Inserter puts multimedia data on digital TV

A Rohde and Schwarz product story

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Jan 16, 2006

Rohde and Schwarz now offers not only broadcasting technology, but also the required playout technology for transporting multimedia data for DVB-H.

Rohde and Schwarz now offers not only broadcasting technology, but also the required playout technology for transporting multimedia data for DVB-H in the form of the R and S DIP010 DTV IP inserter and generator.

The R and S DIP-H option implements the characteristic parameters of the DVB-H standard such as multiprotocol encapsulation, time slicing and additional Reed-Solomon error correction (MPE-FEC).

The new option makes it possible to insert more than 100 multimedia services into DVB-H channels.

The R and S DIP010 data inserter provides a maximum of eight parallel time slicing structures (subchannelling) due to the horizontal and vertical time slicing configuration.

The accuracy of the time slicing settings is 1ms.

The hardware implementation of the Reed-Solomon coder allows dynamic FEC frames with variable code rates and adaptive puncturing to be generated.

The time required for generation is constant and does not depend on the number of multimedia services.

The R and S DIP010 can be operated in the MPEG-2 inserter or generator mode, which allows device cascading and ensures scalability of the playout systems.

The ALC/Flute carousel on the R and S DIP010 in the WebCarousel platform enables playout of electronic programme guides (EPG) or other data structures.

The R and S DIP010 DTV IP inserter and generator is fully compatible with EN302304, EN301192 and EN300468.

The new DIP-H option is now available from Rohde and Schwarz.