Ensemble Designs BrightEye NXT 450 Compact Router with H.264 Encoder/Decoder and Up/Down/Cross Conversion

The BrightEye NXT 450 Compact Router from Ensemble Designs adds a high quality, high profile H.264 (MPEG-4) encoder to the BrightEye NXT family of compact routers. The Encoder produces both a high and low resolution output simultaneously. Any SDI input can be fed to the encoder through the built-in format converting Clean Switch, allowing seamless switching or mixing between all inputs. The independent decoder operates simultaneously, with baseband output in any desired format. The decoder output can be switched along with any other source to any destination. An NXT 450 can serve as a full duplex codec, supporting both an outgoing and incoming streaming path. Encoding and decoding are fully integrated with the full set of resources in the NXT 450.

Encoded streams can be sent or received through IP networking or by direct DVB-ASI connections. The NXT 450 incorporates an RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet port dedicated to streaming connectivity. The encoder output can be delivered by either unicast or multicast addressing modes over the IP connection. Two unicast outputs can be independently directed to any desired destination. The multicast output is limited to the immediate subnet that the NXT 450 is connected to, but can be received by multiple devices. In addition to IP outputs, a DVB-ASI formatted stream can be output through a BNC port, or by fiber with an SFP module. For each of these outputs, IP or ASI, there is independent selection of the high or low resolution stream. The NXT 450 can receive an IP stream from the media port, or ASI from any BNC or fiber input. This stream will be decoded to produce a baseband SDI signal with embedded audio.