The MD8200 supports up to 16 DVB-ASI interfaces configurable for send or receive operation through an easy-to-use, SNMP compliant, web accessible GUI interface. Standards based transport stream encapsulation with FEC per the SMPTE 2022-1/2022-2 (Pro MPEG CoP3) and DVB-ASI granularity provisioned at 1 Mb increments from 3Mb up to 200Mb.
Designed with 6 Gigabit Ethernet user interfaces, the MD8200 is able to dynamically manage the data traffic at a lower priority than the video traffic. Port based VLAN tagging allows the video traffic to be prioritized at a higher level preventing loss of video in the event of congestion.
Multiple unicasts of the same stream can be initiated provided the bandwidth of the NIC port is not exceeded. In cases with multicast enabled networks, IGMP is supported for multiple destination transmission.
The MD8200 sets the stage for convergence between SONET/SDH and IP based networks with the use of the ITU-T G.7041 Generic Framing Protocol. GFP provides an efficient method of mapping Ethernet packets into SONET/SDH and at the same time, the Service Provider is able to generate more revenues from the same infrastructure.
The MD8200’s flexible architecture provides redundant network interfaces. The NIC Port 1 is selectable between DS-3/E3, OC-3/STM-1, OC-12/STM-4 or 100/1000BaseT Ethernet. NIC Port 2 is selectable between OC-3/STM-1, OC-12/STM-4 or 100/1000BaseT Ethernet.
