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Infrastructure control system designed to seamlessly unite the worlds of SDI and IP.

The GV Convergent IP/SDI router control and con-figuration system from Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, transparently manages facility routing as the industry migrates from SDI to IP infrastructures, maintaining familiar control interfaces as well as introducing intu-itive new GUIs for configuration, management and control. GV Convergent is both infrastructure and signal format agnostic for easy system scalability for your system today and far into the future.

The GV Convergent control system is an intuitive, graphically-oriented control system, designed to work transparently across SDI and IP workflows, including commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) IP switches. GV Convergent offers control of hybrid IP/baseband routing environments, spanning baseband routers and COTS IP switches.

GV Convergent makes an IP infrastructure perform similar to an SDI router with respect to setting cros-spoints and managing signal bandwidth allocation at the edge of the network, thereby assisting integration of an IP infrastructure into a familiar SDI workflow. GV Convergent will make routing IP video and audio

appear the same as routing SDI to an operator. In essence, it allows an SDI/IP switching infrastructure to look like a single homogeneous switching system.

With GV Convergent, we have designed a completely integrated configuration and control system that is powerful and platform agnostic, but at the same time simple and easy to use. It also delivers the redun-dancy and maintenance capabilities needed for 24x7 live operation, allowing operators and engineers to focus on day-to-day operations.

GV Convergent is designed to control an IP network within a broadcast facility in order to ensure proper signal handling of video and audio throughout the facility. GV Convergent manages video and audio signals, reliably controlling source and destination over an IP network utilizing standard commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) switches, making use of non-pro-prietary standards, protocols and technology while using best-of-breed switches. GV Convergent will make routing IP video and audio appear the same as routing SDI to an operator with the familiar SDI control paradigm.

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KEY FEATURES

GV Convergent IP/SDI Router Control & Configuration System

Transparent management of SDI and IP infrastructure• GV Convergent works with commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) switches• Uses industry Audio/Video over IP standards such as SMPTE ST 2022-6• Works transparently in an SDI/IP environmentFaster configuration and efficient operation • Incorporates intuitive graphical user interface (GUI), which is platform

agnostic and can run on tablets and other devices, extending the ca-pacity for configuration and troubleshooting the system from portable devices

• The software optimizes the data entry and navigation using touch-screen and gesture features for enhanced user experience and greater usability

• Glitch-free configuration updates are done in real time, with zero downtime • Provides multiple, simultaneous, administrator data entry points, which

are very useful in dynamic environments such as trucks Mission critical and scalable architecture• Completely integrated configuration and distributed control environ-

ment allows easy and dynamic sharing of configurations and data, enabling easy scalability from small to very large facilities handling thousands of I/Os

• Distributed services provide robust and efficient redundancy, leading to zero down time and glitch free failover impact

Unified control system*• Advanced tally system• Tielines and bandwidth management• Direct control of IP endpoints• SDI router control systemSoftware Defined Networking*• Bandwidth link capacity management • Parallel support of SDN and IGMP• Security supervision• Redundant IP infrastructure management Benefits• Ease into IP • Hide network complexity from your operators• One intuitive common and familiar interface for your SDI and IP workflows• Add IP to your facility, maintaining familiar interfaces and workflows,

eliminating re-training

*Note: Some features to be introduced with upcoming upgrades.

Applications

Making the transition toward IP infrastructure

As facilities migrate towards a complete IP infrastructure, the control sys-tem needs to seamlessly across an SDI/IP infrastructure without adding complexity to the operations workflow. GV Convergent controls SDI rout-ers and IP infrastructure in parallel by leveraging both common SDI router control protocols and open protocols for the control of IP infrastructure and flows.

GV Convergent’s topology-aware capabilities provides for an extremely flexible system, which can handle IP to IP, SDI to SDI, SDI to IP or IP to SDI transparently. For example, you can select sources upstream to an IP switch all the way to its baseband destinations using the same familiar baseband routing workflow.

New green field station with IP core routing

With new facilities being built with large portions of IP infrastructure, GV Convergent provisions all video and audio, thus guaranteeing integral reach of a source to a destination without loss of packets.

SPECIFICATIONS

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GVC-CONTROLLER-800GV Convergent enterprise controller with redundant PSU and core software For additional details, please contact your Grass Valley representative for details.

GV Convergent is based on open protocols, standards and platforms, encouraging interoperability, and has been designed to be infrastructure agnostic, working with commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) IP switches as well as SDI routers from Grass Valley and other manufacturers. The system works with a wide variety of hardware and software panels, commonly used today, as well as platform agnostic GUI interfaces. Switching is controlled either by soft-ware defined networking (SDN) or via IP endpoint control.

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GV Convergent IP/SDI Router Control & Configuration System

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Studio B

Generic IP Routing

Studio A

Playout

HD-SD routing

ControlSDI

40 GigE IP10 GigE IP

Cameras

Replay & Storage Production Switcher Monitoring& MAM

HD-SDI

Monitoring

Routing

10 GigE IP

Signal Ingest

Integrated Playout

Generic IP Router

40 GigE IP

10 GigE IP

Cameras

Replay & Storage Production Switcher MonitoringEditing & MAM

Editing

COTS IP Switch

GV Node

Panels

GV Convergent Controller

GV Convergent Client

External control system

SDI Router

Northbound API

Representation of a simple way to gradually migrate from an existing SDI system into an IP infrastructure using GV Convergent as a protocol translator.

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GV Convergent IP/SDI Router Control & Configuration System

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Flexible and efficient smart panel configuration. Built-in signal control interface with full support of foreign characters.

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Intuitive control of COTS IP switches and NVISION SDI routers.