User Manual

EASy-PLUS
®
User Manual
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TRILITHIC
Rev 1.02
Trilithic Incorporated’s latest innovation for your Emergency Alert System is the EASy-PLUS
®
Encoder/
Decoder. The fully featured E.A.S system, highlighted by the EASy-PLUS
®
Encoder/Decoder was designed with the
smallest of cable systems in mind, and can handle a system serving 100 subscribers as well as systems handling over
2,000,000 subscribers. With Trilithic’s embedded DSP technology and manufacturing, standard features such as
FLASH BIOS will guarantee that your EASy-PLUS
®
platform will never go out of style. Periodic updates to the
platform are handled with the ease of a simple download from our WEB site. No more disassembly just to change
proms or software. With Trilithic’s EASy-NET
®
option, a simple phone call from your desktop PC to any one of
your remote headends, allows you to retrieve the last 100 E.A.S. events from nonvolatile memory for logging and
printing at your office. You’ll never miss your FCC required logging because of printer failures, paper jams or lack
of paper. Innovations such as built-in AM/FM/NOAA selectable tuners, automatically generated and programmable
FCC weekly testing, remote hub-site transmitter, and complete Motorola® digital platform compliance, truly makes
this your Emergency Alert System of choice.
The EASy-PLUS
®
has the following standard and built-in, features and benefits:
§ EASy-PLUS
®
enables parsing of F.I.P.S. codes
The new Trilithic EASy-PLUS
®
encoder/decoder distributes individual analog E.A.S. messages structured
for, or earmarked for, one specific community or up to sixteen (16) communities located within multi-trunk
output headends.
§ Flash BIOS
Trilithic’s new EASy-PLUS
®
encoder/decoder eliminates the need to remove the unit from the rack, pull the
cover or lid and change or upgrade chipsets and proms. Government-regulation modifications or changes,
new programming, additional advancements, and many other new features, can easily be handled through a
simple upload via the WEB.
§ Programmable RWT (Required Weekly Test) for Automatic Triggering
This feature allows your E.A.S. system to automatically generate a random RWT event, once, within each
seven (7) day window, satisfying the FCC requirement for cable systems generating and logging their own
weekly test.
§ Stores the most recent 100 emergency alerts
A nonvolatile Emergency Alert Storage System eliminates the need for attaching a printer at the headends’
encoder/decoder to view the most current alerts or events. A continuous update of the last 100 E.A.S.
events triggered through Trilithic’s EASy-PLUS
®
encoder/decoder can be downloaded via a PC at the
headend, or through the optional EASy-NET
®
telephone interface anywhere in the country.
E.A.S. events can easily be archived and/or printed on an external dot-matrix printer at the customer’s
convenience.
Logfile is word-processor compatible.
§ Two (2) internal radios that are each tunable as AM, FM, or NOAA radios
This means you will not have to purchase any additional radios to meet the FCC requirement of LP-1 and
LP-2 monitoring stations. Simply tune each of the two radio receivers to either AM or FM, to match the
designated LP-1 and LP-2 stations assigned for your area, or the NOAA frequencies if so needed.
Dual cards can be installed giving four (4) internal radio selections.
§ Four (4) external radio inputs for added monitoring capabilities
This feature allows you to meet the requirements dictated by some State Emergency Management Plans that
may require a possible third, fourth or more monitoring selections.
§ Remote hub-site insertion transmitter is included as standard equipment
An internal AFSK TX transmitter is included as standard equipment in the new EASy-PLUS
®
encoder/
decoder. This transmitter eliminates all external remote TX components of earlier E.A.S. systems.