Blankom HDC 5016 User manual

HDC 5016
IP to 16 QAM Modulator
EDGE-QAM User Manual
SW-Version 08.60.17 Build 271.00 Nov 21 2017
HW version: 0.0.1.0, Web NMS version: 1.51

Table of Content
Chapter 1 Product Overview 2
1.1 OUTLINE 2
1.2 KEY FEATURES 2
1.3 BLOCK DIAGRAM 2
1.3.1 APPLICATION EXAMPLE 1
1.4 AGILE CHANNEL SETTING EXAMPLE 1
1.5 SPECIFICATIONS 2
Chapter 2: Connection Description 3
2.1 FRONT & REAR PANEL 3
Chapter 3 Installation Guide 3
3.1 ACQUISITION CHECK 3
3.2 INSTALLATION PREPARATION 3
3.2.1 ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS 4
3.2.2 GROUNDING REQUIREMENT 4
3.2.3 FRAME GROUNDING 4
3.2.4 DEVICE GROUNDING 5
3.3 WIRE CONNECTIONS 5
3.3.1 POWER CORD CONNECTION 5
3.3.2 SIGNAL AND NETWORK MANAGEMENT (NMS) CABLE CONNECTION 5
Chapter 4: Web NMS Management 5
4.1 LOGIN 5
4.2 OPERATION 6
4.2.1 SUMMARY 6
4.2.1.1 SETTING DATE AND TIME 6
4.2.2 PARAMETERS “TS CONFIG” - MENU 7
MONITOR: 14
MULTIPLEX-MODE 17
PARAMETERS → IP STREAM: 25
SYSTEM → NETWORK: 27
SYSTEM → PASSWORD: 28
SYSTEM → CONFIGURATION: 28
SYSTEM → LOG: 29
Chapter 5 Troubleshooting 30
INSTALLATION PRE-CONDITIONS 30
CONDITIONS NEED TO UNPLUG POWER CORD 30
Chapter 6 Packing list 30
IMPORTANT NOTES! 30
INSTALLATION NOTES 31
SOURCES: 31
CONTACT: 32

Chapter 1 Product Overview
1.1 Outline
The BLANKOM HDC-5016 IP to QAM Modulator is the 5th generation Mux-scrambling-
modulating all-in-one device. With 16 multiplexing channels, 16 scrambling channels and 16 QAM
(DVB-C) modulator channels, it supports a maximum of 1024 IP input streams through the GbE
ports and output 16 non-adjacent DVB-C QAM channels (50MHz...960MHz) through the
combined RF output. The device is also characterized with high integration level, high
performance and a reasonable price.
1.2 Key Features
2 GE input, RJ45
Input up to 1024 channels TS over UDP/RTP, unicast and multicast, IGMP v2/v3
Max. 840 Mbps for each of the 2 GbE inputs
Accurate PCR adjusting
CA & PID filtering, remapping and PSI/SI editing
Up to 180 PIDS remapping per channel
DVB CA scrambling system (ETR289), simulcrypt standards ETSI 101 197 and ETSI 103 197
Max. 16 multiplexed or scrambled TS over UDP/RTP/RTSP output in parallel
16 non-adjacent QAM carriers output, compliant to DVB-C (EN 300 429) & ITU-T J.83 A/B
Web-based Network management
1.3 Block Diagram

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1.3.1 Application Example
Master- Slave System:
1.4 Agile Channel Setting Example
This EDGE QAM can be used with agile independent channel settings.

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1.5 Specifications
Input
Input
512×2 IP input, 2x 100/1000M Ethernet Port
Transport Protocol
TS over UDP/RTP/RTSP, unicast and multicast,
IGMP V2/V3
Transmission Rate
max 840Mbps for each GE input
Mux
Input Channel
1024
Output Channel
16
Max PIDs
180 per channel
Functions
PID remapping (auto / manually optional)
PCR accurate adjusting
PSI/SI table automatically generating
Encryption
Parameters
Max simulscrypt CA
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CA Standard
ETR289, ETSI 101 197, ETSI 103 197
Connection
Local/remote connection
Modulation
Parameters
QAM Channel
16 non-adjacent carrier
Modulation Standard
EN300 429/ITU-T J.83A/B
Symbol Rate
5.0...7.0 Msps, 1 kSps steps
Constellation
16, 32, 64, 128, 256QAM
FEC
RS (204, 188)
RF Output
Interface
1 F-type output port for 16 QAM ch, 75Ω
impedance
RF Range
50...960 MHz, 1kHz steps
Output Level
-20 dBm...+10 dBm (87...117 dbµV), 0.1dB steps
MER
≥ 40dB
ACLR
-60 dBc
TS output
16 MPTS IP output over UDP/RTP/RTSP, unicast/multicast,
2x100/1000M GbEthernet Ports
System
Network management software (NMS) support (Front 100BaseT)
General
Dimensions
420 × 440 × 44.5mm (WxLxH)
Weight
3kg
Temperature
0...45℃(operation), -20...80℃(storage)
Power Supply
AC 100V±10%, 50/60Hz or AC 220V±10%,
50/60Hz
Consumption
15.4W

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Chapter 2: Connection Description
2.1 Front & Rear panel
Front:
NMS/CAS: Network management port and CAS data port
Rear left
RF output port
…
Reset IP: Reset webmaster IP address, recover it to default IP address
…
Link/Act Indicators in RJ45 connectors
Data 1/2 GbE Input/Output
…
Power switch, Fuse
…
AC IEC Power Socket
Rear right
Grounding
Chapter 3 Installation Guide
3.1 Acquisition Check
When you opens the package of the device, it is necessary to check items according to packing
list. Normally it should include the following items:
HDC-5016 IP QAM Modulator
User’s Manual (online download from www.blankom.de)
Power Cord and grounding wire (depending on country)
3.2 Installation Preparation
When you install the device, please follow the steps below. The details of installation will be
described after this chapter. Users can also refer to the rear panel chart during the installation.
The main steps of the installation include:
Checking the possible device missing or damage during the transportation
Preparing relevant environment for installation
Installing the IP Mux-Scrambling QAM Modulator

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Connecting signal cables
Connecting communication port for WEB-IF
3.2.1 Environmental Conditions
3.2.2 Grounding Requirement
All function modules’ good grounding is the basis of reliability and stability of devices. Also,
they are the most important guarantee of lightning arresting and interference rejection.
Therefore, the system must follow this rule.
Coaxial cables’ outer conductor and isolation layer should keep proper electric conducting
with the metal housing of device.
Grounding conductor must adopt copper conductor in order to reduce high frequency
impedance, and the grounding wire must be as thick and short as possible.
Users should make sure the 2 ends of grounding wire well electric conducted and be
antirust.
It is prohibited to use any other device as part of grounding electric circuit
The area of the conduction between grounding wire and device’s frame should be no less
than 25mm2.
3.2.3 Frame Grounding
All the machine frames should be connected with protective copper strip. The grounding wire
Item
Requirement
Machine Hall Floor
Electric Isolation, Dust Free
Volume resistivity of ground anti-static material: 1x107...1x1010,
Grounding current limiting resistance: 1m (Floor bearing should be
greater than 450kg/m2)
Environment
Temperature
5...40℃(sustainable ), 0...45℃(short time)
installing air-conditioning is recommended
Relative Humidity
20%...80% sustainable 10%...90% short time
Pressure
86...105kpa
Door & Window
Installing rubber strip for sealing door-gaps and dual level glasses for
window
Wall
It can be covered with wallpaper, or brightness less paint.
Fire Protection
Fire alarm system and extinguisher
Power
Requiring device power, air-conditioning power and lighting power
are independent to each other. Device power requires AC power
220V ±10% 50/60Hz or 110V ±10% 50/60Hz. Please carefully check
before running.

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should be as short as possible and avoid circling. The area of the conduction between grounding
wire and grounding strip should be no less than 25mm2.
3.2.4 Device Grounding
Connecting the device’s grounding rod to frame’s grounding pole with copper wire.
3.3 Wire Connections
3.3.1 Power cord connection
The power socket is located on the right of rear panel, and the power switch is on the left of
front panel. User can plug one end of the power cord to the socket and insert the other end to
AC power. When the device solely connects to protective ground, it should adopt independent
way, say, share the same ground with other devices. When the device adopts united way, the
grounding resistance should be smaller than 1Ω.
Caution: Before connecting power cord to the IP QAM Modulator, user should set the power
switch to “OFF”.
3.3.2 Signal and Network Management (NMS) Cable Connection
The signal connections include the connection of input signal cable and the connection of output
signal cable. Please use at least CAT 5 STP RJ45 LAN Cable for the management port and CAT 6
DSTP for the streaming data ports to avoid electromagnetic influences. For RF cable we
recommend double shielded Coax.
Chapter 4: Web NMS Management
This device does not support an LCD operation, and the modification can only be operated with
Web NMS by using a standard web-browser. We recommend to use Firefox –latest version.
4.1 Login
The factory default IP address is 10.0.0.103 and users can connect the device and web NMS
through this IP address.
Connect the PC (Personal Computer) and the device with a network cable, and use ping command
to confirm they are on the same network segment. For instance, the PC IP address is
192.168.99.252, we then change the device IP to 10.0.0.xxx (xxx can be 0 to 254 except 103 to
avoid IP conflict).
Launch the web browser an input the device IP address in the browser’s address bar and press
Enter. We recommend to use the latest Mozilla Firefox browser.
It will display the Login interface as Figure-1. Input the Username and Password (Both the default
Username and Password are “admin”. And then click “Login” to start the device setting.

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Figure-1
4.2 Operation
Remark: The user should be familiar with DVB-MPEG and PSI/SI information and its PID and Table
construction and norms. Many tables are cross referencing to other tables (example: EIT and SDT, PMT, …).
Information can be grabbed from: https://www.dvb.org/standards
4.2.1 Summary
When the login has been confirmed, it displays the summary status as in Figure-2:
Figure-2
4.2.1.1 Setting Date and Time
The device supports setting of Date and Time by a) browser you are using to the web-IF –so
your computer. But for the correct Time and Date it is almost better to configure time zone +
NTP servers:
You can select any
item here to enter
the corresponding
interface to check
information or set
the parameters.

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Example for European NTP-Server addresses… But first set the time zone please:
first set time zone than config NTP-Server!
And you are done –but your Device need a connection to these NTP addresses. -> Local Gateway
settings should fit as well to asure the connection to external NTP servers.
4.2.2 Parameters “TS Config” - Menu
Stream Select Basics

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From the menu on up side of the webpage, clicking “Stream Select”, it displays the interface
where users can choose the programs to Mux out. (Figure-5)
Figure-5
Configure ‘Input Area’ and ‘Output Area’ with buttons in ‘Operation Area’. Instructions are as below:
：Enable/disable the CA Filter function. Clicking this box, you can filter out the input CA-PIDs
to avoid disturbing with the device scrambling function.
: To enable/disable the PID remapping (disabled recommended for pass through)
To refresh the input program information
To refresh the output program information
Select one input program first and click this button to transfer the selected program to the
right box to be processed to the output.
Similarly, you can remove TV Services from the multiplex in the right box.
To select all the input programs
To select all the output programs
To parse programs time limitation of parsing input programs from TS
Program Modification:
The multiplexed program information can be modified by selecting the program in the ‘output’
area. For example, when clicking on a service, it opens apopup as dialog box (Figure 6) where you
can change or insert new data or even rename the service.
Output Area
Operation Area
Input Area

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Figure 6
General
From the menu-bar on the upper side of the web-frame, selecting “General”, displays the interface
where you can set parameters for each selected output channel (TS1…TSn). (Figure-7):
Figure-7

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Several parameters can be modified and added in this GENERAL settings menu. Examples will
follow later. VCT is for American DVB-C/ATSC norms only and can be skipped in normal DVB-C
Annex A/C modes.
PID Bypass
From the menu on up side of the webframe, selecting “PID Bypass”, opens the menu to add the
PIDs which need to pass through. (Figure-9) An example will be explained later.
Figure-9
Parameters → Scrambler:
From the menu on left side of the webpage, clicking “Scrambler”, it displays the interface where users
can choose the programs to scramble. (Figure-10)

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Figure-10
Single PID’s can be chosen for scrambling with up to 4 different CAS as simulcrypt usage. Of course you’ll
need these CA-Servers and there connection to the device by the NMS-Ethernet port to exchange the
common Control Word(s).
Parameters → TS Config:
Select “TS Config”, to display the menu where you can configure the output and also the IP-
Input parameters in this interface. (Figure-3):

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Add Input by pressing the ‘+’:
a popup pops up ;-):
add it and after a few sec.
The datarate is shown
And parse the content to see the Services contained:

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Uncheck PID remap and CA filter to keep the original stream for pass through mode.
Remark: The Output max Data rate depends on the modulator output settings of this QAM channel:
256QAM, SR=7000 = > 51Mb/s.
These settings can be well prepared before you configure the Input-TS in the Modulator section to avoid
TS overflows because the modulator outputs were set to low values like 64QAM and low SR.
After we have configured an Input STREAM, change to GENERAL first to stream the complete TS to the

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first output if you simply want to pass it w/o any modification to the TS-QAM output:
This would pass the whole content to the output (QAM + IP MPTS out). TSID and ONID should be already well pre-
prepared and set according to your needs in the Master-Headend-Streamer device.
MONITOR:
The Input STATUS will show the overview about the incoming streams:
While the output status shows the 2 different ones: QAM and IP

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The advantage of pass through mode is simple to understand:
- The EPG information will be kept in the TS. The TDT/TOT and other tables will be passed as well.
- The NIT will be passed as well (if containing) but: It might be a wrong one from a SAT-frequency which is
of course not valid for a cable TV network.
- “Other” Tables might also not been valid anymore because the stream does not harmonize with the
original source PMT/PAT/SDT/… The BAT might not be a good idea to pass
This can and should be controlled by an analyzer like we are selling as well: DekTec DTU 245 or similar…:We
compare IN and OUTput streams as an example now:

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OUT:
We must filter out the invalid NIT but this is not possible when full pass through is selected.
Also EIT ‘others’should be erased as well as the invalid BAT and CAT…
Even trying to manually insert an own designed WEB-NIT:
Doesn’t do anything when we operate in the pass through mode.

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So the pass through is only worth for Master- Slave HE-designs like shown on page 2 : To be used in SUB Headends.
Even manually add the services does not change anything:
Multiplex-Mode
So we really need to go for MUX: multiplex, and add relevant PIDs: