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Operator’s Manual Jan 2011

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Please read this entire guide Veuillez lire entièrement ce guide Bitte das gesamte Handbuch durchlesen Sírvase leer completamente la presente guía Si prega di leggere completamente questa guida

Important

Please read this entire guide before you install or operate this product. Give particular attention to all safety statements.

Important

Veuillez lire entièrement ce guide avant d’installer ou d’utiliser ce produit. Prêtez une attention particulière à toutes les règles de sécurité.

Zu Beachten

Bitte lesen Sie vor Aufstellen oder Inbetriebnahme des Gerätes dieses Handbuch in seiner Gesamtheit durch. Achten Sie dabei besonders auf die Sicherheitshinweise.

Importante

Sírvase leer la presente guía antes de instalar o emplear este producto. Preste especial atención a todos los avisos de seguridad.

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Notices

Trademark Acknowledgments Novra is a registered trademark of Novra Technologies, Inc. The Novra logo is a registered trademark of Novra Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks shown are trademarks of their respective owners.

Disclaimer Novra Technologies Inc. assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions that may appear in this publication. Novra reserves the right to change this publication at any time without notice.

Copyright ©2011 Novra Technologies Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in Canada. Information in this publication is subject to change without notice. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, by photocopy, microfilm, xerography, or any other means, or incorporated into any information retrieval system, electronic or mechanical, for any purpose, without the express permission of Novra Technologies Inc.

Safety For safety information, refer to the separate Safety and Important Safeguards Guide packaged with this product.

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Revision History

Date Nature of Revision Release May 2004 December 2004 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 February 2006

May 2006

July 2006 October 2006

September 2007 January 2008

May 2008 August 2008

Jan 2011

Initial Release SI / Replication Update Additional Transport Stream Manager documentation Added IPE-410 Added APPLY CONFIGURATION to the TS Manager Added symbol rate recalculation, IGMP support, NTP client support, and enhanced error reporting Added DVB-S2 CCM support, and input PID pass through support Added contact closure update Added “View Input PID’s...”, updated IPE Status indica- tions, updated IPE-410 external alarm input, and updated Troubleshooting Added IPE-520 Update the redundancy contact closure pinouts Updated fixed key Applied fixed key to PID Properties Added route Heart Beat, updated information on the Enable External Input Signal Add Windows 7 Support

1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.31 1.32

1.33

1.34 1.35

1.36 1.37

1.38 1.39

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Text Conventions • Text appearing in Courier font indicates characters to be typed in; e.g.

type Shell indicates that the word “Shell” must be entered exactly as it appears, with the first letter capitalized.

• Text appearing in Bookman Old Style font indicates a directory path or filename; e.g. c:\Program Files.

• Text appearing in SMALL CAPS and Century Gothic font in an instruction indicates either a button that must be clicked, a key that must be pressed, a field that must be entered or a particular screen; e.g. BUTTON indicates a button that must be clicked.

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Definitions, Abbreviations and Acronyms 10BaseT 10 Mbps, baseband, transmission twisted pairs 100BaseT 100BaseTX100 Mbps, baseband, transmission twisted pairs ABR Available Bit Rate ANSI American National Standards Institute ARP Address Resolution Protocol ASI Asynchronous Serial Interface ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode ATSC Advanced Television Standards Committee BAT Bouquet Allocation Table CA Conditional Access CACS Conditional Access and Control CAT Conditional Access Table CBR Constant Bit Rate COTS Commercial Off-The-Shelf CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check CSS Communications Server System DAVIC Digital Audio-Visual Council DS Data Server DSM-CC Digital Storage Media - Command and Control DSN Domain Name Server DVB Digital Video Broadcast DVB Data Hub Asymmetric Multimedia Information System DVB-S DVB over Satellite EIT Event Information Table GBR Guaranteed Bit Rate GOP Group Of Pictures GUI Graphical User Interface IEC International Electrotechnical Commission IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol IP Internet Protocol IPE IP Encapsulator IRD Integrated Receiver Decoder IPSec IP Security ISDN Integrated Service Digital Network ISO International Organization for Standardization ISP Internet Service Provider LMDS Local Multipoint Distribution System MAC Media Access Control

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MIB Management Information Base MMDS Microwave Multipoint Distribution System MPEG-2 Moving Picture Experts Group NAT Network Address Translation NIC Network Information Card NIT Network Information Table NMI Network Management Interface NMS Network Management System NTP Network Time Protocol NTSC National Television System Community ODBC Open DataBase Connectivity OS Operating System PAL Phase Alternative Line PAT Program Allocation Table PBR Peak Bit Rate PCR Program Clock Reference PDN Public Data Network PID Packet IDentifier PMT Program Map Table POTS Plain Old Telephone Service PPP Point-to-Point Protocol PPTP Point-to-Point Tunnelling Protocol PS Proxy Server PSI Program Specific Information PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network QoS Quality of Service RADIUS Remote Authentication Dial In User Service RCR Return Channel Router RIP Routing Information Protocol SCTE Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers SDI Serial Digital Interface SDT Service Description Table SI Service Information SMPTE Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers SMS Subscriber Management System SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol SQL Structure Query Language ST Stuffing Table TCP Transmission Control Protocol TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

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TDT Time and Date Table TOT Time Offset Table UDLR Uni-Directional Link Routing UDP User Datagram Protocol UBR Unspecified Bit Rate URL Uniform Resource Locator VBR Variable Bit Rate VPN Virtual Private Network

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Protocols and Standards 10BaseT IEEE 802.3 10Base-T Standard 100BaseT IEEE 802.3 100Base-T Standard ANSI American National Standards Institute, web.ansi.org ARP Address Resolution Protocol ASI Asynchronous Serial Interface DAVIC Digital Audio-Visual Council, www.davic.org DSM-CC ISO/IEC 13818-6 DVB Digital Video Broadcast Project, www.dvb.org DVB-S ETS 300 421 Digital Satellite Transmission Systems IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers,

www.ieee.org ISO/IEC International Organization for Standardization, www.iso.ch IP RFC 791 Internet Protocol, Version 4 (IPv4) IPSec RFC 2401, Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol MIB Management Information Base MMDS DVB (M)MDS ETS 300 748 & ETS 300 749 Digital (Micro-

wave) Multipoint Distribution Systems (MDS) MPEG-2 Moving Picture Experts Group: Generic Coding of Moving

Pictures and Associated Audio Information ISO/IEC DIS 13818

ODBC Open DataBase Connectivity PPP RFC 1661, Point-to-Point Protocol PPTP Point-to-Point Tunnelling Protocol RADIUS RFC 2138, Remote Authentication Dial In User Service RIPv2 Routing Information Protocol, Version 2 SMPTE 325M SMPTE 325M-1999 Opportunistic Data Broadcast Flow

Control; RP 206-1999 Opportunistic Data Flow Control Using Ethernet as a Control Channel in an MPEG-2 Trans- port Emissions Multiplex

SNMP RFC 1905, Protocol Operations for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)

SQL ISO/IEC 9075:1992, Information Technology Database Lan- guages - SQL & ANSI X3.135-1992, Database Language SQL

TCP RFC 793, Transmission Control Protocol TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

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