ST2110 is proving its worth as broadcasters throughout the world adopt it to provide the bulk of their stations heavy video and audio shifting. But will we need to relax the timing constraints to truly take advantage of flexibility, scalability, and resilience?

Broadcast television has been at the forefront of technological development for over eighty years. And as another decade passes, innovation maintains its growth, the markets are awash with new products and services, and television continues to thrive.

IBC was a great success with well represented vendors and bustling halls. Admittedly the attendee numbers were reduced, and some halls were a little compressed. But the show had the IBC vibe and it’s fantastic to see the broadcast community returning to some normality, albeit with massive technological changes.

What is IBC 2022 going to deliver for us this year?

I recently attended the Artificial Intelligence Summer School at the University of Surrey in the UK to hear some of the world’s leading experts in this field speak. As well as providing deeply technical insight into AI and its processes, some fascinating philosophical questions were raised, such as, who is responsible for a driverless car having an accident? The manufacturer? The software programmer? Or maybe the car itself?

Although many broadcasters are now operating with skeleton services within their facilities, the necessity for home working has changed the operational landscape forever. With this in mind, and with home working not looking to change in the foreseeable future, what security considerations do we need to evaluate for our new way of working?

Broadcasters are making unique demands on IP networks due to the nature of high impact media flows both for baseband and compressed video. Although we normally have the luxury of working within managed networks, this isn’t always the case.

Riedel Communications have been delivering Formula 1 trackside communications for over 25 years. But as racing car technology complexity has developed, Riedel have kept ahead of the curve, simplified workflows, and built networks that deliver security and ease of use.

As more broadcasters are seeing the benefits that COTS equipment and services deliver, there are some emerging applications for GPUs that could improve IP infrastructures even more. But how will the development of GPUs affect our industry, and can we justifiably refer to them as COTS?

Television has always been a niche industry, and broadcast engineers have been by default, specialists in their field. But is it now time to start thinking more in generalist terms?