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Cobalt Digital Inc.

9220 Bidirectional

ASI/MPTS Gateway

Product Manual

Version 1.2

9220-UM

Version: 1.2

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Page 1 Cobalt Digital Inc. 9220 Bidirectional ASI/MPTS Gateway Product Manual Version 1.2 9220-UM Version: 1.2...
Page 3 Caution — The symbol with the word “Caution” within the equipment manual indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if not avoided, may result in minor or moderate injury. I3(u)-0.4(ry. )13.3(I3(u( M)-16.T-l-3.1( oer)16.6(bi)12.3( uPr)16.6536 485.813.3(t1ent)14.no)13.65369 9220-UM V1.2...
Page 4 Technical Support using the numbers listed under the “Contact Us” section on the last page of this manual. All Cobalt Digital Inc. products are covered by a generous 5-year warranty and will be repaired without charge for materials or labor within this period. See the “Warranty and Repair Policy”...
Page 5: Table Of Contents
Operation and Management......................14 Product Tab........................... 15 Network Tab ..........................16 Network Configuration Tab...................... 16 Network Statistics Tab......................17 ASI Ports............................19 ASI Ports: Configuration Tab ....................19 ASI Ports: Statistics Tab Network Tab .................rk Statistics T....2 ..0..Dete(minin5 T 9220-UM V1.2...
Page 6 Admin Test Packet Generator Tab.................... 54 Admin License Keys Tab......................55 Admin Event Log Tab ......................56 Warranty and Repair Policy...................... 60 Contact Cobalt Digital Inc......................61 Visit us at the Cobalt Digital Inc. website................61 9220-UM V1.2...
Page 7: Introduction
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Page 8: Redundancy Options
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Page 9: Ip Input Address/Port Redundancy
This level of redundancy is available for all IP input ports, and is independent of any connections that may exist to the port. It uses no internal resources in the 9220 (i.e., it does not “count” as an input or as a connection), but it has the following limitations: •...
Page 11: Indicators And Switches
Prior to installing the card, first install the corresponding rear I/O module. Rear I/O Module Indicators The 9220 rear I/O module is depicted below. It includes 6 ASI ports (configurable as inputs or outputs) on standard BNC connectors, and two 100/1000 Mb/s Ethernet ports on standard RJ-45 connectors.
Page 12: Front Indicators
Front Indicators A similar set of indicators exist in the front of the board. These are visible when the frame front door is opened. The indicator layout is depicted below. The LED indi.2 9220-UM V1.2...
Page 14: Operation And Management
Operation and Management The 9220 is configured using the free Dashboard™ application, which is available for Windows, Apple OS X, and Linux. Dashboard can be downloaded from this link: http://www.opengear.tv/n/?p=94 As with any openGear™ card, the card display is divided into a statistics panel on the left, and a configuration panel on the right.
Page 15: Product Tab
Wrong Module: The 9220 is connected to a rear module that was not designed for it (most likely from another openGear™ vendor). Depending on the signals present on that module, there may be a small chance of damage to the 9220; Cobalt Digital Inc. recommends that this situation be rectified immediately. This alarm will cause the front status LED to turn red.
Page 16: Network Tab
Apply button. Pressing the Cancel button reverts the fields back to their original values. Note that the 9220 will check the consistency of the data entered and will reject invalid combinations. Once the Apply button is pressed, a status message appears just below the Cancel button, as follows: 9220-UM V1.2...
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Page 18 If Alarm on Link Loss is set to No, this indicator will still be red, but the alarm will not propagate. • Port 1/2 Status: This indicator is the port overrun status. It has the following states: 9220-UM V1.2...
Page 19: Asi Ports
ASI ports can be disabled. This tab is used to configure and manage the ASI Ports. ASI Ports: Configuration Tab If the 9220 has not yet been configured, all the ASI ports are disabled. The appearance of the Configuration Tab is: From the Add Port drop down list, select the port you wish to configure.
Page 20 If the connected input bit rate is lower than the rate entered in the Bit Rate field, the ASI port will add NULL packets as required to pad it to the desired value. PCR packets will be re-stamped as required. 9220-UM V1.2...
Page 22 Unlocked: Port is unlocked. If it is a Receive (Input) port, it means that it cannot lock to the signal. If it is a Transmit (Output) port, it means that the port is in Automatic mode and it has no input. o Locked: 9220-UM V1.2...
Page 23 State and the Status LED will be red if there is a connection to this port. • RX Unlocked: The port is in receive mode, and it is not locked to any signal. Dashboard™ Card State and the Status LED will be red if there is a connection to this port. 9220-UM V1.2...
Page 24 IP Inputs receive transport streams over UDP/IP from the Ethernet ports, de-jitter them, and make them available for connections to outputs. The 9220 card supports up to 8 transport stream inputs per Ethernet port. IP Inputs have the following specifications: •...
Page 25 . Once the port is created an in operation, the 9220 will measure the actual jitter. Therefore, if the input jitter is unknown (which is the most common case), set this parameter to 100 ms, run the unit for a representative period of time, read the measured jitter, and then reduce it.
Page 26 If this option is selected, a new field is displayed, where the Switch Time can be configured; valid values are between 2 and 45 seconds: • M43.48c[(M) -1.15 TD-0addr 9220-UM V1.2...
Page 27 • UDP Port: selects the UDP port to receive from. Valid values are between 1 and 65535. Note that, in traditional IP networks, UDP ports between 1 and 1023 are reserved for administrative uses. It is recommended to use UDP ports 1024 and higher. The 9220, however, will accept any legal value.
Page 28 • No CSRC list (CC=0) • Payload type set to MPEG-2 Transport Streams (PT=33) For more details, please consult RFC 1889, section 5.1. The 9220 does not receive, require, or process RTCP packets. Once the configuration information is filled in, click on the Apply button to make it active. If there are no errors, the port will be created, and the configuration area disappears.
Page 29 • Delete Port: If you click on this button, the port is deleted and removed from the table. When the Advanced view is selected, additional fields appear in the table, as depicted below: The Advanced view includes all items in the Basic view plus the following: • Backup Mode: The configured value of this parameter. 9220-UM V1.2...
Page 30 • IP Packet Rate (pkts/s): The measured IP input packet rate, in packets/second. This 9220-UM V1.2...
Page 31 No Lock: The IP Input is not receiving a valid transport stream. If there is a connection to this input, Dashboard™ Card State and the Status LED will be red. • Disabled: The IP Input has been disabled (by setting Enable to No). 9220-UM V1.2...
Page 32 IP Outputs receive data from connected inputs, format this data for transmission over UDP/IP, and send it with very precise timing over the Ethernet ports. The 9220 card supports up to 8 transport stream outputs per Ethernet port. IP Outputs have the following specifications: •...
Page 33 IP Output IP Output Parameters Parameters Connection Connection Parameters Parameters The Basic View configuration parameters are as follows: • Enabled: This allows the output stream to be enabled or disabled. If it is disabled, no 9220-UM V1.2...
Page 34 This is not an issue with current network equipment. • RTP: If this box is checked, the 9220 will include RTP (Real Time Protocol) headers in the output flow. If it is not checked, the transport stream will be sent over UDP/IP without any additional headers.
Page 37 Once a MAC address is obtained, the 9220 will cache it for about 5 minutes, as it is usual for IP devices. Unlike other IP devices, the 9220 will keep on using the MAC address until a response is received, to avoid stream interruptions.
Page 38 The Connections configuration tab is depicted below. The message “Connection Table Empty” will be displayed if there are no configured input/output connections in the 9220. As indicated in the figure, the Connections configuration area is divided into two parts: a source port selection, and a destination port selection.
Page 39 • Step 2: Select the individual stream in the Source Stream drop-down list. The names presented here are the Stream Names configured when the ports were created. If no streams were configured in that port, no options will be presented. This process is illustrated below. Default Names: 9220-UM V1.2...
Page 41 If a backup connection is desired, it can be selected at this point as well. The same two options are available: Automatic redundancy, where the 9220 will switch by itself after a configurable timeout, and Manual redundancy, where the operator is responsible for switching. If Automatic redundancy is selected, a field to configure the switch time becomes available.
Page 43 • Error: Missing backup source selection: you have selected Automatic or Manual 9220-UM V1.2...
Page 44 MAC address) or dropping packets (e.g., an oversubscribed ASI output). ASI Outputs with Automatic Rate will be in this state if they do not have data to transmit. A sample of the Connection Statistics Tab is depicted below. 9220-UM V1.2...
Page 45 Redundancy The Redundancy Tab provides a unified view of all configured primary/backup pairs, for both Address/Port Redundancy and Connection Redundancy. The following features are available on this tab: • Display of all primary/backup parameters. • 9220-UM V1.2...
Page 46 469220-UM V1.2Configuration TabStatistics TabThe fields in the table are: Primary/Backup Port: Configured UDP port for primary/backup. Primary/Backup Address: Configured reception IP address for primary/backup. Primary/Backup Source: Configured source IP address for primary/backup. If thesetting is to receive from any source, this field will contain the word Any. Primary/Backup State: This indicates which setting is online (active) and which settingis offline. The indicator has the following possible values: : This indicates that the setting is online (active). : This indicates that the setting is offline (inactive). Switch Time (sec): This indicates the automatic redundancy switch time, in seconds. Ifmanual redundancy is configured, the value displayed here is 0 (zero). In the exampleabove, Port 1/1 is in automatic redundancy with a switch time of 5 seconds, while Port 1/2 is in manual redundancy.
Page 47 Note that, if the port is in automatic redundancy mode, and you manually switch it to a stream that is not running, it will switch back to the running stream after the configured switch time. 9220-UM V1.2...
Page 48 • Firmware: Manages firmware images. • Config Files: The 9220 has the ability to store multiple configurations, and it has a number of pre-set configurations as well. These are managed in this tab. • Test Packet Generator: Manages the Test Packet Generator.
Page 49: Admin Firmware Tab
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Page 50: Admin Config Files Tab
Note that uploading firmware to the 9220 does not affect its operation in any way and does not introduce any glitches in the inputs/outputs. The fields in the Firmware Image Management tab are: • Factory Image, Image 1, and Image 2: These contain version and release date information for the corresponding firmware images.
Page 51: User-Saved Configurations
User-Saved Configurations The fields in the user-saved configuration are: • Status: This indicates whether there is a saved configuration on that particular slot. It will contain the words Saved or 9220-UM V1.2...
Page 52 529220-UM V1.2If you save a configuration to your computer, and later wish to restore it to the 9220, use the...
Page 53: Pre-Defined Templates
• Saved configurations are not modified in any way. Dashboard™ will take a few seconds to reload (longer if you are accessing over a wide-area network), but the actual configuration in the 9220 is virtually instantaneous. The Status Message Area will indicate the result of the operation.
Page 54: Admin Test Packet Generator Tab
549220-UM V1.2Admin Test Packet Generator TabThe 9220 includes a Test Packet Generator (TPG) that is capable of generating a configurable To configure the TPG, make your selections in the Modify Configuration...
Page 55: Admin License Keys Tab
The 9220 has the concept of a temporary license. If you want to try out a certain feature, contact Cobalt Digital Inc. You will receive a license key that enables that feature for a specific period of running time (license time does not “count”...
Page 56: Admin Event Log Tab
If you want to request a license key from Cobalt Digital Inc., you will need to provide the card serial number. It can be found in the Product Tab and in the Admin License Key Tab as well. Once you receive the key from Cobalt Digital Inc., enter it in the License Key field shown above, and click on the Apply License Key button.
Page 57 January 1, 2010, GMT. If the frame controller is NTP- synchronized, the 9220 will then accept time from it and set its time-of-day clock accordingly. In order to configure the frame controller for NTP, open its configuration screen on Dashboard™, select the Network Tab, and enter the IP address of an available NTP server:...
Page 59 • Current Time: This field indicates the 9220 view of what the current date and time is. If your frame is not NTP-synchronized, this is useful to figure out “how long ago did this event happen”. • Clear Log Display: If you click on this button, it clears all log views. This is useful to quickly identify any new events after the unit has been set up.
Page 60: Warranty And Repair Policy
(1) year. Cobalt Digital Inc.'s (“Cobalt”) sole obligation under this warranty shall be limited to, at its option, (i) the repair or (ii) replacement of the product, and the determination of whether a defect is covered under this limited warranty shall be made at the sole discretion of Cobalt.
Page 61: Contact Cobalt Digital Inc
Contact Us Contact Cobalt Digital Inc. General Business Office 217.344.1243 and Technical Support PHONE 217.344.1245 General Information Info@cobaltdigital.com E-MAIL Sales Information Sales@cobaltdigital.com 2506 Galen Drive POSTAL Cobalt Digital Inc. Champaign, IL 61821 USA SERVICE 9220-UM V1.2...