This document provides an introduction to digital set-top boxes (STBs). It defines an STB as a device that connects to an external signal source and decodes the signal into content that can be displayed on a TV. STBs are categorized based on their source (cable, satellite, IP) and recording capabilities. The document outlines the various stakeholders in the STB business, including OEMs, chipset vendors, middleware providers, operators, and more. It provides a generic overview of STB software architecture and data flow, explaining how broadcast signals are received, decrypted, decoded, and output to displays. Common STB hardware components like tuners, memory, connectivity ports, and peripherals are also listed.
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DVB is a set of standards that define digital broadcasting using existing satellite, cable, and terrestrial infrastructures.
The term digital television is sometimes used as a synonym for DVB
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This presentation is dedicated to R R Gulati.
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Spread spectrum is a communication technique that spreads a narrowband communication signal over a wide range of frequencies for transmission then de-spreads it into the original data bandwidth at the receive.
DVB is a set of standards that define digital broadcasting using existing satellite, cable, and terrestrial infrastructures.
The term digital television is sometimes used as a synonym for DVB
This presentation is focused on basic understanding of video signal generation and its electronic interpretation. Contents are taken from bible of television!
This presentation is dedicated to R R Gulati.
En esta presentación se observa las generalidades de la televisión digital, sus inicios, tipos,estándares más usados, entre otros puntos. Elaborado por Dixa González y Ángel Sena
Doordarshan is the oldest and the biggest Broadcasting media in India.. One must have never thought that so many things are required for watching a television. The camera, the studio, the transmitter, the PDA, the setup box (installed in houses) everything is connected to each other. Here man and electronics work as if they are a family. So many process and lots of hard work, sincerity is required to just have a show or say a movie on air i.e. to be broadcasted.
Spread spectrum is a communication technique that spreads a narrowband communication signal over a wide range of frequencies for transmission then de-spreads it into the original data bandwidth at the receive.
Surf Communication Solutions provides of MoP (Media over Packet) Triple Play (Voice, Video, and Modem/Fax/Data) conversion solutions to communication equipment manufacturers. These solutions are provided in various integration levels: DSP software ; PTMC boards; DSP hardware/software; and PCI boards. http://www.surf-com.com
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JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
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The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
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Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
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Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
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Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
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- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
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Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
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Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
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All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
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GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
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1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
2. What is STB?
A digital set-top box is a device that connects to an
external signal source and decodes that signal into
content that can be presented on a display unit such as a
TV.
Initially the term “STB” was used to represent all such
devices, including digital media receivers, Windows
Media extenders, gaming consoles, etc too, but
gradually got limited to be used only for broadcast TV
content viewing devices.
STB’s are categorized in different ways:
Based on source: cable box, satellite box, IP box, etc.
Based on recording capability: zapper box, PVR/DVR box, etc.
Based on return channel: one-way (broadcast), two-way,
hybrid, etc.
3. STB Business - Stake holders
Usually, STB’s are designed and supplied by OEM’s to the operators, with many
stake-holders in the supply-chain:
OEM’s:
Pace, Cisco, Technicolor, Humax, etc.
Chipset/SoC vendors:
Broadcom, ST, MStar, etc.
CAS vendors:
Latens/Pace, NDS/Cisco, Nagra, etc.
Middleware/Application vendors:
Google, NDS/Cisco, Nagra, Zenterio, Cubiware, SeaChange, TiVo, etc.
OTT service vendors:
Netflix, Amazon, Plex, Roku, etc.
Third-party system integrators (optional):
Red Embedded, etc
Manufacturers:
Flextronics, Jabil, etc.
Headend vendors:
ARRIS, Cisco, Teleste, Tandberg, Ericsson, etc.
Operators:
DIRECTV, Comcast, TataSky, Hathway, etc.
Content aggregators/partners, VoD partners, billing systems, etc… and more!
5. Data flow (generic) - Broadcast with PVR
Frontend
Demux
Descrambler
Audio
Decoder
Video
Decoder
Graphics/
UI
Scaler
&
Mixer
DAC &
Amp
HDD /
Storage
HDD /
Storage
Tuner Demod
TV /
Display
out
Speaker
CAS /
smartcard
CC /
Teletext
SI / EPG /
Private Data
RF-
in
Media
input
SW-TS
TS PES
(enc)
PES
(clear)
A A A
V V
V
G
CW
ECM
EMM
6. Data flow Explained
Frontend (NIM)
The tuner is the input/source point for the data/media stream. It could be
a satellite/cable/terrestrial tuner to tune to signals coming in over the RF
input feeds.
The demodulator converts the modulated signal into baseband signal
(with error correction modules).
In IPTV case, this module would be replaced by IP/LAN/network module.
Demultiplexer
The demux module can filter out video/audio/data using PID, TID, mask,
etc.
Descrambler
This module descrambles encrypted signals into decrypted signals. The
diagram shows the more common case of PES-level descrambling, while
TS-level descrambling is also possible.
CAS / smartcard (shown in red)
The CAS system supplies the decryption keys to the descrambler module,
if the client STB is has the necessary subscription rights.
CAS can also control encryption & decryption in case of PVR recordings.
7. Data flow Explained (contd.)
Audio Decoder & Output
The audio PES is parsed, and the audio ES is passed to the audio bit
buffers. Then audio decoding and PCM mixing is performed and output
through S/PDIF, PCM or DAC interfaces, onto the speakers and/or audio
output ports.
Video Decoder & Output
The video PES is parsed, and the video ES is passed to the video bit
buffers. Then video decoding is performed and the display frame buffers
generated are presented on the video display layers, which are then
composited by the video/graphics mixer for final presentation onto the
panel and/or video output ports.
PVR/DVR & Stored Media Playback (shown in green)
Takes care of recording of live content, playback of recorded content,
buffering (pause/review), movie-on-demand/VOD, Ad-insertions, USB
media playback, etc.
Closed Captions, Sub-titles, Teletext
Allows text data to be embedded into the video, for foreign language
movie viewing, aiding hearing-impaired people, news/weather/score
updates, etc.
PSI/SI, EPG, DSMCC, OTA upgrade, Graphics
The applications and middleware uses these modules extensively for
value-added features such as showing the program guide, service
