evertz 7707VAT Series, Manual

Page 1: ...IBER 6 2 6 1 Safety 6 2 6 2 Assembly 6 2 6 3 Labeling 6 2 6 4 Handling and Connecting Fibers 7 3 SPECIFICATIONS 8 3 1 SERIAL VIDEO INPUT 8 3 2 SERIAL VIDEO OUTPUT 8 3 3 AES AUDIO INPUTS MODEL 7707VAT AND 7707VAT U 8 3 4 ANALOG AUDIO INPUTS MODEL 7707VAT A4 ONLY 9 3 5 OPTICAL OUTPUT 9 3 6 SYSTEM PERFORMANCE 9 3 7 ELECTRICAL 9 3 8 COMPLIANCE 9 3 9 PHYSICAL 10 4 STATUS INDICATORS AND DISPLAYS 11 4 1 ...

Page 2: ...to Calibrate Audio Presence Detection 16 5 4 CHANGING THE ORIENTATION OF THE TEXT ON THE DISPLAY 16 5 5 CONFIGURING EDH ERROR DETECTION 16 5 6 RESTORING THE FACTORY SETTINGS 17 6 CARD EDGE CONTROLS 18 6 1 MONITORING THE AUDIO 7707VAT A4 ONLY 18 7 JUMPERS 19 7 1 SELECTING WHETHER LOCAL FAULTS WILL BE MONITORED BY THE GLOBAL FRAME STATUS 20 7 2 SELECTING WHETHER MODULE WILL BE CONTROLLED FROM THE LO...

Page 3: ...tion Label 7 Figure 7 1 Location of Jumpers and Card Edge Controls 7707VAT and 7707VAT U 19 Figure 7 2 Location of Jumpers and Card Edge Controls 7707VAT A4 19 Tables Table 8 1 7707VAT and 7707VAT U VistaLINK Monitored Parameters 23 Table 8 2 7707VAT A4 VistaLINK Monitored Parameters 23 Table 8 3 VistaLINK Controlled Parameters 7707VAT A4 only 24 Table 8 4 7707VAT and 7707VAT U VistaLINK Fault Sta...

Page 4: ...7700 MultiFrame Manual 7707VAT Digital Video and AES Audio Fiber Transmitter Revision 2 3 This page left intentionally blank ...

Page 5: ...be affected in any way by the use thereof Any representations in this document concerning performance of Evertz products are for informational use only and are not warranties of future performance either expressed or implied The only warranty offered by Evertz in relation to this product is the Evertz standard limited warranty stated in the sales contract or order confirmation form Although every ...

Page 6: ...er look directly into an optical fiber Non reversible damage to the eye can occur in a matter of milliseconds Do not hook up the 7707VAT DWDM cards and 7707VAR cards directly with a short fiber optic cable The 7707VAT DWDM card produces 7dBm of power which will damage the receiver if connected directly ...

Page 7: ...dard or CWDM transmission schemes For the sake of simplicity only the wavelengths for the 7707CVT are shown 7707VAT13 1310 nm FP 7dBm output suitable for distances up to 50 Km 7707VAT13 M 1310 nm FP 0dBm output suitable for distances up to 75 Km 7707VAT15 1550 nm DFB 0dBm output suitable for distances up to 75 Km There are several versions with built in isolators specifically suited to coarse wave...

Page 8: ...nal strength video format and EDH errors Automatic coaxial input equalization to 300m at 270Mb s Belden 1694 Optional support for DVB ASI signals Fully Hot swappable from front of frame with no fiber disconnect reconnect required Supports Single mode and Multi mode fiber optic cable The 7707VAR U has unbalanced audio connections Features model 7707VAT and 7707VAT U Supports 32 44 1 48 KHz AES audi...

Page 9: ...3 Page 3 FIBER OUTPUT GLOBAL CLOCK RECLOCKER ANALOG AUDIO INPUTS SDI VIDEO INPUT TX INTERFACE OPTICAL TRANSMITTER CONTROL INDICATION VistaLINK Interface LOCAL CONTROL LOCAL INDICATION SDI VIDEO OUTPUT CABLE DRIVER TDM MUX AUDIO 1 AUDIO 2 AUDIO 3 AUDIO 4 Figure 1 2 7707VAT A4 Block Diagram ...

Page 10: ...r FC PC optical connector For information on mounting the rear plate and inserting the module into the frame see the 7700FR chapter section 3 Figure 2 1 7707VAT Series Rear Panels 2 1 VIDEO SIGNAL CONNECTIONS SDI IN Input BNC connector for 10 bit serial digital video signals compatible with the SMPTE 259M or SMPTE 305M standards Optional support for DVB ASI signals This input provides adaptive equ...

Page 11: ... AES AUDIO IN Unbalanced AES audio inputs for channel 1 2 AES 1 and 3 4 AES 2 of an audio group are available on two BNC connectors AES inputs can be synchronous or asynchronous to each other and or input SDI video The AES inputs on the card should be configured at the factory for use with unbalanced oututs See section 7 4 2 4 ANALOG AUDIO CONNECTIONS MODEL 7707VAT A4 ANALOG AUDIO IN Balanced anal...

Page 12: ...tion and Identification labels are combined into one label As there is not enough room on the product to place the label it is reproduced here in the manuals There is no date of manufacture on this label as it can be traced by bar code label placed on the Printed circuit board of each Evertz plug in module The Model number is one of 7707VAT13 7707VAT13 U 7707VAT13 A4 7707VAT13M 7707VAT13M U 7707VA...

Page 13: ...iber are dependent on the shape of the optical core and therefore care must be taken to prevent fiber damage due to heavy objects or abrupt fiber bending Evertz recommends that you maintain a minimum bending radius of 5 cm to avoid fiber bending loss that will decrease the maximum attainable distance of the fiber cable The Evertz fiber optic modules come with cable lockout devices to prevent the u...

Page 14: ...900ps nominal Overshoot 10 of amplitude Return Loss 15dB at 270 Mb s High Freq Jitter 0 15UI 3 3 AES AUDIO INPUTS MODEL 7707VAT AND 7707VAT U Number of Inputs 2 Standard Jumper selectable for balanced or unbalanced input Unbalanced AES SMPTE 276M Balanced AES AES3 1992 Connector 7707VAT U BNC per IEC 61169 8 Annex A 7707VAT 6 pin removable terminal strip Signal Level Unbalanced 1V p p 0 1V Balance...

Page 15: ...m 1550nm nominal CWDM 1270nm to 1610nm ITU T G 694 2 compliant DWDM ITU channel 20 to 60 100GHz spacing ITU T G 694 1 compliant Output Power 1310nm FP Standard 7dBm 1dBm 1310nm FP M Version 0dBm 1dBm 1550nm CWDM DFB 0dBm 1dBm DWDM DFB 7dBm 1dB Fiber Size 9 µm core 125 µm overall 3 6 SYSTEM PERFORMANCE Video Input to Output Delay 1 5µs Audio to Video delay 1µs with SoftSwitch disabled on 7707VAR 2m...

Page 16: ...7707VAT Digital Video and AES Audio Fiber Transmitter 7707VAT 10 Revision 2 3 EMI RFI Complies with FCC regulations for class A devices Complies with EU EMC directive 3 9 PHYSICAL 7700 or 7701 frame mounting Number of slots 1 ...

Page 17: ...his Green LED indicates the presence of a valid AES1 signal AES2 PRESENT This Green LED indicates the presence of a valid AES2 signal On the 7707VAT A4 there are four small LEDs on the back side of the board that indicate the presence of audio signals above the detection level see section 5 3 1 for information about configuring the audio detection AUDIO 1 PRESENT This Green LED indicates the prese...

Page 18: ... setting up the module in control mode see section 5 When you are in monitor mode the toggle switch determines what data is being displayed on the alphanumeric display Each time the toggle switch is pressed up down the display advances to the next previous display A message indicating what display mode is active is shown for one second After one second without the toggle switch being pressed the s...

Page 19: ...essages pressing and holding the pushbutton for 3 seconds will turn off the card edge EDH error indication The display will show EDH momentarily to indicate that EDH local reporting has been turned off and then the normal video standard message will be displayed This does not affect the monitoring of EDH errors and reporting through SNMP over the VistaLink interface Pressing and holding the pushbu...

Page 20: ...urrent orientation of the display When this message is showing press the pushbutton to change the orientation of the display DISP HOR VERT HOR Horizontal display used when the module is housed in the 1 rack unit 7701FR frame or the stand alone enclosure VERT Vertical display used when the module is housed in the 3 rack unit 7700FR frame 4 2 8 Displaying the Firmware Version 7707VAT and 7707VAT U o...

Page 21: ...have stopped at the desired value depress the pushbutton This will update the parameter to the selected value and return to the mode select menu item the display shows SET To change another parameter press the pushbutton to enter the main menu system again and continue selecting and adjusting other parameters Throughout the descriptions of the Menu items default values are shown in underlined text...

Page 22: ...o is below the level set by the LVL control before the audio is considered missing 5 3 1 1 Procedure to Calibrate Audio Presence Detection 1 Supply the 7707VAT A4 module that is being calibrated with your plant s noisiest audio feed without any audio program material present This will be a baseline noise level to calibrate the audio missing detector 2 Set the DUR control to 1 sec so that you can s...

Page 23: ...eo and AES Audio Fiber Transmitter Revision 2 3 Page 17 5 6 RESTORING THE FACTORY SETTINGS FRST NO YES The FRST control allows the user to restore the factory values those underlined for the module s parameters described in sections 5 3 and 5 5 ...

Page 24: ...y pushbutton to select some sub items of the menu system See sections 4 2 and 5 for information about the card edge displays and menu system 6 1 MONITORING THE AUDIO 7707VAT A4 ONLY On the 7707VAT A4 module a stereo headphone jack located at the front of the module is used to monitor the individual audio channel pairs The AJCK menu item is used to select the audio channels currently being monitore...

Page 25: ...ULE OK AES LEVEL J24 J26 J25 J27 LO HI LO HI AES TERM 110 75 110 75 AES2 AES1 VIDEO PRESENT Figure 7 1 Location of Jumpers and Card Edge Controls 7707VAT and 7707VAT U FRAME STATUS ON OFF SERIAL LOCAL FAULT DISPLAY SELECT PUSH BUTTON TOGGLE SWITCH UPGRADE RUN UPGD MASTER LOCAL REMOTE CONTROL1 A B CONTROL 2 A B J4 J5 J6 J7 J8 J9 MODULE OK HEAD PHONE JACK AUDIO 2 PRESENT AUDIO 3 PRESENT AUDIO 1 PRES...

Page 26: ... MASTER When this jumper is installed in the LOCAL position the card functions are controlled through the local controls When this jumper is installed in the REMOTE position the card functions are controlled through the VistaLINK interface 7 3 CONFIGURING THE MODULE FOR FIRMWARE UPGRADES UPGRADE The UPGRADE jumper J5 is used when firmware upgrades are being done to the module For normal operation ...

Page 27: ...th unbalanced AES signals conforming to SMPTE 276M set the jumpers to the 75 position The AES TERM jumper should always be set to the 75 position on the 7707VAT U 7 5 SETTING THE BALANCED AES INPUT LEVEL SENSITIVITY 7707VAT and 7707VAT U When the jumper is in the 110 position the AES LEVEL jumpers J24 and J25 control the sensitivity of the inputs When the AES TERM jumpers are in the 75 position th...

Page 28: ...back that the configuration has been carried out There are 3 components of SNMP 1 An SNMP manager also known as a Network Management System NMS is a computer running special software that communicates with the devices in the network Evertz VL Fiber demo Manager graphical user interface GUI third party or custom manager software may be used to monitor and control Evertz VistaLINK enabled fiber opti...

Page 29: ...he state of the VIDEO PRESENT LED Video Standard A range of values describing the detected video standard Audio signal 1 Indicates the presence of an AES1 input signal the state of the AES1 PRESENT LED Audio signal 2 Indicates the presence of an AES2 input signal the state of the AES2 PRESENT LED Rate Detect 1 Indicates the AES1 Sample Rate Rate Detect 2 Indicates the AES2 Sample Rate Table 8 1 77...

Page 30: ...Detect Duration Audio 1 Silence Detect Sets the Audio 1 Presence Detect Mode Audio 2 Silence Level Sets the Audio 2 Presence Detect Level Audio 2 Silence Duration Sets the Audio 2 Presence Detect Duration Audio 2 Silence Detect Sets the Audio 2 Presence Detect Mode Audio 3 Silence Level Sets the Audio 3 Presence Detect Level Audio 3 Silence Duration Sets the Audio 3 Presence Detect Duration Audio ...

Page 31: ...ent trap in the VistaLINK Alarm View Laser OK Indicates whether laser is in good condition or not If there is a laser fault it will trigger the Laser Not OK trap in the VistaLINK Alarm View Module OK Indicates whether card is in good operating condition or not If there is a module fault fault it will trigger the Module Fault Alert trap in the VistaLINK Alarm View Signal present Indicates if there ...

Page 32: ...Silence Indicates whether Audio 2 signal is present or not Loss of Audio 2 will trigger the Audio 2 Silent trap in the VistaLINK Alarm View Audio 3 Silence Indicates whether Audio 3 signal is present or not Loss of Audio 3 will trigger the Audio 3 Silent trap in the VistaLINK Alarm View Audio 4 Silence Indicates whether Audio 4 signal is present or not Loss of Audio 4 will trigger the Audio 4 Sile...