Description
- Professional-grade digital cable receiver, PCI Express
- Extended frequency coverage to 1002 MHz
- DVB-ASI monitoring on each channel
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All other orders will be shipped from Canada.
The DTA-2136 from DekTec is a dual-channel QAM receiver for PCI Express systems, offering extended frequency coverage up to 1002 MHz and compatibility with J.83 Annex A (DVB-C), B, and C modulation standards. It features two DVB-ASI output ports for monitoring and is equipped with a comprehensive reception status reporting for each channel, including RF level, SNR, MER, and pre/post-FEC BER. The receiver is designed for integration into professional environments and features video and audio decoding of industry standard formats.
ORDERING INFORMATION
DTA-2136 – Dual-Channel QAM Receiver for PCI Express bus
DTA-2136-SLP – Dual-Channel QAM Receiver for PCI Express bus with StreamXpert Lite and StreamXpress
DTA-2136-VR-SLP – Dual-Channel QAM Receiver for PCI Express bus with VF-Rec stream recorder and StreamXpert Lite and StreamXpress
DTA-2136-SXP – Dual-Channel QAM Receiver for PCI Express bus with StreamXpress and StreamXpert analyser
Features
- Dual-channel QAM receiver, compliant with J.83 Annex A (DVB-C), B and C
- Applications have access to the complete Transport Stream
- Two DVB-ASI output ports for monitoring the receiver output
- ASI ports can also be used as independent general-purpose ASI outputs
- Each channel provides reception status, RF level, demodulation status, constellation, SNR, MER, pre- and post-FEC BER
- Free Windows and Linux SDK (DTAPI) is fully compatible with other DekTec digital television adapters
- PCI Express x1
Applications
- Monitoring of cable networks (with Xpect)
- Professional cable receiver
Key Characteristics
| RF frequency | VHF, UHF 54 to 1002MHz |
| Sup. bandwidth | 8 MHz |
| Input Sensitivity | -60 to -30dBm |
| Input return loss | >10dB |
| MER | 12 to 38dB |
Inputs and Outputs
| 2x RF in | 75-Ω F female |
| 2x ASI out | 75-Ω BNC |
| PCI Express | PCIe x1 |
Modulation Standards
| Included with base product | DVB-C QAM-B QAM-C |
PC Support
| OS |
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| Processor | Core i5 minimum Core i7 recommended |
Or equivalent AMD CPUs
Software Description
1. StreamXpress – Playout Software
- Low-cost, high-performance playout software that supports all DekTec output adapters
- Endless play with optional automatic correction of continuity-counter, PCR/PTS/DTS and TDT/TOT fields
- SOAP-based remote control to automate StreamXpress operations (DTC-302-RC option)
- Saving and restoring playout parameters using XML-based settings file
- Reproducible injection of errors in the transport stream with adjustable error rate
- Easy-to-use control of modulation and channel simulation parameters
2. StreamXpert – Transport Stream Analyser Software
- Real-time analysis, monitoring and recording of MPEG-2 transport streams
- Recording based on duration, size or manual
- Provides detailed statistics on the PIDs, services and tables found in the transport stream
- Displays PIDs, services, tables, descriptors, stream information and PID-grid (compact overview of all PIDs)
- User definable TR 101 290 templates
- PCR analysis
- Measurement of bitrates, PCR-accuracy and interval
- Integrated SD/HD video and audio decoder with support for MPEG-2, AVC/H.264, HEVC/H.265, AVS, 4:2:2 and 10 bit video streams and MP1 / MP2 / (HE-)AAC / Dolby AC3 / Dolby AC4 audio
- Deep decoding of PSI, DVB-SI, DVB-RCS and ATSC-PSIP tables and descriptors
- Closed captions decoding
- SI decoding with user templates, Dolby AC4 analysis, multi-monitor support
- Support for analysing TS-over-IP streams via a DTA-2160 / DTA-2162 or a local network port
- The world’s most cost-effective and user-friendly transport-stream analyser
3. StreamXpert Lite – Light-weight version of StreamXpert for viewing and recording transport-stream contents, and for decoding audio and video.
StreamXpert StreamXpert Lite
Ribbon based GUI ✓ ✓
Display
List with properties of all PIDs ✓ –
List with properties of all services ✓ partial
List with properties of all tables ✓ –
Video Decoding
HEVC ✓ ✓
AVC ✓ ✓
AVS ✓ ✓
MPEG-2 ✓ ✓
4:2:2 ✓ –
10-bit ✓ –
Full screen mode ✓ ✓
Multi-monitor support ✓ ✓
Audio Decoding
HE-AAC ✓ ✓
AAC ✓ ✓
E-AC-3 ✓ ✓
AC-3 ✓ ✓
MPEG-1 Layer II ✓ ✓
Supported Interfaces
DekTec input adapters ✓ ✓
PC network ports ✓ ✓
Advanced
Custom table and descriptor templates ✓ –
PID Grid, graphical overview of all PIDs ✓ –
Dolby AC-4 analysis ✓ –
Recording
Manual mode ✓ ✓
Size based ✓ ✓
Duration based ✓ ✓
Measurement and Compliance
TR 101 290 priority 1, 2 and 3 ✓ –
Bitrate ✓ partial
PCR graphs ✓ –
PCR accuracy ✓ –
PCR interval ✓ –
PCR frequency offset ✓ –
4. VF-Rec – Advanced transport-stream/SDI recorder
- Advanced recorder for TS, ETI, SDI, I/Q samples and T2MI.
- Allows to do continuous recording and remote control through SNMP
- Record to a single file, to multiple files or continuous
- SDI recording 10-bit full frame, up to 3G-SDI
- Remote monitoring and control through SNMP
