Introduction; All-Purpose Edge Qam; Figure 1-1 - Apex1000 Front Panel - Motorola APEX1000 Installation And Operation Manual

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All-Purpose Edge QAM

The APEX1000 is Motorola's next-generation All-Purpose Edge QAM. The APEX1000
combines flexibility, high availability, high QAM density, MediaCipher
encryption, and low power in an extremely cost-effective 1 RU platform.
The unique attributes of the APEX1000 allow for the installation of up to three removable
and hot-swappable QAM modules in the chassis. The APEX1000 also presents the
following features:
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Each module provides two RF ports, which support up to eight QAM channels each.
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Any of the available 48 QAM channels can perform Video-on-Demand (VOD),
Switched Digital Video (SDV), or broadcast services.
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The APEX1000 provides four SFP slots, allowing for up to four optical or electrical
GigE inputs. These slots also enable the APEX1000 to support full transport stream
redundancy covering all 48 QAM channels.
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The APEX1000 supports three session control modes allowing it to function as an
SDV edge QAM in any RTSP and RPC cable network:
D6 (VREP) and R6 (RTSP) SDV
RPC SDV
ERMI-1 (ERRP) and ERMI-2 (RTSP), MHA SDV and session VOD interfaces
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To support MPT Mode DEPI, the APEX acts as EQAM in an M-CMTS system. It
receives data over DEPI from one or multiple M-CMTS cores; data packets are
forwarded to the appropriate QAM. (DEPI MPT control plane and PSP Mode will be
supported in a future release).
Additionally, the APEX1000 performs:
Network de-jittering
MPEG multiplexing
Message insertion
PSI generation (following MPEG-2 transport specifications)
Introduction • All-Purpose Edge QAM
APEX1000 All-Purpose Edge QAM Software Version 2.4.x • Installation and Operation Manual
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Figure 1-1 — APEX1000 front panel

Introduction

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