Media Links Has European Launch of MD8000 Media Transport System
by | Sep 11, 2008 - 5:42:13 PM
Media Links, has unveiled its
European 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.
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