SMPTE 372-2009

This standard defines a means of interconnecting digital video equipment with a dual link 1.5 Gb/s SDI (Link A and Link B), based upon the SMPTE 292 data structure. The source formats for this dual link interface are the 1920x1080 picture formats, and digital interface representations as defined in SMPTE 274M and 2048 x 1080 operational level 3 format as defined in SMPTE 428-9. The total data rate of the dual link connection is 2.970 Gb/s or 2.970/1.001Gb/s. This dual link also supports carriage of the embedded audio, ancillary data and the optional ID of the stream.