New Digital Video SFPs Allow Uncompressed HD Video to Travel over Fiber
Backbone Bidding Goodbye to Expensive Video-Only Networks
CHATSWORTH, Calif., Apr. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MRV COMMUNICATIONS,
INC. (Nasdaq: MRVC), a leading provider of products and services for
out-of-band
networking,
WDM and optical transport, metro Ethernet, fiber optic components,
10GE and other service aware networking products, today announced a new family
of digital video fiber optic transceivers that allow transport of uncompressed
high-definition video over standard fiber-optic networks.
The new Digital Video SFP family enables post-production facilities and
rich-media studios to transport HD-SDI video over dark fiber using networking
gear from any vendor that supports the small form factor pluggable (SFP)
standard.
One market opportunity is to allow post-production facilities to share
uncompressed baseband HD and SD video throughout a metropolitan area, a
possibility now under consideration at Broadway Video. “I was impressed at how
easy it was to transport HD & SD video in the same system that offered GigE and
Fibre Channel connectivity,” said Dirk Van Dall, General Manager, Broadway Video
Digital Media Services, one of New York's leading design and post-production
services companies and a major independent producer of television and film
entertainment. "With MRV equipment, a high speed data link between diverse
operations can do ‘double-duty’ as an uncompressed HD baseband connection. We
can even set the system up to have both high-speed data and HD/SD baseband
concurrently. It’s seamless and well integrated into their system, and an
extremely versatile way to link locations.”
In customer tests, MRV Digital Video SFPs were used to transmit uncompressed SDI
and HD-SDI between Sony HDW-F500 (HDCam) and Panasonic HD3700H (D5) tape deck
pairs over 21 kilometers of single-mode dark fiber. The benefit is both flawless
fidelity and a dramatic cost savings for HD video distribution from both lower
network building, transmission infrastructure costs and from a reduced need for
HD decks that used to shuttle tapes between locations.
Each MRV Digital Video SFP has a coaxial cable connector that takes a Digital
Video feed from a camera or production system, and feeds it into an SFP-based
system that converts the sight into a fiber-optic signal. The MRV’s SFPs are
available for the DVB-ASI (270 Mbps) standard, the SDI (270 Mbps) standard, and
both the PAL/SECAM (1.485 Gbps) and NTSC (1.4835 Gbps) standards of HD-SDI.
“As HD content becomes the norm in more industries, the limitations to
transporting it on a network have a bigger impact on budgets and on turnaround
time for projects,” said Noam Lotan, MRV President and CEO. “We wanted to mark
MRV’s debut into the video networking marketplace with these SFPs because they
so strongly change the equation making transporting video over a fiber network
as easy and cost-effective as any other protocol.”
MRV’s Digital Video SFPs use a patent-pending encoding algorithm based on the
EG-34 industry standard to transport SDI (SMPTE 259M and 344M) and HD-SDI (SMPTE
292M) data. Both SDI and HD-SDI create pathological data signals – long series
of either 1 or 0 data – that cannot easily be transported over enterprise- and
telecom-class fiber optic equipment that requires a more balanced data flow.
DIGITAL VIDEO SFP BUILDS COMPLETE UNCOMPRESSED HD VIDEO NETWORKS
Because they are SFPs, the MRV Digital Video Transceivers can be installed in
fiber optic systems from a wide variety of manufacturers including fiber optic
cross connects and wave division multiplexers, which have adopted this MSA
transceiver standard. By combining the transceiver with MRV’s own fiber optic
cross connect and wave division multiplexing (WDM) systems, production
facilities can create a wide range of HD networking systems:
• The Digital Video SFP can be teamed with
MRV’s Fiber Driver®,
MRV's Lambda Driver® WDM or any other optical transport products to build digital video-enabled fiber
optic networks for enterprises and service providers with metropolitan area
networks. The addition of digital video support complements the systems’ telecom
data centric capabilities covering any digital protocol up to 2.7 Gbps, as well
as extensive 10 Gbps solutions.
• For intensive video networking needs, the Digital Video Transceiver can be
used in
MRV’s Media Cross Connect to create a video matrix router, allowing
full-speed bi-directional video transmission between video sources and multiple
editing stations. The
Media Cross Connect video matrix router can be expanded
from 32 ports to 288 ports and supports any video signals up to 4.25 Gbps, as
well data and storage networking protocols.
• For point-to-point wireless applications, the Digital Video SFP can be used
with MRV’s TereScope line of free-space optics (FSO) wireless transmission
systems to link two building up to 2 kilometers apart with digital video
services. The digital video-enabled TereScope solution is the only FSO offering
available that supports both digital video and enterprise data packets on the
same link.
AVAILABILITY
All MRV Digital Video SFPs, ordering code MRV-OP-SDISFP, are currently available
through MRV solution provider partners.
About MRV Communications, Inc.
MRV Communications, Inc. (“MRV”) is a leading provider of network equipment and
services, and optical components. MRV’s networking business provides equipment
used by commercial customers, governments and telecommunications service
providers, and includes switches, routers, physical layer products and
out-of-band management products as well as specialized networking products for
aerospace, defense and other applications including voice and cellular
communication. MRV’s optical components business provides optical communications
components for metropolitan, access and Fiber-to-the-Premises applications,
through its wholly owned subsidiary LuminentOIC, Inc. MRV markets and sells its
products worldwide through a variety of channels, including a dedicated direct
sales force, manufacturers' representatives, value-added-resellers, distributors
and systems integrators. MRV also has operations in Europe that provide network
system design, integration and distribution services that include products
manufactured by third-party vendors, as well as internally developed and
manufactured products. Publicly traded since 1992, MRV is listed on the NASDAQ
National Market under the symbol MRVC. For more information about MRV and its
products, please call (818) 773-0900 or visit our websites at
www.mrv.com and
www.luminentoic.com.
Media Relations
MRV Communications, Inc.
David Rodewald
(805) 494-9508
pr@mrv.com
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