COBALT APPLICATIONS
Dynamic Network-Side Ad Insertion with Monitoring
A complete programmer-side Ad Insertion solution.
Cobalt offers a complete programmer-side Ad Insertion solution, ready to connect to your traffic system. Our ancillary data inserters and frame syncs can be licensed to add SCTE-104 triggers to an SDI signal, in a frame-accurate manner.
These devices can be interfaced with your traffic system using the following options:
- GPIO signals
- SCTE-104 signaling over TCP
- Easy-to-use Cobalt’s own openly available XML-based protocol
This functionality is available for the 9902-UDX, 9922-FS, 9950-EMDE-ANC and 9904-UDX cards.
Support for SCTE-104 to SCTE-35 conversion.
For compression applications, all Cobalt encoders support SCTE-104 to SCTE-35 conversion. The SCTE-104 signaling can be received directly on the SDI signal, or over TCP – thus avoiding the need for an inserter, if your workflow just requires SCTE-35. Additionally, the 9992-ENC encoder supports SCTE- 35 insertion on HLS manifests and is compatible with required YouTube markings. On the receive side, all Cobalt decoders can receive a transport stream with SCTE-35 markers and convert them back to SCTE-104 ancillary data packets on SDI.
If you need monitoring and logging of the triggers, the 9978-ANC-MON can be placed anywhere in the SDI path, and will provide a user-friendly screen output, as well as a downloadable log.
All the solution elements are available as standalone devices using the Cobalt BBG-1300- FR or as openGear cards.
