Essential Guide: Building Hybrid IP Systems

February 12th 2025 - 09:00 AM
Dan Duffell, Content Director at The Broadcast Bridge

This Essential Guide brings together insight from four seasoned professionals who design, build and configure broadcast infrastructure at Systems Integrators in the USA and Europe. Our contributors here are from Aret, Broadcast Solutions and CP Communications and they are all building hybrid systems for their clients.

It is safe to say that The Broadcast Bridge has been a champion of IP from the outset. We recognized its transformational potential early and it is not letting us down. IP is an enabling technology that has made possible the introduction of completely new workflows, remote production, flexible distributed teams, and data-center model, software first systems.

What this discussion format guide illustrates is that broadcast systems remain complex and evolve gradually. Broadcasters are very good at recognizing the benefits of new technologies, but are equally adept at understanding what is worth retaining within existing technologies. Every system has it’s own unique workflow challenges and building the right system means selecting the right combination of technologies.

Often this is a combination of IP & SDI networks and distributed compute resources. As IP has rolled into the mainstream vendors have recognized this and embraced the value of blending technologies into hybrid systems. and have introduced new features and products to make this easier.

This guide is essential reading for broadcast network engineers and their managers, seeking a deeper understanding of current design considerations for hybrid SDI-IP network based systems.

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