• Reduces your CAPEX for new projects
• Eliminates broadcast chain integration headaches
• Condenses your entire transmission chain into 1 rack unit
• Scales to any size of system
• Mix and match ICE and ICE LE in your system to get the most appropriate functionality where you need it
• Uses proven automation technology from the world’s premier automation provider
• Delivers IT efficiency without losing broadcast resilience
• ICE LE systems have resilience at the core of every design, capable of achieving up-times in excess of 99.999%
• Grass Valley systems evolve with our customers’ needs ensuring a long life and maximum ROI
• ICE LE is built around inherent flexibility called FlexiCore. FlexiCore is a software-based "virtual router" that allows all resources in the playout workflow to be flexibly allocated to the signal path based on where they are required. Other products with fixed-signal paths will inherently limit flexibility and may not be suitable for some applications
• Grass Valley ensures all its functions conform to the relevant SMPTE and EBU standards
• 1 to 4 HD channels from a single ICE unit
• Minimizes the need to transcode ICE LE supports a multitude of codec and wrapper formats

• Playout multiple file formats back to back
• Validation service to visually report video file problems to operators
• Add Morpheus UX for master control operations
• Make playlist changes 2 seconds before air with confidence
• Multiple DSKs and DVEs
• RSS/XML Text Crawls
• Still and animated logos
• Audio overs pre-recorded from internal file players
• Closed captions and subtitles in multiple formats and languages
• Up- and down-scaling of closed captions and subtitles
• Automatic HD upscaling and SD downscaling that respect source AFDs
• ARCing and AFD insertion
• V-Chip and XDS insertion
• Fixed latency from input to output
• Mix transitions between any sources, including live inputs
• Ancillary data — preserve, pass through, insert, and up/down scale
• Local storage of 2 TB

Inputs/Outputs
Total of 4, can be reconfigured during installation to be any balance from 4/0 to 0/4

Delay
ICE LE has a fixed delay from input to output

Genlock
Horizontal delay in microseconds or genlock vertical delay in lines can be introduced with reference to the analog blackburst reference input

Operating System
Windows Server 2016

Dimensions
Height: 43 mm (1.7 in.)  
Width: 437 mm (17.2 in.)
Depth: 724 mm (28.5 in.)
Gross weight: 18.6 kg (41 lbs.)

Power Supply
100-127 VAC, 50-60 Hz
200-240 VAC, 50-60 Hz
750W redundant AC-DC PSUs

Engineering Tools
ICE LE comes complete with essential engineering logging, diagnostic and configuration utilities

Logging
All system activities are logged to a local or network drive

Bars and Tone Source
Insert 1 kHz tone to individual audio channels to check installation and correct functioning of audio shuffling features, for example

Confidence Monitor
Software monitor to check any source when SDI is not available during testing and configuration

Elegant Restart
If a unit needs to be restarted for any reason, the on air material will be rejoined at the correct frame, and does not need to wait for the next event transition, so reducing your outage times

ICE LE allows AFDs to pass through, or for the system to insert specific scheduled AFD codes from the playlist. Individual decoders may also have default AFDs set
ICE LE reacts to an AFD by comparing the value and the destination frame size and ARCing appropriately. One possibility this offers is allowing HD and SD simulcasting of the same channel with correct aspect ratio on both outputs
AFDs can be read from both files and live incoming sources
Grass Valley has also helped customers who needed custom non-SMPTE codes. These are now available to be scheduled in exactly the same way as standard codes

Read
AFD values are used to correctly ARC the video on output
For PAL systems ICE can be configured to prefer WSS or RP186
ICE can read Ancillary Data Packets that conform to SMPTE ST 291
ICE can read VANC data from SMPTE ST 436 compliant MXF files

Record
By selecting the relevant codec and wrapper, all ancillary data can be encoded as a SMPTE ST 436 compliant MXF track

Play
AFD metadata contained in valid files will be read and regenerated as VANC data in the SDI output

Full Specifications available in the Datasheet