Cinegy

Cinegy’s suite of IP infrastructure products consists of a group of modular tools designed to replace outdated SDI architecture and manage every aspect of a broadcast production environment encompassing potentially hundreds of channels. It includes tools for managing HD and SD network streams and satellite feeds while preserving maximum signal quality. It can manage multiple RTP signals from a single station while keeping each registered stream under control.

The Cinegy IP infrastructure suite includes Cinegy Gateway,
Cinegy Monitor and Cinegy Route, each of which can function as a standalone solution or as a component of a comprehensive Cinegy Workflow installation.

Cinegy Gateway is a bridge device that allows broadcasters to migrate from an SDI to an IP based infrastructure in a gradual, step-by-step manner. It has the ability to convert SD or HD SDI streams into broadcast quality, SMPTE-compliant RTP/UDP streams or vice versa. Cinegy Gateway can convert multiple streams simultaneously with user-definable quality settings that meet the most demanding broadcast requirements.

Cinegy Gateway is ideal for broadcast operations that receive a large number of satellite feeds. Incoming SD and HD RTP streams from satellites, playout devices and network sources are registered and converted in real-time. Once incoming streams are transferred to the Ethernet network, they are available for logging, editing and other production activities, as well as immediate playout, in real-time and without additional transcoding.

Registered RTP streams can be captured from the Ethernet networks via Cinegy Ingest in the same way as other live sources. Cinegy Gateway has the ability to ingest SD and HD SDI streams from any standard playback device and encode them as RTP streams at speeds up to 200 mbps.

• Register and manage incoming IP streams
• Browse registered streams and insert them as live items to Cinegy Air playlists
• Organize incoming IP streams by routing them to virtual IP stream sources
• Control multiple IP streams in realtime
• Use IP streams as live video input
• Convert incoming SDI signals to IP streams in real-time
• Ingest IP streams (including support for direct transcoding)

Advantages of an IP based infrastructure

• Scalability - go from hundreds to thousands of signals without SDI router limitations
• SMTPE standards-based technology, providing compatibility with third-party systems and products
• Hardware independent. Simple to install, manage and maintain
• Reduce overhead costs. Less hardware and expensive cabling to purchase
• Reduce operational costs. System tools are accessible from any PC connected to the network
• Availability - streams are available everywhere they are needed, no SDI cabling is required
• Highly flexible and scalable, facilitating growth and change
• No more peer-to-peer technology. Signals can be picked up at any point in the network
• No special expertise required. Can be serviced by existing IT personnel