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Figure D.4 CA Types Dialog Box
D.4.2 Set Up an ECM Generator
D.4.2.1 Carriage of ECMs for Services Transmitted in the Clear
MX8400 Release 5 supports the carriage of ECMs within the outgoing transport
stream for services that are in the clear.
Note: Only available if the nCC is the Event Information Scheduler (EIS). This will
not be allowed if a third-party EIS is in use.
D.4.2.2 ECM Capabilities
• 16 CA Systems per a MX8400 chassis
• Supports 24 ECMG redundant pairs per a MX8400 chassis shared across output
transport streams generated.
• Maximum number of ECM connections/PIDs per a chassis = 200. (Connection
refers to stream flows within a TCP socket connection)
• Maximum number of ECM connections/PIDs for each output transport stream is
100
• Maximum of 32 ECM PIDs per service/component, restricted by ECMs for each
output transport stream
• Maximum Access Criteria length of 4096 bytes per ECM stream.
D.4.2.3 DVB Simulcrypt ECM Generator Dialog Box: Device Tab
This section describes how to set up an ECMG in nCompass Control.
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