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Arkona Technologies AT300

About

The Arkona Technologies AT300 connector provides centralized monitoring of Arkona AT300 FPGA-based processing cards with a focus on audio/video delay, signal timing alignment, and core system metrics. It gives operators real-time insight into delay configurations, pipeline status, and essential hardware telemetry such as temperature, fans, SFP optical levels, RAM usage, and system uptime.

Key Features

  • Audio/video delay monitoring: Track configured delay values, active delay pipelines, and real-time processing status.
  • Signal timing alignment: Monitor the timing consistency of incoming and outgoing video/audio streams to ensure frame-accurate alignment.
  • System resource telemetry: View free RAM, FPGA load, CPU usage, and system uptime.
  • Environmental metrics: Monitor temperature sensors, fan RPM, and thermal thresholds.
  • Optical interface monitoring: Track SFP RX/TX power levels, link stability, and error counters.

Use Cases

Audio and Video Synchronization Assurance

Challenge: Lip‑sync issues, timing mismatches, and variable source latency can degrade broadcast quality.

Solution: The connector exposes real-time AT300 audio/video delay values and pipeline status.

Benefit: Operators can immediately detect misalignments and adjust delays to maintain perfect sync.

Monitoring Hardware Stability During Live Production

Challenge: Environmental issues (temperature, fans, optical signal degradation) can create unexpected outages.

Solution: AT300 environmental metrics such as temperature, fans, and SFP power levels are collected and visualized.

Benefit: Early detection of hardware issues prevents service interruption.

Monitoring Performance for Delay Pipelines

Challenge: Delay pipelines require predictable processing resources.

Solution: The connector provides insight into RAM usage, uptime, and FPGA/system load.

Benefit: Ensures delay pipelines run in optimal performance conditions.

Prerequisites

  • AT300 PACs installed in a BLADE runner chassis.
  • AT300 management interfaces reachable over the network.
  • DataMiner version 10.5.0 or higher.
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