Dektec is announcing a breakthrough in server network connectivity, and a new solution for real-time monitoring of transport streams at NAB in Las Vegas, 11-17 April 2008.

DekTec is using NAB to unveil what it believes are the first ever Transport Stream over IP (TSoIP) to Digital Video converters featuring Power over Ethernet (PoE) technology, giving new and unprecedented flexibility to expand server I/O. When used with PoE compatible switches, the TSoIP converters do not require a separate power feed, as they can draw their power from the network.

The DekTec DTE-31xx family of TSoIP adapters can interface MPEG-2 transport streams with PC-based applications via the network. They can be used either as compact autonomous gateways, or as remote I/O devices for server-based data inserters, stream servers, multiplexers or other digital-video applications requiring high-speed I/O. The first two products in the family are being launched at NAB, and convert DVB-ASI streams to and from TSoIP on Gigabit Ethernet networks.

Also new from DekTec at NAB is Xpect, a Transport Stream monitoring application offering DVB conformance testing according to TR 101 290 in real-time. The application can confirm the presence and properties of services, service components and tables against a user-defined template. Xpect captures the monitored Transport Stream to a file upon detection of a TR 101 290 or template error, and offers a pre-trigger buffer to give a recording of events that preceded the violation. Extensive logging functionality allows detailed statistical information to be recorded for each individual service, component and table as well as for the whole Transport Stream.