UNITY 4600 USER’S MANUAL
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1.2 Product OverviewFunctional
Description
The Wegener Unity 4600 Professional Media Receiver is a fully DVB-compliant satellite
video IRD. The U4600 receives an L-band RF carrier from an external LNB, demodulates
the carrier, extracts the MPEG transport stream, and provides the decompressed program
or programs to DVB-ASI, composite video, and/or stereo audio outputs.
Features include:
•Control by local user or remote COMPEL system
•Download of software application upgrades via satellite
•Supports COMPEL/CA Conditional Access at transport level or by program
•Supports receiver card options using either DVB-QPSK or Advanced Turbo-Modu-
lations (Turbo-QPSK, T-8PSK, or T-16QAM)
•DVB-ASI transport stream output with network-controlled program mapping
•Supports ISO 13818-1 transport rates from 2.5 to 55 Mbps (with local decompres-
sion) or up to 86.25 Mbps (to program-mapped ASI transport only)
•Local decompression of MPEG-2 video and MPEG-2 (L1 and L2) and/or Dolby AC-
3 audio
•Auto-recognition and support of 525-line NTSC or 625-line PAL
•Audio-only mode option for radio networks
•Alarm relay
•Cueing relays and DTMF cue tone outputs standard
•Optional SCTE 35 DPI message filter for network control of local ad avails
•Optional front-panel audio and video monitors
•Web browser control (to be released August 2005)
Physical
Description
The U4600 is housed in a standard, 1 RU, rack-mountable chassis. Its front panel pro-
vides a user interface with six push buttons and an LCD window that displays two lines of
text. Remote monitoring is also available through both the audio and video ports.
The rear panel holds connectors for input and output signals, LNB power supply, serial
and Ethernet monitoring and control, alarm and user relays, and AC input power. The unit
also includes two Unity expansion module slots.
Figure 1.1 The Unity 4600 Professional Media Recorder