theibcdaily Opinion
A pivotal inflection point
The media broadcast industry is a decade behind the technology curve argues Charlie Vogt, CEO, Imagine Communications and GatesAir
Our industry is embarking on an unprecedented era of transformative change fueled by IPTV, mobility, social networking, personal profiling and consolidation. The competitive landscape will ultimately deliver an enhanced consumer experience with higher resolution video (UHD+), convenience (TV Everywhere) and improved economics (IP, Software and Cloud). The media broadcast
industry is at a pivotal inflection point where today’s legacy 'proprietary premise-based hardware' technologies are yielding to next generation IP- enabled, software defined and cloud virtualised technologies. Content creators, broadcasters and distributors recognise the need and value proposition of such change – the challenge is getting from here to there, which is also the opportunity. I joined today’s Imagine Communications and GatesAir (formally Harris Broadcast) a year ago 8 July, after spending 25 years in the
IT/MSO/Telecom market segment. While I paraphrase that the media broadcast industry is a decade behind the technology curve, it arguably is. For the IT/MSO/Telco industry, the transformation from legacy 'proprietary premise-based hardware' technologies to IP-enabled, software-defined and cloud- virtualised technologies began in the mid to late 1990s. Today’s technology advancements have created catalysts for new applications, new revenue, reduced cost and accelerated growth. Our mission at Imagine Communication is to provide the products, solutions and services to migrate our customers from 'here to there.' Today’s CTO and CIO are laser focused on the 'network of the future' and the technologies and supplier partners to help them get there. Online, mobility and social networking will continue to influence consumer spending. Today’s IP-enabled broadband
network is fueling competition and promoting innovation. Today, mobile data traffic is eight times the size of the entire global internet back in 2000. Video will represent 70% of all internet traffic by 2016 and if that is not enough reason to focus on the network of the future, there is already an equal number of mobile devises as the world’s population... video, video video.
At Imagine Communications and GatesAir, we are innovating across these key technology areas and we are designing our solutions to support an ecosystem friendly environment with recently announced technology frameworks (MediaCentral, Playout-in-the- Cloud, Software Defined Workflows) and Over-the-Air mobile solutions all of which will be demonstrated and focus areas for Imagine
Communications and GatesAir at IBC2014. IP, Software-Defined
Workflows and the Cloud are game changing technologies
and network topologies for our customers. These technologies and deployment strategies create network flexibility, new application adaptation and new business models that do not exist today. Migrating sales and business management tools, content, playout and video compression functionality to the cloud fundamentally changes how networks will be designed and monetised going forward.
Imagine Communications has the most comprehensive and complete media software and video infrastructure portfolio and GatesAir has the most compelling next generation radio and TV high- efficient over-the-air solutions. Come see us at IBC2014 at stand 7.G20 (Imagine Communications) and 8.B10 (GatesAir).
7.G20, 8.B10
I can see for miles: Vista X uses CPU- based DSP channels for large-scale, high-resolution audio processing
CPU-based audio powers console launch Studer
By Michael Burns
The new Vista X digital mixing console is being unveiled by Studer, based around the CPU- based Infinity Processing Engine. The Vista X retains Studer's patented Vistonics and FaderGlow user interface, but provides control of 800 or more audio DSP channels and more than 5000 inputs and outputs. At the heart of the system is the Infinity DSP core, which uses CPU-based processors to provide large numbers of DSP channels for high-resolution audio processing and mixing. Studer claimed this is the first time more than 800 audio channels have been processed in a single CPU-based board. Until now, most audio DSP has used SHARC or FPGA chips. The company said CPU
processing provided a scalable system, faster development of new signal processing designs, huge channel counts, full system redundancy without a single point of failure and the possibility of running third-party algorithms. The new Infinity DSP engine powers 12 A-Link high-capacity fibre digital audio interfaces, providing more than 5,000 inputs and outputs. A newly designed high-density I/O system, D23m, is used to break out these A-Link connections to standard analogue, digital and video interfaces. The new Vista X console
features four processors, offering complete redundancy of the control surface. The Infinity Core, with a
combination of CPU-based DSP and A-Link audio interfaces, offers N+1 redundancy of the DSP engine and I/O with instant switchover between main and standby system without audio break. CPU-based DSP also means it is now economically viable to provide two completely independent DSP cores running in parallel, with instant changeover in case of DSP problems. Studer said this new design also offers the possibility of two complete Vista X surfaces to be working on the same project at the same time, allowing very large, dual language or multi-format productions to be undertaken with ease. 8.D60
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