By Divya NarainOxnard, a Calif-based video transport solution provider for broadcasters, service providers and government entities Nevion (News - Alert) has launched new video-over-IP monitoring and management capabilities at IBC 2010 (booth #8.B70, RAI Amsterdam, Sept. 10-14).
“To unleash the full potential and flexibility of a video-over-IP contribution network it is essential to have the right management support to address the complexity of such an infrastructure,” said Jan Helgesen, director of product management for network management at Nevion. “Video over IP is clearly the future for long-haul transport of contribution quality video, but provisioning and monitoring tools must ensure the end-to-end quality of service required by service providers and broadcasters, and large-scale, cost-efficient deployment to realize true economies of scale.”
Among the enhancements announced by Nevion is video-over-IP monitoring support for the company’s high-density video in-service monitoring solution, the FCS1000-PLUS platform. This capability allows the platform to monitor the entire video transport infrastructure. Moreover, users can pinpoint quality of service issues with wire-speed monitoring of video-over-IP traffic at the Ethernet, IP, UDP (News - Alert) and RTP layers, support a large number of IP flows using different transport formats, and monitor video-over-IP traffic without the risk of signal interruption. Perfect for central monitoring of a large number of DVB-ASI transport streams or HD/SD-SDI video signals, the FCS1000-PLUS is used by service providers and broadcasters across the globe.
Nevion will also take the opportunity to demonstrate a new connection management platform for IP that allows service providers to provision and monitor services without considering detailed configuration settings in each network element. It will also be possible for users to set up connections by selecting service profiles and auto-detected available end points. Additional advanced capabilities include bandwidth utilization management and forward error correction for the most efficient use of infrastructure with the right quality of service.
According to a recent TMCnet article, Nevion’s video transport technology helped the European Broadcasting Union broadcast the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games.
