Chapter 2: Overview; Figure 1: Vmg-14+ Chassis - Imagine communications Selenio VMG-14+ Hardware Setup Manual

CHAPTER 2
Overview
The Imagine Communications Video Multiprocessing Gateway (VMG) products provide stream routing,
switching and video processing for deployment of digital simulcast, digital broadcast and IPTV
streaming in advanced digital cable TV and Telco IPTV networks.
The 14-slot (300-watt) Video Multiprocessing Gateway "Plus" system (VMG-14+) from Imagine
Communications is provides high-level carrier-class service availability through the chassis, service-
level, and module-level redundancy and is engineered for future-proof operations. It is ideally suited
for operations at lower density video headends and hub sizes, to deliver the industry's highest density
digital video solution per-rack-unit for grooming, statistical multiplexing, and digital program insertion
(DPI), and transcoding.
The VMG-14+ is fully MPEG-2 and H.264 compliant and interoperable with leading video industry
equipment; it shares the same software functionality and application modules (NPMs, AMPs, TCMs,
and VPMs) as all other VMG systems. This chassis is available either as an AC or DC system
and all system modules and shelf management modules are conveniently loaded at the front of the
chassis cage.VMG-14+ chassis slots support up to 300 watts each, to enable seamless migration to
future high capacity modules. The VMG-14+ provides advanced standard definition (SD) and high
definition (HD) MPEG-2 and MPEG-4/H.264 video processing, which enables telecommunications
deployment of next-generation cable and IPTV services.
Figure 1. VMG-14+ Chassis
VMG-14+ AC System
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VMG-14+ DC System
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