FieldCast Mux + Demux Two 12G Plus 8x 12G-SDI over One Fiber

FieldCast Mux + Demux Two 12G Plus 8x 12G-SDI over One Fiber

Name: FieldCast Mux + Demux Two 12G Plus 8x 12G-SDI over One Fiber
Brand: FieldCast
SKU: CO143
Price: 8299.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

MPN: CO143

Price: €8,299.00

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Eight camera feeds down a single strand of glass — that is the arithmetic the FieldCast Mux + Demux Two 12G Plus puts in front of anyone costing out a cable plan. The set arrives as a matched pair: the Mux stands at the camera end and folds eight independent 12G-SDI channels onto one single-mode 9/125 core, while the Demux restores them in the control room. Coaxial runs give up on 12G after a few dozen metres. This pair carries 2160p60 across 20 km, and stretches to 40 km if the payload drops to 3G-SDI.

Nothing is compressed along the way. No scaler, no frame store, no processing block sits between BNC and fibre, so a graded UltraHD feed reaches the switcher bit-for-bit intact. Each Mux input carries a reclocked loop-through and every Demux channel presents dual outputs, letting an engineer hang confidence monitors at both ends of the run without dropping a distribution amplifier into the chain. SMPTE 259M, 344M, 292M, 424M, ST 2081 and ST 2082 are all honoured across 75-ohm BNC, covering SD and HD-SDI alongside UltraHD up to 2160p60.

The Plus in the name is a full-duplex 1Gb Ethernet link, and it rides the same fibre as the pictures. Treat the RJ-45 port as a Cat5 run stretched across a stadium: RCP camera control, PTZ commands, tally data, or an engineering laptop parked at the far end. Cameras land on a hub beside the Mux, the Demux side meets a camera controller or a switcher, and control data travels with the video rather than demanding a second cable.

Because eight video channels and bidirectional control share one core, a simplex fibre satisfies the whole link. On a two-core cable the spare strand becomes an asset — a redundant second pair, or a cascade toward sixteen SDI channels as a camera package grows. A proprietary hybrid WDM scheme holds dispersion low across every wavelength in the multiplex. Each 1RU aluminium chassis draws under 40 W from 110–240 VAC through a PowerCon inlet, and warm white front-panel LEDs report mains, module activity, input presence and Ethernet link at a glance. For crews striking and rebuilding a rig every week, the FieldCast Mux + Demux Two 12G Plus reduces a camera trunk to one fibre and two rack units.

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8 channels of 12G SDI video plus Ethernet over one fiber core
Mux Two Plus 12G and its twin brother Demux Two Plus 12G, as a pair, allow you to transport eight independent channels of 12G SDI video plus full duplex 1 Gb Ethernet over just one fiber optic channel.

Is your infrastructure such that you only have access to one single mode (simplex) fiber optic connection? Mux Two Plus and Demux Two Plus can help you to get this all done, plain and simple.

Or else, do you want to roll out a minimum number of cables in live event environments? Just use Mux Two Plus and Demux Two Plus, multiplex up to eight channels of video plus Ethernet, and get all data from A to B using only one strand of fiber!

No hidden processing involved! All 12G video signals preserve full data integrity! What goes in comes out, unchanged.

And the Ethernet connection simply behaves like a Cat5 cable connecting your hubs!

Features

Transport over long distance
The mux/demux pair can transport video over distances of up to 20 km/12 mi for 12G SDI and up to 40 km/24 mi for 3G SDI. The mux is typically placed at the camera side, and the demux at the control room side.

8 independent video channels with loop-through and dual output
The set supports 8 independent SDI video channels. The SDI inputs have a reclocked loop-through. The SDI outputs are dual. Hence, monitoring on both sides (input and output) is possible. The SDI input is typically connected to the camera’s SDI output. The SDI output is generally connected to the SDI input of a monitor or switcher.

8 independent bidirectional Ethernet channels
Both the Mux and Demux units contain one full-duplex 1Gb Ethernet port. The 1Gb Ethernet port is typically used to transport camera control data between the camera and the camera controller or switcher. Connect the cameras’ Ethernet ports to a hub, then connect the hub to the Mux’s Ethernet port. On the other side, connect the Demux’s Ethernet port to the camera controller/switcher’s Ethernet port, or connect to a hub if more data controller devices are needed, for instance, a camera controller and a laptop.

Transport over one fiber optic core
All information for up to 8 SDI video channels and their corresponding control data, back and forth, runs over a single fiber optic core. This means a simplex fiber-optic cable is sufficient to bridge the distance between mux and demux, saving on fiber-optic cable costs. Alternatively, if you have a fiber optic cable with 2 cores, you have 1 core (or channel) left for other fiber optic transport. You might, for example, use the free fiber optic core to connect to a second, similar Mux/Demux pair to add redundancy to your setup.

No compression
There is no signal processing involved, so there is no compression; full data integrity is guaranteed.

Unidirectional video by default
The standard model is unidirectional, meaning that 8 SDI signals go from mux to demux; it’s denoted as 8i/o, where ‘i’ stands for input and ‘o’ stands for output.

specifications

mux two 12G plus
• 8 channel SDI input to 1 channel fiber optic output multiplexer, plus 1Gb Ethernet fiber extender
• 1RU all aluminum enclosure design
• eight 12G (11.88Gb) SDI input channels (1), each with SDI loopthrough (2), 750hm BNC connectivity
• complies with SMPTE 259M, SMPTE 344M, SMPTE 292M, SMPTE 424M, SMPTE ST 2081 and ST 2082
• accepts all SD, HD and UltraHDstandards up to 2160p60
• 9/125 single mode fiber optic technology
• one LC single mode (U)PC fiber optic channel (COM) for all SDI signals and ethernet (3)
• one LC single mode (U)PC fiber optic upgrade channel (UPG) (3)
• Ethernet protocol: |IEEE802.3U IEEE802.3z 1000Base-TxFx
• UTP RJ-45 connector for Ethernet, full duplex or half duplex (10)
• black front panel with 2mm. warm white led indicators
• one led indicator for AC power connection (12)
• one led indicator for power (5)
• led indicators for channel module activity (6), input activity (7), TP/LNK (8) and 1Gb (9)
• power consumption <— 40W
• proprietary hybrid WDM multiplexing technology for ultra low dispersion
• minimum distance between Mux and Demux unit > 10km. for all wavelengths
• 110-240VAC input with PowerCon connector (11)
• dimensions: 482(W) x 155(W) x 43(H) mm.
• weight: 1800 grams
• comes with manual and local power cord

demux two 12G plus
• 1 channel fiber optic input to 8 channel SDI output demultiplexer, plus 1Gb Ethernet fiber extender
• 1RU all aluminum enclosure design
• eight 12G (11.88Gb) SDI channels with dual output, 750hm BNC connectivity (1)
• complies with SMPTE 259M, SMPTE 344M, SMPTE 292M, SMPTE 424M, SMPTE ST 2081 and ST 2082
• accepts all SD, HD and UltraHDstandards up to 2160p60
• 9/125 single mode fiber optic technology
• one LC single mode (U)PC fiber optic input channel for all SDI signals and ethernet (2)
• one LC single mode (U)PC fiber optic upgrade channel (UP6) (3)
• Ethernet protocol: IEEE802.3U IEEE802.3z 1000Base-TxFx
• UTP RJ-45 connector for Ethernet, full duplex or half duplex (9)
• black front panel with 2mm. warm white led indicators
• one led indicator for AC power connection (11)
• one led indicator for power (5)
• led indicators for channel module activity (5), input activity (6), TP/LNK (7) and 1Gb (8)
• power consumption < 40W
• proprietary hybrid WDM multiplexing technology for ultra low dispersion
• minimum distance between Mux and Demux unit > 10km. for all wavelengths
• 110-240VAC input with PowerCon connector (10)
• dimensions: 482(W) x 155(W) x 43(H) mm.
• weight: 1780 grams, total weight boxed product: 1875 grams
• comes with manual and local power cord