8 TVBEurope News
Routing gets Compact with Ensemble Designs
By Fergal Ringrose
AT NABEnsemble Designs introduced the next generation of its BrightEye line of products with a new compact router. This product line features illuminated front panel buttons, interactive LCD display, BNC and SFP spigots for flexible I/O configuration, and an Ethernet port for control and configuration. The new BrightEye Compact
Router has 11 BNC connectors that can be configured as either inputs or outputs. In addition, there are two SFP modules slots (small format pluggables), that may be populated for additional inputs or outputs — fibre optic or electrical.
Yes folks, it’s a router: solution for small news gathering trucks and helicopters
Embrionix-powered SFPs,
about the size of a stick of gum, let the user choose the preferred type of input or output connectors, including mini BNC and optical. There is a Reference BNC for genlocking the unit to house sync. The unit can be controlled via the dedicated
Workflow Virtualization By Fergal Ringrose
EPOCH INTRODUCEDits Workflow Virtualization Technology for media production and distribution workflows at NAB. The SaaS is claimed to improve speed, bandwidth utilisation and ease of deployment for multi-site, multi-format
workflows by optimising a user’s existing IT infrastructure, as well as those of suppliers and partners and optional cloud services. Epoch monitors existing
infrastructure and re-engineers workflows in realtime for maximum performance and total capacity. Epoch features software client installs everywhere; transcoding
front panel buttons, or from a computer or iPad via the on- board web browser interface. “This is what everyone is looking for in a compact router,” said Mondae Hott, director of Sales for Ensemble Designs. “The front panel LCD displays realtime, full motion video or diagnostics of the source you have selected. The clean switch option allows clean video and audio switching of all sources including those that are asynchronous. The internal bars and black generator provide those signals without tying up router inputs. It’s genlockable and timeable. All of this in a compact package about the size of a CD box set.”
www.ensembledesigns.com
including ProRes, MXF, DPX, MPEG2, H.264, camera formats and others; frame format and motion-adaptive frame rate conversion; audio leveling; multi- site, multi-format workflows across LAN and WAN; and transport acceleration over UDP with http fallback mode. “Virtualisation is difficult technology but Epoch is finally bringing it to video production and distribution,” said Epoch CEO David Barton. “Broadcasters
Skills shortage action: The BBC last month announced a new technology and engineering apprentice scheme, the BBC Technology Apprenticeship, to address a critical technology skills shortage in the broadcast sector. Funded by BBC Technology and the government’s Employer Ownership Skills Pilot, the scheme, with the participation of a number of industry partners, aims to produce 100 highly skilled, experienced and employable graduate level
and studios can now focus on what workflows need to accomplish, not how to execute each step, and gain huge efficiencies as a result. “What took days of engineering
can now be set up in minutes on a web app from an airplane. Epoch uses everything you already have in realtime, along with optional cloud services, to give our algorithms workflow design freedom that just isn’t available to hand-engineered or cloud-only services.”
www.epoch-inc.com
apprentices over eight years to meet growing industry demand. The apprenticeship opened for applications on 18 April at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/ trainee-schemes/
tech-apprentices.html and will recruit 20 apprentices annually for an innovative three-year programme, working toward an honours bachelor degree. Apprentices will be based across the UK and will receive a combination of world class training, work placements and academic study.
Deluxe Cloud appears
By Jake Young
DELUXE ENTERTAINMENT Services Group launched MediaCloud, its cloud-based playout platform at NAB 2013. MediaCloud provides a broadcast service delivering a cloud-based playout, media asset management and delivery platform. It brings together non-proprietary IT technologies and media tools to deliver this broadcast service offering. MediaCloud comprises three elements: Portal (an orchestration and asset management suite of broadcasting tools presented through a web browser); Playout (a software centric, scalable, resilient and feature rich playout platform); and Delivery (a suite of tools developed to transport broadcast streams across virtually any network topology). Alec Stichbury, chief technology
officer, Deluxe MediaCloud said, “We’re delighted to officially introduce MediaCloud. Broadcasters face stiff competition for viewers and advertising and subscription revenues from an agile and aggressive market place. MediaCloud eliminates many of the end-to-end traditional broadcasting costs and barriers, providing tools that will help drive new revenues and audiences for broadcasters.”
www.bydeluxe.com
www.tvbeurope.com May 2013
Photo courtesy of the BBC
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