Essential Guide: Delivering High Availability Cloud

Delivering high availability cloud for broadcast production and transmission environments requires engineers to think in terms of resilience from the very beginning of the design.

Vendor Spotlight: IHSE

At IHSE, KVM is king. Few companies know the value of a keyboard, video and mouse (KVM) system better than IHSE, which has been supplying compatible extenders and matrix switches for more than 40 years. In that time, a wide and ever evolving product portfolio has allowed multiple users to…

Professional Live IP Video - Designing Networks

There’s a lot to consider when planning to incorporate uncompressed media into your live production particularly using SMPTE ST 2110, ST 2022-6 or AES67 streams. In this article, we will look at the network hardware, its architecture and future-proofing you should be considering.

IP Monitoring & Diagnostics With Command Line Tools: Part 6 - Advanced Command Line Tools

We continue our series with some small code examples that will make your monitoring and diagnostic scripts more robust and reliable

The Back Of The Brain May Soon Rule The Roost

If industry reports are to be believed, Apple is poised to release a mixed-reality headset at some point in 2023. Of course, it’s anyone’s guess when Apple’s Reality Pro will actually see the holographic light of day, but one thing is worth noting: The advent of a mass-produced AR headset…

Learning From The Experts At The BEITC Sessions at 2023 NAB Show

Many NAB Shows visitors don’t realize that some of the most valuable technical information released at NAB Shows emanates from BEITC sessions. The job titles of all but one speaker in the conference are all related to engineering, technology, development and research.

Empowering Cloud Through Microservices - Part 2

Achieving higher levels of scalability and flexibility demands a hybrid approach were microservices run in the cloud, on- and off-prem. Also, common APIs hide the complexity of the infrastructure from the user to provide a seamless operation.

New Generation Of Master Control Systems Enable A Myriad Of Processes Without Limitations

Master Control and automation systems have been at the heart of broadcast television facility for decades, ensuring that content—programming and advertising spots—gets to the right place at the right time. And while they have served the industry well in that time, these once state-of-the-art systems were comprised of expensive dedicated…

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The Streaming Tsunami: Part 1 - Seeing The Tsunami Coming

Streaming video is on the cusp of becoming a major problem for broadband networks. Up to now we have been dealing with a swell in the streaming sea that has caused a few large waves to crash on to the shores of broadband networks. These waves have made headlines in…

Gravity Media’s new facility is based around a 2110 IP media fabric with dedicated master control, production control rooms and more.

System Showcase: Gravity Media Opens New Production Centre In London For Remote And On-Prem Projects

Production and media services company Gravity Media has just completed the first phase of technology integration at its new London Production Centre White City, located on the fifth floor of The Westworks building in London. The state-of-the-art facility, officially opened in February of 2022, is made up of production, post-production…