At the SCTE/ISBE Cable-Tec Expo in Denver, ATX Networks will be highlighting video processing and delivery, and optical transport, as well as headend gear from Pico Digital, which the company acquired last year.
ATX video processing products at Expo will include its DVIS and DigiVu line of products for insertion of local content into virtually any type of network. Traditionally, the DVIS and DigiVu platforms have been used for on-premises local inserts into HFC-based MDUs. Recent upgrades support inserts into RFoG/PON, fiber deep and IPTV-based environments. Several form factors are available that can encode from 1-2 channels, up to 10 SD (or 5 HD) channels. New to the DVIS product is its HDMI input capability.
The company will also be showcasing its VersAtivePro license-free transcoding platform, which recently got an increase in processing capacity.
ATX's UCrypt video gateways and video headends are designed to decrypt, transcode, multiplex and re-encrypt while transitioning video between formats for delivery of bulk video service to hospitality, MDU or commercial accounts. UCrypt devices support multiple encryption/decryption formats (Verimatrix, Pro:Idiom, AES128), a configurable electronic program guide (EPG) channel, and EAS functionality. UCrypt devices are available in QAM-to-analog, QAM-to-IP, QAM-to-QAM, IP-to-QAM, IP-to-analog and IP-to-IP formats.
In optical transport, ATX's Chromadigm hybrid transmitter technology is intended for long-haul multi-wavelength transmission, transitioning from a BC/NC architecture to full spectrum, hub collapses, fiber deep node deployment and RFoG/PON architectures. More recently, ATX also introduced ChromaMax transmission technology intended to eliminate common content restriction. ChromaMax is designed to use the entire RF spectrum for narrowcast content, to increase multi-wavelength capacities by up to 60%.
ATX is also highlighting its ChromaFlex II chassis, which integrates RF management into the modular optical chassis. The chassis houses up to eight quad modules for 32 TX or RX segments, with integrated RF combining in the downstream and RF splitting in the upstream. Every RF port on the device can be electronically attenuated.
ATX's Next Generation node platform has an RF base with four plug-in RF modules and is designed to be used in both standard HFC and fiber deep/N+0 architectures. The lid portion of the node hosts modules to support analog forward and return optics, digital return, remote PHY and remote PHY with an analog optics overlay.
In 2016, ATX acquired Pico Digital, a manufacturer video encoders, DVB gateways and mini-CMTSs. ATX is displaying the PD1000 and PD100 encoders, the PD4D decoder, the PD1600 mini headend, the miniCMTS200a, and the IPQC24 video edge QAM.