IP for Contribution Broadcasting: The Next Step of IP Ubiquity

While many rights owners and broadcasters now embrace IP for content distribution, the road has been rockier for IP's adoption for content contribution and production. Pointing to the enormous bandwidth needed to carry high quality live content and the inherent “best-effort” principle underlying the technology that seem incompatible with the need for real-time, no-downtime content transport, media professionals remain skeptical. — But massive affordable bandwidth is now available and technology exists to overcome IP's risks and limitations, bringing easier ways to implement IP and enjoy its economies of scale, built-in flexibility, lower network operating and capital costs, greater flexibility and ability to push more content. — This paper will explore the specifics behind IP infrastructures that include built-in service provisioning, connection management, service analytics, network inventory, and fault-, configuration-and performance-management functions. How to create IP networks—encompassing hardware and software components—that include monitoring and management for systems that are resilient, reliable and easily managed are described.

Published

2014-10

Content type

Original Research

Keywords

SMPTE ST2022, Ucompressed Transport, RTP Switching, Centralized management

DOI

10.5594/M001538

ISBN

978-1-61482-954-6