Not all media production facilities have the ability to create a new “greenfield” Internet Protocol (IP) production campus. Many facilities need to grow and transition organically over time and, as more production equipment becomes IP or IP ready, it makes sense to begin to purchase equipment that has SMPTE ST 2110 interfaces. Initially, this means putting IP gateways around the products that are put into service. A good example may be that a facility needs to grow, and the routing matrix size required exceeds what is tenable with serial digital interface (SDI) (SMPTE ST 259M). A SMPTE ST 2110 routing solution may make both financial sense and also planning sense for the future of that facility. In this article, we look at what it takes to make those initial steps to IP, then the steps eventually required to transition to an all-IP media campus, and to truly take advantage of the capabilities and convergences that an IP facility can offer.
Print ISSN
1545-0279
Electronic ISSN
2160-2492
Published
2022-06
Content type
Original Research
Keywords
Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Audio Engineering Society (AES), best master clock algorithm (BMCA), consumer-off-the-shelf (COTS), Dante, domain name server self-discovery (DNS-SD), European Broadcast Union (EBU), Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP), Internet Protocol Address Management (IPAM), Joint Task Force on Networked Media (JT-NM), multicast domain name server self-discovery (mDNS-SD), network time protocol (NTP), Networked Media Open Specifications (NMOSs), precision time protocol (PTP), private branch exchange (PBX), Ravenna, software-defined network (SDN), ultrahigh definition (UHD), Video Services Forum (VSF)