IP Conversion: Broadcasters' Research & Recommendations

JT-NM Tested August 2019, What Is In It For You? Results, Findings, and Methodologies - $15

The JT-NM Tested program continues offering documented insights into how vendors? equipment aligns with the SMPTE ST-2110, ST 2022-7 and SMPTE ST-2059 standards. It has already proven that the SMPTE ST 2110 is a go-to standard for media-over-IP transport. However, as described in the ?EBU Pyramid,??having just a media transport without an open control plane is not enough. Therefore, it had been decided that the next iteration of the program has to address that and greatly expand its scope.

So?the second iteration of the program included 3 types of tests, as follows:
– Data plane: Basic SMPTE ST 2110 performance and behavior (this time including UHD formats)
– Control plane: AMWA NMOS and JT-NM TR-1001-1 performance and behavior
– Cybersecurity Vulnerability Assessment

In this paper, the authors of the JT-NM Tested program and the editors of the test plans explain in great detail the new and improved test plans, testing infrastructure, testing procedures, methodologies, results?and overall findings.

Readers of the paper will be able to apply the knowledge, offered resources and methodologies for various testing scenarios, including self-assessment of open-source or commercial media-over-IP software and hardware by vendors and R&D labs, equipment performance assessment and validation by users and solution architects, tendering and qualification of the equipment by in-house broadcasters? labs, and infrastructure architecture and troubleshooting by system integrators.

Andrew Bonney | BBC R&D | Salford, Greater Manchester, UK
Ievgen Kostiukevych | European Broadcasting Union | Geneva, Switzerland
Pedro Ferreira | Bisect | Porto, Portugal
Willem Vermost | Flemish Radio and Television Broadcasting Organisation | Brussels, Belgium

Orchestrating Systems to Get Data Where Users Need It - $15

As the industry moves towards an IP-first world, creative teams require access to resources (local, remote, shared or distributed) at the press of a button, without the concern of what is happening “under the bonnet.” The complexity of creating orchestrated, multi-service chains that ensure monitoring and resilience are preserved when two or more orchestration systems are combined provides a new challenge for technical teams.

This paper shows one possible approach that leverages existing practices, spanning multiple organizations and resources, to create a distributed production and distribution fabric, orchestrated by multiple control planes with no single point of failure.

Jemma Phillips | BBC | London, UK
Ivan Hassan | BBC | London, UK

Transitioning a Network Operations Center from HD-SDI to IP - $15

The PBS Network Operations Center (NOC) provides the content aggregation and delivery for the Public Television Community.?Like many other media facilities, the NOC was built as an HD-SDI-based facility.?We have added IP-based “islands” to the facility as the technology has advanced.?We have now reached the stage where demands for a more tightly integrated workflow to efficiently serve the needs of over-the-air and OTT delivery require that we move to a fully IP-based facility.?This includes moving a number of our on-premise functions to the “public cloud,”?integrating the cloud functions seamlessly with our on-premises functions, and providing our operations and maintenance staff the ability to easily monitor all the diverse elements of this “system.”?This project is a work in progress.?We will provide a snapshot?of where we are in this process, and then present a summary of the lessons learned.?This summary should provide the basis for others to structure their own facility transitions.

James (Andy) Butler | Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) | Alexandria, VA USA