AJA KONA IP User manual

KONA IP
Transport, Capture, Display
Version 16.0r1
Published March 19, 2021
Installation and Operation Manual

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Notices
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Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Copyright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Contacting AJA Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Chapter 1 – Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
About IP Media Transports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
AJA Software & Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Network Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
System Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Disk Storage Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
KONA IP Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
KONA IP Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
In This Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Chapter 2 – Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Installation Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
AJA System Test Application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Unpacking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Shipping Box Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Installing the KONA Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Cabling the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
KONA IP Cable Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Installing KONA Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
NMOS Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
macOS Installations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Types of KONA IP Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Unicast and Multicast Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Chapter 3 – Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Using KONA with Professional Video /Audio Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Capture Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
AJA Control Panel Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
AJA Control Panel Operating Modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
AJA Control Panel User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Presets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Default Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Controlling Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Using Multiple AJA Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Control Recommendations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Function Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
About KONA IP Modal Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Control Panel Operation in ST 2022-6 Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Control Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Format Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Input Select Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Output Select Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
HDMI Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
HDR Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Video Setup Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Audio Setup Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Audio Mixer Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Audio Mixer Playback Monitor Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Audio Mixer Capture Monitor Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
IP Network Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
IP Input Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Downstream Keyer Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
LUT Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
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Timecode Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Presets Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Firmware Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Info Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Control Panel Operation in ST 2110 Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
General Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
IP Cong Status Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
IP Cong Capture Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
IP Cong Playback Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
IP Cong Editor Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Chapter 4 – Advanced ST 2110 Conguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Conguration Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Initial KONA IP ST 2110 Installation and Network Conguration . . . . . . . 58
Transmit/Receive Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
AJA NMOS Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Transmit Redundancy with ST 2110 via ST 2022-7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
For JSON Conguration (Transmit only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Guidance for SMPTE ST 2110-23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
For JSON Conguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
For SDPs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Appendix A – Specications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
KONA IP Tech Specs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Appendix B – Safety & Compliance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
Warranty and Liability Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73
Limited Warranty on Hardware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Limitation of Liability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Governing Law and Language; Your Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75

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Chapter 1 – Introduction
Overview
KONA IP is a powerful video and audio I/O card for professional IP based
workflows. As part of AJA’s industry leading KONA line of PCIe capture and
playback cards, KONA IP works seamlessly with the most popular creative
software applications, such as Adobe Premiere® Pro, Apple FCP X, Avid Media
Composer®.
Designed as a flexible platform with support for SMPTE ST 2022-6 and ST 2110
uncompressed IP video/audio workflows, KONA IP brings the highest quality
4K/UltraHD, 2K, HD, and SD video and audio over IP to computers running Mac,
Windows or Linux Operating Systems. KONA IP can also support 4K p60 (2SI)
capture or playback, via SMPTE ST 2110-23.
KONA IP is also supported through the very same SDK as the rest of the KONA
family, making it straight forward for developers to make the transition to Video
over IP.
About IP Media Transports
IP media transport can take various forms, with differing capabilities and
requirements. Two basic IP mechanisms are supported by KONA IP cards: Unicast
(point to point transport) and Multicast (single source to multiple destination
transport). Different IP address configurations are required for each of these
methods.
The KONA IP card is equipped with two SFP cages, requiring one or two optionally
purchased SFP modules that are compatible with you intended application.
Other transport variations include:
ST 2022-6
This transport passes full resolution SDI material over a network using IP
technology. Because the content is not compressed, 10 GigE throughput on the
IP Ethernet network is required. The entire SDI signal (video, audio, metadata) is
transported as a single stream.

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ST 2110
This transport passes full resolution SDI material, and so requires a 10 GigE IP
Ethernet network, but the major components of an SDI signal can be transported
separately (for example, only the embedded audio of an SDI signal can be sent to
one location, like a DAW). 2110 transport requires 10 GigE Ethernet switches, or
larger.
Because the separately transported SDI signals may eventually need to be
re-synchronized, a Precision Time Protocol (PTP) server-based network timing
system is required.
SMPTE standards supported by KONA IP:
• 2110-10 (System Timing)
• 2110-20 (Uncompressed video)
• 2110-21 (Traffic shaping for Uncompressed video)
• 2110-23 (4K p60 in or out using both 10GbE SFPs in tandem, no pass-though,
no 2022-7 support)
• 2110-30 (PCM Audio)
• 2110-40 (Ancillary Data)
Because it can be complicated to devise the IP configurations required to manage
ST 2110 transport streams in a facility, AJA supports three configuration methods:
JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) file, Session Description Protocol (SDP) file, and
SDP URL. These methods permit the user to easily re-configure their KONA IP to
acquire the signals they need over the network even if they are not experienced
IP network engineers, provided the JSON or SDP files have been created by
experts and then made available to the user.
For Transmit only, ST 2022-7 is also supported for ST 2110, providing a mechanism
to also provide redundancy in playout for those environments too.
Multiple audio tracks, and ST 2110-23 using multiple video streams, are simplified
via SDP grouping.
ST 2022-7
ST 2022-7 refers to redundancy and / or other packet-level protections for either
ST 2022-6 or ST 2110. With ST 2022-7 two identical signals can be sent along
physically different network paths, meaning that the delivery is protected even
if one leg of the network experiences an interruption or downtime. Indeed, 24x7
operations often have to plan these outages so that maintenance can take place
on one side of the network while transmission continues.
NOTE: ST 2022-7 support for ST 2110 is for transmit only. ST 2022-7 support for ST 2022-6
is for both receive and transmit.
NMOS
NMOS is a mechanism for providing discovery, registration and control in ST
2110 environments. A separate application , “AJA NMOS”, supports automatic
discovery of IP devices on the network, using an app (daemon) that operates in
the background with minimal user configuration. The first AJA device accessed by
the computer running the daemon can be discovered and subject to control by
an external NMOS network control application. NMOS uses the IP address of the
host machine for communications.

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Generally, NMOS works as follows:
• When KONA IP starts up, the NMOS app actively scans the network for an
NMOS registry using MDNS/DNS. If found, the NMOS registry is informed who
the KONA IP device is, and its capabilities.
• If during startup the NMOS registry is not found, the NMOS app continues
to announce KONA IP's presence via MDNS so that it can later be discovered,
and then after discovery, it can be manually registered in the network control
application.
AJA NMOS is not installed by default ("complete") and should instead be selected
through the "custom" dialog if desired.
Once installed AJA NMOS can be set to launch upon reboot or power up. The
applications function is to make the KONA IP discoverable and controllable by
various IP routing and control systems (e.g Imagine, LAWO, Sony). Discovery,
registration and network control are not part of SMPTE ST 2110 but are specified
by JT-NM NMOS or Network Media Open Specification. Two parts of this standard
are IS-04 Discovery and Registration and IS-05 Connection Management.
When the tray icon is clicked (on the Mac or right click on Windows), the AJA
NMOS application offers a number of options:
• View Log - toggles opening or closing of the log window
• Stop/Start Service - allows the NMOS service to be stopped and restarted
without quitting the application
• Enable/Disable Debug Log - enables or disables the generation of debug
output to the AjaLogger and the log window
• Enable/Disable DNS Debug - enables or disables additional DNS debug
information (independent of Debug Log setting)
• Enable/Disable Verbose Debug - enables or disables additional debug
information if the Debug Log setting is enabled
• Select Interface - NMOS only uses one interface to access the registry. If there
is only one interface, then that is not a problem. If there is more than one, then
if auto is selected, it will automatically choose one based on whether it sees
any mDNS messages on one of the interfaces. Otherwise, the interface can be
selected.
• Set Registry IP - allows the registry ip address and port to be set manually.
• Quit - causes the NMOS application to exit"
AJA Software & Utilities
AJA’s KONA software and hardware were developed for powerful integrated
video/audio capture, editing, and production with a variety of 3rd-party
software. With KONA and a qualified computer, you have the ultimate system
for production, post-production, broadcast, and streaming work. AJA software
is distributed as a unified package which includes all the software, firmware,
plugins, and utility programs for AJA’s Io, KONA, and T-TAP products.
Four retail packages are available, one for Mac, one for Windows, and two for
Linux (one package for Ubuntu, one package for Red Hat/CentOS).
NOTE: Support for the Linux OS retail drivers is based on the Linux application used and
comes from the application’s vendor.
To download AJA software, go to the AJA website:
https://www.aja.com/en/support/downloads
For a complete software compatibility list, see the AJA website link:
https://www.aja.com/en/category/edit/compatibility
Frequently Asked Question documents for various AJA products are available at:
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Mac, Windows and Linux Packages
These packages include:
Drivers
AJA device drivers for tightly integrated hardware/software operation.
AJA Control Panel
The Control Panel provides:
• Source selection and control of your AJA hardware
• A block diagram showing the signal routing and processing being performed
AJA Control Room
Control Room is a cross-platform software application for ingest, playback and
output with AJA devices.
AJA System Test
System Test provides accurate and detailed evaluations of drive and system
performance statistics, allowing you to measure the capabilities of your system
for recording and playing back various resolutions and codecs. The application
includes:
• System Disk Test
• AJA Device Test
• Disk + Device Test
• System Report
The application tests Read and Write, Capture and Playback speeds in both
Megabytes per second and Frames per second. The disk speed tests differ from
standard disk I/O performance applications in that they specifically test the
system under conditions typically encountered with video capture, playback, and
editing.
NOTE: Theoretically the best test is to fill your storage disk to 80% and then test capture
at the highest data rate you will use.
AJA NMOS App
Available for discovery, registration and control via an NMOS compatible control
system. NMOS enables the widest possible interoperability for Video over IP
control systems.
Additional with Mac and Windows Packages
3rd-Party Plugins
AJA provided plugins for popular 3rd-party Professional Video Applications from
Adobe, Avid, Apple, Telestream, and others.
Network Requirements
For uncompressed workflows (SMPTE ST 2022-6 and SMPTE ST 2110) a 10GbE
switch is required.
For SMPTE ST 2110 specifically, a PTP clock source must also be deployed and the
switch must therefore also be PTP aware.

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In all cases the switch used must be both managed (configurable) and IGMP
aware.
SFPs are not included with the purchase of KONA IP. Recommended SFPs are
listed in "Specifications" on page 63.
LLDP
LLDP (Link Layer Discovery Protocol) is supported with KONA IP. The Chassis
ID and the Port ID of the first switch encountered upstream in the path from
KONA IP to the network will be displayed in Control Panel within the LLDP Chassis
ID field and LLDP Port ID field. The first upstream switch, in turn, displays the
LLDP information (Chassis ID and Port ID) of the downstream KONA IP.
System Requirements
AJA Video recommends that your system meet minimum hardware and software
requirements to achieve a satisfactory level of performance. Updates to system
requirements are subject to change.
NOTE: See Software Vendor system requirements for GPU recommendations and
additional hardware requirements and recommendations.
See the KONA IP Release Notes, available on the AJA website and also installed
with the software package, for detailed system requirements including OS, CPU,
RAM, and GPU.
For IP installations specifically, AJA recommends:
• IP infrastructure with adequate bandwidth to sustain the capture and
playback of the material you expect to be working with across the number of
systems that are active at any given time
• For multi-seat installations, IP infrastructure that is comprised of fully
managed switches and is in turn supported by a team of qualified network
administrators
• For SMPTE ST 2022-7 implementations, two entirely independent network
infrastructures are required for true redundancy
NOTE: For large scale installations with shared storage, IP, or for very high performance
requirements, AJA recommends consultation with an experienced a system
integrator. A consultant will be able to assist with many important variables.
Disk Storage Methods
To ensure performance and quality, the disk storage system used with
the workstation must be able to meet the demands of storing real-time
uncompressed media. At the very minimum, the disk storage system must be
able to provide and maintain a consistent transfer rate from the workstation to
disk (read/write). There are a variety of system configurations and peripherals that
can provide this level of performance.
For more on disk storage performance see "AJA System Test Application" on page
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KONA IP Features
KONA IP is designed as a flexible platform for supporting various different IP
standards and types:
• SMPTE ST 2110 uncompressed HD video over IP, including Transmit support for
2022-7, thus providing for playout redundancy.
• SMPTE ST 2022-6 uncompressed HD video over IP including support for
2022-7 Transmit and Receive.
• KONA IP can also be configured to use all streams for input or output, thus
supporting up to 4K p60 uncompressed transport via ST 2110-23 (in this case
2022-7 support is not available).
NOTE: NDI is supported on KONA IP in the same way as it is supported on KONA4,
courtesy of running Newtek Connect.
KONA IP supports different operating modes for different needs. By loading
a different version of firmware, you can tune your AJA hardware to the
requirements of the task at hand.
Video Formats
See "Appendix A Specifications" for a listing of supported video formats.
Physical Connection for IP Video
• 2 x 10 GigE Ethernet SFP+ Cages - SFP+ modules (not included).
See "Appendix A Specifications" for a list of SFPs tested by AJA.
Inputs and Outputs
• AJA Desktop Software package configured by default for ST 2022-6 operation
with two simultaneous uncompressed streams on the top SFP (one In, one
Out).
• For ST 2022-7 operation, a second SFP is used for redundant transport of the
other SFP's signals.
• When supporting 4K with KONA IP via ST 2110-23, note that both SFPs are
being used in one direction, either input or output.
• KONA IP HDMI output supports HDR signaling and monitoring for HDR10
and HLG. HLG support is application dependent. Check with your software
manufacturer for compatibility.
Digital Audio Input
• 16-Channel embedded audio
Digital Audio Output
• 16-Channel embedded audio, 16- and 24-bit per channel, 48 kHz sample rate,
synchronous
• 8-Channel HDMI embedded audio, 48 kHz sample rate, synchronous
Signal Timing
• 1x BNC assignable to reference video or LTC input
• Relevant to SMPTE ST 2022-6 workflows only
• Not used for SMPTE ST 2110 workflows