. For progressive video,
these lines contain samples starting from one time instant and continuing through successive lines to the bottom

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of the frame. For interlaced video a frame consists of two fields, a top field and a bottom field. One of these fields
will commence one field later than the other.

GOP                                 Group of Pictures. In MPEG video, a GOP represents one or more I pictures, followed
by P and B pictures.

GPI                                   General Purpose Interface

GUI                                   Graphical User Interface A type of user interface that allows users to interact with
electronic devices with images rather than text commands. A GUI represents the information and actions
available to a user through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation, as opposed to text-
based interfaces, typed command labels or text navigation.

H.264                               ITU/ETSI name for MPEG-4 Part-10 (ISO/IEC 14496-10).

HANC                               Horizontal Ancillary. Ancillary packets located in the horizontal blanking interval of the
video signal.

HD                                    High Definition.

HD-SDI                             High-Definition Serial Digital Interface.

HDTV                               High Definition Television.

HE-AAC                            High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Encoding. A lossy data compression scheme for

digital audio defined as a MPEG-4 Audio profile in ISO/IEC 14496-3. There are two types of HE-AAC: - HE-AAC
= AAC+ = AAC-LC + SBR (Spectral Band Reconstitution) - HE-AACv2 = eAAC+ = AAC-LC + SBR + PS
(Parametric Stereo)

HHP                                  Harmonic Hello Protocol 

HIM                                  Harmonic Infrastructure Manager

HSYNC                              Horizontal (line) Sync.

HTML                               Hyper Text Markup Language. HTML is the predominant markup language for web
pages. That is the basic building-blocks of web pages.

HTTP                                Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.

I-Frame                            Intracoded Frame. A frame, which is coded using purely intracoding with reference to
no other field or frame information. I frames provide a reference point for dependent P and B frames and allow
random access into the compressed video stream.

I-Picture                          Refer to I-Frame.

ID                                     Identifier

IDR                                   Instantaneous Decoding Refresh. IDR pictures can be decoded without reference to

previous frames.

IEC                                    International Electrotechnical Committee.

IGMP                                Internet Group Management Protocol. IGMP is a communication protocol used by

hosts and adjacent routers on IP networks to establish multicast group memberships. There are three versions of
IGMP, as defined by "Request for Comments" (RFC) documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

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IGMPv1 is defined by RFC 1112, IGMPv2 is defined by RFC 2236 and IGMPv3 was initially defined by RFC
3376 but has since been superseded by RFC 4604.

IP                                      Internet Protocol.

IP Address                       A 32-bit (IPv4) or 128-bit (IPv6) numerical identifier for a specific TCP/IP host device
on a network, that represents the sender or receiver of information sent across the network.

IRD                                   Integrated Receiver Decoder. The IRD is the official name for the satellite receiver,
which has a built-in decoder for unscrambling subscription channels. Also known as a Set-Top Box for cable.

ISO                                   International Standards Organization.

ITU-R                                International Telecommunications Union - Radio. Formerly CCIR. Deals with the

standardization of wireless communication.

ITU-T                                International Telecommunications Union - Telecommunications. Formerly CCITT.

Produces global telecommunication standards, and defines tariff and accounting principles.

Joint Stereo                    An audio mode in which the left and right channels of audio are encoded into one
channel. This mode is used to reduce bandwidth needs, and thus improve compression efficiency.

JPEG                                 Joint Photographic Experts Group. Name of the committee that created the JPEG
standard (and also other standards). The JPEG standard specifies the codec, which defines how a still image is
compressed into a stream of bytes and decompressed back into an image.

JVT                                   Joint Video Team (JVT). The Joint Video Team is a group of video coding experts from
ITU-T Study Group 16 (VCEG) and ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 29 / WG 11 (MPEG) created to develop an advanced
video coding specification. The JVT’s main result has been ITU-T Rec. H.264 | ISO/IEC 14496-10, commonly
referred to as H.264/MPEG-4-AVC, H.264/AVC, or MPEG-4 Part 10 AVC.

kbit/s                               Kilobits per second.

LAN                                  Local Area Network. A local area network is a network that connects computers and
devices in a limited geographical area such as home, school, computer laboratory or office building.

LATM                               Low-overhead Audio Transport Multiplex. LATM is part of the method to encapsulate

HE-AAC audio into transport stream.

LC-AAC                             Low Complexity-Advanced Audio Coding.

LCD                                   Liquid Crystal Display.

LED                                   Light Emitting Diode.

LOAS                                Low-overhead Audio Stream LOAS is part of the method to encapsulate HE-AAC

audio into a transport stream.

M                                      In a GOP (Group Of Picture), M is the distance between successive P-Frames.

Macroblock                     An area of the TV picture. Macroblocks are usually composed of two or more blocks of
pixels. The size of a block depends on the codec and is usually a multiple of 4. In MPEG-2 the size is fixed at
blocks of 8x8 pixels. In H264 the overarching macroblock size is fixed at 16x16 pixels, but this is broken down
into smaller blocks or partitions which are either 4, 8, 12 or 16 pixels by 4, 8, 12 or 16 pixels.

MBAFF                             MacroBlock Adaptive Frame Field coding. Use a macroblock pair structure for pictures
coded as frames.

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Mbit/s                             Million bits per second.

MGT                                 Master Guide Table (ATSC).

MIB                                  Management Information Base. SNMP collects management information from devices

on the network and records the information in a management information base. The MIB information includes
device features, data throughput statistics, traffic overloads, and errors.

Motion Compensation The use of motion vectors to improve the efficiency of the prediction of sample values.
The prediction uses motion vectors to provide offsets into the past and/or future reference frames or fields
containing previously decoded sample values that are used to form the prediction error signal.

Motion Estimation         The process of estimating motion vectors in the encoding process.

Motion Vector                A two-dimensional vector used for inter prediction that provides an offset from the
coordinates in the decoded picture to the coordinates in a reference picture.

MP@ML                          Main Profile at Main Level A subset of the MPEG-2 standard, which supports
transmissions up to 15 Mbit/s.

MP@HL                           Main Profile at High Level A subset of the MPEG-2 standard, which supports
transmissions up to 80 Mbit/s.

MPEG                               Moving Pictures Experts Group An international standards-setting group, working to

develop standards for compressed full-motion video, audio, and other associated information. Current standards
are MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4.

MPEG-2                           Industry standard for video and audio source coding using compression and
multiplexing techniques to minimize video signal bit-rate in preparation for broadcasting. Specified in ISO/IEC
13818. The standard is split into layers and profiles defining bit-rates and picture resolutions.

MPEG-4                           Industry standard for video and audio source coding using compression and
multiplexing techniques to minimize video signal bit-rate in preparation for broadcasting. Specified in ISO/IEC
14496. Part 2 of this standard defines the original MPEG-4 video compression whereas Part 10 is the new
algorithm also known as H264.

MPTS                               Multiprogram Transport Stream.

Multicast                         Process where a single stream is served from one source to multiple receivers. The
multicast address range is: 224.0.0.0 - 239.255.255.255.

Multiplex                         The combination of two or more signals into one single output stream. -A number of
discrete data streams (typically 8 to 24 depending on the compression standards), from encoders, that are
compressed together in a single DVB compliant transport stream for delivery to a Modulator.

N                                      In a GOP (Group Of Picture), N is the distance between successive I-Frames.

NAL                                  Network Abstraction Layer (H264)

NIT                                   Network Information Table. A mandatory Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) SI table, that
provides a grouping of Transport Streams (TSs) and the relevant tuning information.

NMS                                 Network Management System

NTP                                  Network Time Protocol

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NTSC                                National Television Systems Committee. American based committee who sets

television broadcast transmission and reception standards used in the US, Canada, Mexico and Japan as well
as other Latin American and Asian countries. This system uses 525 picture lines and a 59.97 Hz field frequency.

NVOD                              Near Video On Demand. NVOD is a consumer video technique used by multi-channel

broadcasters using high-bandwidth distribution mechanisms such as satellite and cable television. Multiple
copies of a program are broadcast at short time intervals (typically 10–20 minutes) providing convenience for
viewers, who can watch the program without needing to tune in at a scheduled point in time. The video can be
sold.

P-frame                           Predicted frame A P-frame holds only the changes in the image from the previous
frame.

Packet                              - In networks, a unit of data transmitted over a packet-switching network. A packet
consists of a header followed by a number of contiguous bytes from an elementary data stream.
- In transport streams, a packet is a small, fixed-size data quantum.

PAFF                                 Picture Adaptive Frame Field coding. Allows a freely selected mixture of pictures
coded either as complete frames where both fields are combined together for encoding or as individual single
fields.

PAT                                  Program Association Table. It lists all programs available in the MPEG-2 transport
stream. Each of the listed programs is identified by a 16-bit value called program_number. Each of the programs
listed in the PAT has an associated value of PID for its Program Map Table (PMT).

PCM                                 Pulse Code Modulation PCM is a modulation technique. It is a digital representation of

an analog signal where the magnitude of the signal is sampled regularly at uniform intervals. Every sample is
quantized to a series of symbols in a digital code, which is usually a binary code.

PCR                                  Program Clock Reference. A time stamp used in digital video compression that
indicates the system time clock’s (STC) value the instant the time stamped packet leaves the encoder. In the
Moving Pictures Experts Group 2 (MPEG-2) system the digital video source is clocked at 27 MHz and the
decoder must generate the same 27 MHz clock so that the encoder and decoder clocks are synchronized.
These clocks are called System Time Clocks (STC). To synchronize the decoder, the encoder sends a PCR to
the decoder. The decoder receives the packet and compares the STC value with its own STC counter value. If
the values are the same then no adjustment is needed but if the two values are different, the decoder must either
reset, speed up, or slow down its STC.

PDC                                  Program Delivery Control (VBI). PDC is specified by the standard ETS 300 231,
published by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). This specifies the signals sent as
hidden codes in the teletext service, indicating when transmission of a program starts and finishes.

PES                                   Packetized Elementary Stream A specification in the MPEG-2 Part 1 (Systems) (ISO/

IEC 13818-1) and ITU-T H.222.0[1][2] that defines carrying of elementary streams in packets within MPEG
program streams and MPEG transport streams [3]. The elementary stream is packetized by encapsulating
sequential data bytes from the elementary stream inside PES packet headers.

PID                                   Packet Identifier A unique integer value used to identify the contents of an MPEG-2
Transport Stream packet (Video component PID, Audio component PID, etc.).

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Profile                              A defined subset of the syntax specified in the MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 video coding
specification.

PMT                                 Program Map Table. A mandatory MPEG-2 PSI table. Each service has a PMT. It lists
the service component parts (elementary streams of video, audio, location of the PCR fields, etc.).

PSI                                    Program Specific Information. Normative data that is necessary for the demultiplexing
of transport streams and the regeneration of programs.

PSIP                                  Program and System Information Protocol. A method of describing Naming and

Navigation data for a multi program transport stream as defined in ATSC A/65A. PSU Power Supply Unit.

PTS                                   Presentation Time Stamp. The PTS is a metadata field in an MPEG transport stream
that is used to achieve synchronization of programs' separate elementary streams (for example Video, Audio,
Subtitles) when presented to the viewer. The PTS is given in units related to a program's overall clock reference,
either Program Clock Reference (PCR) or System Clock Reference (SCR), which is also transmitted in the
transport stream or program stream.

PVR                                  Personal Video Recorder.

QCIF                                 Quarter Common International Format. To have one fourth of the area as "quarter"
implies the height and width of the frame are halved (video size: 176p x 144p).

QSIF                                 Quarter Screen International Format. To have one fourth of the area as "quarter"
implies the height and width of the frame are halved (video size:160 x 120 pixels (NTSC) or 192 X 144 pixels
(PAL).

QVGA                               Quarter Video Graphics Array. QVGA is a popular term for a computer display with
320×240 display resolution. R, G, B Red, Green, Blue.

Resolution                       Determined by the number of pixels displayed per line or for a given area.

RFD                                  Repeat Field Detection. See 3:2 Pull Down

RLC                                   Run Length Coding. Run length encoding is a method of compressing digital

information by representing repetitive data information by a notation that indicates the data that will be repeated
and how many times the data will be repeated.

RRT                                  Rating Region Table (ATSC).

RS                                     Reed-Solomon coding. Reed-Solomon is an algorithm for Forward Error Correction

(FEC). It does not specify a block size or a specific number of check symbols, instead these variables can be set
to the best variables for each transmission medium. Reed Solomon codes are used in a wide variety of
commercial applications such as CDs, DVDs, and in data transmission technologies like DVB and WiMAX.

RST                                   Rating System Table (ATSC).

RTP                                   Real Time Transport Protocol. This Protocol defines a standardized packet format for
delivering audio and video over IP networks.

RTSP                                 Real Time Streaming Protocol. A network control protocol designed for use in
entertainment and communications systems to control streaming media servers. Used for establishing and
controlling media sessions between end points.

RU                                    Rack Unit. A unit of measure used to describe the height of equipment intended for
mounting in a 19-inch rack or a 23-inch rack. One rack unit is 1.75 inches (44.45 mm) high.

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SAG                                  Stand Alone Graphical interface

Scrambling                      Alteration of the characteristics of a television signal in order to prevent unauthorized

reception of the information in clear form.

SBR                                   Spectral Band Replication. SBR is a tool used in HE-AAC for broadcast

transmissions.

SD                                     Standard Definition.

SDI                                   Serial Digital Interface.

SDT                                  Service Description Table. A mandatory Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) SI table, that
provides information in the SI stream about the services in the system; for example, the name of the service, the
service provider, etc.

SDTV                                Standard Definition Television.

SI                                      Service Information Digital information describing the delivery system, content and
scheduling /timing of broadcast data streams (DVB).

SIF                                    Source Input Format A video format that was developed to allow the storage and
transmission of digital video. The SIF format specifies resolutions of the following: NTSC (525/59.94 SIF format)
is 352x240 x29.97fps PAL (625/50 SIF format) is 352x288 x25.00fps

SMPTE                             Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. A Standards Organization devoted

to advancing theory and application in motion imaging, including film, television, video, computer imaging, and
telecommunications.

SNG                                  Satellite News-Gathering.

SNMP                               Simple Network Management Protocol. SNMP provides a means to monitor and

control network devices, and to manage configurations, statistics collection, performance, and security. SNMP
network management is based on the client and server model. Each managed host runs a process called an
agent. The agent is a server process that maintains the Management Information Base (MIB) database for the
host. SNMP uses ports 161 and 162.

SNTP                                Simple Network Time Protocol.

SPTS                                 Single Program Transport Stream.

SRTP                                 Secure Real Time Transport Protocol.

StatMux                          Statistical Multiplexing Statistical multiplexing is a proven technique used to dynamically

assign compression bit rates based upon video complexity and motion requirements of individual channels. The
principle of statistical multiplexing is that a group or “pool” of encoders shares a fixed quantity of bandwidth. The
bandwidth is allocated on a frame by frame basis by a centralized controller (multiplexer) so the encoder with the
most complex video is allowed to borrow more bandwidth from the pool of encoders with less difficult video.

STB                                   Set-Top Box. A device that provides access to the Broadband broadcast or Internet
and displays information on a TV screen.

STT                                   System Time Table (ATSC).

SVC                                   Scalable Video Coding. SVC is the name for the Annex G extension of the H.264/
MPEG-4 AVC video compression standard. SVC standardizes the encoding of a high-quality video bit stream

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that also contains one or more subset bit streams. A subset video bit stream is derived by dropping packets from
the larger video to reduce the bandwidth required for the subset bit stream. The subset bit steam can represent a
lower spatial resolution (smaller screen), lower temporal resolution (lower frame rate), or lower quality video
signal.

Switch (Network)           A network switch is a computer networking device that connects network segments. An
Ethernet switch operates at the data link layer of the OSI model to create a separate collision domain for each
switch port. With 4 computers (e.g., A, B, C, and D) on 4 switch ports, A and B can transfer data back and forth,
while C and D also do so simultaneously, and the two conversations will not interfere with one another.

 TCP                                  Transmission Control Protocol. One of the main protocols in TCP/IP networks. TCP
enables two hosts to establish a connection and exchange streams of data. TCP guarantees delivery of data and
packets, that will be delivered in the same order in which they were sent. While IP takes care of handling the
actual delivery of the data, TCP takes care of keeping track of the individual units of data (called packets) that a
message is divided into for efficient routing through the Internet.

TCP / IP                            Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Two interrelated protocols that are part
of the Internet protocol suite. TCP operates on the OSI transport layer and breaks data into packets. IP operates
on the OSI network layer and routes the packets. While IP takes care of handling the actual delivery of the data,
TCP takes care of keeping track of the individual units of data (called packets) that a message is divided into for
efficient routing through the Internet. TCP/IP allows the construction of very large networks with little central
management.

TDT                                  Time and Date Table. A mandatory Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) SI table that supplies
the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) time and date.

Time-Code                      A sequence of numeric codes generated at regular intervals by a timing system.

Time-stamp                    A sequence of characters, denoting the date and/or time at which a certain event
occurred.

Timeslicing                      Time slicing is a technique that is used in DVB-H applications to increase the battery
life time of mobile DVB-H receivers (for instance cell phones, PDAs, etc.). Chunks of data will be transmitted in
bursts, which allows the mobile receiver to be switched off when no data is transmitted. During this inactivity, the
mobile receiver can scan neighboring cells in order to select the best reception conditions and be prepared for
seamless handovers.

TOT                                  Time Offset Table. An optional (DVB) SI table that supplies the actual UTC-time also
including time offset information coded as MJD.

TS                                     Transport Stream. A multiplex of several Elementary Streams that are contained in

packets.

TSDT                                Transport Stream Descriptor Table. A mandatory MPEG-2 PSI table that describes
which type of Transport stream it is in (i.e. DVB, ATSC etc.). It may also contain other descriptors.

TVCT                                Terrestrial Virtual Channel Table (ATSC).

UDP                                  User Data Protocol. A connectionless protocol, like TCP, that runs on top of IP
networks. Unlike TCP/IP, UDP/IP provides very few error recovery services, offering instead a direct way to send
and receive datagrams over an IP network without acknowledgement for guaranteed delivery.

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Unicast                            Unicast is communication between a single sender and a single receiver over a

network.

UTC                                  Coordinated Universal Time. UTC is the time standard by which the world regulates
clocks and time. In casual use, UTC corresponds to Greenwich Mean Time (or GMT).

VANC                               Vertical Ancillary. Ancillary packets located in the vertical blanking interval.

VBI                                   Vertical Blanking Interval. In analog video, the interval after the last displayed line of
video in a field and before the first displayed line of video in the next field, during which a television receiver will
synchronize vertically.

VBR                                  Variable Bit-Rate. VBR is an encoding method that is designed to achieve a better

video quality vs. bitrate ratio than CBR (Constant Bit-Rate) encoding. This is achieved by continuously changing
the bit rate during the encoding process depending on the picture complexity. Refer to Statmux.

VBV                                  Video Buffering Verifier The video buffering verifier is a theoretical MPEG video buffer
model used to ensure that an encoded video stream can be correctly buffered and played back at the decoder
device.

VCT                                  Virtual Channel Table (ATSC). A VCT contains a list of all the channels that are or will
be online, along with their attributes. This table is critically important as it contains the set of data that enables a
receiver to tune and locate the service being broadcast.

VGA                                  Video Graphics Array (640x480 pixels).

VITC                                 Vertical Interval Time Code. VITC is Time-Code information inserted in the vertical
blanking of the video signal.

VITS                                  Vertical Interval Test Signal. VITS signals may be inserted in the lines of the vertical
blanking interval to permit on the air testing of video circuit functions and adjustments.

VLAN                                Virtual Local Area Network. A local area network with a definition that maps
workstations on some other basis than geographic location (for example, by department, type of user, or primary
application). The virtual LAN controller can change or add workstations and manage load balancing and
bandwidth allocation more easily than with a physical picture of the LAN. Network Management System software
keeps track of relating the virtual picture of the local area network with the actual physical picture. VLANs are
based on logical instead of physical connections.

VPS                                   Video Programming System. VPS is an older system which helped video recorders in
Germany to automatically record TV broadcasts correctly. Since replaced with Program Delivery Control (PDC).

VQ                                    Video Quality

Weighted prediction     Allows an encoder to specify the use of a scaling and offset when performing motion
compensation, and providing a significant benefit in performance in special cases, such as fade-to-black, fade-in,
and cross-fade transitions.

 WSS                                Wide Screen Signaling. WSS is digital information embedded in the TV signal

describing the qualities of the broadcast, in particular the intended aspect ratio of the image. This can be used by
a widescreen TV to switch to the correct display mode. The WSS signal is placed in line 23 (PAL) and lines
20/283 (PAL-M and NTSC) and has 14 data bits.

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WST                                 World System Teletext. WST is the name of a standard for encoding and displaying
teletext information, which is used in 625 line / 50 Hz television systems (ITUR 653). It is used for teletext
throughout Europe today. The actual version of the WST is Word System B.

Y (Luminance)                 Defines the brightness of a TV picture.

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