Teracue AG… Gateway Gatherer (SatBroadcasting™)

The new DMM series from Teracue AG was developed for compact and cost-effective DVB-IPTV networking of radio and TV programs. The professional DVB/IP gateway cards offer a multitude of functions as a pure hardware solution:

• Handling of all DVB-S/S2 satellite, DVB-C cable, DVB-T and ASI signals
• Network transmission and IP ingest of TV and radio channels
• Transmission of DVB signals in original SD/HD quality
• Decoding of pay TV: as standard with CI slot, for CAM with smart card
• Compact IPTV headend solution
• 8 cards in 19” 4RU plug-in frame with redundant power supply

Broadcasting centers, editorial departments, and publishing houses use DVB gateways to provide their employees with high-quality live television directly to their workplace PC. In addition, DVB gateways are always used where — for simultaneous viewing on PC’s, TV’s or projectors — such as for hotel TV and patient TV applications, within IPTV triple-play solutions, provider headends, for digital corporate television, for educational television, distribution and recording at schools and universities, as well as in monitoring companies and control and command centres.

The DMM series consists of a 19-inch x 4RU frame, by standard with redundant power supply. The chassis holds up to 8 DMM cards which can be hot-swapped and hot-plugged during operation. The configuration of the DVB-IPTV headend for different DVB input signals can be freely selected and different input cards can be combined. All components are developed for 24/7 continuous operation. The cards are extremely robust without moving parts, such as fans or hard drives. DMM cards are easy to configure via the network using software as well as locally with an optional plug-in control panel. In addition, SNMP management and monitoring is supported.

The output streams are based on the open MPEG-2 and H.264/AVC formats, conform to ISO/IEC standards. Thus the modules are compatible with cost-effective standard IPTV STBs, such as the Amino 130 series with HDMI output, or the VLC player. Multicast/unicast, SPTS/MPTS and UDP/RTP streaming are supported.