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M3 Communications
Technical Specifications
1.1. Introduction
M3 offers a triple play service (3P), offering voice, internet access and TV
services.
As of January 2008 M3 has approximately 50,000 subscribers of which
30,000 have HSD service. Of the 30,000 HSD subscribers, 15,000 also
currently subscribe to the video service. With the addition of HD and VoD
services we expect to grow these video + HSD subscribers from 15,000 to
20,000 after one year.
The Access network must support HSD service at multiple rates, up to a
maximum of 10Mbps per subscriber. Data subscription packages shall
include the following rates (100:1 oversubscription for all data services):
1Mb Basic HSI (50% of subscribers – 15,000)
3Mb Advantage HSI (30% of subscribers – 9,000)
10Mb Extreme HSI (20% of subscribers – 6,000)
The aggregation layer must support best effort queuing for data.
Video services will be no more than 20 Mbps to any one household.
Private IP address assignment scheme to be provided.
The TV service is delivered over IP (IPTV), delivering video in MPEG2 video
format. Currently the IPTV service encompasses 92 live, satellite received
TV channels, 13 Off-Air received TV channels and 8 IP Radio channels.
The satellite program line up comprises the following TV services: Euronews;
SKY news; Fox News; Bloomberg Espanha; Al Jazeera; BBC World; CNBC
Europe; CNN International; 24 Horas; Bloomberg Europe; RAI News 24;
Russia today; France 24; Eurosport; Eurosport 2; Eurosport News; Motors
TV; ABMoteurs; Chasse et Peche; ESPN Classic; TVEI; TV5; TVModa; RAI
1; RAI 2; RAI 3; Cubavision; RTL; Pro TV International; RIT; People+Arts;
Fashion TV; Reality TV; BBC Prime; Arte; MTV Music; MTV Portugal; MCM
TOP; MCM POP; VH1; SOL Musica; Trace; Ritmos Latinos; Telehit; B4U
Music; NHK; CCTV 4; CCTV 9; Inter +; VOX; Canal de las Estrelas;
TeleNovelas; Pro-Sieben; Internacional; Revelation; Vision Heaven; Marine
Biz TV; TV Moda; Canção Nova; Ini TV; Mezzo Bandamax; Performance;
Hollywood; AXN; MGM; De Pelicula; Propeller; TV Cine 1; TV Cine 2; TV
Cine 3; TV Cine 4; Discovery Channel; Odisseia; História; Travel; National
Geographic; Animaux; Overseas Property TV; Biography; Encyclopedia;
Escales; Wine TV; X Dream TV; Hustler TV; Blue Hustler TV; Free X TV;
Free X TV2; Disney Channel; Panda; Canel + HD; Super RTL and Tiji.
The satellite received program line up also includes the following Radio
Channels: Radio Comercial; Radio Clube; Best Rock FM; Cidade FM;
Antenna 1; Antenna 2; Antenna 3 and RDP Africa.
There are 13 local channels that are encoded from SDI fiber optic feeds. The
lineup includes: RTP1; RTP2; RTP Africa; RTP Memoria; RTP N; SIC
Mulher; SIC Noticias; SIC Radical; SIC; SporTV1; SporTV2; TVI; and FOX
Channel. Twelve of those channels are protected by the national analog
PAL-B/F RF network. The 12 Off-Air channel signals (for back-up purposes)
are demodulated by PAL demodulators, run through Network Electronics
distribution amplifiers, coming out SDI for input to encoders. There is one
unprotected local channel, and it shall remain unprotected for the purposes of
this RFP.
We currently only have two HD programs in our channel lineup, however, we
will be adding 5 HD channels by the end of 2009. Specific channels have not
been identified but should be included in the design. Please design 1+1
reception redundancy for these five additional HD programs, with signal
processing redundancy the same as others.
In Figure 1 the macro-level architecture of the network is presented. We
identify the following main components:
7. Home network: The IPTV subscriber receives the IPTV service, the
ADSL2+ network is terminated on a modem, being the service supported
by a Set-Top box (Motorola 1920-T).
IP IP
Reception Streamer/ Access
Aggregation Core Home
(IRD) Encoder DSLAM
Network Network
A
Middleware
SW 1
R Core IP
Home
Cipher Gateway
P
SW 2
Core IP
VoD STB
S
S P1 Receiver .. 8 Multiplexer ASI ... 16 IP
P ASI
.. 84 .. 11+1
P ASI Router Streamer
L Router 16X16
L I
I Redundancy 1:1
T 128
T
... 16
LNB T X
.. 8
LNB T ASI
E P2 128 IP
E Receiver Multiplexer Router
R Streamer
R SDI 16X16
Automatic
.. 11 Redundancy
.
N:1
nCompass Control
MPEG-2
S P1 Receiver Frame Rate Conversion SDI Encoder
S ASI 2
...
P (Optional) Distribution
.. 16
MPEG-2
P L Encoder
L I
I 16 Redundancy 1:1
T
LNB T T MPEG-2
LNB T E P2 Encoder
Receiver Format Conversion SDI
E R 2
Analogue A/D Conversion Distribution MPEG-2
R
Encoder
Both VAL routers are Rendering Points using Anycast RP and MSDP
(Multicast Source Discovery Protocol).
Migrating to PIM-SSM eliminating the Rendering Points and the use of MSDP
is being considered and may happen in the next 2-3 months.
CO-5
Palmas CO-6
Coimbra
IPDistribution
IP CO-7
Network IP Aggregation
Aveiro /Access Network
(Not used for VOD)
CO-8
CO-9
CO-10
Natal
(IPTV HeadEnd)
VoDStorage RG
(Vaults)
STB
1.4.1. Guidelines
All mission critical solutions connected to the VAL shall be connected to both
nodes using a redundant setup. This for the ip schema only???
The video streaming solutions shall be able to implement a redundant setup
minimizing the dependencies from VAL (i.e. Failure Detection/Routing
Convergence).
The video streaming solutions shall also be able to cope either with PIM-SM
or PIM-SSM scenarios in the VAL.
Encryption is done at the payload level of the elementary stream. Thus, the
result is a valid MPEG2 TS, with encrypted content. For redundancy, two
CypherCA boxes exist, each with a capacity of 900 Mbps. Both are active
simultaneously, thus both encrypt the MPEG2-TS that traverse a given box.
Care must be taken not to have the same multicast IP address transverse
simultaneously both Widevine boxes; if this should occur duplicate program
transport streams would be present on the IP Core network, and the system
itself would be unable to apply the entitlement packets onto the streams.
The equipment does not support IGMP, but will allow for these packets to
traverse the Widevine box, should they be present.
1.6.3. Encoders
1.6.3.1. GUI
1.6.3.1.1. xPlex - For the Skystream/Tandberg Mediaplexes and iPlexes there’s a web
GUI used both for configuration and O&M. Its access IP is either the physical
one for Mediaplex Switch Control Module blades, the dedicated Control
interface on the iPlex, or the virtual IP used for redundant SCMs or iPlexes.
1.6.3.1.2. Harmonic - There’s a dedicated server for O&M of a clustered solution called
NMX. This uses Microsoft’s DCOM protocol (Distributed Component Object
Model) to communicate with all of the encoders.
1.6.3.2. Remote Connection
1.6.3.2.1. xPlex - Telnet/ssh access to both physical and virtual IPs.
1.6.3.2.2. Harmonic - Client software connection to the NMX server.
1.6.3.3. Console connection
1.6.3.3.1. xPlex - Laplink DB9f connection.
1.6.3.4. Redundancy
1.6.3.4.1. xPlex
• Mediaplex - The only redundant cards are the Switch Control Module
blades, which operate on a Active/Stand-by configuration. There’s a
heartbeat being sent in order to trigger any automatic changeover to the
stand-by card.
• iPlex - The iPlexes are configured on a 1:1 redundancy, meaning that
there’s total configuration and hardware replication between two
machines. This is achieved using a heartbeat detection mechanism on an
Ethernet connection between the two iPlexes. Configuration and output is
automatically swapped to the stand-by machine in case of failure.
1.6.3.4.2. Harmonic - These encoders are configured on a N:1 redundancy, there’s a
backup encoder that can be configured to work as one of the N active ones.
The backup is used whenever the NMX server detects any service affecting
failure (that can be configured) and downloads the configuration to the afore
mentioned encoder. The streams are then disabled from the failed machine
and switched to the backup one.
1.6.3.5. Logging
1.6.3.5.1. xPlex - Various syslog servers IPs can be configured as destination for the
Mediaplexes or iPlexes logging.
1.6.3.6. Configuration backup
1.6.3.6.1. xPlex - Configuration can be saved in text or binary format.
1.6.3.6.2. Harmonic -Configuration is saved on a MS SQL database.
1.6.4. Alarms from Encoders
1.6.4.1. xPlex - Alarms are sent via SNMP to a NMS system. Others can be
configured as well.
1.6.4.2. Harmonic - Alarms from the encoders are gathered by the NMX which will
send them to a NMS system via SNMP.
Management of devices are crucial, as well as any “future proof” abilities that may be
available.
M3 would like a separate proposal that re-uses as much existing equipment as
possible, paying attention to how the migration might occur without affecting currently
delivered services. Please include a description of any architecture issues or
concerns you recognize in our current network configuration, or that may surface
during construction of a hybrid solution.
Proposal Requirements:
2.1 Converting all broadcast video to H.264. The maximum bandwidth of any standard
definition service will be 2 Mbps and 8 Mbps for high definition.
2.1.1 A 10:1 redundancy scheme shall be engineered for all encoders.
2.1.2 Encoders shall be capable of providing a 300 Kb/s PIP stream.
2.1.3 Reception redundancy is indicated in the accompanying channel lineup.
2.2 Ensure the proposal provides a highly reliable quality of experience for our
customers.