Technical specifications
Two product classes.
Specifications kept separate.
Aion and Aion Enterprise are presented independently so facility-scale ST 2110 claims remain separate from the standard production timing appliance.
Aion · current public configuration
Universal timing appliance
Base system price: $3,965. Built to order with customer-selected SDI or HDMI video configuration.
- Form factor
- 3U rackmount chassis
- Dimensions
- 180 mm / 7.1 in depth; standard 19-inch rack mounting
- Weight
- 4.41 kg / 9.7 lb
- Main processor
- 13th Generation Intel Core i7
- Operating system
- Debian Linux 12
- Display
- 14-inch 2560 × 720 OLED touchscreen
- Construction
- Professional aluminum enclosure
- Origin
- Designed and assembled in the USA
- Hardware engines
- Three independent proprietary 600 MHz subprocessors
- Formats
- LTC, MIDI-TC, IRIG-A, IRIG-B, PTP, NTP, Art-Net, TSL-UMD
- Frame rates
- 23.976, 24, 25, 29.97, 30, 50, 59.94, 60 and 100 fps
- Drop frame
- True NTSC drop-frame operation
- PTP
- IEEE 1588 Grandmaster / Slave capability
- NTP
- Stratum 1 server
- User bits
- 8-digit hexadecimal metadata / reel field
- Reliability
- 24-hour continuous operation verified
- Video configuration
- Customer-selected 6G-SDI or HDMI
- Supported formats
- SD through 4K30 with automatic detection
- Overlay
- Configurable position, font, size, color, background, border and opacity
- LTC embedding
- Live LTC on one selectable audio channel from 1 through 16
- GENLOCK
- Status confirmation for frame-locked operation
- Overlay fields
- Timecode, optional frame rate, real-time clock and user bits
- Video path
- Loop-through input and output
- Pricing
- Included in $3,965 base system configuration
- Ethernet
- Dual 2.5GbE with independent configuration
- Addressing
- DHCP or static IP; independent gateways
- Control protocols
- UDP port 7400; OSC port 8000; TSL-UMD v5
- Art-Net
- Timecode over UDP port 6454
- Services
- Web server, real-time hub, PTP Grandmaster and NTP server
- Browser access
- Password-protected admin and open viewer modes
- Remote displays
- TCV Android application, Android 8.0+
- Hardware control
- Cross-platform Stream Deck Bridge
Custom-engineered reference architecture
Aion Enterprise
Facility timing and ST 2110 media platform
The specifications below describe the current reference architecture. Final hardware, I/O, redundancy and integration details are selected for each customer deployment.
- Platform
- Server-class Micro-ATX, Intel W680, LGA1700
- Processor
- Intel Core i9-14900K, 24 cores (8P + 16E)
- Memory
- DDR5 ECC UDIMM
- Management
- ASPEED AST2600 BMC with IPMI 2.0
- Storage
- NVMe SSD
- Overlay engine
- Eight independent high-priority Cairo threads with CPU affinity
- Operating system
- Headless Debian Linux
- Form factor
- Custom 2U rackmount
- Media interfaces
- 2 × 100G QSFP28
- Protection
- SMPTE 2022-7 seamless path redundancy
- Channels
- Eight simultaneous independently configurable UHD channels
- Standards
- ST 2110-20, -21, -30 and -40
- LTC in media
- Independent LTC embedded into ST 2110-30 per channel
- NMOS
- IS-04 discovery / registration and IS-05 connection management architecture
- Overlay processing
- CPU-based region rendering
- Timing coherence
- All software timer instances disciplined to the PTP reference
- GPS front end
- Timing-grade serial receiver, SMA active antenna, 1PPS
- PTP profile
- IEEE 1588-2008 under SMPTE ST 2059-2
- Timing interfaces
- Dual 10GbE with hardware timestamping
- PTP accuracy
- Sub-microsecond under normal GPS-locked conditions
- Subprocessor 1
- Dedicated LTC generator
- Subprocessor 2
- Dedicated LTC reader
- Subprocessor 3
- LTC or IRIG-A/B generator
- Subprocessor 4
- LTC or IRIG-A/B reader
- Power supply
- Industrial N+1 redundant ATX PSU
- Modules
- 2 × 500W hot-swappable modules
- Input
- 90–264 VAC, 47–63 Hz
- CPU cooling
- Dynatron L35 2U AIO liquid cooler
- Front display
- 3.5-inch 640 × 480 IPS DSI
- Display controller
- Independent Raspberry Pi Zero 2W with LVGL
- Management continuity
- Diagnostic display and BMC independent of host UI
- Certifications target
- CE, FCC and RoHS; designed and assembled in USA
Enterprise specifications are drawn from the current technical architecture reference. Customer-specific substitutions and final certification details are confirmed during system design.
Aion Enterprise systems are built to customer requirements. The final bill of materials, channel configuration and deployment scope are documented in the project quotation.