With the multiplication of media sources and formats, the implementation of IP is the obvious way to enable future-proof broadcast and media workflows. While a large portion of broadcast and media industry has already converged to IP for all non-live infrastructure aspects, the live domain remains the last bastion of SDI and other point-to-point signal flows. Although using IP networks for the transport of uncompressed real-time video is a powerful enabler, it comes with challenges. One of them is how to ensure that IP networks provide the same level of reliability as todayâs SDI operations. At the core, how do we guarantee that a stochastic, packet-switched network behaves as reliably and simply as a synchronous circuit-switched network?
This challenge is not unique to the broadcast world. Many other industries have experienced the same transition, ultimately to the benefit of those industries and to the customers they serve. |
