Call us: +1 801 575-8801|info@utahscientific.com HOME COMPANY PRODUCTS SALES RESOURCES CONTACT US WHITE PAPERS AND TECHNICAL ARTICLES Application Note SDI Video Router Input Conversion To IP For Maximum Multiviewer And Router Flexibility The broadcast production industry never sits still. In the 90’s, a new age of facility design became available to control room architects with the advent of high-quality projection and display screens. No longer bound to a monitor-per-source design, architects began to utilize a new component to display the ever-increasing number of sources being installed in facilities and trucks. The “Multiviewer” made its debut and we were suddenly placing 4, 8, 16, or more “tiles” on a single projected image or display where individual monitors once ruled. Physical room depth began to shrink, access to rack mounted monitors went away, and we never looked back. The multiviewer was here to stay! Download White Page The Science of IP: An IT Architecture for Video Operations In discussions about an Ethernet-based architecture, the concept of “fabric” often comes up. In many ways, fabric is a perfect analogy for how all the connections in an Ethernet design are woven together, just as tiny threads of cotton fiber are woven to create textiles. In the end, fabric can take many different shapes, but its underlying structure is consistent and, if woven correctly, builds a very strong composite. Ethernet fabric, in fact, is the very composition of similar and dissimilar data flows that define a set of functions in and around themselves. In our earlier paper, IT Essentials, we covered the basics of IP, addressing subnets, gateways, and other elementary concepts. This paper will focus more on the overall audio and video architecture as it applies to uncompressed video streams and how they function in an Ethernet fabric. That’s a lot to cover, so let’s get started. Download White Paper IT Essentials: Unbundling Ethernet for Studio Video Over IP I remember when I was a junior studio broadcast engineer learning the intricacies of the analog waveform monitor and vectorscope back in the 1980s. For video engineers, these were the tools of the trade, and they were essential for a broadcast station to stay in compliance of very stringent analog signals. Fast-forward a few decades, and the signals that were once based on pulses have been replaced by digital SDI signals — and soon, those SDI signals will be replaced by Ethernet packets. With the new SMPTE ST 2110 standard for uncompressed IP video and audio about to come online, it’s incumbent on engineers to understand all they can about the standard called Ethernet. Download White Paper The Pillars of the New SMPTE 2110 Standard The broadcast industry is quickly moving toward the adoption of IP-based operations, and it is becoming apparent that the move to IP will be based on the proposed SMPTE 2110 standard, now in final draft stage. Much work has been done on the standard in the last year and many contributions made by multiple industry organization, including AIMS, VSF, and AES to name a few, to develop the standard and test it’s practical implementation. But what is SMPTE 2110 and how did we get here? This white paper is the primer you need for a basic understanding. Download White Paper The IP Baseband Migration: A Hybrid Approach for SDI Facilities In this white paper, we present an overview of the IP standards landscape and offer some practical guidance for operators, system designers, and manufacturers, with a focus on constructing IP “islands” within current SDI infrastructures. Taking into account key parameters such as control systems, SDI-to-IP conversion, and 12G SDI, this “island” approach offers a practical means of providing a low-risk transition to the world of uncompressed IP video, audio, data, and timing. Download Contact Us Address: 4750 Wiley Post Way, Suite 200 Salt Lake City, UT 84116 USA Sales: (800) 453-8782 International: (801) 575-8801 Service: (800) 447-7204 service@utahscientific.com Fax: (801) 537-3099 Email: info@utahscientific.com Routing & Distribution Router Control Systems Fiber Distribution Master Control & Branding Multiviewers Router Control Panels Sync Generators Copyright 2016 Utah Scientific