Bridge Technologies VB220

Bridge Technologies VB220 Network Probe

The VB220 Probe is the perfect choice in any network where digital video is carried across an IP-based infrastructure. Built specifically to high-end industry needs, this network service tool is ideal for both pure IP networks and hybrid networks with IP transport cores such as in digital cable and terrestrial networks. The VB220 probe hardware is custom-designed and built to telco-grade standards for maximum reliability and minimum maintenance. Each VB220 blade consumes less than 12W of power. This substantially reduces power consumption and air conditioning needs in installations. The VB220 can be paired with a full set of interface blades to cover signal formats such as DVB-T/T2, DVB-S/S2, DVB-C/C2, QAM-B, 8VSB and ASI. It is possible to monitor OTT/ABR streams at master play-out or at the CDN origin server in all common streaming formats using the OTT option. Streaming formats supported currently include Microsoft Smoothstream™, Apple HLS™, Adobe HDS™, MPEG-DASH and basic RTMP.

VB220 DIGITAL NETWORK PROBE

10/100/1000-T RJ45 Management port with Link and Activity LED indicators
10/100/1000-T RJ45 video port with Link and Activity LED indicators
SFP gigE video port with Link and Activity LED indicators
75 ohm HD-BNC ASI input port with TS SYNC LED indicator
75 ohm HD-BNC ASI output port for monitoring purposes
50 ohm SMA female 1PPS input port for GPS synchronisation
USB Type-A connector for initial setup
Expansion blades available for common formats such as DVB-S/S2, DVB-C/C2, DVB-T/T2, QAM-B, 8VSB, ASI
Parallel and continuous monitoring of up to 260 IP unicasts/multicasts according to ETSI TS 102 034:
Monitor current/min/max UDP payload bitrate
Monitor current/min/max TS payload not counting NULL TS packets
Count number of IP packets
Source/destination IP address
Type-of-Service field (TOS/DSCP)
Time-to-Live field (TTL)
VLAN ID, if appropriate
Max/min/average IP packet Inter-Arrival time (IAT) for jitter analysis
TS Continuity Counter errors
TS Sync errors
Media Loss Rate – number of TS packets lost
Delay Factor – time between IP frames
Source/destination MAC address
RTP dropped packets, duplicate packets, out-of-order packets
RTP max/min hole size, hole separation
Forward Error Correction analysis according to SMPTE 2022 / COP3
MediaWindow™ visualisation technology for trending packet loss, bandwidth and jitter over up to 4 days
Thumbnail decoding of uni/multicast IP transport streams with audio bars and metadata
Full Service Monitoring of up to 10 network devices via built-in ICMP and HTTP query agents
Framework called RDP for relaying any IP multicast monitored to a different IP destination for further analysis
Functionality for record 200MB of the whole or parts of any transport stream monitored (RDP framework)
Automatic record trigger based on up to 3 configured alarm criteria with pre fill in order to catch fault
Framework for automatic detection of present multicast/unicast streams
Protocol hierarchy view with bandwidth and packet count statistics for video interface
IGMPv2/v3 protocol logging and analysis framework
Flexible template based alarming system to allow custom configuration of what parameters result in an alarm being generated on a per-TS leve
History graphs from last 4 days of NoSignal, CC-errors, RTP-drops, RTP-duplicates, RTP-Out-of-order, Total interface bitrate, Monitored bitrate, Ethernet CRC frame errors
One ETR290 engine automatically activated per RF/ASI input port on interface modules
IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging support
Microsoft mediaRoom X-bit RTP header extension support
Alarm on changes to TOS/DSCP and TTL for detection of changes in network prioritization
Time loss distance measurements according to RFC3357
Alarm forwarding to 3rd party systems via SNMP TRAP via up to 3 unique destinations
NTP client time synchronization support according to RFC2030
DHCP client support on management and video ports according to RFC2131
Easy web-based software and license upgrade
Tightly integrated with VideoBRIDGE Controller (VBC)
XML-based configuration save and retrieval via web
Powerful and openly available XML-based External Integratoin Interface (Eii) for 3rd party integration
Gold TS Protection™
Condensed mosaic thumbnail view of all services monitored
ETSI TR 101 290 OPTION FUNCTIONALITY

Full real-time ETSI TR 101 290 alarming and analysis (Pri 1, 2, 3), one transport stream per input monitored in parallel
Configurable round-robin functionality for each ETSI TR 101 290 analysis engine
Conforms to both DVB and ATSC specifications
Table and descriptor parsing of PSI/SI and PSIP presented as table summary and full table breakdown (including hex dump)
EPG analysis (EIT p/f and schedule)
Bitrate monitoring and alarming (TS, service and PID level)
Monitoring of vital CA parameters
Compare view for comparison of transport streams and services across different interfaces
Sophisticated threshold template system for detailed alarm handling control at transport stream, service and component level
Monitoring of demodulator parameters (demodulator option)
Scheduled alarm masking
Full real-time ETSI TR 101 290 alarming and analysis (Pri 1, 2, 3) on the ASI input
Full real-time ETSI TR 101 290 alarming and analysis (Pri 1, 2, 3) on one IP multicast
Expand with 7 additional ETR290 engines for concurrent ETSI TR 101 290 analysis of a total of 8 IP multicasts
CONNECTOR SPECIFICATIONS

Input voltage: 100-240 VAC +/- 10% 50/60Hz
Power consumption: 12W per blade
10/100/1000-T management RJ-45
10/100/1000-T Video RJ-45
SFP Video
Initial setup: USB Type-A
HD-BNC 75ohm female ASI input
HD-BNC 75ohm female ASI output loop through
SMA female 50ohm 1PPS GPS input
MECHANICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Standard 19″ 1RU rack-mount
W x H x D: 483 x 43 x 400 mm
Weight: 4,2 kg fully populated
PHYSICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SPECIFICATIONS

Operating temperature: 0℃ to 45℃
Storage temperature: -20℃ to 70℃
Operating humidity: 5% to 95% non-condensing