The Gearbox™ II 2-16 Port HD-SDI/IP is a real time H.264 or optional H.265 encoder designed to capture up to sixteen simultaneous SDI, HD-SDI, and/or optional HDMI signals and transform them into IP streams that are optimized for streaming. It is designed to be scalable, easily adaptable, and field upgradeable to meet the needs of streaming service users who are very comfortable with embedded Linux® based appliances. It relies on a Dual 16 Core Intel® CPU for encoding. We have optimized the encoder to obtain Telco grade reliability.