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Acterna Brings a Comprehensive Test and Measurement Interface to the DVB-T Industry | |
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GERMANTOWN, Md., and AMSTERDAM -- August 30, 2004 -- Acterna, the world's largest provider of communications test solutions for telecommunications and cable network operators, today announced that its DTS 200 and DTS 330 remote test solutions for MPEG-2 transport streams have been enhanced with interfaces for Digital Video Broadcasting -- Terrestrial (DVB T) testing and measurement. Acterna's DTS 200 and DTS 330 now enable pinpoint analysis of digital video transport streams transported over terrestrial broadcasts and provide the RF layer measurements that facilitate simple correlation between the physical and MPEG protocol layers.
By adding DVB T testing functionality to the DTS 200 and DTS 330 systems, Acterna becomes the first provider of MPEG protocol test and measurement solutions to all industries -- including satellite, cable, telco, terrestrial broadcast, and OEMs -- working with the MPEG compression format. "The broadcast industry is exploring every option available for content producers to maximize today's digital media experience," said Kevin Oliver, vice president of marketing for Acterna's Cable Networks Division. "The new DVB T interface to Acterna's DTS products allows broadcasters in Europe and Asia, as well as Community Antenna Television (CATV) and telecom clients worldwide, to analyze accurately Digital Video (DV) transport streams coming off air, ensuring that those feeds are error-free. The DVB-T interface allows a customer to identify and isolate problems in the distribution and multiplexing chain quickly, saving time, labor, and cost. As a result, our customers can optimize programming on a given frequency while maintaining the highest standards of quality for their broadcast signals." The DTS 200 allows digital network operators and associated equipment vendors to gain remote visibility into their MPEG streams and perform various test applications for rapid provisioning of networks and easy identification of problems with equipment and content. Acterna's DTS 330 digital broadcast test system offers multiple combinations of MPEG 2 -- both DVB and Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) -- transport stream generation, capture, stream creation, and analysis to meet broadcasters' specific needs. This new test platform also analyzes up to seven unique streams simultaneously across as many different interfaces. Integrated evaluation of the DV stream according to the European Telecommunications Standards (ETS) 300 744 specification also allows broadcasters to look at the MPEG data at the terrestrial broadcast point -- without RF equipment "tainting" the analysis -- to guard against lip-sync or timing errors, or against gross lack of proper audio and video. No additional RF demodulation devices are required to test the signals' MPEG layer. |
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