New Era of ST 2110 Compliance Testing with PICS and RP 2110-25

As the overall adoption of SMPTE ST 2110 and AMWA NMOS specifications grows. To serve the industry with a better understanding of these standards and specifications, the Joint Taskforce on Networked Media (JT-NM) introduced the JT-NM Tested program. While having run the tested program a few times, some issues were discovered. Issues that resulted in feedback on the documents. As well as other questions that were raised. How to improve and how to scale events like this. To assist with this, SMPTE is creating Protocol Implementation Conformance Statements (PICS) for the ST 2110 standard suite, RP 2110-25 (Professional Media Over Managed IP Networks: Measurement Practices), and the Joint Taskforce on Networked Media (JT-NM) has the JT-NM Tested program. The paper will outline the work and the achieved results in the form of PICS documents for the SMPTE ST 2110 standard suite and the RP 2110-25 document to provide for better testing and measurement of SMPTE ST 2110 implementations. We will be discussing the ways to ensure compliance and interoperability of implementations, including the experience gained during several JT-NM Tested events. We will explain how these interop events are operated, the value they bring, and how the PICS will enhance future such events. Another important aspect is monitoring and measuring the implementations' operation parameters, such as packet pacing. A specific problem discussed is the uniformity and consistency of such measurements among the different SMPTE ST 2110 equipment vendors.

Published

2022-10

Content type

Original Research

Keywords

EBU, JT-NM, PICS, SMPTE, interoperability

DOI

10.5594/M001970

ISBN

978-1-61482-963-8