How To Use This Manual - BridgeTech VB20 User Manual

HDS.
The probe can be expanded through licence options to monitor the T2MI protocol layer
as found in DVB-T2 networks.
The probe can also be licensed with an SCTE 35 option that allows monitoring and
logging of splice time codes embedded in the transport streams.

1.2 How to use this manual

This users' manual is valid for software versions 5.0 of the probe.
Throughout this manual the term stream is often used rather than unicast or multicast.
One stream may consist of one or more services, and refers to one IP uni- or multicast
(for Ethernet input) or one transport stream (ASI, COFDM, QAM/VSB or QPSK/DVB-S2).
Chapter 3 lists safety precautions, and this chapter should be read prior to equipment
installation.
Chapter 4 explains how to install the equipment in a rack, and also how to perform the
necessary initial configuration of the probe management IP-address. A step-by-step
quick installation guide is found in section 4.1.
Chapter 5 contains a quick setup guide; a step-by-step description of how to setup a
probe once the initial setup has been performed.
Chapter 6 describes the graphical user interface (GUI) as seen when pointing a web
browser to the probe's IP-address.
Appendix I describes the alarm handling in the probe versus the VideoBridge
Controller (VBC).
Appendix II explains some useful Ethernet monitoring practices.
Appendix III explains the OTT profile health bar and timeline.
Appendix IV explains a probe software upload procedure used when upgrading from
software versions older than 4.2.
Note that current versions of the users' manual can be found on the
http://www.bridgetech.tv website. Log-in as end user: customer with password:
xmas4u . Additional technical documentation is also found at the same location.
PROBE USERS' MANUAL VERSION 5.0
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