WooshCom Debuts ASI-to-GigE Interface

DENVER -- WooshCom® Corporation, a small innovative company having a big impact on the Cable TV industry, today announced its first product in a family of new products designed to ease the interfacing of legacy ASI receivers to Gigabit Ethernet devices in the cable TV headend. This product may be seen at booth 6038 at CableTec Expo.

The MPA-1171, a marvel in miniaturization, converts an MPEG transport stream from a single DVB-ASI input into a Gigabit Ethernet output, and the MPA-3071 likewise converts a single DHEI input port. They follow in the footsteps of their predecessors in their unique form factor and their introduction of a new cost paradigm for transport stream aggregation – namely, “truly scalable costs”. Operators now only need to pay for the ports they need.

This family of products enables a new distributed approach to content aggregation in the headend which is starkly different from that of the high density, rack mount, chassis based devices, that combine a large number of ASI inputs into a Gig-E stream in a centralized fashion.

“Its single port granularity enables the implementation of exactly the number of ports needed and also true n+1 ‘sparing’. Whether you are implementing 2 input or 30 input MPEG transport stream aggregation in the headend, this drastically reduces the overall cost.” says Mr. Marler, Director of Engineering at WooshCom.

These devices will be followed to market by the MPX-1771, which will add a Gigabit Ethernet input port and the ability to multiplex this port with the ASI input port. When the Ethernet ports of multiple MPX-1771 devices are daisy chained together they will form a distributed ASI aggregation device which will collect all selected MPEG streams from each ASI port onto this “Ethernet highway”. This distributed multiplexer may be incrementally scaled from 2 inputs up to as many ASI input ports as the Gigabit Ethernet interface has capacity for. Depending on the input content being aggregated this could easily be 30 or more ASI ports.

WooshCom Corp.