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TIME TO RETHINK NETWORK ORCHESTRATION AND BROADCAST CONTROL
Olivier Suard, VP Marketing, Nevion
Henry Ford, the Founder of Ford Motor Company, once famously said: “If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said faster horses”. In fairness, when confronted with changes, it’s quite natural to refer to what one knows. But sometimes, the change is so momentous, that new thinking is required. It was the case with motor vehicles, and it’s also the case in the broadcasting industry with the move to IP and IT technology. When IP networking fi rst came onto the
live production scene, many broadcasters understood that it made sense to move to a standard used by all other industries. However, what they wanted was basically SDI, but with fewer cables.
As pioneers of IP deployments, Nevion (now a Sony Group Company) was constantly faced with demands to create self-managing networks based on a big, centralised IP router – just like in SDI. We had to explain, over and over, that IP was fundamentally different, and that a
monolithic approach would limit the real potential of IP. For IP is not just a technology change, it is a game-changing revolution for production workfl ows – just like motor vehicles were not just about going faster and further than horses but about fundamentally transforming people’s lives. Thankfully, the broadcast industry has now largely accepted that concepts like spine- leaf architectures and seamless connectivity across LANs and WANs are the way to go.
“IP is not just a technology change, it’s a game-changing revolution for production workfl ows”
There is, however, one area where old SDI habits die hard: management and orchestration.
In the SDI world, these are fairly simple.
Firstly, the connectivity is limited to the facilities. If a connection to other locations
is required, a phone call to technical staff is made well in advance and (hopefully) the connection is established. Secondly, everything happens in the central SDI router. In the IP and IT world, things are very
different. With distributed production, people, places and processing can be anywhere. So production staff need to be able to control connectivity and equipment beyond the facilities – seamlessly, dynamically and on their own. Flows need to be orchestrated across LANs, WANs, 5G and even clouds (private or public), with capacity and bandwidth managed throughout.
Just like one would not steer a car with
reins connected to the wheels, one cannot control IP workfl ows without a new approach to network orchestration and broadcast control. That’s why broadcasters now need to
rethink and prioritise management and orchestration. 13.A10
PROMPT STREAMLINING OF ARCHIVE WORKFLOWS Noa Archive BY KEVIN EMMOTT
Archiving specialist Noa has announced the launch of version 5.0 of its jobDB workfl ow system at IBC. Designed to orchestrate the entire archival process across any kind and number of audio/ video ingest stations and server- side tools, version 5.0 sees the addition of a confi gurable prompt interface which co-ordinates daily activities and guides users through their day-to-day tasks.
Designed for the jobDB: Version 5.0 provides archive processes with a personalised experience
Task co-ordination is further enhanced through the addition of improved carrier tracking (especially in multisite operations, where jobDB can operate on both an on-prem and remote access basis), inventory processes and the ability to bundle assets
and carriers in intuitive and fl exible ways.
In operations where more than 1000 workfl ows are occurring each day, jobDB’s overview reports can be optimised to ensure focus on what matters to processing engineers. Furthermore, a new
playback system with Traces Aided Spot (TAS) has been added – allowing checking of a one-hour recording in just 30 seconds, with analysis lane adapted to carrier type, and warning sections automatically indicated.
All of this is harmonised under a new GUI, which aims to make the archiving process more intuitive and effi cient by regulating user permissions and adapting to individual user profi les and their preferred workfl ow patterns. 7.C18
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