3 COM3000 Product Description
The COM3000 is the next evolution of the Technicolor Multiclient Solution product line. It builds
on the successful COM2000 system with additions of several new features.
A COM3000 system consists of the following three components:
➢ COM400 chassis
➢ COM51or COM51A tuner cards (maximum of 6 per chassis)
➢ QAM20 modulator (maximum of 2 per chassis)
Configured with 6 COM51 receivers and one QAM20 a COM3000 can tune up to 138 AT&T /
DIRECTV channels.
➢ Each COM51 card can receive up to 23 AT&T / DIRECTV channels.
➢ COM51 cards will be incrementally licensed to tune between 8 (base package) and 23 channels in
increments of one channels per software upgrade.
➢ QAM20 is capable of 48 QAM channel outputs incrementally licensed from 16 (base package) to 48
QAM channels in groups of 2 channels per software upgrade.
➢ The channels are routed to an internal QAM20 modulator for RF output. In addition to the RF
output the COM51 chassis provides two 10 gigabit and two 1 gigabit ethernet ports.
The COM3000 system is shown below in Figure 1.
Figure 1 - COM3000
➢ The original AT&T / DIRECTV broadcast video encoding format is preserved, and the output
transport stream is encrypted with the Pro:Idiom digital rights management (DRM).
➢ Multiple COM400 chassis can be “stacked” to provide more than 138 output channels. Up to 16
chassis can be connected in the same system.