Intelligent Infrastructure for New Digital Installations

There is a growing trend for broadcast installations to become more complex, covering more channels, with fewer trained staff on site and on hand. Industry changes such as Central Casting, diversification of broadcast channels across multiple media, and content provider aggregation are driving this trend. This paper will show some of the technology that is being used in existing and new installations to provide intelligent control and monitoring of the broadcast infrastructure, to maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of the available engineering staff and minimize system downtime. There are 2 fundamental parts to this technology. Firstly, the infrastructure itself should, wherever possible, have intelligence built in. Secondly, sophisticated, flexible, and easy to use user interfaces are required to access the inherent intelligence in the infrastructure.

Published

2001-11

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/M00973

ISBN

978-1-61482-935-5