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

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