Radiant’s Eclipse Series leverages advanced engineering and intelligent, user-friendly design to rapidly and cost-effectively deploy all-digital lineups to low-cost digital set-tops. Affordable for systems of all sizes, the Eclipse Series is ideal for MDUs, hotels, hospitals, gated communities, casinos, and retirement centers. QRF-5000 Encoder - a plug-and-play device that encodes local baseband video and audio channels and multiplexes them with a built-in QAM modulator and a broadcast agile RF up-converter for distribution into existing cable network. With digital services increasingly being used to deliver video to the home, operators are focused on enhancing the subscriber’s viewing experience by increasing the variety of services they offer and improving quality, while still maintaining a cost-efficient and easy-to-manage infrastructure. Featuring standard definition encoding, with features as MPEG-2 multiplexing, ASI Input/Output and QAM modulation and upconversion, the QRF5000 allows operators to transition existing analog residential sources (such as security, training and local channels) into digital, improving the user experience and allowing the operator to deploy digital-only set-top boxes instead of higher cost digital-analog tuners. Presently most residential services are distributed in the analog domain only, utilizing multiple devices for analog QAM modulation and upconversion, and delivering one analog channel per 6 MHz spectrum channel. This inefficient solution means that multiple security, training and local channels consume significant operational cost, spectrum and overhead. Radiant's Eclipse Series efficiently allows operators to make the transition to digital, with an ideal, flexible and future-proof path to the a all-digital domain. Current solutions are either composed of software, or multiple components. Low-end PC-based residential encoding provides a partial solution, with limited encoding horse power, while requiring increased space and power. Multiple component solutions, while they may include high quality components, generally incur higher operational and actual expenses. Radiant’s QRF5000 is an embedded, hardware-based solution compliant with all relevant industry standards. It was built with the operator in mind—a simple to use front panel provides complete control over the platform, while an IP interface allows for an external modem to provide remote functionality. The feature-rich platform consumes little power and generates less noise. In addition, it is designed to be placed anywhere in the building, from the basement to the lobby. With its standard 64 or 256 QAM output and ASI interfaces, the QRF5000 is capable of integrating in any existing headend or residential environment. Multiple units can be cascaded within a single ASI or 6 MHz QAM channel. Further decreasing operational overhead costs. With the companion QRF5200 an input option allows the operator to receive the existing RF transport from the headend and then drop and/or add a locally encoded service. This functionality enables the operator to not only reduce the RF spectrum by reutilizing existing frequencies, but also, since mapping the new service to pre-defined program IDs, the current STB channel map can remain as is.