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MTM400 MPEG Transport Stream Monitor User Manual
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Getting Started
This section provides details of installing and powering up the Tektronix MTM400
MPEG Transport Stream Monitor.
Overview
The MTM400 is a single-stream, extended-confidence, MPEG-2 protocol,
monitoring device. It is used to monitor a single transport stream in MPEG-2,
DVB, ISDB and ATSC environments. The MTM400 is a rack-mounted device.
The basic MTM400 provides confidence monitoring by making key measurements
and comparing them with preset parameters; inconsistencies can be reported as
varying levels of error. Integrated flexibility allows the software to be upgraded
with diagnostic capabilities and to supply detailed information to enable fault
identification and analysis.
The user interface is accessed through a Remote User Interface (RUI). The RUI
allows the status of the MTM400 to be determined from anywhere in the world and
provides remote control of the measurements and configuration to the
administrator. The RUI is accessed through Microsoft Internet Explorer (Version 6
SP 1); the Microsoft Java Virtual Machine (Version 5.00.3809) must also be
installed.
The user interface can also be accessed by the Multi-Layer Monitor (MLM1000)
and the Web Monitoring Systems Manager (WebMSM),
The WebMSM is a Java application that is installed on any personal
computer; as for the RUI, Microsoft Java Virtual Machine (Version 5.00.3809)
must be available. The installation, configuration, and operation of the WebMSM
is described in the WebMSM User Manual (071-1239-xx).
The RUI and the WebMSM communicate with the MTM400 through the open
standard Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and Hypertext Transfer
Protocol (HTTP).
ASI (Asynchronous Serial Interface) and SMPTE 310M (Society of Motion
Picture and Television Engineers, 19.392 Mbps only) interfaces are provided as
standard; optional QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation), COFDM (Coded
Orthoganal Frequency Division Modulation), QPSK (Quadrature Phase Shift
Keying) (L-Band), and 8VSB (Vestigial Sideband) interfaces are available as
options.