Grass Valley KALEIDO-IP X300 v.7.80 - Manual (Page 13)

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Introduction
Welcome to the Kaleido family of multiviewers! This chapter provides information about
system requirements, and items shipped with your Kaleido-IP unit.
Overview
This Quick Start Guide is designed to help you get your Kaleido-IP X300, or Kaleido-IP X100
multiviewer up and running for the first time.
Grass Valley's Kaleido family of multiviewers ranges from quad-splits to large-scale, multi-
room monitoring systems, with outstanding image quality and signal flexibility. The
Kaleido multiviewers are available in different models: the Kaleido-MX, the Kaleido-MX 4K,
the Kaleido-IP, the Kaleido-X (7RU), the Kaleido-X (4RU), the Kaleido-X16, and the
Kaleido-XQUAD frames, as well as the Kaleido-Modular-X cards, and the Kaleido-Modular
KMV-3901/3911 cards.
The Kaleido-IP can monitor and display HD and SD television programs distributed over IP,
across two HDTV displays. It supports MPEG-2 and H.264/AVC compressed video, and the
AAC, AC-3, DD+, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AAC LC, and MPEG-4 HE-AAC compressed audio
formats, within unencrypted DCII, DVB, or ATSC streams. The Kaleido-IP X310 supports
concurrent decoding of up to 64 MPEG-2 or up to 32 H.264 HD video programs. In the case
of SD signals, they support concurrent decoding of up to 128 MPEG-2 or up to 64 H.264
programs. The Kaleido-IP X110 supports concurrent decoding of up to 16 MPEG-2 or up to
12 H.264 HD programs, and up to 48 MPEG-2 or up to 24 H.264 SD programs. The
Kaleido-IP X300 supports concurrent decoding of up to 24 MPEG-2 or up to 16 H.264 HD
programs, and up to 64 MPEG-2 or up to 32 H.264 SD programs. The Kaleido-IP X100
supports concurrent decoding of up to 8 MPEG-2 or up to 6 H.264 HD programs, and up to
24 MPEG-2 or up to 12 H.264 SD programs.
At the heart of every multiviewer system is the Kaleido-X software, which includes the
following client applications:
• XAdmin is a Web client that your system administrator will use to manage the
multiviewer system.
• XEdit is a client application used to create layouts for the monitor wall, and to configure
the multiviewer, from your PC or laptop.
• The Router Control Software Single Bus and Matrix View applications (also part of the
iRouter Router Control Software packaged with iControl Application Servers) can be
used to control your multiviewer’s logical sources and monitor wall destinations, via
the KX Router logical router, or to control other logical routers configured within your
multiviewer system.
A Kaleido-IP multiviewer system in its default configuration includes a predefined room
and some layouts. Once you have connected your Kaleido-IP to your local management
and data networks, hooked up one or two 1920 × 1080 @ 60 Hz (HDTV) displays, and