Evertz (Companies)

We are a global leader in the design and manufacturing of video and audio infrastructure equipment for the television broadcast, television distribution, telecommunications and cable industries. Evertz provides professional video services and complete end-to-end broadcast solutions for all aspects

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Where is the IRE in IP? (Featured / Editorial)
September 18th 2017 - 08:00 AM

I was recently at a graphic technology event and while chatting I mentioned my niece was a graphic designer with an understanding of our industry. A colleague commented that no one knows what IRE is anymore. I had to agree thinking she probably didn’t either. The more serious issue is where is the relevance to IRE in the digital world? His response was that it was just good that pixels are finally square and not in any aspect ratio.

Surviving the Early Adoption to IP January 18th 2018 - 11:00 AM

Surviving the Early Adoption to IP

Broadcasters now find themselves on one side of a digital gap. On one side we have SDI, the other side IP. Engineers want to reach the far shore, but do so without sacrificing their investment in current SDI solutions. This article reviews some of the key concerns engineers may face

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MicroServices Bring New Agility And Cost Savings To IP-Based Content Delivery October 18th 2017 - 09:00 AM

MicroServices Bring New Agility And Cost Savings To IP-Based Content Delivery

Broadcast equipment suppliers continue to add new types of IT-centric functionality to their signal distribution and playout platforms, leveraging the cost and operational benefits of COTS hardware and Software Defined Networks (SDN) as a way to attract new types of customers that increasingly require the handing of hundreds or thousands

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Software-Based Convergent Content Monitoring for Broadcast and Streaming Media (Featured / Editorial)
August 21st 2017 - 08:00 AM

Like all technology, content monitoring for broadcast and media services is a moving target, one that must support present and future content transport across all media format standards. In the past, the world was practically one-dimensional with uniform and specialized transport technologies and media formats in contribution and distribution environments, respectively. The type and number of end devices consuming broadcast services was limited to TV sets and radios. Such devices did not have any true intelligence or ‘connectivity’ of their own.

Consequently, monitoring devices were subject to the same static requirements. Their resulting technical architectures were mostly hardware-oriented.

This approach worked well as long as the broadcast environment did not change too much. However, specialized and focused hardware-dominated solutions are known to become inflexible and insufficient as soon as customer needs and application scenarios become highly dynamic.

SMPTE ST-2110 - “We are Family” May 29th 2017 - 10:00 AM

SMPTE ST-2110 - “We are Family”

SMPTE ST 2110 is currently in final draft and possibly will soon be published. Different from previous SMPTE standards, SMPTE 2110 is a Family of Standards covering live production based on IP. However, because it is still under wraps in the secret world of committee, there is scant information on where things

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