RFK-ITXE-HW-DUO

The RFK-ITXE-HW-DUO is a high-performance, FPGA-accelerated server blade engineered to deliver exceptional capability for bulk signal normalization within professional broadcast and media environments. Supporting both 12G/3G/HD-SDI and IP interfaces, the RFK-ITXE-HW-DUO can ingest compressed streams, uncompressed SMPTE ST 2110, or SDI signals and leverage its integrated UDX (up/down/cross-conversion) and encode engines to normalize and distribute content to any required signal type. This makes the RFK-ITXE-HW-DUO an ideal platform for inter-facility distribution, contribution workflows, and complex production applications.

Purpose-built as a scalable and future-proof FPGA-based processing blade, the RFK-ITXE-HW-DUO provides the flexibility of a virtualized environment while maintaining the low latency and reliable real-time performance demanded by modern media operations.

The RFK-ITXE-HW-DUO platform offers multiple application builds, enabling it to be deployed for a variety of operational roles-including bulk transcoding, encode/decode workflows, gateway services, and comprehensive signal normalization. This modular application architecture ensures that customers can enable exactly the functionality they require, when they require it.

The RFK-ITXE-HW-DUO integrates seamlessly with MAGNUM-OS and Evertz X-Change, providing powerful orchestration capabilities that allow users to efficiently manage applications, licenses, and server resource pools. These tools simplify deployment and enable dynamic scaling of processing resources to meet evolving operational demands.

ITXE-APP

With the transition to IP, many facilities operate in a hybrid environment. Ingested content entering the workflow needs to be processed and ready to output to a variety of platforms and formats, which traditionally necessitates separate video processors, gateways, encoders, decoders, transcoders, up/down/cross converters and IPTV encoders. Evertz ITXE-APP offers the flexibility to take anything in and send anything out by providing a single point of entry for all compressed and uncompressed signals, eliminating the need for bulk infrastructure. The ITXE-APP therefore, is the ideal solution for hybrid broadcast facilities and broadcasters looking to transition to IP.

Features

• Based on the Application mode in question, the RFK-ITXE-DUO supports up to 4 Transcode Paths (decoder based transcodes) or up to 12 Transcode Paths (no decoding support) or up to 8 Transcode Paths (no decoding support and both IPTV and JPEG XS Encode per transcode)
• Each transcode path drives a normalization blocks independently and provides a Triple stage outputs, that include: {Encode/IPTV} H.264/HEVC (4:2:0/8bit), SDI and ST2110
• Each transcode path supporting SRT/RIST rewrapping for IPTV encoded outputs
• Video Standard 720p/59.94, 720p/50, 1080i/59.94, 1080i/50, 1080p/59.94 Level A, 1080p/50 Level A, 3840x2160p/59.94 Level A and 3840x2160p/50 Level A*
• Easy-to-use web browser interface and/or SNMP for configuration/control
• Decoder stage supports H.265, H.264, MPEG-2, JPEG XS & J2K* Optional Decode stage support, Density drops to 4 Transcodes
• Video and audio processing
• Option to GOP-align lock 4:2:0/8- bit and 4:2:2/10-bit output

Application Build with Decode

Application Build without Decode

Application Build IPTV and JPEG XS Encodes, with No Decoders

Specifications

• Video Support for MPEG-2/H.264/HEVC, JPEG XS and J2K. Each decoder input can be driven with a RTP input or each decoder can also strip SRT / RIST based headers removing the need for external SRT / RIST based gateways.

• AAC, AC3 (stereo/5.1), Dolby Digital Plus, MPEG -2, Dolby E and PCM pass-through. Roadmap support for Dolby AC4 and Dolby ATMOS.

• SMPTE ST 2110, ST 2022-6 PTP locking supported for sync rates of 32Hz and above

• H.264 / HEVC IPTV Encode 4:2:0 8-bit output up to 15MB/s

• AAC, PCM, Dolby E, Dolby AC3

• 4 x 100GbE (QSFP), 2 x 10G (SFP) 2 x 1GbE (RJ45 streaming ports)

• Video gain, Y offset, Saturation gain, Hue, Cb gain, Cr gain, Audio gain, Audio inversion, Audio mixing,

• Up/down/cross conversion SDR to HDR and vice versa conversion
  *Optional license; Aspect ratio conversion

• Frame sync through genlock and master PTP

• HDBNC for video processing / encoding stage; IP for video and metadata in

• SNMP with Ethernet access provided by a local frame controller, WebEasy, REST API

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