Media Links Launches MD8000 Media Transport System at NAB 2008
Booth C3313, NAB, Las Vegas – 14th April 2008: Media Links, the leading provider of high-definition video transport solutions, announced today the launch of its groundbreaking MD8000 Media Transport System. The MD8000 has been precision engineered to provide the highest level of flexibility, and is a major expansion to the company’s global video transport product lines.
The MD8000 is designed to satisfy the needs of users today and also those of tomorrow with scalable bandwidth – from 10 Mbit/s to 10 Gbit/s – thereby allowing the transport of compressed and uncompressed HD, SD, audio and data. It is built to work transparently with today’s popular high-reliability SONET/SDH architectures as well as tomorrow’s low-cost, high-performance IP core-based systems. The system will support simultaneous interconnections among a range of networking technologies, providing a smooth migration path as networking technologies evolve.
In addition, the MD8000 is the only high-capacity media networking system that does not require proprietary switching elements at each network node – individual signals can be switched between paths by standard IP routers. This gives system designers great flexibility to combine low-cost MD8000 shelves in the same network as high-performance IP core routers and switches.
“Our goal is always to provide an exceptional level of reliability and flexibility. We want our products to operate as seamlessly and efficiently as possible to allow people to get on with the task at hand – moving mission-critical signals faultlessly. The MD8000 takes this to a whole new level,” explains John Dale III, VP of Product Management for Media Links.
Interoperability with the Media Links HDGigE and the MD-003 1RU chassis give the MD8000 the ability to integrate small, low bandwidth network spurs. Existing and planned trunk interfaces include OC-12/STM-4, OC-48/STM-16, OC-192/STM-64, Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet rates. Signal interfaces include all types of compressed and uncompressed digital video (HD-SDI, SDI, SDTI, DVB/ASI), AES/EBU audio, multiple telecom interfaces (T1/E1, OC-3/STM-1, OC-12/STM-4), and multiple data interfaces (10/100 BaseT, Gigabit Ethernet). Plus, an advanced SNMP control interface provides visibility to all key module configurations and system status reports.
“With the MD8000, all signals are converted into a common format before transport. This provides the obvious advantage of allowing many types of traffic to flow over a single backbone. Hitless protection switching and built-in error correction ensure that media signals will survive network outages without losing a single bit of valuable content,” concludes Dale.
About Media Links, Inc. Media Links, Inc. headquartered in Milford, CT, provides the technologies of choice to transport professional video signals reliably over contribution and primary distribution networks. It offers the only product suite today that enables adaptation of video to dark fiber, SONET/SDH, 270Mb and Ethernet-based networks enabling service providers to economically convert and move video onto their multi-service networks. For more information on Media Links please visit www.medialinks.com
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