The Fundamentals of the All-IT Media Facility

Al Kovalick

Over the past 10 years, file-based (IT) production and broadcast workflows have become mature. However, the migration of real-time AV workflows using IT has taken a back seat, until now. With the advent of Software Defined Networks/Storage, 10G Ethernet, low latency network switching, compute virtualization methods and widely available web apps (SaaS), the move to the “all-IT facility” is on the horizon. This paper will describe the enabling technologies and their role in the migration. Technical obstacles and advances to resolve them will be described. Bottom line, a clear path to the all-IT facility will be outlined.

Published
2013-10
Content type
Original Research
Keywords
IT, Ethernet, 10G, packetized, network infrastructure, SaaS, cloud, SDN, media, AVB
DOI
10.5594/M001497
ISBN
978-1-61482-953-9