Chapter 2 Introduction; Operating Environment; Highlights And Benefits - Harmonic ProView 2900 Installation Manual

The Harmonic ProView 2900 Series of Integrated Receiver Decoders (IRDs) presents a
professional MPEG-2 DVB and ATSC processing platform, designed to meet even the most
demanding application requirements while maximizing ease of use and flexibility.
This chapter describes:
The ProView 2900 Series operating environment
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The ProView 2900 Series members' applications and general features.
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The ProView 2900 Series front and rear panel structure.
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The ProView 2900 Series characteristics and capabilities.
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2.1.

Operating Environment

The ProView 2900 Series concurrently decodes up to two video programs from the transport
stream.
The ProView 2900 Series features the following product lines:
ProView 296x - Professional single 4:2:0 decoder.
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ProView 298x - Professional single 4:2:0/4:2:2 decoder.
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ProView 299x - Professional dual 4:2:0 decoders.
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Housed in a true 1RU slim-line chassis and featuring low power consumption, the
ProView 2900 fully integrates with the Harmonic product platform.

2.1.1. Highlights and Benefits

The ProView 2900 platform's main features and options include:
MPEG-2 4:2:0/4:2:2 decoder
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Variety of front-end options including DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-DSNG, G.703, MPEG-over-
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IP and DS3-ATM
DVB-S2 professional
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MPEG-over-IP (MPEGoIP) inputs supporting up to 44Mbps (SPTS and MPTS):
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Configurable De-Jitter delay
Physical Link Redundancy
Logical Source Redundancy
FEC (Forward Error Correction) ProMPEG CoP3v2
MPEGoIP output supporting up to 60Mbps
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IP-over-MPEG output up to 60 Mbps (MPE decapsulation)
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1 or 2 L-Band inputs
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ASI transport stream input and output
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Service and PID Filtering over the ASI and IP outputs (dynamic and static modes)
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DVB common interface (2 slots – 1 active simultaneously)
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SDI, AES/EBU and analogue outputs
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Chapter 2
Introduction