Nevion Virtuoso
The ultimate performer across all networks
The ultimate performer across all networks
Looking for a flexible real-time media solution?
Nevion Virtuoso is a standards-based, virtualization-ready, software-defined media node that can perform a variety of real-time functions for a wide range of applications including IP contribution and wide-area media transport, IP production facilities and converged LAN/WAN networks for remote & distributed production.
Nevion Virtuoso is a key component of Networked Live, an ecosystem of products, solutions, services, and partners designed to transform production workflows. It provides functionality to the Media transport and Hybrid Processing & Operations building blocks.
Find out moreNevion Virtuoso can be used for a variety of solutions and applications, including in the facilities, in outside broadcast trucks, for contribution, remote production, and for Cloud connectivity.
Find out more about solutionsThousands of Nevion Virtuoso units have been deployed worldwide, supporting the mission critical business of leading broadcasters and services providers.
With adaptable field modification through software, Nevion Virtuoso offers versatility at your fingertips, leading to quicker time-to-production and enhanced cost-effectiveness.
Virtuoso supports up to eight media accelerator cards each populated with a powerful FPGA, which provides one of the densest media transport and processing platforms available on the market.
Video quality has always been a hallmark of Nevion, with our best-in-class video compression codecs.
Extensive protection mechanisms combined with in-depth monitoring ensures the highest quality of service for IP media transport.
Virtuoso is designed for telecom service providers applications that requires the highest grade of reliability. Its modularity, hot-swap design, redundant backplane, element manager and power supplies provides unprecedented up-time.
Virtuoso’s functionality is virtualized, and delivered by software modules, known as Media Functions – all designed to perform with ultra-low latency. These licensed-controlled functions can be installed, activated and changed on demand – meaning there is no need to switch equipment when a change of functionality is required. Most of the media functions run on generic Media Accelerator cards, which are housed in a Media Appliance.
Accelerator cards provide the required
processing resources for media functions ranging from IP adaption and compression to advanced video/audio processing.
The Nevion Virtuoso platform has been designed to allow for the provision of Media Node appliances with different characteristics, such as size, number of Media Accelerator cards that can be accommodated and level of modularity and redundancy, to fit any deployment scenario.
Nevion Virtuoso MI is a carrier-grade 1RU modular platform with dual AC load-sharing power supplies, supporting hot-swap and full internal redundancy for element management and control, high speed internal communication, and timing/sync distribution. Nevion Virtuoso MI holds up to 8 Media Accelerator cards. Take the 360 tour of the Nevion Virtuoso MI.
Download datasheetNevion Virtuoso RE: a compact 1RU media node with dual AC load sharing power supplies, integrated element manager and a high-speed internal communication fabric, with built-in timing/sync distribution. Nevion Virtuoso RE holds up to 6 Media Accelerator cards.
Download datasheetFor day to day operations, the Nevion Virtuoso Element Manager offers an intuitive and easy to use HTML5 web user interface, a modern and open RESTful API, alarm management, alarm and event notification and logging.
Further, it manages the role-based access control, authentication and overall security of the platform, as well as timing/sync distribution with built-in PTP best clock selection. The ease-of-use simplifies operations and allows for fast reconfiguration for occasional use applications.
Nevion Virtuoso High Bitrate Media Accelerator cards are designed to provide optimum performance for Media Functions, providing general compute/storage/networking and high-performance FPGA acceleration. SFP-based interfacing allows flexible connectivity to 1G, 10G or 25G Ethernet, optical and electrical SDI video up to 12G/UHD and MADI audio signals.
While IP based audio (AES67, SMPTE 2110) is handled natively on the HBR Media Accelerator cards, analog audio as well as balanced/unbalanced digital AES3 is handled via special adapter cards and breakout panels to facilitate higher density audio interconnects.
The AES3 Digital Audio Card is designed for AES3 digital audio interfacing, while the RPRO Audio Card is designed for a mix of AES3 digital audio, analog audio and GPIO. The RPRO card in addition can generate legacy video and audio sync signals based using the Virtuoso PTP-locked system clock as reference.
Virtuoso supports internal service routing and aggregation of video, audio, and MPEG Transport Streams to 1G/10G networks. Nevion’s eMerge Ethernet switch platform provide a generalized media and data service aggregation solution for higher density 10G/25G/40G/100G wide area networking.
Read moreWith production workflows becoming more distributed broadcasters have the need to transport more media content with high quality and high reliability over Wide Area Networks through high density solutions. Nevion Virtuoso can serve as the Swiss army knife for media transport across WAN and LAN networks.
The SDI-IP ST2110 Media Function supports adaptation, synchronization and processing of uncompressed video and audio signals. The software supports up to four channels of bidirectional conversion between baseband 3G/HD/SD-SDI and SMPTE ST2110 IP, with flexible audio processing and routing, PTP/SMPTE 2059 frame synchronization and delay management.
Download datasheetNevion Virtuoso’s SDI-IP UHD ST2110 Media Function offers a powerful set of video and audio adaptation and processing functions for use in live IP production applications, supporting 12G-SDI and ST2110 on 25GbE. The software supports dual channel conversion between 12G/3G/HD-SDI and ST2110, with built-in frame synchronization and flexible audio routing/shuffling, gain and delay processing.
Download datasheetThe SDI-IP ST2022 Media Function enables reliable adaptation and transport of SD, HD and 3G-SDI signals over IP without any quality degradation.
For wide-area contribution applications, the software supports adaptation of baseband SDI signals to IP according to SMPTE 2022-6. For adaptation in IP-based MCR or production environments, the software includes a built-in frame synchronizer with PTP/SMPTE 2059 support and audio embedding/de-embedding to AES67 and ST2110-30/31 IP audio.
Download datasheetNevion Virtuoso’s ASI and TS over IP Media Functions provides high density ASI-IP conversion, Transport Stream monitoring and redundancy switching on the software-defined HBR accelerator card.
The ASI media function runs on the Virtuoso HBR accelerator card providing up to 8 ASI inputs and 8 ASI outputs. Transport Streams are routed to/from an Uplink HBR card in Virtuoso that provides high density IP aggregation of Transport Streams on 1/10 GigE.
Download datasheetNevion Virtuoso’s Audio Processor media function (AUD-PROC-MADI-IP) offers an attractive set of audio adaptation, processing and mixing functions for use in contribution, remote production and live audio production applications.
The AUD-PROC-MADI media function provides conversion of two bidirectional optical MADI signals to/from AES67 / SMPTE 2110-30/31 audio.
The AUD-AES3 card and media function provides additional AES3 interfacing capability, while the AUD-RPRO card provides interfacing to a mix of digital and analog audio signals.
Download datasheetWhile IP and fiber connectivity and bandwidth is ever improving, video compression can provide large cost-savings or enable a higher number of video feeds on the same links, while providing low end-to-end latency and excellent video quality.
Light-weight mezzanine compression formats such as JPEG XS and JPEG 2000 provide a great trade-off between complexity, latency and video quality, while being robust to multi-generation compression that often occurs in live broadcast production and distribution.
Nevion Virtuoso’s JPEG XS UHD/HD Media Function offers multi-channel JPEG XS encoding or decoding with native ST2110 video or SDI baseband interfaces, with ST2110-22 compressed JPEG XS essence transport compatible with VSF TR-08, or multiplexed MPEG TS transport compatible with VSF TR-07.
JPEG XS (ISO/IEC 21122) is a modern light-weight image and video encoding standard that achieves pristine visually lossless video quality even for multiple concatenated compression cycles. The ultra low sub-millisecond latency of JPEG XS encoding is a key benefit, and enables end-to-end delays of less than one video frame period. This makes JPEG XS extremely attractive for low latency real-time transport of HD and UHD/4K video over wide-area networks (WANs). It also makes it suitable for bandwidth-constrained campus and facility local area networks (LANs) when uncompressed transport is not a viable option.
Download datasheetNevion Virtuoso’s JPEG 2000 media function saves bandwidth while providing visually lossless compressed video, transparent audio and data, at ultra-low latency.
Nevion Virtuoso can run multiple instances of the JPEG 2000 Media Function on a single platform with built-in network aggregation to 10G Ethernet.
The VSF TR-01 compliant TS over IP encapsulation ensures perfectly synchronized transport of video, audio and ancillary data, as well as interoperability with 3rd party equipment.
UHD/HD Encoder/Decoder
Download datasheetUsing JPEG 2000 encoding and decoding, Nevion’s Virtuoso allows film studios and production companies to share pristine-looking content in real-time across the world, improving cooperation and production workflows.
The Virtuoso JPEG 2000 DCI (Digital Cinema Initiative) low-latency encoding and transport solution provides visually lossless video quality, full-color fidelity and accuracy while using a fraction of the bandwidth of uncompressed transport.
Download datasheetThe Virtuoso TICO UHD Media Function provides visually lossless lightweight 4:1 compression for the transport of UHD and 4K signals with sub-frame latency.
The Nevion TICO UHD Media Function enables cost-effective transport of 12 Gb/s 4K/UHD video over 10GE IP networks using SMPTE 2022-6/7 or over existing 3G-SDI infrastructure.
Download datasheetNevion’s Virtuoso provides video and audio processing functions that are essential for live production applications, whether it’s an live event outside broadcast or centralized glue/processing infrastructure for studio, production control room or master control room operations.
The versatility, performance and low latency makes Virtuoso the ideal platform for live broadcast and media production applications.
Nevion Virtuoso’s Up/Down/Cross Media Function offers a variety of high-quality format conversions for HD and UHD with native SMPTE ST 2110-20 uncompressed video in/out on 25 GigE.
A single Up/Down/Cross (UDC) instance running on an HBR25 card in Virtuoso MI supports two independent video converters. Each converter can perform de-interlacing, scaling, 3D LUT colour conversion, HDR/SDR conversion, legalization, frame synchronization and delay. Any-to-any conversion is supported for HD 720p, 1080i, 1080p and UHD
2160p video formats.
Nevion Virtuoso’s Audio Processor media function (AUD-PROC-MADI-IP) offers an attractive set of audio adaptation, processing and mixing functions for use in live audio production applications.
The AUD-PROC-MADI media function provides bidirectional MADI and SMPTE 2110 / AES67 IP audio interfacing, monitoring, routing and processing of audio signals.
Four audio processor engines, each with 64 output channels, are available for flexible routing/mono shuffling and per-channel control of polarity, gain and delay. Each of the processing engines can also be configured as an audio summing matrix mixer with up to 512 cross-points.
Separate adapter cards and breakout cables are available for unbalanced/balanced AES3 and analog audio interfacing .
Download datasheetFocusing entirely on processing IP media flows to secure networks and optimize their performance, the IP Media Edge (IPME) is a key addition to the Nevion Virtuoso Platform.
Due to its dedicated hardware packet processing and complete isolation between Ethernet ports, the IPME is ideal for protecting the media network edge.
Nevion Virtuoso’s IP Media Edge Processor offers network isolation, media firewall, network stream protection and translation for UDP and RTP IP media flows.
The IP Media Edge (IPME) Processor incorporates advanced techniques for processing and protection of RTP/UDP/IP media flows.
Processing features include Network Address Translation (NAT), bitrate policing, stream duplication, flow linearization / de-jittering, and UDP/IP to RTP/UDP/IP conversion.
Protection features include SMPTE ST 2022-7 hitless switching for RTP stream redundancy and SMPTE ST 2022-1/5 Forward Error Correction.
Download datasheetThe Nevion Virtuoso platform has been designed to allow for the provision of Media Node appliances with different characteristics, such as size, number of Media Accelerator cards that can be accommodated and level of modularity and redundancy, to fit any deployment scenario.
Nevion Virtuoso MI is a carrier-grade 1RU modular platform with dual AC load-sharing power supplies, supporting hot-swap and full internal redundancy for element management and control, high speed internal communication, and timing/sync distribution. Nevion Virtuoso MI holds up to 8 Media Accelerator cards. Take the 360 tour of the Nevion Virtuoso MI.
Nevion Virtuoso RE: a compact 1RU media node with dual AC load sharing power supplies, integrated element manager and a high-speed internal communication fabric, with built-in timing/sync distribution. Nevion Virtuoso RE holds up to 6 Media Accelerator cards.
For day to day operations, the Nevion Virtuoso Element Manager offers an intuitive and easy to use HTML5 web user interface, a modern and open RESTful API, alarm management, alarm and event notification and logging.
Further, it manages the role-based access control, authentication and overall security of the platform, as well as timing/sync distribution with built-in PTP best clock selection. The ease-of-use simplifies operations and allows for fast reconfiguration for occasional use applications.
Nevion Virtuoso High Bitrate Media Accelerator cards are designed to provide optimum performance for Media Functions, providing general compute/storage/networking and high-performance FPGA acceleration. SFP-based interfacing allows flexible connectivity to 1G, 10G or 25G Ethernet, optical and electrical SDI video up to 12G/UHD and MADI audio signals.
While IP based audio (AES67, SMPTE 2110) is handled natively on the HBR Media Accelerator cards, analog audio as well as balanced/unbalanced digital AES3 is handled via special adapter cards and breakout panels to facilitate higher density audio interconnects.
The AES3 Digital Audio Card is designed for AES3 digital audio interfacing, while the RPRO Audio Card is designed for a mix of AES3 digital audio, analog audio and GPIO. The RPRO card in addition can generate legacy video and audio sync signals based using the Virtuoso PTP-locked system clock as reference.
Virtuoso supports internal service routing and aggregation of video, audio, and MPEG Transport Streams to 1G/10G networks. Nevion’s eMerge Ethernet switch platform provide a generalized media and data service aggregation solution for higher density 10G/25G/40G/100G wide area networking.
With production workflows becoming more distributed broadcasters have the need to transport more media content with high quality and high reliability over Wide Area Networks through high density solutions. Nevion Virtuoso can serve as the Swiss army knife for media transport across WAN and LAN networks.
The SDI-IP ST2110 Media Function supports adaptation, synchronization and processing of uncompressed video and audio signals. The software supports up to four channels of bidirectional conversion between baseband 3G/HD/SD-SDI and SMPTE ST2110 IP, with flexible audio processing and routing, PTP/SMPTE 2059 frame synchronization and delay management.
Nevion Virtuoso’s SDI-IP UHD ST2110 Media Function offers a powerful set of video and audio adaptation and processing functions for use in live IP production applications, supporting 12G-SDI and ST2110 on 25GbE. The software supports dual channel conversion between 12G/3G/HD-SDI and ST2110, with built-in frame synchronization and flexible audio routing/shuffling, gain and delay processing.
The SDI-IP ST2022 Media Function enables reliable adaptation and transport of SD, HD and 3G-SDI signals over IP without any quality degradation.
For wide-area contribution applications, the software supports adaptation of baseband SDI signals to IP according to SMPTE 2022-6. For adaptation in IP-based MCR or production environments, the software includes a built-in frame synchronizer with PTP/SMPTE 2059 support and audio embedding/de-embedding to AES67 and ST2110-30/31 IP audio.
Nevion Virtuoso’s ASI and TS over IP Media Functions provides high density ASI-IP conversion, Transport Stream monitoring and redundancy switching on the software-defined HBR accelerator card.
The ASI media function runs on the Virtuoso HBR accelerator card providing up to 8 ASI inputs and 8 ASI outputs. Transport Streams are routed to/from an Uplink HBR card in Virtuoso that provides high density IP aggregation of Transport Streams on 1/10 GigE.
Nevion Virtuoso’s Audio Processor media function (AUD-PROC-MADI-IP) offers an attractive set of audio adaptation, processing and mixing functions for use in contribution, remote production and live audio production applications.
The AUD-PROC-MADI media function provides conversion of two bidirectional optical MADI signals to/from AES67 / SMPTE 2110-30/31 audio.
The AUD-AES3 card and media function provides additional AES3 interfacing capability, while the AUD-RPRO card provides interfacing to a mix of digital and analog audio signals.
While IP and fiber connectivity and bandwidth is ever improving, video compression can provide large cost-savings or enable a higher number of video feeds on the same links, while providing low end-to-end latency and excellent video quality.
Light-weight mezzanine compression formats such as JPEG XS and JPEG 2000 provide a great trade-off between complexity, latency and video quality, while being robust to multi-generation compression that often occurs in live broadcast production and distribution.
Nevion Virtuoso’s JPEG XS UHD/HD Media Function offers multi-channel JPEG XS encoding or decoding with native ST2110 video or SDI baseband interfaces, with ST2110-22 compressed JPEG XS essence transport compatible with VSF TR-08, or multiplexed MPEG TS transport compatible with VSF TR-07.
JPEG XS (ISO/IEC 21122) is a modern light-weight image and video encoding standard that achieves pristine visually lossless video quality even for multiple concatenated compression cycles. The ultra low sub-millisecond latency of JPEG XS encoding is a key benefit, and enables end-to-end delays of less than one video frame period. This makes JPEG XS extremely attractive for low latency real-time transport of HD and UHD/4K video over wide-area networks (WANs). It also makes it suitable for bandwidth-constrained campus and facility local area networks (LANs) when uncompressed transport is not a viable option.
Nevion Virtuoso’s JPEG 2000 media function saves bandwidth while providing visually lossless compressed video, transparent audio and data, at ultra-low latency.
Nevion Virtuoso can run multiple instances of the JPEG 2000 Media Function on a single platform with built-in network aggregation to 10G Ethernet.
The VSF TR-01 compliant TS over IP encapsulation ensures perfectly synchronized transport of video, audio and ancillary data, as well as interoperability with 3rd party equipment.
UHD/HD Encoder/Decoder
Using JPEG 2000 encoding and decoding, Nevion’s Virtuoso allows film studios and production companies to share pristine-looking content in real-time across the world, improving cooperation and production workflows.
The Virtuoso JPEG 2000 DCI (Digital Cinema Initiative) low-latency encoding and transport solution provides visually lossless video quality, full-color fidelity and accuracy while using a fraction of the bandwidth of uncompressed transport.
The Virtuoso TICO UHD Media Function provides visually lossless lightweight 4:1 compression for the transport of UHD and 4K signals with sub-frame latency.
The Nevion TICO UHD Media Function enables cost-effective transport of 12 Gb/s 4K/UHD video over 10GE IP networks using SMPTE 2022-6/7 or over existing 3G-SDI infrastructure.
Nevion’s Virtuoso provides video and audio processing functions that are essential for live production applications, whether it’s an live event outside broadcast or centralized glue/processing infrastructure for studio, production control room or master control room operations.
The versatility, performance and low latency makes Virtuoso the ideal platform for live broadcast and media production applications.
Nevion Virtuoso’s Up/Down/Cross Media Function offers a variety of high-quality format conversions for HD and UHD with native SMPTE ST 2110-20 uncompressed video in/out on 25 GigE.
A single Up/Down/Cross (UDC) instance running on an HBR25 card in Virtuoso MI supports two independent video converters. Each converter can perform de-interlacing, scaling, 3D LUT colour conversion, HDR/SDR conversion, legalization, frame synchronization and delay. Any-to-any conversion is supported for HD 720p, 1080i, 1080p and UHD
2160p video formats.
Nevion Virtuoso’s Audio Processor media function (AUD-PROC-MADI-IP) offers an attractive set of audio adaptation, processing and mixing functions for use in live audio production applications.
The AUD-PROC-MADI media function provides bidirectional MADI and SMPTE 2110 / AES67 IP audio interfacing, monitoring, routing and processing of audio signals.
Four audio processor engines, each with 64 output channels, are available for flexible routing/mono shuffling and per-channel control of polarity, gain and delay. Each of the processing engines can also be configured as an audio summing matrix mixer with up to 512 cross-points.
Separate adapter cards and breakout cables are available for unbalanced/balanced AES3 and analog audio interfacing .
Focusing entirely on processing IP media flows to secure networks and optimize their performance, the IP Media Edge (IPME) is a key addition to the Nevion Virtuoso Platform.
Due to its dedicated hardware packet processing and complete isolation between Ethernet ports, the IPME is ideal for protecting the media network edge.
Nevion Virtuoso’s IP Media Edge Processor offers network isolation, media firewall, network stream protection and translation for UDP and RTP IP media flows.
The IP Media Edge (IPME) Processor incorporates advanced techniques for processing and protection of RTP/UDP/IP media flows.
Processing features include Network Address Translation (NAT), bitrate policing, stream duplication, flow linearization / de-jittering, and UDP/IP to RTP/UDP/IP conversion.
Protection features include SMPTE ST 2022-7 hitless switching for RTP stream redundancy and SMPTE ST 2022-1/5 Forward Error Correction.
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