The PD1600 is an ultra-compact "headend in a box" for the secure delivery of cable, satellite, and IPTV content to multiple dwelling units, headend in the sky operations, and hospitality TV screens. It offers similar performance, functionality, and broadcast-approved security to a traditional multi-rack headend, but within a compact 5RU form factor. It decodes, decrypts, re-encrypts, and rebroadcasts content in IP, QAM or analog output while providing end-to-end content protection from uplink to TV.
Specifically, the unit has 12 slots for multiple satellite, QAM or ATSC input blades, each of which features eight tuners that can either descramble one TV service or pass through off a complete transponder. There is an optional trancoder module for format conversions of eight streams per blade. The unit has four slots for QAM and NTSC output blades. The QAM blade has 16 or 96 channels, while the NTSC blade has 24 analog channels. Output can be free-to-air or scrambled using either DRM or CAS-based encryption.
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