Overview SDI & WDM

Broadcasters Digital
Interface
SDI
: Serial Digital Interface

a family of digital video interfaces first standardized by

SMPTE
Uncompress Video
Bitrates :

SD (Standard Definition)-SDI : 270 Mbit/s

HD (High Definition)-SDI :1.485Gbit/s
3G-SDI :2.970Gbit/s
ASI : Asynchronous Serial Interface
a streaming data format which often carries
an MPEG Transport Stream.
Compress Video
can carry one or multiple SD, HD or audio
programs that are already compressed
Delay, Latency
Mpeg2 , Mpeg 4, JPEG2000, HEVC
Over MPLS, Satellite
Studio

SDI

MCR

SDI

Uplink

ASI

Downlink

SDI

Monitor

SDI : Serial Digital Interface

Video

Audio

Indosats Broadcaster
Content
3 type of interfaces from broadcaster :
Analog Audio Analog Video
Analog Audio Digital Video
Digital Audio Digital Video
Video
EMBEDDER
Audio

SDI

WDM : Wavelength Division

Multiplexing
Old System

Site B

Site A

New System

Prism

Prism

1+ 2+3

WDM : Wavelength Division

Multiplexing

Coarse WDM - transmission wavelengths, 16 channels

Dense WDM - transmission wavelengths, 40 channels

shlink uses WDMs lambda to deliver more signals of SDI using one co