Neuron Protect

The Protect identities guarantee and safeguard signals coming in and going out of facilities and interconnections between venues. The Protect Firewall can be used as a bi-directional IP Firewall for complete isolation between facilities. The Protect Failover is a dual-card solution. 2 Protect Failovers together will act as multi-channel integrity checking failover switches and firewalls in one, ideally suited for handover/playout center applications.

Using all modern ST2022 and ST2110 encapsulation standards, the Protect Failover is optionally also capable of bridging up to 16x 3Gb/s or 4x 12Gb/s SDI signals to redundant 100G Ethernet I/O. Besides bridging, there is also the option to do low latency up/down/cross conversion. The Protect Failover can have up to 4 UHD processing paths (= 16 Full HD), but since a 1RU Neuron frame can have 2 of these boards, you can process up to 8 UHD (= 32 Full HD) channels per rack unit. Depending on the active licenses, these processing paths include framesyncs, audio and VANC de-embedders, Audio/video/VANC probes, video offset delay, up/down/cross converters, UHD remapping, color correcting proc amps, VANC and audio embedders and audio gain/phase/delay functionality. The fail-over switches, controlled by the probes, are at the end of the processing paths. Two of these cards are interconnected via 4 SFP+ connections. These connections do not use Ethernet as a transport layer but our own TDM bus. You can use a Direct Attached Copper wire (DAC) or a fiber connection if the frames are more than 1m (3ft) apart. This application gives you full redundant probing and 100% IP isolation.

The Protect Firewall can have up to 8 UHD or 32 full HD processing paths per card. Knowing that a 1 RU frame can contain 2 of these cards, you can have up to 16 UHD (= 64 Full HD) processing paths per rack unit. These processing paths include framesyncs, audio and VANC de-embedders (incoming signal paths), video offset delay, color correcting proc amps, VANC and audio embedders (outgoing signal paths), audio gain/phase/delay functionality and UHD remapping.