Reliable Synchronization for Broadcast Facilities
SPG9000 ensures resilient synchronization across IP, SDI, and hybrid environments with extensive test signal support up to 4K/UHD.
Why Choose Telestream
The Trusted Leader in Clock and Signal Generation
The SPG9000 offers master reference timing confidence and signal generation flexibility across any production facility or environment.
Proven Reliability
Built on Telestream’s extensive experience, offering mature and reliable operation for PTP and analog clock sources.
Flexible System Designs
Complete set of reference inputs and signal outputs, suitable for all modern SDI, ST 2110 and hybrid network architectures.
Easy Upgrades
Single hardware configuration with licensed options allows for future upgrades without service interruptions.
Unmatched Synchronization for Broadcast Excellence
The SPG9000 ensures resilient and precise synchronization for IP, SDI, and mixed environments, enhancing reliability and simplifying upgrades.
Reliable Dual-Leader or Dual-Follower configurations for redundant amber/blue networks, or Follower plus Leader configuration to bridge PTP domains.
Multi-system GNSS receiver acquires timing from multiple satellite systems, ensuring enhanced reliability.
Seamlessly transitions between loss and restoration of external references, minimizing disruptions. Read more about the companion changeover unit ECO8000
Dual 10/25G Ethernet and Quad 12G SDI ports for extensive video, audio, and data test signal generation with multiple independent formats and test patterns.
Generates diverse test signals and patterns, including text, logo, and time code overlays, audio/video synchronization, and HDR patterns.
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Interoperability
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Streamline your Test & Measurement workflows through seamless integration with monitoring and content ingest tools.
PRISM
PRISM waveform monitors support SDI, IP, and hybrid workflows, offering powerful software options for managing high-quality content.
Shared visibility into signals, timing, and network health specifically designed for ST 2110 workflows for engineers, operators, and shaders.
Live Capture
Instantly review growing files captured live, enabling real-time collaboration and quicker turnaround in live production workflows.
Customer Applications
The SPG9000 offers master reference timing confidence and signal generation flexibility across any production facility or environment.
SPG9000 is widely used in mobile production environments such as OB trucks and remote facilities, supporting both high-profile sports and live events.
Supporting SDR/HDR in both HD and UHD resolutions.
Using primary and backup SPG9000 units with the ECO8000 changeover ensures uninterrupted signal generation.
Accommodates the full synchronization system, ideal for space-constrained mobile environments.
Including video, audio, data, and synchronization signals for remote production setups.
Streamline ST 2110 setup across multiple trucks:
- One port can follow a grandmaster from a different truck (on a separate domain).
- The other port can act as the grandmaster for the truck’s local ST 2110 network.
- No reconfiguration is required when switching roles or domains.
The SPG9000 provides robust and reliable synchronization for the most demanding mobile broadcast applications.
The SPG9000 is often used by enterprise broadcasters for mission-critical synchronization across large facilities. One major broadcaster deploys multiple SPG9000 units to maintain stable, synchronized operations across their campus:
Act as PTP grandmasters, each locked to GNSS signals from independent roof antennas.
Is handled by the PTP Best Master Clock Algorithm (BMCA), promoting the backup SPG9000 if the primary loses GNSS signal.
Prevents unnecessary grandmaster changes when the primary GNSS signal is restored.
From the active grandmaster over redundant “amber” and “blue” media networks connecting multiple buildings.
Generate local SDI sync signals (black burst, tri-level sync) for studios and edit suites.
With the central PTP clock, ensuring alignment across both SDI and ST 2110 systems.
This architecture ensures continuous, facility-wide synchronization with resilience and precision.
The SPG9000 is ideal for hybrid SDI/IP facilities, providing flexible, reliable synchronization for transitional workflows. One broadcaster selected the SPG9000 to support a multi-year migration from SDI-centric production to an ST 2110-based facility:
Made the SPG9000 perfect for a phased rollout, supporting both legacy SDI and emerging IP workflows.
- GNSS license for master synchronization
- SDI license for test signal generation
- Standard outputs like black burst, HD tri-level sync, and LTC
As the broadcaster added 12G-SDI equipment—SPG9000 provided compatible test signals without needing new hardware.
Enabled PTP and IP capabilities later in the transition by simply adding licenses—no hardware return or replacement required.
This flexible, license-based model allowed the broadcaster to evolve their infrastructure at their own pace while maintaining a consistent synchronization platform throughout the transition.
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Resources
ECO8000 Technical Product Sheet
Download our technical product sheet for additional product details and specifications.
White Paper: Commissioning Testing for PTP Grandmaster Changeover
Learn key strategies for managing ST 2110 and PTP networks, including grandmaster changeover, testing, and best practices.
SPG9000 Technical Product Sheet
Download our technical product sheet for additional product details and specifications.