Essential Guide: Delivering Intelligent Multicast Networks August 21^st 2024 - 09:00 AM

This Essential Guide discusses the potential weaknesses of the ‘Protocol-Independent Multicast’ protocols that underpin multicast, and explores how a bandwidth aware infrastructure can maximize network capacity to reduce the risk of congestion.

Essential Guide: Next-Gen 5G Contribution March 19^th 2024 - 09:30 AM

This Essential Guide explores the technology of 5G and its ongoing roll out. It discusses the technical reasons why 5G has become the new standard in roaming contribution, and explores the potential disruptive impact 5G and MEC could have on the infrastructure deployed on site for remote production.

Essential Guide: Network Observability March 6^th 2024 - 09:30 AM

This Essential Guide introduces and explores the concept of Network Observability. For any broadcast engineering team using IP networks and cloud ecosystems for live video production, it is an approach which could help combat a number of the inherent challenges of using such dynamic systems.

Essential Guide: Comms In Hybrid SDI - IP - Cloud Systems February 6^th 2024 - 09:30 AM

We examine the demands placed on hybrid, distributed comms systems and the practical requirements for connectivity, transport and functionality.

Essential Guide: Cloud Best Practices April 26^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

Whether using cloud services in isolation or as part of a hybrid model, new working practices that may not be immediately obvious to broadcasters must be adopted from the very beginning of the design.

Essential Guide: Delivering High Availability Cloud March 22^nd 2023 - 09:00 AM

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.

Essential Guide: Broadcast And The Metaverse March 15^th 2023 - 09:30 AM

The technology underpinning the Metaverse is providing opportunities for broadcasters today. As the Metaverse develops, broadcasters will be able to gain massively from the enhanced immersive experience it promises to offer.

Essential Guide: Making Cloud Systems Secure February 15^th 2023 - 09:30 AM

This Essential Guide discusses the new security challenges presented by IP & cloud infrastructure and the need to move from traditional perimeter based approaches to using encryption, OAUTH 2.0 and Zero Trust methodologies.

Essential Guide: Delivering Timing For Live Cloud Productions January 18^th 2023 - 09:30 AM

IP is an enabling technology, not just another method of transporting media signals. Consequently, it is giving broadcasters the opportunity to reconsider how we build live television workflows and infrastructures.

Essential Guide: Using Configurable FPGA’s For Integrated Flexibility, Scalability, And Resilience January 11^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

Advances in hardware design have made software programmable FPGA arrays an excellent way to combine the resilience and power of hardware processing with the flexibility of software programmability.