Spain - German fibre network specialists Optocore demonstrated at last week’s ISE Show in Barcelona that they continue to ‘break new barriers in their technological evolution’.
In particular this applies to the new 12G-SDI standard. With the increasing demand for higher bandwidth, in both the broadcast and live event spaces, 12G-SDI is the logical option to support higher speed UHD formats (4K, 8K etc), with higher bitrates and a greater number of colours.
Explaining the move, Optocore technical support engineer, Marci Sós, states: “The advantages are obvious. As market leaders in fibre distribution, our pledge is always to keep ahead of the technological curve, supporting new standards in the evolving world of broadcast signal transmission to ensure the best outcome for our customers, and meet their demands.”
As early subscribers, Optocore and sister brand, BroaMan have been early subscribers to this evolution, ensuring their devices are capable of delivering uncompressed, unencrypted video signals, securely and robustly.
With eight times the bandwidth of standard HD-SDI, 12G-SDI allows the transmission of high frame rate and deep colour 4K/UltraHD signals, supporting rates up to 100/120fps over a single cable.
Consequently, BroaMan has been able to announce three 12G SDI capable models in its product portfolio: Mux22-12G / Repeat48-12G / Repeat48WDM-12G, all of which were shown at ISE.
Optocore also announced at ISE a new, advanced four-channel version of its M12 Redundancy Firmware, which they see as a further step towards reliability, flexibility and ease of use.
