Global Contribution Video Networks: Criteria and Implementation

New transmission technologies are enabling high-speed, uncompressed or lightly compressed digital video signals to be sent through fiber optic backbone networks across a region or a continent. As bandwidth costs continue to drop, this trend will extend itself across the globe, making worldwide terrestrial digital contribution networks a reality. These networks will permit collaborative production of high-definition television anywhere throughout the world and will deliver production-quality, uncompromised high-definition video signals worldwide destinations. However, certain design criteria must be met if these networks are to be technologically feasible. This paper explores some of these criteria from the video, transmission, and control points of view, and suggests possible methods for implementing these networks.

Published

1999-11

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/M00328

ISBN

978-1-61482-931-7