The Future of Documentation: Unified System Design

Broadcast engineering documentation has been around a long time. Originally, drawings - drafted by hand - served the function of capturing the intended state of a system or design. Software started playing a role in the design process in the late ′70s/early ′80s and AutoCAD has since been the tool of choice for broadcast documentation through the transition from analog to digital (SMPTE 259M), as well as the transition to HD (SMPTE 292M). However, the shift to IP video has been more challenging to document than any standard that proceeded it. MPEG-TS, ST 2022-6, and ST 2110 are fundamentally different from SDI standards that directly correlate signal and cable. For IP-native standards, when it comes to the “relationship status” between the physical and the logical, it's complicated.

Published

2022-10

Content type

Original Research

Keywords

Documentation, AutoCAD, Drawings, IPAM, DCIM, Network Automation, Design Tools, Logical, Physical, Linked, ST-2110, Infrastructure, Ndox, Netbox, Database, Open Source

DOI

10.5594/M001964

ISBN

978-1-61482-963-8