example Use Case
NMOS IS-05 Connection Management & vendor-independent signal processing
This use case shows how DataMiner supports NMOS IS-05 commands to connect multicast senders with any IS-05 compatible receiver. To make a receiver join a different multicast stream, you have the choice: either use a product-specific DataMiner connector to perform the necessary API calls, or just use our NMOS IS-05 connector, which allows you to make a connection with any product supporting the IS-05 specification developed by AMWA. In this demo, DataMiner controls a Riedel MuoN receiver via IS-05, which converts an uncompressed SMPTE ST2110 stream back into HDMI. Next to that we have built an easy-to-use control surface to set video delay and audio gain & shuffle functions in real-time. Under the hood DataMiner is controlling processing functions of both EVS Neuron and Lawo V-Matrix SDI-to-IP-gateways. This is a nice example how Skyline decouples operations from the underlying technology, an operator does not have to care or even know what kind of device he controls. And if you invest in new infrastructure in the future, your operational team would likely not even realize, the user interface will just stay the same!
USE CASE DETAILS
This screenshot shows a data page of our IS-05 connector, which interfaces with a Riedel MuoN receiver. To perform an IS-05 patch command on a receiver that supports SMPTE ST2022-7 hitless redundancy, all we need to do is change the multicast IP and multicast port as well as the source IP for both the RED and BLUE network.
You don't need to manually enter the data on the data pages of the IS-05 connector. Instead you can for instance use this IP matrix control surface, which supports source-destination switching with a click of a button. Just filter the destination you want, select one of the available sources, and click connect. The UI also shows the multicast IPs, ports and source IPs for each "source".
Here is what happens when you click the Connect button. An IS-05 REST-API call is sent to the Riedel MuoN receiver, the receiver sends the IGMP join commands to the network, and immediately the connection with the selected source is made. DataMiner receives an IS-05 response back from Riedel MuoN with all information about the newly connected multicast stream.
Here you can see a real-time control surface that shows the connected multicast source on the Riedel receiver and some details on the RED and BLUE network but also gives real-time control capabilities to an SDI router (Evertz EQX) and parameter control for video and audio processing on SDI-to-IP gateways, in our example a Lawo V-Matrix processor gets controlled.
As a next step our customer has replaced the Lawo IP-Gateways with EVS Neuron. As you can see, the control interface just stays the same, no need for an operator to learn anything about the new infrastructure. With DataMiner we truly decouple operations from the underlying technology.
And as you can see this control surface also includes traditional SDI-equipment, in our example an Evertz EQX router where we use an XY-grid to set crosspoints.