[outages] Motorola encoders also affected by leap second

Frank Bulk frnkblk at iname.com
Sun Jul 1 01:13:00 EDT 2012


Some of the Motorola encoders (SE-4xxx/5xxx/6xxx, NE-4xxx) that feed our IP
TV system had a few channels go black at the time of the leap second.  Moto
anticipated this event as they had a longish write-up that mentioned
testing.  Their recommendations were to either ignore it and have a 50%
change of enduring a 20-second outage or stop ntp before the leap event and
then start it again thereafter.  It appears that those who manage the
encoders chose the first option, but not all encoders made it through as
Moto predicted.  Those that stayed black needed to rebooted and some had to
be re-programmed.

Frank




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