Building and Managing a File Based Wireless ENG Infrastructure

The development of microwave and wireless video file transfer technology, as it applies to ENG, is an on going endeavor. For the last few years, we have focused on tools that will enable the transport of files from the field to the studio. Now that these tools are becoming available, the time has come to focus on what is needed at the studio to provide a scalable hybrid workflow that can support live news as well as file based news. — As more of the broadcast infrastructure moves toward IT techniques for managing file based media, more emphasis is placed on building a service oriented architecture (SOA) that will support broadcast operations from end to end. The integration of news into the SOA requires support for multiple secure simultaneous IP connections to and from field resources that will transport news content over a variety of disparate networks to insure reliability. — More than ever, Electronic News Gathering requires greater levels of efficiency, operational transparency and an easily measureable ROI. This paper will review progress in the field, and explore the use of purpose built studio gateways and servers that effectively integrate a field news fleet into the SOA as a transparent extension of studio operations. We will examine a solution that offers newsroom and field workflow management, field asset management, and looks at new ways to leverage metadata support.

Published

2009-10

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/M001318

ISBN

978-1-61482-943-0