KPN Selects Leader LV5100D Digital Waveform Monitor

KPN, one of Holland's largest telecommunications service companies, has chosen Leader's LV5100D component digital waveform monitor for use in a newly upgraded internet-streaming outside broadcast production vehicle.
Based in Utrecht, the vehicle is offered for hire to provide live video coverage of KPN client events. These can then be streamed to audiences viewing via normal IP-connected web browsers. The LV5100D purchase was negotiated through elQuip BV, Broadcast Master Distributor for Leader Electronics Corporation in Europe.
"The investment forms part of a major equipment refit from analogue to digital operation," commented Paul Vos, Managing Director of elQuip BV.
"The LV5100D can be deployed to measure component digital, component analogue or mixed-mode signals. Vector display of digital and analogue sources can be performed quickly and serial transmission errors can be monitored using an integral EDH measurement facility.
"A data dump function displays an arbitrary line of digital values in hex. The instrument is also equipped with audio measurement facilities including X-Y stereo display," he said.
The LV5100D has two passive component serial digital input channels conforming to ITU-R656-1 and SMPTE 259M. An active output provides onward transmission of either input. A three-channel YUV/GBR analogue input is also incorporated. Y or G chroma components can be viewed as a television image on an integral 150 mm rectangular high-intensity P4-phosphor CRT. The positional relationship between a video signal and its corresponding image can be checked using an intensity-modulated display of a selected image line.
Electronically-generated cursor reference lines allow easy measurement of signal level. User-assignable memories allow frequently-employed measurement parameters to be stored for local or remote rapid recall.
The LV5100DE offers all the facilities of the LV5100D plus an eye-pattern display allowing close visual inspection of the digital signal carrier. Both models have compact 215 x 429 x 132 mm WDH dimensions.
KPN provides telephone, internet and television services to customers through its fixed network in the Netherlands. At September 30, 2007, KPN served 5.5 million wireline voice subscribers, 9.1 million mobile customers, 2.6 million internet customers and 0.4 million TV customers in the Netherlands as well as 16.8 million mobile customers in Germany and Belgium.
elQuip is Broadcast Master Distributor for Leader Electronics Corporation in Europe.
See www.elquip.com
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