QRouter: an agnostic compressed video matrix over IP developed by QinMedia

QRouter guarantees a simple transition to IP of all types of DVB-ASI based switching systems.

With the unstoppable progression of compressed IP video transport channels and platforms, the notable reduction in the associated hardware as well as service costs becomes more necessary every day. evolve old matrix switchers based on the DVB/ASI interface into their IP-based equivalents.

There is a great disparity of scenarios where this functionality is present, such as distribution nodal centers, redundancy management, IP contributions in headends or monitoring rooms.

Although there are several tools on the market capable of undertaking the functionality of manual switching of MPEG-TS frames over IP over a network of distributed or concentrated devices, all of them are usually characterized by being solutions not oriented to “real time”, proprietary, complex to use or configure and, above all, based on intricate management systems for the administration of IP networks.

Furthermore, in general, all of them are very far from the classic “modus operandi” of video operation in central controls or monitoring rooms.

Definitive step towards IP

Now, QinMedia proposes an interesting own development that will mean un paso definitivo hacia una sustitución “no traumática” de matrices, preselectores o conmutadores de Transport Stream ASI hacia el mundo IP. Básicamente se trata de “sustituir caja-por-caja”.

Gracias a su arquitectura, QRouter trabaja de forma agnóstica a los elementos de su entorno, típicamente fuentes y destinos de video comprimido sobre IP. Su implantación no presupone la gestión de dispositivos de terceros mediante pesados protocolos, APIs…

De esta manera, garantiza la conmutación transparente de tramas between virtually all the equipment on the market and, what is more important in many cases, between equipment owned by different companies in turn commanded by different management systems (NMS). This is the classic case of carrier equipment working within the facilities of a television operator or a data center, for example.

QRouter is by nature a solution that can be easily hosted in data centers or IT equipment hosting environments where it coexists with the rest of the IP video transport elements on which it acts as a switching node.

As a user terminal, QRouter controlled via the X-Y panel based on PC QPanel, basically the same one used in SDI video matrices. This ensures that the console technician does not experience a radical change in his daily operation.