Irenis BLANKOM HDC-5016 User manual

HDC-5016 … 5064
IP to 16, 32, 48 or 64 QAM Modulator
EDGE-QAM User Manual
Software Version:
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Table of Content
Chapter 1 Product Overview 5
1.1 OUTLINE 5
1.2 KEY FEATURES 5
1.3 BLOCK DIAGRAM (FOR THE 16 QAM CHANNEL VERSION) 5
1.4 AGILE CHANNEL SETTING EXAMPLE 6
1.5 SPECIFICATIONS 7
Chapter 2: Connection Description 8
2.1 FRONT & REAR PANEL 8
Chapter 3 Installation Guide 8
3.1 ACQUISITION CHECK 8
3.2 INSTALLATION PREPARATION 8
3.2.1 ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS 9
3.2.2 GROUNDING REQUIREMENT 9
3.2.3 FRAME GROUNDING 9
3.2.4 DEVICE GROUNDING 9
3.3 WIRE CONNECTIONS 9
3.3.1 POWER CORD CONNECTION 9
3.3.2 SIGNAL AND NETWORK MANAGEMENT (NMS) CABLE CONNECTION 10
Chapter 4: Web NMS Management 10
4.1 LOGIN 10
4.2 OPERATION 10
4.2.1 SUMMARY 11
4.2.1.1 SETTING DATE | TIME 11
4.2.2 PARAMETERS “TS CONFIG” - MENU 12
MONITOR: 20
MULTIPLEX-MODE 24
PARAMETERS → IP STREAM: 35
SYSTEM → NETWORK: 37
SYSTEM → PASSWORD: 42
SYSTEM → CONFIGURATION: 42
SYSTEM → FIRMWARE: 42
SYSTEM → LOG: 43
INSTALLATION PRE-CONDITIONS 44
CONDITIONS WHERE YOU NEED TO UNPLUG THE POWER CORD 44
PACKING LIST 44
APPENDIX IMPORTANT NOTES! 44
INSTALLATION NOTES 45
SOURCES: 45
APPENDIX DB 47
APPENDIX A 49
SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS (ENG) 50
SICHERHEITSHINWEISE (GER) 52
INSTALLATION GUIDE FOR F-CONNECTORS: 54

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CONTACT: 55
55
Max. Levels/Min. Levels for Antenna Sockets accord. DIN EN50083-7 55
Application Example
Master- Slave System:

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This Product is manufactured in PRC (China), HS-Code: 85176200
Anmerkung:
Alle von uns veröffentlichten Betriebsanleitungen richten sich an den Antennen- und IT-Fachmann, der über
grundlegende Kenntnisse der Empfangs-, Netzwerk- und Anlagentechnik verfügt. Die Einhaltung aller
relevanten Vorschriften und Richtlinien für den Aufbau und Betrieb von solchen Anlagen obliegt dem
Installateur und/oder dem Betreiber. Insbesondere sind die in den jeweiligen Ländern geltenden Vorschriften
und Richtlinien für die Inbetriebnahme speziell für den Stromanschluß und alle mit den Produkten in
Zusammenhang stehenden und geltenden Normen und Gesetze einzuhalten.
Remark:
All operating instructions published by us are intended for the antenna and IT specialist who has basic
knowledge of reception, network and system technology. Compliance with all relevant regulations and
guidelines for the installation and operation of such systems is the responsibility of the installer and/or the
operator. In particular, the regulations and guidelines applicable in the respective countries for commissioning,
especially for the power connection, and all standards and laws related to the products must be complied with.
Annotation :
Tous les modes d'emploi que nous publions sont destinés aux professionnels de l'antenne et de l'informatique
qui ont des connaissances de base en matière de réception, de mise en réseau et de technologie des
équipements. Le respect de toutes les réglementations et directives pertinentes pour l'installation et
l'exploitation de ces systèmes relève de la responsabilité de l'installateur et/ou de l'exploitant. En particulier, il
convient de respecter les réglementations et directives applicables dans les pays respectifs pour la mise en
service, notamment pour le raccordement électrique, ainsi que toutes les normes et lois relatives aux produits.
Annotazione:
Tutte le istruzioni per l'uso da noi pubblicate sono destinate al professionista dell'antenna e dell'informatica che
ha una conoscenza di base della tecnologia di ricezione, di rete e delle apparecchiature. Il rispetto di tutti i
regolamenti e le linee guida pertinenti per l'installazione e il funzionamento di tali sistemi è responsabilità
dell'installatore e/o dell'operatore. In particolare, devono essere rispettati i regolamenti e le linee guida
applicabili nei rispettivi paesi per la messa in funzione, soprattutto per il collegamento alla rete elettrica e tutte
le norme e le leggi relative ai prodotti.
Anotación:
Todas las instrucciones de uso publicadas por nosotros se dirigen al profesional de la antena y de la informática
que tiene conocimientos básicos de recepción, de redes y de tecnología de equipos. El cumplimiento de todos
los reglamentos y directrices pertinentes para la instalación y el funcionamiento de dichos sistemas es
responsabilidad del instalador y/o del operador. En particular, deben cumplirse los reglamentos y directrices
aplicables en los respectivos países para la puesta en marcha, especialmente para la conexión de la energía y
todas las normas y leyes relacionadas con los productos.
Anotação:
Todas as instruções de operação publicadas por nós são destinadas ao profissional de antena e TI que possui
conhecimentos básicos de recepção, rede e tecnologia de equipamentos. O cumprimento de todos os
regulamentos e diretrizes relevantes para a instalação e operação de tais sistemas é de responsabilidade do
instalador e/ou do operador. Em particular, os regulamentos e diretrizes aplicáveis nos respectivos países para
comissionamento, especialmente para a conexão de energia e todas as normas e leis relacionadas aos produtos
devem ser obedecidas.

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Chapter 1 Product Overview
1.1 Outline
The BLANKOM HDC-5016---5064 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 16-64 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+1 GE input, RJ45
•Input up to 512 (1024*) channels TS over UDP/RTP multicast (RTSP-Unicast), IGMP v2/v3 selectable
•Max. 840 Mbps for each of the 2 GbE inputs (the front DATA-port* can handle only 120Mb/s)
•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. 16-64* multiplexed or scrambled TS over UDP/RTP output in parallel
•16-64* 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 (for the 16 QAM channel version)

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1.4 Agile Channel Setting Example
This EDGE QAM can be used with agile independent channel settings
HDC-5032:
HDC-5048 comes with 2 RF outputs:
HDC-5064 also comes with 2 RF outputs and can use 6 GE inputs (4*RJ45, 2*SFP)

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1.5 Specifications
Function
IP to QAM Modulator with up to 2x* 512 IPTV input, 16…64 DVB-C and 16…64 IPTV
MPTS output
INPUT
IP input
2x 512* from 3 IP input: 3 Gigabit Ethernet Port (Max 840 Mbps for each GigE input)
Transport protocol
TS over UDP/RTP, unicast and multicast, IGMP V2/V3
MULTIPLEXING
NIT generation, PID passing, ..., CA filter, PID remapping
Input IP streams
In Total 2x 512 (DATA1+2 +128 max DATA Front) depending on Model
Output channel quantity
16…64*, agile
Max PIDs
180 per channel
Functions
PID remapping (auto/manually optional), PCR accurate adjusting, PSI/SI table
automatically generating
Scrambling parameters
Max simulcrypt CA: 6, Standard: ETR289, ETSI 101 197, ETSI 103 197, Local/remote
connection
MODULATION
DVB-C Annex A/C and US-Norm Annex-B selectable
QAM channels
16…64* non-adjacent carriers,
Modulation Standard
EN300 429/ITU-T J.83A/B (DVB-C Annex A/C and US-B)
Symbol Rate
5.0...7.0Msps, 1ksps stepping
Constellation
16, 32, 64, 128, 256QAM
FEC
RS (204, 188)
RF OUTPUT
1 F type output port for 16-64* carriers (int. Comb.), 75Ω impedance
RF Range
50...960MHz, 1kHz stepping
Output Level
-20dBm...+10dBm (87...117dBµV), 0.1dB stepping
MER
≥ 40dB, ACLR: -60 dBc
TS OUTPUT
16…64 IP output over UDP/RTP/RTSP multicast, 2 GigE Ethernet Ports (DATA 1+2)
SYSTEM
Control
Network management (WEB-IF), English menu, Ethernet software upgrade
GENERAL
Dimensions, Weight
420mm × 440mm × 44.5mm (WxLxH) , 19” 1U, 3 kg… depending on Model
Power
AC 110V ±10%, 50/60Hz or AC 220V ±10%, 50/60Hz, Consumption: appr. 15.4 W
Temperature
0...45℃ (operation), -20...80℃ (storage)

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Chapter 2: Connection Description
2.1 Front & Rear panel
Front:
NMS/CAS: Network management port and CAS data port + separate DATA-IN-Port
Rear left
Grounding
Power switch, Fuse
…
AC IEC Power Socket
…
RF output port
…
Link/Act Indicators in RJ45 connectors
Rear right
DATA 1/2 GbE Input/Output
Chapter 3 Installation Guide
3.1 Acquisition Check
When you open the package of the device, it is necessary to check items according to packing list. Normally
it should include the following items:
⚫HDC-5016...64 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
⚫Connecting signal cables
⚫Connecting communication port for WEB-IF

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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 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
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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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 6 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 192.168.0.136 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 192.168.0.xxx (xxx can be 0 to 254 except 136 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. Input the Username and Password (Both the default Username and Password
are “admin”). And then click “Login” to start the device setting.
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

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4.2.1 Summary
When the login has been confirmed, it displays the summary status as in Figure-2:
4.2.1.1 Setting Date | 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:
Example for European NTP-Server addresses… But first set the time zone please:
Please first set time zone than config NTP-Server!
You can select any
item here to enter
the corresponding
interface to check
information or set
the parameters.

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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
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:
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
This PARSING is almost important to read the content from the input streams….
Operation Area
Output Area
Input Area

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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 a popup as dialog box (Figure 6) where you can
change or insert new data or even rename the service.
⚫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).
NOTE: (Model release dependent) Please do not use the DATA-RJ45 Port at the front, it is only a
spare port for the IP-streams but the rear-ports are the ones to be preferred.

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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 -rest-of-the-world-modes.
➢PID Bypass
From the menu on up side of the web frame, selecting “PID Bypass”, opens the menu to add the
PIDs which need to pass through. An example will be explained later. Here EIT is PID12hex:

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Example: Injection from an MPTS into its DVB-C output:
We are passing just 4 TV Services from the Input DVB-S2 MPTS to the Output in QAM:
We add the PID 12hex (= EIT table for EPG) to the output. REMARK: Please do not perform a PID remap- just to
be sure  nothing will mismatch later. TS1 (CH1) is the Input-stream:
So, we need to say Input Channel 1 under Index 1:
The EIT is PID 18dec or 12hex (we operate in Hexadecimal here) so entering a 12 is fair enough, the machine
does 0x0012 from it. No, there is no AI inside .
Then set and here we go:

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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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If you know, that your input streams are NOT using the same PID-numbers in their SPTS/MPTS streams Tables
(DVB-PSI/SI) you can uncheck PID-remapping which is for avoiding conflicts.
(Like as you are using different devices in a network with same IP addresses = Conflict)
If you know you are not having/passing CA-PIDs in your input streams, you can check CA-Filter.
But if you want to save bitrates and have unnecessary EMM/ECM-PIDs in your source streams, you can filter
them out.
Add Input by pressing the ‘+’:
a popup pops up ;-):
add it and after a few sec.
IGMP V3 ‘snooping’ (is not equal full IGMP support like in a L3 Switch) has a lot of more options:
However, that’s for experts 
3 Inputs to select: DATA front,
DATA1/2. Unicast:
Within here means for UDP/RTP
inputs only, no "TCP" based input:
If your source is UDP unicast
transmitting to DATA1
(192.168.1.136), then the Source
output address should be like this
format: udp://192.168.1.136:xxxx
(192.168.1.136 is DATA1 interface
IP, xxxx is the port number).

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The data rate is shown
And PARSE the content to see the Services containing in that stream:
Uncheck PID remap and CA filter to keep the original stream for pass through mode.

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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 first
output if you simply want to pass it w/o any modification to the TS-QAM output:

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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:
You can clear the CC errors from the input –which is a quality sign…
Details will show you content information’s: