[SatNews] Net Insight will launch its new Time Transfer Over-IP (TToIP) solution at…
…this year’s IBC 2012 event in Amsterdam. The company will discuss how its TToIP system, the world’s only commercially proven network time transfer solution for wide area networks, addresses the challenges facing broadcasters and service providers using Single Frequency (SFN) Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) networks. TToIP is a way of providing synchronization of DTT SFN’s without the use of Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and is achieved through Net Insight’s award winning Nimbra MSR platform. The solution offers a secure and convenient way to provide accurate, absolute time synchronization using the same network infrastructure used for video transport.
Net Insight’s solution eliminates the multiple points of failure and removes the need for GPS units, lowering capital costs, and offering faster and easier troubleshooting of system problems. The solution also provides easy management with automatic configuration and reconfiguration functions. Until recently, most broadcasters were convinced that GPS was the only solution for synchronization of DTT SFN’s. However, relying on GPS for synchronization of nationwide DTT networks introduces a number of operational risks as GPS signals are easily jammed or spoofed. Since the availability of the GPS system is controlled by foreign military, Net Insight’s TToIP solution enables sovereign control and national independence of digital terrestrial TV distribution.
GPS based synchronization also relies on GPS receivers co-located with every transmitter. Although this system works, it proves be very expensive in terms of requiring numerous additional points of failure, as well as capital costs related to having to buy the GPS equipment. And, from an operational perspective, an additional system needs to be delployed just to distribute the clock signals. To find out more, visit Net Insight’s booth located at B40 in Hall 1 at IBC 2012 from September 7-11.
