Centralize Your Operations, but Distribute Your Routing

Mike Schmid

Centralcasting is steadily gaining momentum among television station groups that see it as a practical, cost-saving operating philosophy; however, an often-overlooked risk exists that is so significant that its costs may far outweigh any savings realized from the reduction of staff and consolidation of capital equipment. This risk lies in a lack of redundancy and, hence, reliability of the router in a typical central-casting model. This paper discusses the potential risk and suggests a solution that, although appearing contrary to the very notion of centralization, is ideally suited for centralized operations and provides true risk mitigation in signal distribution between central and remote sites.

Print ISSN
Electronic ISSN
2160-2492
Published
2003-02
Content type
Original Research
DOI
10.5594/J12412