Video Processing in an FPGA-Enabled Ethernet Switch
Carriage of uncompressed high-definition video using Internet protocol (IP) holds great potential for enhancing the flexibility of broadcast plants while reducing the number of cables required through aggregation of signals using statistical multiplexing. The broadcast industry is just beginning to determine the appropriate architectures to best use professional video-over-IP capabilities. The Arista 7124FX application switch is a 10 Gbit Ethernet data center-class Ethernet switch that also supports application acceleration through the use of an onboard field programmable gate array (FPGA) without adding network jitter. A proof of concept has been developed to show how an FPGA-enabled switch can perform frame-accurate video stream switching of SMPTE ST 2022-6:2012 realtime protocol flows.
- Print ISSN
- 1545-0279
- Electronic ISSN
- 2160-2492
- Published
- 2014-03
- Content type
- Original Research
- DOI
- 10.5594/j18384