Selenio™ Network Processor

IP Media Processing Platform

Selenio™ Network Processor (SNP) is the industry’s first pure-IP media processing platform, supporting uncompressed UHD based on the SMPTE ST 2110 specification for transporting media over IP networks. This high-density, scalable platform enables media companies to seamlessly transition from SDI to all-IP networks, while adhering to the SMPTE ST 2022-6 and ST 2110 standards.

Built on field programmable gate array (FPGA) technology, along with dual 100-Gigabit data connections, SNP delivers the essential capabilities required in today’s complex production environments, including audio processing, HD/3G/UHD up/down/cross conversion, color space adjustments and High Dynamic Range (HDR) adaptations and conversions. It also provides critical signal synchronization, supporting different signal types and formats for video production.

The standards-based SNP interoperates with Imagine’s other UHD- and IP-ready solutions, including the EPIC™ MV monitoring and control system and Versio™ modular playout platform, as well as with commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) IP switches, providing media companies the flexibility to work with a variety of technology suppliers for a seamless end-to-end production workflow.

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SNP is optimized for UHD production via redundant 100-Gigabit data connections, capable of delivering eight uncompressed UHD signals in each direction, improving overall efficiency and power-consumption, while preserving picture quality and system latency.

SNP also provides critical synchronization and integration of signals into the production environment, ensuring interoperability with all other standards-compliant equipment.

Along with powerful, IP-enabled video processing, SNP offers all the capabilities required in today’s complex production environments, including audio processing, color space adjustments and HD-UHD up, down and cross conversion, as well as High Dynamic Range (HDR) adaptations and conversions required for integrating UHD and HD signals.

Ideal for fast-paced mobile live production, SNP features four integral processing blocks, each of which can be assigned a separate application and reprogrammed on the fly. The multipurpose nature and quick-configuration capabilities of the SNP significantly reduces equipment requirements and enables production companies to respond to the demands of the current job, and then quickly reconfigure to tackle future assignments.