Key Benefits:

Reduced TCO.

Upgrade to new codecs and resolutions without replacement of hardware

Flexible configurations and capacities.

Choose the right mix of HD and/or SD channels and software to fit your requirements today, with easy upgrades to meet future requirements

On-air reliability. 

Protect media assets with redundant and hot-swap components, as well as patented RAID storage protection for uninterrupted video access

FEATURES

Ingest and playback of SD (525i, 625i) and HD (1080i, 1080p, 720p) content on the same chassis
Software configurable for one to eight channel operation
Direct access to NEXIO true shared storage, which can scale to hundreds of channels
Fault tolerance through dual hot-swappable power supplies, dual mirrored boot drives and RAIDsoft software RAID content protection
Agile, integrated software codecs, supporting a wide range of formats including DV, MPEG-2, IMX, Avid DNxHD® , Sony® XDCAM® HD, H.264, DVCPRO HD, and Panasonic® AVC-Intra™
Software-based up/down/cross conversion
Aspect ratio conversion
AFD support
Discontinuous timecode support
Four AES/EBU audio pairs per video I/O channel
Dolby® Digital and Dolby® E passthrough
Content transfer of MXF, QuickTime®, AVI, GXF, Pinnacle, MPEG and native LXF format files
Off-speed play
Support for a wide range of automation, archiving and media management applications
Support for NEXIO AMP PRX Encoder low-resolution encoding
Support for NEXIO AMP Track Router used to control audio track tagging, addition, deletion, shuffling, and playback routing. NEXIO AMP Track Router also adds the ability to import, export and manage closed caption files.
Patented Intrinsic Mirroring™ support for complete shared storage redundancy
Redundant Ethernet switch support
 

PRODUCT DETAILS

Processors

• Two multicore, 64-bit AMD Opteron™ processors provide real-time, high-bit-rate coding and decoding, and enable the NEXIO AMP server to ingest and play out up to eight channels simultaneously.

MediaCore™ Engine

• High-performance, 64-bit software engine that controls all low-level NEXIO AMP functionality.
• Multistream module manages real-time transactions and system status updates, as well as RAIDsoft, the NEXIO software RAID and disk storage management system.
• Employs task-specific, multicore CPU/GPU/FPGA processing to effortlessly handle all baseband video and file I/O.
• Controlled via external or internal interfaces

RAIDsoft Storage Protection

• Runs the Harris-patented and Emmy® Award-winning RAIDsoft software RAID management system, allowing all channels and network ports to simultaneously access content without restriction.
• Supports RAIDsoft’s RAID-3 scheme for protection against single drive failures in a volume, ECC parity to protect against two drive failures per volume and Intrinsic Mirroring to protect against the failure of an entire storage system.
• Supports Harris’ latest storage innovation, RAID-601 for NEXIO Farad storage systems. Intelligent RAIDsoft system keeps a cached copy of the file allocation table (FAT) in RAM and on disk, adding exceptional system resiliency. Translates to fast searching for content and assured access to metadata, whether requested via VDCP serial or Ethernet control.

Channel configurations

• Supports a variety of channel configurations. The available modes depend on the licensing applied to the server via the NEXIO Software License Key (SLK). The following table lists all the available modes possible.

The following table shows the software upgrade licenses available. The desired licenses can be ordered at any time after deployment. Software only upgrades are available for purchase separately to increase channel count once hardware is deployed in the field.

NXOS

STANDARD APPLICATIONS

• Standard user interface for the NEXIO AMP mainframe.
• Intuitive operating system allows users to control ingest and playout on all channels — including off-speed play, trimming and sub-clip creation.
• Includes the versatile NEXIO® MediaBase™ content management system, which updates the NEXIO AMP clip list in real time whenever changes are made to the content residing in storage.

NEXIO FTP Server and FTP Client

• Enables the movement of material from server domain to server domain, and import and export of material outside of the NEXIO server environment via Ethernet.
• Facilitates MXF file exchange and simplified transfer of Panasonic® P2 (including AVC-Intra™ import) and Sony® XDCAM/XDCAM HD files (including access to multiple XDCAM decks via Ethernet).

PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT

Add any of the following optional media applications to boost the performance of the NEXIO AMP server:

NXA1000DNXHD-SL

• Support for Avid Technologies DNxHD Codec, enabling NEXIO AMP and NEXIO Volt to ingest and play out the Avid DNxHD format.
• NEXIO AMP supports both 8bit (145Mbps NTSC / 120Mbps PAL) and 10bit (220Mbps NTSC / 185Mbps PAL) DNxHD.
• he DNxHD codec is an option for NEXIO and is enabled by software license key on a per server (chassis) basis.

NXA1000H264-SL 

• Codec available for NEXIO AMP and NEXIO Volt servers and is enabled by software license key.
• Supported for file ingest and baseband play out.
• Licensed on a per server (chassis) basis. Supporting H.264 allows NEXIO to import native format content from file distribution systems such as PathFire and PitchBlue bypassing the need for additional transcoding.

NEXIO AMP Track Router 

• Enabled in the NEXIO NXOS or NEXIO Remote interface to control track manipulation, audio and caption file import and export.
• Audio and closed caption files are imported via NEXIO FTP server. NEXIO AMP Track Router is protected by software license key.

NEXIO AMP® PRX Encoder

• Enables the NEXIO AMP server to automatically generate low-resolution H.264 proxy files simultaneously with the baseband ingest of up to two channels of high-resolution video.
• Proxy files are saved to the low resolution storage array, where they are available for viewing and editing across the low resolution network.

NEXIO® Playlist®

• Standard on the NEXIO AMP integrated storage server, and optional on the NEXIO AMP shared storage server
• Event-sequencing application that can be used for play to air operations such as commercial insertion, time-of-day events, moving backgrounds and more.

NEXIO® ClipSync®

•  Application that allows NEXIO AMP to play two clips in sync for key-plus-fill and similar applications when the two elements exist as separate clips.

NEXIO® Delay®

•  Application that applies a delay to an air channel for safety in live-to-air transmissions, or for time zone-specific playback delay.

NEXIO® Navigator®

• SNMP-based application that supports remote monitoring and diagnostics of NEXIO servers and network-attached devices, enabling potential problems to be identified before they impact the on-air product.

NEXIO® Remote®

• Application that provides control of up to six NEXIO AMP channels over a standard LAN connection.