"Exploring the World's Biggest 12G-SDI Routing Matrix: Key Facts and Insights"
In a significant move to address the evolving demands of modern broadcast facilities, Evertz has unveiled its latest addition to the NEXX processing and routing solution: the Fiber X-LINK. This innovative architecture is designed to provide a scalable and flexible expansion for the NEXX platform, particularly for UHD and IP transition workflows.
### Seamless Integration and Expansion
The Fiber X-LINK architecture allows the NEXX platform to seamlessly integrate additional processing and routing capacity over fiber connections, thereby increasing the system's port density and signal management capabilities without compromising signal integrity. Multiple NEXX routers and processors can be interconnected over fiber, enabling large-scale, distributed broadcast operations with high reliability and low latency.
### Streamlined Processing Functions
The Fiber X-LINK supports the combination of several complex functions, such as multiviewer processing, frame synchronization, HDR format conversion, audio embedding and de-embedding, directly within the NEXX ecosystem. This eliminates the need for separate, external devices, streamlining operations and reducing complexity.
### UHD and IP Transition Features
The Fiber X-LINK offers several key features tailored for UHD and IP transition workflows. It supports full 12G-SDI connectivity, enabling uncompressed UHD (4K and beyond) video signal transport over a single cable, reducing cabling complexity and supporting higher resolution, frame rate, and HDR workflows. The system provides a glass-to-glass 12G path with no degradation or conversion, preserving UHD signal quality all the way through production, including isolated (ISO) camera feeds to recording.
The Fiber X-LINK also integrates directly with Evertz’s audio consoles, supporting large channel counts and tightly coupling audio and video routing in a unified ecosystem. Moreover, it supports workflows transitioning to IP infrastructure by enabling connection and control across Ethernet/IP networks integrated with the NEXX routers, facilitating hybrid SDI/IP operations.
### Scalability and Flexibility
The Fiber X-LINK architecture supports large input/output counts and enables flexible layouts, including multi-client and multi-production environments, such as dual truck scenarios where different productions run concurrently. This makes it an ideal solution for broadcast facilities seeking to adapt to the growing demands for UHD quality, simplified cabling, and seamless IP transition.
In conclusion, the Fiber X-LINK significantly enhances the NEXX platform's ability to meet the growing demands of the broadcast industry by expanding routing capacity, integrating processing functions, and supporting high-quality fiber links, thus providing access to UHD (4K) and HDR technology for broadcast facilities.
- The Fiber X-LINK, a feature of the NEXX platform, enables the integration of data-and-cloud-computing technologies by allowing large-scale, distributed broadcast operations with high reliability and low latency.
- The Fiber X-LINK supports various products and processes within the NEXX ecosystem, such as multiviewer processing, frame synchronization, HDR format conversion, audio embedding and de-embedding, bringing technology advancements directly to the features of modern broadcast facilities.
