Reality of IP - Part 3 - Data Acceleration September 7^th 2018 - 11:00 AM

Network Interface Cards (NIC’s) are often seen as the bottleneck of data processing for ST2110 and ST2022-6. IT manufacturers have witnessed similar challenges with high speed trading and 5G networks but have been able to provide real-time solutions to overcome latency and blocking. In this article, we investigate I…

Reality of IP - Part 2 - Benefits of Virtualization September 6^th 2018 - 01:00 PM

Riding on the back of IT innovation allows broadcasters to benefit from virtualization. In this article, we investigate those benefits and learn how they apply to television. Especially as we learn of the new trailblazers waiting in the wings.

DHCP Can Be IP Video Kryptonite September 4^th 2018 - 01:50 PM

If you can see how a magic act is performed, POOF! the magic disappears. Live TV is a magic act because so much of the on-screen magic happens behind the curtain. When a random device malfunctions or fails during a live show, if the talent doesn’t blab the secret o…

Live IP Delivery - Part 1 - Challenges August 31^st 2018 - 08:00 AM

Delivering live, high quality broadcast video over the internet has always been an interesting challenge. Broadcast engineers are expected to understand and manage complex video, networking, scale, reliance, and playback to deliver reliable programming to multi-platform viewing devices. In this series of articles, we delve deeper into live-OTT broadcasting, identify…

Reality of IP - Part 1 - Real Time August 30^th 2018 - 03:00 PM

Live broadcast television was once considered to be unique as every bit of data had to be delivered to the viewers television set in real-time. However, as IT continues to leverage its influence on television, we discover the uniqueness of broadcasting isn’t as exclusive as we may have once t…

IP - The Final Frontier 1 - Security August 30^th 2018 - 01:50 PM

With any technology project, engineers run at break neck speed to achieve tight deadlines at ever decreasing costs. But security is a new aspect anybody migrating to IP must consider from the out-set. In this article, we investigate security, what it means, and most importantly, who is responsible for it.

IMF - Interoperability and Content Exchange Made Easy August 29^th 2018 - 10:00 AM

As the television business has become more global, and evolving consumer devices spawn the need for ever more formats, there has been an explosion of the number of versions that are needed for an item of content. The need to provide tens to hundreds of language versions provides added complications,…

Broadcast For IT - Part 20 - IP Systems August 28^th 2018 - 01:00 PM

In principle, IP systems for broadcasting should not differ from those for IT. However, as we have seen in the previous nineteen articles in this series, reliably distributing video and audio is highly reliant on accurate timing. In this article, we investigate the key components needed to build a reliable…

IP Explored - ST2110 and ST2022 August 28^th 2018 - 11:00 AM

As broadcasters accelerate IP migration we must move from a position of theory to that of practical application. Whether we’re building a greenfield site or transitioning through a hybrid solution, simply changing SDI components with analogous IP replacements will not achieve full COT’s goals and the benefits associated wit…

Broadcast For IT - Part 19 - Why Use IP? August 21^st 2018 - 01:50 PM

Moving from the luxury of dedicated point-to-point connectivity in favor of asynchronous, shared, and unpredictable IP networks may seem like we’re making life unnecessarily difficult for ourselves. However, there are compelling reasons to make the transition to IP. In this article, we look at the primary motivation for moving t…