Harmonic’s ProView™ 7000 is the world’s first single rack unit (1-RU) scalable receiver, DVB descrambler, multi-format video decoder and MPEG stream processor. The ProView 7000 is ideal for digital turnaround processing, full transport stream descrambling and decoding applications.
Harnessing a flexible and modular design, the ProView 7000 cost-effectively addresses the vast spectrum of content reception applications, from single channel decoding to descrambling and re-multiplexing of multiple transport streams. With an advanced and dense multi-channel descrambler, the ProView 7000 enables the deployment of or migration to an all-IP headend solution, and powers the launch of added value services such as HD.
The Harmonic ProView 7000 features broadcast quality standard definition and high definition, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) video decoders, engineered for distribution and contribution applications. The flexible hardware design can be easily reconfigured by a firmware upgrade, enabling seamless adaptation to new inbound video formats and codecs such as the transition from SD MPEG-2 to HD AVC.
The ProView 7000 supports a rich set of input options ranging from multiple DVB-S/S2 to IP and DVB-ASI, allowing it to mesh with any headend architecture and enabling support for advanced content delivery redundancy schemes, such as primary satellite and backup IP network feeds.
Utilizing its processing capabilities, the ProView 7000 includes new technology, deterministic SFN remultiplexing (DSR), for dramatic reduction of distribution network bandwidth with regional program replacement in DVB-T SFN broadcast. By using DSR, the local regional programs are synchronously included in the SFN multiplex at each transmitting site, avoiding the need for full multiplex regional re-transmission.
HIGHLIGHTS
• 4x TS descrambler with four integrated DVB-CI slots
• Single/dual channel decoder in 1-RU
• MPEG-4 AVC/MPEG-2 SD/HD decoding
• Variety of inputs including four DVB-S/S2, ASI and IP inputs
• Two independent ASI outputs
• Dual IP outputs with 1+1 redundancy support
• HD-SDI, SD-SDI, HDMI and analog video outputs
• Any to any re-multiplexing capabilities
• Deterministic re-multiplexing for SFN distribution
• Regeneration of PSI/SI and MPEG tables
• Graphical user interface provides easy drag-and-drop management