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ENX-18FR

Route & Switch in One Media Core

Zero-Sacrifice 12G Performance

No gear boxing. No compression. No quad essence anything. Just pure signal integrity.

Hitless & Seamless Redundancy

ENX delivers hitless switching and seamless failover.
Just uninterrupted 24/7 performance.

Core-Level Audio Shuffling

ENX makes audio routing dynamic, scalable, and truly integrated.

Flexible Control

MAGNUM-OS delivers award-winning control complemented with VUE.

ENX Frame

  • Fully Hot Swappable Front Accessible Modules
  • 16 IO Modules Slots
  • 6 Load Sharing Power Supplies
  • Temperature Adaptive Fan Speeds ENX-XPT-1K
  • 1024x1024 (Local 512x512 +512x512 over FXLINK)
  • Mono Audio Crosspoint 34K x 34K
  • ENX-18FR supports up to four Crosspoints:
    • Main + Redundant
    • Expansion Main + Expansion Redundant
  • BB Reference (loop through both FCs)
  • Health and Status Monitoring With MAGNUM-OS

Application Diagram

Specifications

Video I/O

Formats SD-SDI (270MB/s), SMPTE 259M-C
ASI (270MB/s)
HD-SDI (1.485GB/s), SMPTE 292M
3G-SDI (2.97GB/s), SMPTE 424M
6G-SDI (5.950GB/s), SMPTE ST 2081
12G-SDI (11.88GB/s), SMPTE ST 2082, SMPTE ST 2110

Redundancy & Protection

  • Passive main interface/backplane
  • Main & Backup Crosspoints Available
  • Main & Backup Frame Controllers Available

Power supplies

  • Swappable Fan Trays & Modules

Frame Ethernet Interface

  • 4x eth SFPs for control, Monitoring, and PTP

Protocol for Third-Party Control

  • Quartz
  • Image Video
  • TSL 5.0

Reference Timing

Switching Ref Analog 525/625
Signal Level 1V p-p ±3dB
Impedance 75 Ω
Additional Ref PTPv2(SMPTE ST 2059)

Physical

Height 31.5" (800mm)
Width 19" (483mm) rack mount
Depth 20.45" (520mm)

Power

Voltage Auto-ranging, 200-240V 50/60Hz
Power per Module 3600 watts @ 220V AC

Ordering Information

Packages

PKG-ENX18-2FC-1XPT-1K Package for single frame ENX 18RU which includes 1x ENX-18FR populated with all 4x IO Fan modules, 2x frame controllers with rear plates, 1x XPT-1K with rear plate. Additional XPT & rear plate, IO modules & rear plates, and power supplies are sold separately.

Module Ordering Options

ENX-IO-SE ENX high-density FPGA accelerated IO standard processing hardware module only. Designed for 32x32 SDI or ST 2110. Rear plates are sold separately. Additional ENX-IO feature keys are required.
ENX-RP-32C ENX coax rear plate with 32x32 HDBNC for SDI and 2 Audio SFP ports. Designed to be paired with the ENX-IO-SE (not included).
ENX-RP-32F ENX fiber rear plate with 32 SFP ports, of which 16 are dual TX and 16 are dual RX for 32x32 SDI and 2 Audio SFP ports. Designed to be paired with the ENX-IO-SE (not included). SFP sold separately.
ENX-RP-4QD ENX rear plate with 2+2 QSFP-DD ports, of which 1+1 are 400G and 1+1 are 200G, for 32x32 ST-2110 UHD and 2 Audio SFP ports. Designed to be paired with the ENX-IO-SE (not included). QSFP-DD sold separately. Variable port speed available, contact factory for more information.
ENX-PS-3600W ENX power supplies, load sharing, and each module provides a 3600 watts power level from a 200 – 240V Nominal 50/60Hz AC input.
ENX-XPT-1K ENX high-density front-accessible video and audio XPT module, sized for the ENX 18RU frame it can support up to 1024x1024 12G video and over 34K x 34K mono audio channels. Support 512x512 UHD locally in the ENX-18FR and an additional 512x512 over FX-LINK which can be connected to either a ENX or NEXX crosspoint. Frame Rear plate sold separately
ENX-RP-XPT ENX 18RU rear plate for XPT module, featuring 16 external FX-LINK connections. Designed for use with the ENX-XPT-1K module.
ENX-FC ENX Frame controller module that can be used in the main or redundant FC slot of a ENX frame. Rear plate is sold separate.
ENX-RP-FC ENX rear plate for the frame controller module that can be used in the main or redundant slot of a ENX frame. FC main module is not included, this is the RP only. Includes ports for PTP, Control, Genlock, and Reference loop back.

MAGNUM Software Key Options

MAGNUM-SK-ENX MAGNUM software key to add support for a single fully populated ENX Router. This key supports one MAGNUM cluster. 1st-year software maintenance included, additional years available for purchase.

Contact Factory for QSFP, SFP, FX-LINK AOC, and Software Feature Key options