Datasheet

Overview

Digital Video SFPs

MRV’s digital video SFPs are the industry’s first solution designed to affordably transmit digital video component

signals over fiber using standard optical transceivers. Compatible with any optical transport system – WDM platforms,

digital cross-connects, etc. – these unidirectional digital video SFPs open a new world of cost-effective digital video

deployment options.

- Link extension over new or existing fiber plant

- Wave Division Multiplexing (CWDM and DWDM)

- Link redundancy for mission critical applications

- Video distribution/multicasting

... and more!

SDI, HD-SDI, and DVB are the basic standards employed in the transport of serial component digital video data on

single coaxial cable. Using coaxial cable between the signal source and destination limits the link range to 350 meters,

or to 140 meters for high definition. This distance is generally adequate for intra-building or small campus networks.

However, the advent of geographically dispersed studio campuses requires more and more digital video data to travel

across the sophisticated optical infrastructure of the metro and inter-metro network. Links of 100 kilometers or more

and the use of WDM technology are increasingly common. Merging digital video traffic onto these optical transport

networks is further complicated by the encoding methods for these protocols.

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Advantages

Features

Digital video signals over fiber optic links

Wide protocol support with 143 Mbps to 1.485 Gbps data rates

HD-SDI

- SMPTE 292M (1.4835 Gbps NTSC, 1.485 Gbps PAL/SECAM)

SDI

- SMPTE 259M (143/270/360 Mbps)

- SMPTE 344M (540 Mbps)

DVB ASI (270 Mbps)

75 Ohm coaxial input/output with standard BNC connector

Front panel LED support for signal lock and CRC/EDH error

Plug-n-Play operation

SFP MSA (as applicable)

Enables uncompressed digital video component signal

transport over any standard optical transport system

Supports standard, MSA compliant optical transceivers

Supports digital video links over fiber optic cabling to

distances of 120 km or more