Building Out Your Video NOC

Building Out Your Video NOC
Monitoring the Video Transport…
Broadband Video Conference – NAB 2007
Karl Paulsen – Chief Technology Officer
Tom McDonough – Director, IPTV Solutions
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Overview
Large IPTV Network Operations Center
Karl Paulsen
Mobile IPTV Network Operations Center
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Tom McDonough
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NOC
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Content Aggregation Topology
AUTOMATED
SIGNAL
COMPLIANCE
METERING
VIDEO
CONTENT
BASEBAND
CROSS
VOC
RECEIVERS
DECODING
POINT
OPERATORS
SWITCHING
STATIONS
BASEBAND
DECODING
MATRIX
PROGRAM
SERVICES
(ADS, ETC)
PROCESSING
&
ENCODING
SWITCH
NETWORK
NETWORK
VOD
CACHE
SUPER HEAD END & VIDEO OPERATIONS CENTER
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LEGEND
QA MONITORING
BASEBAND VIDEO
IP ENCODED
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120 IMAGE LARGE SCALE MONITOR WALL
REVOLVING SIGNAL MONITORING
NATIONAL SERVICES
REGIONAL SERVICES
SPORTS SERVICES
ON DEMAND SERVICES
BASEBAND VIDEO MONITORING
• INBOUND SAT SIGNALS
ADULT SERVICES
NEWS SERVICES
VHO RETURN SERVICES
VHO RETURN SERVICES
• VHO REMOTE MONITORING
• ON DEMAND SCHEDULING
• REGIONAL BROADCASTS
HIGH DEF SERVICES
QC & CONTROL
QC & CONTROL
“MONITORING BY EXCEPTION”
HIGH DEF SERVICES
• FAULT DETECTION & ALERT
• AUTOMATION ERRORS
• NETWORK HEALTH STATUS
• VOD, D- & A-SERVER DECODES
OPERATOR’S UP FRONT QC & MONITORING
“LEAN FORWARD” MONITORING
MEDIA OPERATIONS
• 32” LCD DISPLAYS
• SECONDARY LEVEL QC
• SPECIFIC FAULT TROUBLE SHOOTING
• TECHNICAL SIGNAL EVALUATION
MEDIA INGEST
• AUTOMATION
• TAPE / SERVERS
VIDEO SYSTEMS
•AUTOMATION
• TRIM, TIME, EVAL
• VOD INGEST
• SUPERVISED
•iControl
•DETAILED
ANALYSIS
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Reference Network Topology
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Mobile IPTV Video NOC
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Mobile TV NOC Architecture
Extract, Decode and Monitor Video from Many Different Transports
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NOC Service Areas
Content Headend
Multi-image
Processor (QC)
Content Provider
Transport I/F
Content Provider
Program Source I/F
Edge Processing /
Source Distribution
Source Path
Protection Switcher
Encoder Protection
Switcher
Encoder Source
Fail-over (ACO)
Service Headend
WM Service
Cluster
Service Encoder
Streams / Files / ESG
Media LAN
Service Origination /
Management
Service
Decoders
Regional Service
De-encaptsulation
Network Timing
Regional Service
Path Protection
IP Encapsulator (IPE)
Network Headend
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Network Service
Deconcentration
Network Service
Interfaces
Regional Service
Network
Concentration
Primary Distribution
Transport
Adaptation I/F
Network Monitoring
DS3 / Ku SAT
Network Service
Path Protection
Network Service
Distribution
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Transmission
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