News

Renaud Lavoie – Riedel

As the COVID pandemic gripped the nation and the world, canceling major in-person events, broadcasters and media operations still needed to produce content and shows for their audiences, forcing them to utilize and even embrace remote, IP and cloud production. These moves to remotes accelerated the adoption of IP… and pushed the question of IP in production studios: Since the Remote is in IP, why shall we change the medium in our new Studio? The answer is in SMPTE ST 2110. After designing and installing many IP production solutions there are three key lessons learned and we are offering them as time-tested tips to accelerate your IP (ST 2110) deployments. Join us as we go through these overarching tips, with many sub-sections to gain insight to make your installation smoother.

Monday 1:30 – 2:00 p.m.

Sergio Ammirata — SipRadius

Content delivery from source to destination platform(s) via IP networks requires both speed and faithful reproduction of the packets sent. RIST is a relatively recent, now nearing maturity, specification for error-corrected transport with an emphasis on interoperability. This presentation introduces libRIST, a popular FOSS implementation of RIST.

Monday April 25, 10:30 – 11:00

Adi Rozenberg — Video-Flow

The RIST AG is currently working on a new and exciting feature: source adaption that will be a part of the RIST TR-06-04 specification. Source adaptation is a set of messages between the receiver and sender to provide valuable information with emphasis on link ( or multi-link ) metrics. The presentation will highlight how one can use these metrics to adapt the use of the available links between sender and receiver ( and even Sender to multitude of receivers ) and adapt the stream over each link or the source itself ( reduce bitrate in case of trouble or increase when conditions are favorable ).

Monday April 25,  11:00 – 11:30 am

Ciro A. Noronha — Cobalt Digital

The Video Services Forum recently published TR-06-3, RIST Advanced Profile. This new Specification includes features such as a tunneling mode for legacy protocols, as well as new additional security features. This presentation is an overview of RIST Advanced Profile by one of its designers.

Monday April 25, 11:30 – 12:00 pm

Jed Deame — Nextera Video

This tutorial will describe NMOS, the control system for SMPTE ST 2110 Video over IP, in a very pragmatic and not overly technical way. Rather than digging into the syntax, we will focus on the use cases and the primary goals of the AMWA NMOS specification set.

Monday April 25, 12:00 – 12:30 pm

Andy Rayner — Nevion

Now IP is fully embedded in both facilities and wide-area connectivity, allowing effective and secure collaboration between locations has become the next key part of the realization of the full flexibility and benefit of this technology. Using two real-world deployment examples, this presentation will look at the opportunities and challenges of federating locations. It will address the potentially conflicting requirements of security and autonomy alongside the desire for ‘plug and play’ collaboration. It will also look at the business benefits that collaboration by federation enables. The presentation will also reference relevant ongoing standards work.

Monday April 25, 12:30 – 1:00 pm

Kevin Salvidge — Leader Electronics

Having completed the installation and commissioning of your new IP-based facility, now you have to keep your facility operational. This presentation from Leader highlights the new test and measurement techniques that you need to deploy and understand to ensure that your new IP facility delivers all the benefits of IP.

Monday April 25, 1:00 -1:30 pm

Ryan Morris — Arista Networks

PTP, ST 2059 continues to be the cornerstone of ST2110 installations, providing the heartbeat that synchronises the media flows, ensuring lipsync, and minimising synchronisation stages. This update will provide an insight into current PTP architecture best practice, implemented PTP scales, and how to build security and monitoring into the network from the beginning. Examples from the field will be used to provide real-world examples.

Wednesday April 27, 12:00 – 12:30 pm

Chris Clarke — Cerberus Tech

Content owners are under pressure to deliver an increasing volume of live content, while keeping costs to rights takers and viewers in an expanding market of territories competitively low. In this presentation, we will explore the potential of hybrid IP and satellite workflows to meet growing content demand.

Monday April 25, 2;00 -2:30 pm

Axel Kern — LAWO

Our industry has finally embraced IP. We have designed, built and implemented connected solutions of all sizes, from small flight packs to large facility projects. We have successfully leveraged many opportunities of end-to-end network systems, adding a host of benefits over the past two, remotely managed years. And we’ve all been through a lot of pain on this rocky road to discovery and registration, stream routing, status and parameter control. As an innovative industry that has faced multiple disruptions in technology over the past few decades, and has successfully adapted, we are in an excellent position to channel our experiences, learn from them, and turn them into actionable approaches. With NMOS, we launched a whole bundle of specifications to keep a clear line of sight amidst the storm of technical change, and to keep pace with innovation. This has not only brought us a lot of attention, but also recognition for forging a community out of a motley crew of competitors and customers pursuing the higher goal of mitigating rising incompatibilities in heterogeneous production systems. Today, after more than five years of intensive groundwork, extensive tests and unprecedented cooperation, we approach every new project with a well-stocked quiver of arrows. Yet, we repeatedly have to ask ourselves why some of them did not hit home and others did not fly at all.  The paper presents an interim conclusion as to why a good idea doesn’t always eliminate all the bad things from the broadcast world, and why we will have to live with ugly solutions for some time to come, because they simply work.

Monday April 25, 2:30 – 3:00

David Pirrocco — Verizon Business Group

This presentation will provide an overview of the architectural components required to facilitate a software-defined media fabric that leverages Verizon edge services. The presentation will further explore several use cases built with this architecture and the core services that make it work.

Monday April 25, 3:00 – 3:30 pm

John Mailhot — Imagine Communications

ST 2110 describes a system with video and audio streams, and in most systems the audio streams contain a multiplex of channels – 2, 4, 8, or even 16 channels per stream. In television production environments, there is often the requirement to route or manage audio at the mono-track granularity. By leveraging AMWA NMOS and the IS-08 audio channel mapping extension, a control system can implement a mono-track granularity of control even when using multi-channel streams. This talk describes the standards-based methodologies for doing this often-required task.

Tuesday April 26, 10:30 – 11:00 am

Nicolas Sturmel — Merging Technologies

The pandemic accelerated the already ongoing trend of remote broadcasting, this led to more and more AES67 users experimenting with Wide Area Networks (WANs) despite AES67 being originally designed for Local Area Networks (LAN). The AES SC-02-12M working group on AES67 development saw here a need of describing what to expect on WANs and issued the AES-R20-2021 report in September 2021 on best practices of using AES67 outside of the typical LAN use case. We will present typical problems that arise when doing transmissions over long distance and leased networks and how to solve them while keeping interoperability with ST2210 and AES67. Be it over the internet, over a privately owned WAN, or in a data center, some constrained and limitations are to be taken into consideration: How to keep multiple sites PTP synchronous? How to prevent the issues of an unavoidable packet loss? Multicast or unicast? How to handle Quality Of Service? While most of those solutions are use case dependant, they often need a compromise. We will explain the origin of those problems and propose solutions that allow streaming of AES67 beyond the LAN.

Tuesday April 26, 11:00 – 11:30 am

Andy Rayner — Nevion

5G holds lots of promise for many industry sectors – including live IP broadcast production. The potential of high bandwidth, low latency and deterministic performance are all attractive to live media content creators. This presentation will overview a recent international 5G trial for live IP production in Europe and look at the realistic technical performance and the opportunities it gives for future agility and cost savings. The trial took place in UK and Germany and included a full remote production setup using live 5G feeds from both countries.

Tuesday April 26, 11:30 am – 12:00 pm

John Dale — Media Links

Over the past several months VSF has created technical recommendations for JPEG XS coded video over both MPEG2TS/SMPTE ST 2022-2 (TR-07) and SMPTE ST 2110-22 (TR-08). In addition the VSF held a file exchange for the RTP files in both mentioned cases. The file exchange was well attended and a substantial amount of the files were able to be decoded by the other participants. The file exchange also helped identify clarifications for the TRs to aid implementations and address some anomalies in some of the referenced documents . This report provides a summary of the file exchange and the changes to the TRs to be reflected in the upcoming revisions. Not sure, but potentially by NAB the new revisions of the TRs may be published.

Tuesday April 26, 12:00 – 12:30 PM

Anton Kapela — K03IM-D/Channel 3 Eugene

This presentation will highlight recent work at K03IM-D, a station that is currently broadcasting multiple Ultra High Definiton HEVC video streams using classic MPEG TS and 8VSB equipment, and focus on novel technical achievements and design improvements in encoding and multiplexing equipment, all over IP.

Tuesday April 26, 12:30 – 1:00 pm

Andrew Starks — Macnica Americas

IPMX is a collection of standards and specifications for AV over IP that are making their way through VSF and AMWA, with heavy support and evangelism from AIMS. IPMX starts with ST 2110 and NMOS and the bits and pieces for Pro AV and Pro AV use cases. However, there is a lot of live production happening in Pro AV, which is a major goal of IPMX. In this talk, we will see how IPMX is different than ST 2110, how it extends it and what features are interesting for live production and interoperability with ST 2110.

Tuesday April 26, 1:00 – 1:30 pm

Sakti Arunachalam — Arista Networks

Dynamic Multicast works well in smaller installations, but when scale and all-out performance are needed, SDN, or Network Orchestration for ST2110 flows is essential. Orchestration allows a system to be maximally efficient in bandwidth terms, while also providing much-improved performance and scale over dynamic IGMP/PIM systems.

Tuesday April 26, 2:00 – 2:30 pm

Ievgen Kostiukevych — European Broadcast Union (EB)

5G systems are becoming more and more ambiguous and widespread, making them a suitable choice for remote production and wireless mobile studios scenarios, extending the local OB Van facilities, and replacing the traditional RF cameras. However, the nature of the 5G systems can often make them tricky to use for high-performance media over IP due to inherited jitter and path asymmetries. In such cases, the synchronization between media sources can be challenging. The presentation explores the possibility of using IEEE 1588, Precision Time Protocol for such applications. With 3GPP Release 16, the 5G System specifications include a dedicated time synchronization enabler tailored for IEEE 1588. It describes lab sessions performed by the 5G RECORDS consortium members testing the performance of the PTP over 5G with and without the dedicated time synchronization support. The presentation also describes the open-sourced testing setup used by the team and the methodology developed. The presentation will draw conclusions on the performance and the synchronization quality when using PTP over various 5G systems, analyze the results from the lab trials and explore possible practical applications.

Wednesday April 27, 2:30 – 3:00 pm

John Mailhot — Imagine Communications

JPEG-XS is the latest contribution codec from ITU, offering production contribution performance at around 3 BPP (bits per pixel) and a range of operating points above and below for different applications. In order to gain widespread adoption, it is critical to have a common mapping into IP-based transport, and a common management API. The Video Services Forum (VSF) recently published TR-08, describing in detail how to combine JPEG-XS using RFC 9132 into SMPTE ST2110-22, and AMWA is finishing the development of BCP-006-01 describing how to use NMOS for JPEG-XS streams. By combining JPEG-XS over IP using SMPTE ST 2110-22 and using AMWA NMOS, interoperable solutions can be deployed.

Tuesday April 26, 3:00 – 3:30 pm

Rob Porter — Sony Europe
Gareth Sylvester-Bradly — NVIDIA
Jonathan Thorpe— Sony Europe

As the adoption of NMOS continues to increase, members of the AMWA have been busy improving and expanding the NMOS Testing Tool. This free and easy-to-use tool allows vendors, systems integrators and end users to test their NMOS solutions and ensure that they comply with the AMWA NMOS specifications such as IS-04 and IS-05. The tool can be used at any time from the initial specification of a new product or service to deployment in the field. The NMOS Testing Tool has supported Node and Registry testing for several years, but any testing of Controllers had to be carried out manually. In the last year, AMWA members collaborated to add Controller testing to the tool. This adopts a semi-automated approach with the tool instructing the Controller operator to carry out various tasks. It then automatically validates these, both by checking the messages sent out by the Controller and by confirming that the operator can see the correct information on the Controller’s interface. In this talk we will introduce the testing tool and describe these latest developments. We’ll explain how to get started with the testing tool and demonstrate some of the functionality, in particular the new Controller testing features. We will also explain how the NMOS Testing Tool has previously been used at JT-NM Tested events and how users were able to prepare themselves for future events by getting familiar with the tool at the recent AMWA workshop. The workshop additionally gave participants the opportunity to perform security scanning on their solutions with guidance from the EBU’s MCS team, on which we’ll also briefly report. We’ll finish by indicating how these tools might be developed further in the future.

Wednesday April 27, 10:30 – 11:00 am

Koji Oyama — Xcelux Design

This presentation provides a basic design flow and elemental technologies when broadcasting network engineers consider Media-over-IP (MoIP) network architecture and configure network switches. The technologies include VLAN, VRF, Multicast routing, IGMP, PIM, OSPF, LAG, and LACP, which are essentials for building your ST-2110 network according to the JT-NM TR-1001-1 guideline.

Wednesday April 27, 11:00 – 11:30 am

Alun Fryer — AIMS

AIMS formed the Education Working Group in late 2021 to address the needs of the broadcast and Pro AV industries to have accessible learning materials for IP media. We aim to break down the barriers of entry and provide a comprehensive library of reference and learning materials to professionals working in the media industry. This presentation will outline the Working Group’s mission, and outline our progress and goals.

Sunday April 27, 11:30 am – 12:00 pm

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Sunday April 24, 1:30 – 12:00 pm

Andy Rayner— Nevion

As the live production chain gradually migrates to being a fully software-based cloud-hosted solution, the question arises of how best to both interconnect and control pure software elements. This presentation will look at the existing standards such as ST2110, NMOS, etc and what elements of these are suitable in a software environment, and which bits are needing to be re-thought. It will cover the media ‘data’ flows and the control flows necessary for a complete solution. It will also look at other relevant and related issues such as the requirements on cloud timing and cloud multicast (or not). The presentation will also reference the relevant standards work going on in this area, as well as other industry initiatives.

Sunday April 24, 3:00 – 3:30 pm

Ryan Morris — Arista Networks

Part 1 – A Review of ST2110 Architectures – Looking Back From the Field
Deployed architectures for ST2110 live production have evolved and matured since the initial Monolithic installations. Leaf and Spine provides flexibility and a closer alignment to “Cloud Architecture”. This review of architectural deployments will dig into the lessons we should draw from these deployments, with regard to flexibility, initial and ongoing costs, ease of use and expansion, and provide some pointers to current and potential future direction.

Tuesday April 26,1:30 – 2:00 pm

Sakti Arunachalam — Arista Networks

Part 2 – Maximizing Scale and Performance With Network Orchestration
Dynamic Multicast works well in smaller installations, but when scale and all-out performance are needed, SDN, or Network Orchestration for ST2110 flows is essential. Orchestration allows a system to be maximally efficient in bandwidth terms, while also providing much-improved performance and scale over dynamic IGMP/PIM systems.

Tuesday April 26, 2:00 – 2:30 pm

Andy Rayner — Nevion

This presentation will look at the end-user content creator requirements for managing multiple timing planes, the technical challenges and the solution being evolved to address this.

Sunday April 24, 2:00 – 2:30 pm

Thomas Gunkel — Skyline Communications

This presentation discusses a project which was rolled out in 2021 for a large network and service provider in Italy to orchestrate their new converged IP video and audio contribution and distribution network across a multi-site and multi-vendor network architecture.

Sunday April 24, 2:30 – 3:00 pm

John Mailhot — Imagine Communications

Kieran Kunhya — Open Broadcast Systems

The Video Services Forum (VSF) Ground-Cloud-Cloud-Ground working group is forming a set of recommendations on common practices for integrating live media workflows across ground and cloud elements. The working includes timing considerations and transport methodology, with a goal to codify practices that can be multi-vendor interoperable. This session presents a review of the work to date.

Sunday April 24, 1:00 – 1:30 pm

Alan Wollenstein — National Football League

NFL Media recently built a new facility adjacent to SoFi stadium in Los Angeles. This IP-based facility is built on the SMPTE ST 2110 and NMOS standards, and supports mixed HD/UHD and SDR/HDR workflows across multiple live control rooms and studios. This talk focuses on the lessons learned and the experience of  a season of operation.

Sunday April 24, 12:30 – 1:00 pm

Steve Reynolds — AIMS 

AIMS Progress Report
Update on progress of the AIMS alliance, including reports from the Technical, Marketing, Education, and IPMX Working Groups.

Sunday April 24, 12:00 –  12:30 pm

Kieran Kunhya, Open Broadcast Systems

Unfortunately IP Video is filled with jargon and acronyms that cloud the underlying advances in technology. This presentation will aim to try and explain everything in a jargon-free world in a way a six-year-old could understand.

Sunday 11:30 am – 12:oo pm

Paul Briscoe –Televisionary Consulting 

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This presentation offers a look at the mechanisms of the coming ST 2110-41 Fast Metadata (FMX) standard. An overview of how it works and a number of potential applications are discussed. 

Monday 16:00-16:30

Scott Barella – PESA 

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In this presentation, we will introduce the roadmap for Pro AV technologies within the AIMS effort and discuss the progress, work left to be done and how to get involved. 

Monday 15:30-16:00

Andrew Starks – Macnica 

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The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) is working with standards organizations to promote an open standard for AV over IP in the Pro AV market. We’ll discuss the motivation for our work and share a high-level view of our approach. 

Monday 15:00-15:30

Andrew Bonney – BBC R&D
Gareth Sylvester-Bradley – Sony Europe 

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An introduction to the open source AMWA NMOS Testing Tool, which can be used to automatically ensure that Media Nodes and other appliances are adhering to the NMOS specifications.

Monday 10:30-11:00

Ievgen Kostiukevych, EBU

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How can you automate your network infrastructure in a decentralized and collaborative way? We will tell you how we did it at the JT-NM Tested events!

Tuesday 13:30-14:00

Andrew Bonney, BBC

Tuesday 13:00-13:30

The Reliable Internet Stream Transport (RIST) Specification from the Video Services Forum aims to provide multi-vendor, interoperable video transport over the Internet using best-in-class techniques. This panel discussion will include a review of RIST Simple Profile field deployments, as well as the new features and functionality being added to RIST Main Profile. These features include tunneling, security, authentication, and further bandwidth optimization. Panelists include some of the major contributors to the Specification, as well as implementers. 

Tuesday 12:00-13:00

Rob Porter, Sony Europe
Sachin Vishwarupe, Cisco Systems

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AMWA IS-06 is an open specification for setting up and modifying flows on a professional media network, allowing the use of Software Defined Networking to both authorise and optimise network usage. This talk describes the current IS-06 APIs and some of the future areas of development.

Tuesday 11:30-12:00

Paul Briscoe, Televisionary Consulting

This presentation offers a look at the mechanisms of the coming ST 2110-41 Fast Metadata (FMX) standard. An overview of how it works and a number of potential applications are discussed.

Monday 16:00-16:30

Ken Kerschbaumer, Sports Video Group with NEP Netherlands

Join Peter Bruggink, CTO | NEP Europe & Media Solutions and Ken Kerschbaumer, co-executive director, editorial services, Sports Video Group for an informative discussion about NEP’s ongoing deployments of IP media technologies in the Netherlands and beyond.

Sunday 14:30-15:00

Harttmut Opfermann, BFE Studio und Medien Systeme

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When ORF needed to build their FÜ22 OB-Truck, they chose to use IP technology and ST 2110 for media transport. In this presentation we talk about the challenges we faced and the lessons we have learned during the planning, integrating and testing of the truck.

Monday 14:00-14:30

Roy Folkman, Embrionix

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The Cable Public Affairs Channel’s critical bilingual governmental programming reaches 11 million homes in Canada. They implemented a unique real-time media-over-IP system to replace an aging CWDM system and realized the benefits of IP. The commissioning and training for this successful system took just 3 days and CPAC was ready for air.

Monday 13:30-14:00

Peter Brightwell, BBC R&D

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An overview of BBC R&D’s work on building on-premise facilities to examine how technology and architecture developed for cloud computing can provide flexibility and scalability for the broadcast industry, and how it can be used in conjunction with ST 2110 and NMOS.

Monday 13:00-13:30

Gerben Dierick – Vlaamse Radio en Televisieomroep
Adi Kouadio – European Broadcasting Union 

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As the industry continues the journey towards live IP technologies, cybersecurity is becoming a critical point of consideration. The EBU Infrastructures & Security group had teamed with JT-NM to perform a new round of vulnerabilities assessment during the JT-NM Tested August 2019 event. The methods and results will be presented during this talk.

Monday 12:30-13:00

Andy Rayner, Nevion

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An update on the VSF Activity Group addressing the issues of transporting ST 2110 media essences over Wide Area Networks.

Monday 12:00-12:30

Arne Bönninghoff, Riedel Communications

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This session will describe the current workflow of the BCP-003 Security best practices. It elaborates current proposed mechanisms to encrypt NMOS APIs with TLS to prevent man in the middle attacks. Furthermore, AMWA IS-10 is reserved to specify authorization mechanisms to secure access to NMOS APIs like IS-04, -05, or -08. The current concept of an authorization server is explained, as well as how it can issue tokens for controllers and nodes. Access to NMOS-nodes for starting/stopping/configuring media endpoints can then be secured against unwanted access.

Monday 11:30-12:00

Miroslav Jeras, Pebble Beach Systems

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IS-07 Event & Tally is a new addition to the NMOS suite that defines how states and state changes are communicated in an IP environment. It is not only a GPI replacement, but it also provides a platform for resolving many other problems broadcasters are facing in the IP transition.

Monday 11:00-11:30

Jed Deame, Nextera Video

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The latest advancements in NMOS, including IS-08 (Audio Mapping), IS-09 (System Discovery), BCP-002 (Grouping) and BCP-003 (Security) take NMOS to a new level, surpassing the level of control provided in SDI while also adding a layer of security that has been sorely needed in control systems for quite some time.

Tuesday 13:00-13:30

Peter Brightwell, BBC R&D

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An introduction to the AMWA Networked Media Open Specifications, including an outline of the specifications themselves, how they have been developed and tested, the state of industry adoption, and broadcaster perspectives.

Monday 10:00-10:30

Alan Wollenstein – NFL Network
Charley Haggarty – NFL Network 

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An outline of the benefits of using ST 2110 essence streams over WAN for remote & distributed live production, the challenges involved, and real-life implementations of distributed IP live productions. 

Sunday 16:00-16:30

Greg Shay, The Telos Alliance

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Probing the conflicts between the SMPTE ST 2110 media over IP standards and the difficulties of multicast support in modern containerized server software methods.

Sunday 15:30-16:00

Richard Hastie, Mellanox Technologies

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This presentation shows how the full JT-NM TR-1001-1 specification can be implemented using container-based microservices. DNS, DNS-SD, DHCP and AMWA NMOS services can now be fully automated and abstracted through the use of dematerialised microservices. The result is broadcast engineers of tomorrow no longer need to worry about these services as they’ve become as ubiquitous as any other data centre technology.

Sunday 15:00-15:30

Arnaud Caron, MediaKind

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This session provides an overview of the role of microservices architectures across a range of critical media processing tasks. Using real-world examples, the session examines the process changes and technical challenges that need to be overcome to meet the agility demands of end-to-end video flows.

Monday 14:30-15:00

Ammar Latif, Cisco Systems

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This session is a case study of a new IP production studio for a major broadcast in the US and will present the architecture, best practices and lessons learned from a real live studio production using an IP infrastructure.

Sunday 14:00-14:30

Mark Patrick and Andy Appleyard, BBC

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BBC Wales’s new headquarters building in Cardiff is going live a few months after IBC. This presentation gives an update on the implementation of the IP core built around ST 2110, AES67 and Dante.

Sunday 13:30-14:00

Carl Petch, Telstra

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Two case studies on the journey from trial to deployment of a remote IP production for live sporting events. We’ll show and investigate the underlying network technologies, compression type, unprocessed vs compressed, and present different perspectives from broadcast production, telco and network service providers.

Sunday 13:00-13:30

SMPTE ST 2110 is maturing as we near the verge of mainstream adoption of SMPTE ST 2110 IP infrastructure. While SMPTE ST 2110 has proven it’s great promise for success, some issues still remain. There are some misconceptions, and to a degree confusion, in the industry on what other standards and specifications are required beside the SMPTE ST 2110 transport of audio, video and data. How do I build a “full stack” IP facility for live production? What do I do about control? Is this technology secure? These are just a few of the question this panel will address. Listen to industry insiders who work on the relevant standards to keep abreast of what’s being adopted during this transition.

Sunday 12:00-13:00

Kevin Salvidge, Leader Europe

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With video-over-IP standards now well established and earlier adopters demonstrating the operational and commercial benefits of COT’s IP infrastructure, what are the test and measurement tools you need to ensure you continue to deliver the same QoS that can be achieved with SDI infrastructure?

Sunday 11:30-12:00

Leigh Whitcomb, Imagine Communications

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ST 2110 requires an ST 2059/PTP infrastructure. These are complex and have many subtleties. If done well, they are easily deployed and monitored.

Sunday 11:00-11:30

Alex Vainman – Mellanox Technologies
Nir Nitzani – Mellanox Technologies 

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The M&E industry is moving to virtualized environments, cloud on premises and finally to cloud deployment. Timing is the next trivial step in adopting SW IP solutions and its advantages – but is it trivial?  On the list of challenges, timing is high  This presentation will try to describe the environment, understand the key challenges, explore existing solutions and look forward.

Sunday 10:30-11:00

Thomas Kernen, Mellanox Technologies

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As the SMPTE ST 2059-2 flavour of the IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol is being deployed in many of the early adopter projects, constraints have arisen and a number of workarounds have been necessary due to either PTP stack, media node and/or network limitations. This may lead to a biased perspective as to what may actually be accomplished with the protocol. This presentation focuses on the key questions that need to be taken into account whilst designing for PTP.

Sunday 10:00-10:30

Bill McLaughlin, EEG

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An updated tutorial on subtitling, closed captioning, and other ancillary data workflows using the ST 2110-40 standard. Topics include synchronization, merging of data from different sources, standards conversion, and differences between SDI, compressed IP, and uncompressed IP architectures.

Saturday 16:00-16:30

Andreas Hildebrand, ALC NetworX

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This presentation explains how audio essence is transported with ST 2110 in general, and further explains how individual input channels are bundled into an audio stream and how they can be assigned to dedicated outputs on a receiving device utilizing NMOS IS-08.

Saturday 15:30-16:00

Matt Ward, Jigsaw24

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An empirical, practical guide to making network audio systems with shared resources work.

Saturday 15:00-15:30

Martin Dyster, The Telos Alliance

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This presentation looks at the parallels between the emergence of audio over IP standards and the development of a product in the Intercom market sector that has taken full advantage of IP technology.

Saturday 14:30-15:00

Andy Rayner, Nevion Ltd.

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An overview of JPEG XS technology for low-latency compressed video signals using ST 2110-22. An example of a recent deployment in for live IP production is described in detail. 

Friday 13:30-14:00

Robert Erickson, Grass Valley

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A case study on the equipment, infrastructure, and workflows that were leveraged by SVT Sweden to support FIS Alpine Ski World Cup. With the remote site in Åre, Sweden separated by over 600 km from the production studios in Stockholm, new and unique technologies were required to make this remote production a success.

Saturday 13:30-14:00

Judy Parnall, BBC and EBU

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What interoperability means for public broadcasters’ transition to IP. How ST 2110, NMOS and TR-1001 are important in making this happen, and a review of how in practice these are being adopted and used in EBU members’ new facilities.

Saturday 13:00-13:30

Peter Brightwell, Lead Engineer, BBC R&D
François Legrand, Senior Director, Core Systems Media Technology and Infrastructure Services, CBC/Radio-Canada
Daniel Murphy, Broadcast Engineer, NEP Australia
Willem Vermost, Senior IP Media Technology Architect and Manager Technology & Innovation, EBU

Moderator:
Matthew Goldman, Senior Vice President Technology, MediaKind

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Hear from the experts! This panel session will discuss real-world examples of SMPTE ST 2110 Professional Media over Managed IP Networks implementations, including what worked well and areas where there have been challenges to overcome. The panel also will discuss the impact on real customers of the Joint Task Force on Network Media’s (JT-NM) Technical Recommendation JT-NM TR-1001-1:2018, which addresses the configuration of SMPTE ST 2110 equipment and other issues, and AMWA NMOS Best Current Practices (BCPs).

Saturday 12:00-13:00

Paul Briscoe, Televisionary Consulting

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This presentation discusses the use of ST 2110 for the carriage of small raster bitmaps such as logos and lower thirds.

Saturday 11:30-12:00

Erling Hedkvist, Lawo

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Remote production is becoming a matter of course and picture quality expectations are on the rise. More data needs to be pushed down the same lines. A close look at the strategies available to broadcasters for “doing more with less” at the highest quality level.

Saturday 11:00-11:30

Tae-Han Kim, IML Co. Ltd.

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A case study that examines the development and testing of an IP-enabled workflow for a broadcasting studio. In a small test studio, a managed SDN network with ST 2110-20/30 uncompressed sender and receiver hardware & IP, ST 2042 VC2 compressed encoder and decoder, and NMOS manager are implemented and live broadcasting tested for future design guide setup.

Saturday 10:30-11:00

Jean-Baptiste Lorent, intoPix

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JPEG-XS is a new ISO JPEG standard that has been created in collaboration with the broadcast industry to meet live production quality requirements while offering important bandwidth reductions that enable one to get more from the new ST 2110 standard.

Saturday 10:00-10:30

Gerard Phillips, Robert Welch, Ryan Morris, Seb Keller – Arista Networks

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All you wanted to know about designing an IP ST 2110 studio network, but were afraid to ask.

Friday 16:00-16:30

Nemanja Kamenica, Cisco Systems

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This presentation will explain buffer implementation in IP switches and routers used for IP broadcast traffic forwarding. The session will dive into the buffer architecture and IP multicast traffic forwarding with respect to different buffer architectures. It will also look at how quality of service can be implemented to protect traffic.

Friday 15:30-16:00

Koji Oyama, M3L Inc.

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This presentation shows how ST 2110 streams can be locked and how much jitter and wander they have. By showing the videos and experimental results of our implementation as an example, you can understand how ST 2059-based PTP technology synchronizes and reproduces stable video clocks

Friday 15:00-15:30

Tony Orme, The Broadcast Bridge

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Making real-time video and audio IP systems work with greater efficiency requires an advanced appreciation of timing measurement. This presentation exposes the timing extremities of the bell distribution curve and suggests strategies to improve signal throughput resulting in improved productivity and performance.

Friday 14:30-15:00

Fernando Solanes, Evertz Microsystems Inc.

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M6, a major private broadcaster in France, has recently commissioned an IP core within their multichannel playout facility. Two channels are currently on the air with additional channels transitioning to the new core. This presentation describes:

– ST 2110/NMOS based system.
– PTP master clocks

Friday 14:00-14:30

Gordon Castle, Discovery/Eurosport

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Eurosport Technology Transformation (ETT) is a major investment that will create two private clouds for live production. These private clouds will be fully ST 2110 compliant, with AES67 audio, supporting hundreds of playout channels in 22 languages. The ETT project is an industry-leading implementation of a fully IP-based infrastructure. We are at the early stages and can share the opportunities and the challenges.

Saturday 14:00-14:30

John Mailhot, Imagine Communications

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Most major sporting venues have a significant in-house audio/video production infrastructure that augments the in-venue customer experience. This paper examines the benefits and challenges of IP-based ST 2110 infrastructures for these live sport environments.

Friday 13:00-13:30

Ievgen Kostiukevych, European Broadcasting Union
Andrew Bonney, BBC R&D

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EBU’s Ievgen Kostiukevych and BBC R&D’s Andrew Bonney, editors of the JT-NM Tested August 2019 test plans, will explain everything you wanted to know about the Joint Task Force on Networked Media’s Tested program, but were too afraid to ask! 

Friday 12:30-13:00

Wes Simpson – Telecompro.tv
Ed Calverley – Q3 Media 

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Join two technology training experts for a 90-minute exploration of the key technologies used in modern IP video and audio networks. Learn about ST 2110, AES67, PTP, and NMOS and see how they work together to enable all-IP live production. If you haven’t been exposed to these technologies before, or if you are looking to enhance your knowledge, this is an excellent way to see what innovators are doing today and what the future holds for the full range of IP media production. 

Friday 11:00-12:30
Tuesday 10:00-11:30

Ievgen Kostiukevych, EBU

A simple PoC demonstrates how a few lines of Python code can retrieve the switch VLAN configuration from Google Sheets and use Arista’s eAPI to implement changes to the switch. A few more lines of code enable a constant track of changes in the spreadsheet. This presentation will demonstrate the power of network programmability for automation and orchestration challenges.

Thursday 11:00-11:30 a.m.

Ciro Aloisio Noronha, Cobalt Digital Inc.
Juliana Noronha, University of California, Davis

Historically, two main techniques have been used to recover from packet loss in networks: Forward error correction and retransmission. This talk presents an objective evaluation of these two techniques, using both mathematical/statistical modelling and actual network measurements. We will conclude with guidelines for broadcasters who are considering the internet as a low-cost contribution link but are concerned with latency and reliability.

Thursday 1:00 – 1:30 p.m.

Jean-Baptiste Lorent, intoPIX SA

JPEG XS is a brand-new, ultra-low latency standard for visually lossless video compression. SMPTE ST 2110 is expected to be expanded in the near future to include this transformative new technology.

Thursday 12:30 – 1:00 p.m.

Jed Deame, Nextera Video

How can we secure both essence and control functions in a video over IP environment? What can we glean from the standards developed by the NIST and NSA and how can we apply this to the world of media over IP? This presentation will answer these questions and present an example system.

Thursday 12:00 – 12:30 p.m.

Andy Rayner, Nevion

Over the last five months, there has been a VSF activity group looking at recommendations for transporting ST 2110 essence flows over wide-area networks. This presentation will reveal the group’s work so far and their first set of recommendations, which are scheduled to be released at NAB.

Thursday 11:30 – 12:00 p.m.

Bill McLaughlin, EEG

This talk describes the foundation of the SMPTE 2110-40 ancillary data standard and moves on to practical implications for creating closed captioning and subtitles in live video production. Workflow similarities and differences to familiar SDI architecture will be described in detail. Takeaways will also be presented from the ongoing JT-NM/SMPTE 2110 interoperability event series, where the author has been the assigned test lead for the 2110-40 subsection.

Thursday 10:30 – 11:00 p.m.

Arnaud Caron, MediaKind

To become more responsive and agile, broadcast and media operators of all sizes must embrace cloud and IoT technology by replacing traditional SDI with IP transformation. In this presentation, Arnaud Caron, head of management, orchestration and cloud portfolio at MediaKind, will outline why the shift to IP and cloud is necessary for broadcast and media operators to enhance their future services.

Wednesday 5:00 – 5:30 p.m.

Willem Vermost, EBU

The European Broadcasting Union conducted a survey among its members who built or are building new infrastructure with IP-based production at its core. The know-how of these members resulted in a gap analysis that was published as EBU TECH 3371. The JT-NM picked it up quickly and reacted with JT-NM TR-1001-1: 2018. If you want to know what all of this means in normal words, come to the presentation.

Wednesday 4:30 – 5:00 p.m.

Adi Rozenberg, VideoFlow

A major weakness characterizing multi-stream distribution is low-connection bitrate utilization. The reason behind the issue is the negligible probability that the viewers will pull ALL the streams from the source at the SAME time. This presentation illustrates a technique that solves the budget waste resulting from bitrate underutilization.

Wednesday 4:00 – 4:30 p.m.

Ciro Aloisio Noronha, Cobalt Digital Inc

The Video Services Forum has published TR-06-1, a specification for a common protocol for reliable stream transport over the internet (RIST). This presentation includes a short description of the protocol, performance measurement results, and configuration guidelines. It will also illustrate a comprehensive set of performance measurements for the protocol, using an actual encoder/decoder pair, and network simulators to provide various types of signal impairment.

Wednesday 3:30 – 4:00 p.m.

Gerard Phillips, Robert Welch, Ryan Morris – Arista Networks

Advances in SDN capabilities have led to the emergence of “Purple” network Architectures — come and find out whether this development could benefit your ST 2110 journey. Learn how it differs from a “Red/Blue” or “Amber/Blue” architecture, how path diversity is maintained, and what the benefits and trade-offs might be in your IP live production or playout application.

Wednesday 3:00 – 3:30 p.m.

Tony Orme, The Broadcast Bridge

This panel discussion, consisting of four industry experts, who have all made ST 2110 infrastructures operate reliably, will share their experiences with the audience. The main topics covered will be network design topologies, PTP timing considerations, SDI integration, measurement and analysis, and important skills to learn.

Wednesday 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.

John Mailhot, Imagine
Jon Pannaman, Diversified

As a broadcaster in Japan, QVC had the opportunity to begin broadcasting UHD content in line with the Japanese broadcast deployment schedule for UHD.  QVC selected Diversified to serve as technology partner and system integrator and Imagine Communications as lead technology supplier to provide a solution to meet their unusual 24×7 live production requirements, in UHD, with full HDR support. This talk describes the scale of the system, the technical approach, the technologies involved, and some lessons learned in the project.

Wednesday, 1:30 – 2:00 p.m.

Maurice Snell, Grass Valley

This is a case study on NEP UK’s ST 2110 based ip production environment that was deployed supporting Wimbledon. The case study covers lessons learned from the COTS based install. The system leverages SMPTE ST 2110, SMPTE 2059, and adaptive FPGA based edge processing.

Wednesday 1:00 – 1:30 p.m.

Ievgen Kostiukevych and Willem Vermost, EBU

The move to IP with the SMPTE ST 2110 suite of standards requires careful planning and market assessment. The essential criterion for any ST 2110 based endpoint is its compliance with ST 2110-21. The presentation offers a methodology for such essential measurements that can be performed in software using standard commodity off-the-shelf IT equipment.

Wednesday 12:30 – 1:00 p.m

Michael Waidson, Tektronix

The transition to an IP network introduces several new concepts to help a video engineer understand the flow of video, audio and data across the switching fabric. This presentation will discuss the methodologies involved in monitoring the IP media network and how to troubleshoot issues within the facility.

Wednesday 12:00 – 12:30 p.m.

Miroslav Jeras, Pebble Beach Systems Ltd.

IS-07 Event & Tally is a new addition to the NMOS suite that defines how states and state changes are communicated in an IP environment. It is not just a GPI replacement, but it also provides a platform for resolving many other problems broadcasters are facing in the IP transition.

Wednesday 11:30 – 12:00 p.m.

Gerard Phillips, Robert Welch, and Ryan Morris, Arista Networks

As the SDI to IP transition begins to occur, we need to provide guaranteed and appropriate separation, performance, and security for all of these IP ecosystems. In this presentation, we will demonstrate how the best cloud and datacenter practice can be leveraged to help secure your valuable live production and playout content, while maximizing the benefits and flexibility of the move to IP.

Wednesday 11:00 – 11:30 a.m.

Thomas Edwards, FOX

The AMWA Interoperable Security project has developed Best Current Practices (BCP) to secure AMWA NMOS APIs. This presentation will help inform NMOS implementers about how to provide interoperable and secure operation, in addition to informing NMOS users about what to look for from vendors with regards to NMOS security.

Wednesday 10:30 – 11:00 a.m.

Arne Bönninghoff, Riedel Communications GmbH & Co. KG

AMWA BCP-003 specifies authorization mechanisms to secure access to NMOS APIs like IS-04, -05, or -08. This session will describe the current workflow of the BCP-003 Authorization Mechanism and provide insights into the demonstration in the IP Showcase. The concept of an authorization server is explained, as well as how it can issue tokens for controllers and nodes. Access to NMOS-nodes for starting/stopping/configuring media endpoints can then be secured against unwanted access.

Wednesday 10:00 – 10:30 a.m.

Simon Rankine, BBC R&D

BBC Research and Development’s Simon Rankine will present an update from AMWA’s NMOS API Interoperable Security Group. The group is working to apply tried and tested web technologies to the APIs in order to provide APIs that are simultaneously secure and cross-vendor interoperable.

Wednesday 9:30 – 10:00 a.m.

Leigh Whitcomb, Imagine Communications

One of the powerful features of ST 2110 is the ability to separate video, audio and ANC into separate streams. This feature requires a method which re-aligns all the streams on a receiving device. This presentation will explain how streams are re-aligned in the ST 2110 standard.

Tuesday 3:30 – 4:00 p.m.

Andreas Hildebrand, ALC NetworX

Covering the basics of synchronization in a ST 2110 environment, the presentation discusses how different essence streams can be sample- or frame-accurately aligned for play-out or further downstream processing.

Tuesday 4:30 – 5:00 p.m.

Thomas Gunkel, Skyline Communications

This presentation will discuss the best practices to configure, monitor, and manage PTP as well as track media flows in an IP-based media facility. To illustrate this, real-life customer use cases for both PTP management and flow monitoring will be discussed.

Tuesday 4:00 – 4:30 p.m.

Greg Shay, Telos Alliance

PTP (Precision Time Protocol) is the foundation of synchronization for professional media over IP and yet it is relatively new for a lot of users and designers. This presentation seeks to demystify some complexity and share practical experience using PTP. When can compromises and simplifications be made? When are they not appropriate?

Tuesday 5:00 – 5:30 p.m.

Michael Waidson, Tektronix

Precision Time Protocol (PTP) is a critical part of keeping synchronization of IP media devices across a network. Therefore, it is important to have an understanding of system configurations and an understanding of the processes involved in PTP. In this presentation, we will look at some of the basics of PTP, the potential pitfalls that can happen within the network system that cause issues in the reliability of the system, and the steps that can be taken to ensure a redundant PTP system within various network configurations.

Tuesday 3:00 – 3:30 p.m.

Ken Kershbaumer, SVG

Panel to be announced.

Tuesday 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Fernando Solanes, Evertz

Delivering world’s largest ST-2110 installation: challenges of working with large number of multicasts and complexity of PTP.

Tuesday 1:30 – 2:00 p.m.

Andreas Lattmann, tpc Switzerland AG

Our full ST 2110 UHD/HDR OB van has been in production for a couple of months and I am excited to share our first experiences with it. This talk will also touch on our experience with our new TEC building, which will be live in November 2019.

Tuesday 1:00 – 1:30 p.m.

John Mailhot, Imagine Communications

ST 2110 systems often carry more than one audio channel within each audio stream and sometimes production needs to route individual channels to specific destinations. AMWA IS-08 allows control systems to do just that. Here’s how.

Tuesday 12:30 – 1:00 p.m.

Andreas Hildebrand, ALC NetworX

This presentation explains how audio essence is transported with ST 2110 in general and further explains how individual input channels are bundled into an audio stream and how they can be assigned to dedicated outputs on a receiving device utilizing NMOS IS-08.

Tuesday 12:00 – 12:30 p.m.

Andy Rayner, Nevion Ltd

ST 2110-30 is based on AES567 which has been in use in different forms for a while in a stand-alone audio-only world. However, as we integrate into a hybrid video and audio environment, there are a great deal of new flexibilities needed in the audio domain to complete full systems.

Using recent deployments as examples, we will explore the range of audio processing and manipulation required to enable real systems to work end to end.

Tuesday 11:30 – 12:00 p.m.

Scott Barella, PESA

The presentation will address utilizing the SMPTE ST 2110 open standard for use in common ProAV applications. The primary focus of the talk will be centered on a common KVM application utilizing 2110-22 compressed video for use in 1Gbps Ethernet switch fabric.

Tuesday 11:00 – 11:30 a.m.

Koji Oyama, M3L

This presentation describes the current status of 25 GbE technology in IP production. It also provides jitter and wander measurements for 10 and 25 GbE systems using experimental data, thereby showing how 25 GbE networks are almost in production phase.

Tuesday 10:30 – 11:00 a.m.

Claudio Becker-Foss, DirectOut GmbH

AES67 is an interoperability standard for audio transmission. But is it really plug and play? This talk compares the standard with actual implementations and highlights potential pitfalls and specialties. Setting up a ST 2110-30 stream between two devices should be fairly easy but what is actually needed to do that? How do I find out what blocks my setup? This talk covers a brief overview over AES67 and ST 2110-30 and compares the standards with their actual implementations.

Tuesday 10:00 – 10:30 a.m.

Dominic Giambo, Wheatstone

AES67 has clearly emerged as an important standard that will eventually find its way into every broadcast plant that includes audio. All that remains is for broadcasters to commission AES67 in their plants. Wheatstone Senior Development Engineer Dominic Giambo offers tips for commissioning AES67, based on real-world plugfests.

Tuesday  9:30 – 10:00 a.m.

Andrew Bonney, BBC

Did you know for example, that there is no requirement for every node in a system to run the same IS-04 version? This presentation will take a look at some of the lesser-known and more advanced features of IS-04 and IS-05, along with how they may assist you in deploying anything from a small ad-hoc setup through to a large-scale multi-format facility.

Monday 5:00 – 5:30 p.m.

Bill McLaughlin, EEG

The combined JT-NM TR-1001 documents aims to define a “full stack” of technologies that can be implemented by all media processing nodes in a modern IP-based video facility in order to ensure interoperability and blaze a path towards plug and play configuration. In theory, a large group of such nodes can be configured in a way that is both automatic and self-documenting. Does this mean the master documentation for a facility can finally move past manually updated spreadsheets and similar legacy documentation? Find out at the presentation.

Monday 4:30 – 5:00 p.m.

Andrew Bonney, BBC

An introduction to the work of the AMWA’s NMOS Identity and Timing activity. This group is developing models and recommendations for tracking the identity and timing of content through successive production operations in a multi-vendor IP production system, enabling the true potential of the IP transition to be realized.

Monday 4:00 – 4:30 p.m.

Robert Porter and Gareth Sylvester-Bradley, Sony Europe

The AMWA IS-04 and IS-05 scalability study demonstrated that these APIs can be used reliably for networks comprising thousands of media nodes. This talk describes the methodology and results of the study, in addition to explaining how the JT-NM TR-1001-1 document helps to ensure good practice for scalability.

Monday 3:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday 10:30 – 11:00 a.m.

Peter Brightwell, BBC
With Brad Gilmer

This talk serves as an introduction to AMWA NMOS, covering all parts of this suite of interface specifications and best practices. We will also touch on why we’re creating it, the approach we’re taking, and how it’s being implemented. The AMWA IS-04 and IS-05 interfaces are now recognized as being essential to the industry’s move to interoperable live IP infrastructure. They allow control applications to automatically discover and connect networked media devices and are now mature specifications featured in many products.

Monday 3:00 – 3:30 p.m.

Matthew Goldman, MediaKind

In order to become more agile in operations and leverage the economies of scale and flexibility that IT infrastructure brings, broadcasters increasingly have been migrating from broadcast-specific architectures to IT-based solutions. This panel will discuss real-world deployments and explore the challenges that broadcasters face, as well as the benefits of transforming to “All IP.”

Monday 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Hartmut Opfermann, BFE Studio und Medien Systeme GmbH

When ORF needed to build their FÜ22 OB truck, they chose to use IP technology and SMPTE ST 2110 for media transport. In this presentation, we explore the decisions that have been made and the reasons behind switching to IP. We also talk about some lessons learned while planning, integrating, and testing the system.

Monday 1:30 -2:00 p.m.

Andy Rayner, Nevion

The presentation will focus on describing the architecture, benefits and challenges of the deployment of technology in the new Plazamedia broadcast centre. In 2018 Plazamedia moved to a new facility outside of Munich and was particularly keen to leverage the potential of IP to transform workflows though infrastructure virtualization.

Monday 1:00 – 1:30 p.m.

John Mailhot, Imagine Communications

SMPTE ST 2110 has received a great deal of attention over the past few years, but less attention has gone to the surrounding standards that enable systems to be easily constructed. SMPTE, EBU, AES, VSF, and other organizations have worked together to create a set of interlocking standards and specifications that allow end customers to build real systems. This paper covers the real dynamics of building a scalable media system using SMPTE ST 2110 and the related interface and control specifications and recommendations — especially JT-NM TR-1001-1

Monday 12:30 – 1:00 p.m.

Willem Vermost, EBU

This presentation will describe the efforts being made by multiple vendors and the JT-NM to raise the quality-bar for ST 2110 products.

Monday 12-12:30 p.m.

Sithideth Viengkhou, Embrionix

In SMPTE ST 2110 installations, it is important to understand the nature of IP traffic. This presentation will discuss SDP (Session Description Protocol), which ensures that receivers know the nature of all flows arriving through the IP port. We will also offer examples of SDP in ST 2110, as well as possible improvements to the SDP connection method.

Monday, 11:30 – Noon

Wes Simpson

A one-hour tutorial on the basic principles of SMPTE ST 2110, including all of the published parts of the standard and a peek at some of the new ones in the works.

Monday 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Tuesday, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Thursday, 9:30 – 10:30 a.m.

            Ghislain Collette, Haivision

The SRT (Secure, Reliable Transport) open source video transport protocol enables the delivery of high-quality, low-latency video securely across the public Internet. This technical presentation will explore the SRT protocol, its open source software stack and how it accounts for latency, packet loss recovery, jitter, security, firewall traversal and bandwidth optimization.

Tuesday, 2:30-3:00 p.m.

            Merrick Ackermans, MVA Broadcast Consulting

VSF’s Reliable Internet Stream Transport Activity Group has been developing an inter-operable specification for the live real-time transport of broadcast-quality low-latency video over the public Internet. This is a report on the progress that has been made and an update on the work currently underway.

Tuesday, 2:00-2:30 p.m.

  Steven Dargham, Telstra

Optical transport networks are now being used for high-value live sports contribution, saving costs from satellite delivery and offering new flexible business models as well as providing secure and reliable video transport. Using real world case studies from the deployment of optical transport networks for global sports contribution, this presentation will be a technical deep dive on how to architect an IP network for high value media and sports contribution.

Tuesday, 1:30-2:00 p.m.

            Massimo Magnani, Juniper Networks

            Gabriele Ubertini – SKY TV Italy

We discuss the use of an SDN Controller to perform path computation and instantiation of diversely routed paths (using SMPTE ST 2022-7) across the wide-area network (WAN) for media transport, using standards based protocols. This includes a case study in the context of SKY’s network.

Tuesday, 1:00-1:30 p.m.

            Wes Simpson, Telecom Product Consulting

Where is the broadcast industry going to find people with the skills needed to manage mission-critical IP media production systems and fully exploit the power of IP video technologies? Replacing an entire staff with IT experts won’t work because of the tremendous loss of media-specific knowledge.  Instead, media companies must train existing staff in IP technology. This presentation describes a range of options for technology education available today.

Tuesday, 12:30-1:00 p.m.

            Anthony Kuzub, Ward-Beck Systems

What was once a piece of masking tape and a sharpie marker is now a dynamic database running on a network; there may be a simpler way. Using a common language leveraging the work done in the RFC standards, a hugely complex audio system can be augmented with metadata.

Tuesday, 12:00-12:30 p.m.

            Andreas Hildebrand, ALC NetworX

Detailed explanation of the synchronization fundamentals of ST 2110 and how these can be applied to achieve sample-accurate synchronization among audio streams.

Tuesday, 11:30-12:00 noon

Gerard Philips, Arista Networks

This presentation will discuss the architectural components and the monitoring and measurement techniques that can be combined to give full-spectrum network visibility of an all-IP broadcast network, maximising uptime and minimising costs.

Monday, 4:30-5:00 p.m.

Rob Porter, Sony Europe Limited

The AMWA scalability study aims to confirm that the IS-04 and IS-05 APIs can be used reliably for networks comprising thousands of devices, as might be found in a typical broadcast installation. This talk will describe the methodology and results of the study and make recommendations for best practice.

Monday, 4:00-4:30 p.m.

   David Atkins, Suitcase TV

The AMWA Event and Tally Project aims to offer a simple protocol with wide industry adoption for signaling and/or becoming aware of time-critical events/states to simplify the adoption of IP solutions without the need for complex proprietary protocols. This presentation provides a review of the work of the AMWA Event and Tally Project, the draft specification, how it works, what it’s for and how to get involved.

Monday, 3:30-4:00 p.m.

Richard Hastie, Mellanox Technologies

This presentation shows how AMWA IS-04 Discovery and Registration can be fully automated and abstracted through the use of dematerialised microservices. The result will be that broadcast engineers of tomorrow no longer need to worry about these services as they will become as ubiquitous as any other data centre technology such as DHCP, DNS, etc.

Monday, 3:00-3:30 p.m.

Andrew Bonney, BBC

An introduction to the work of the AMWA’s NMOS Identity and Timing activity. This group is developing models and recommendations for tracking identity and timing of content through successive production operations in a multi-vendor IP production system, enabling the true potential of IP to be realised.

Monday, 2:30-3:00 p.m.

Peter Brightwell, BBC (also representing AMWA)
Thomas Edwards, Fox

An introduction to why we have developed the AMWA IS-04/05/06 specifications, what this means in practice and what is happening next.

Monday, 2:00-2:30 p.m.

Andreas Jacobi, Make.TV
Steven Jalicy, ESL

ESL Gaming hosted ESL One Cologne in 2017, which supported 62 million sessions totaling 13 million hours of live video viewing. ESL ingests all broadcast signals once into a cloud infrastructure, which are then routed and distributed live via Twitch, YouTube Live and more, or to sub-production houses, broadcast stations and CDNs. Broadcasters can learn many lessons from the esports industry’s use of the cloud, and how these technologies can be used in news, sports and entertainment

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Monday, 1:30 – 2:00 p.m.

      Robert Erickson, Grass Valley

A case study on a recent COTS-based SMPTE ST 2110 deployment in a EMEA-based OB truck. Discusses lessons learned throughout the deployment, new technologies that were leveraged, and what can be done to further refine the design.

Monday, 1:00-1:30 p.m.

            James Stellpflug, EVS

The technologies enabled by IP are increasingly highlighting that SDI-only media workflows won’t be able to keep up with tomorrow’s business models. Learn how content creators and facilities providers can prepare for the next-generation of live production workflows with the deployment of software functionality.

Monday, 12:30-1:00 p.m.

      Joop Janssen, Aperi Corp.

The adoption of firmware-based technology for live content production and delivery represents a game-changing opportunity. Approaching it in a hardware-agnostic way, this presentation will show how live programming can be produced, transported and delivered using a pay-for-what-you-use model for more effective operations.

Monday, 12:00-12:30 p.m.

            Nir Nitzani, Mellanox Technologies

The move to software-based SMPTE ST 2110 solutions is happening – but what does it take to make it a reality? How do you bridge over the old and new industry challenges? The presentation will show how a software solution can cope with long lists of industry requirements and address additional challenges that may not seem immediately obvious.

Monday, 11:30-12:00 noon

    Moderated by Tony Orme, Broadcast Bridge

A highly technical discussion focusing on the practical implementation of ST 2110 and the insights gained by the panelists in their specialist fields of providing solutions and products. Aimed at engineers who need practical advice based on experience, the panelists will provide insight into their understanding of IP and how to make it work. Panelists include:

David Atkins, Managing Director, Suitcase TV
Simen K. Frostad, Chairman, Bridge Technologies
Gerard Philips, Arista Networks

Monday, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Andy Rayner, Nevion

In July, VSF initiated a new project, drafting recommendations for the transport of SMPTE ST 2110 over wide area networks. This is especially applicable to the area of remote production – either between facilities or between an outside broadcast event location and the home studio facility. This presentation will describe the aims of the work, the technical areas being addressed, and the initial technical results of the work to-date.

Sunday, 4:30-5:00 p.m.

            Thomas Wahlund , Net Insight

An outline of the benefits of using ST 2110 essence streams over WAN for remote & distributed live production, the challenges involved, and real-life implementations of distributed IP live productions.

Sunday, 4:00-4:30 p.m.

  Ievgen Kostiukevych, EBU

The presentation will explain that there is much more to consider when building an AoIP infrastructure than just the AES67 standard. The challenges of synchronization and clocking, discovery and registration, device and network control will be explained and some solutions will be offered. The full-stack NMOS solution concept is presented.

Sunday, 3:30-4:00 p.m.

Hartmut Opfermann, BFE Studio und Medien Systeme GmbH

Implementing ST 2022-7 is usually associated with two separate, disjoint networks, but this is not a requirement. In this presentation we explore the benefits one can get by using a single network.

Sunday, 3:00-3:30 p.m.

        Gerard Philips, Arista Networks

Learn how to apply cloud scale, data center architectural principles to live production and playout networks, allowing you to maximise scale, resilience and flexibility.

Sunday, 2:30-3:00 p.m.

    Aviad Raveh, Mellanox

Implementing video stream switching in the boundaries of a frame has been a long-time challenge in moving to IP-based networks. This presentation focuses on solving this unique media use case using a commercial off-the-shelf Ethernet switch with P4 programmable blocks, over a standard pipeline switch.

Sunday, 2:00-2:30 p.m.

Steven Soenens, Skyline Communications
Nathan Dixon, Arqiva

Skyline and Arqiva will discuss the business objectives and benefits of buildingan all-IP and fully SDN controlled media network. Having an orchestrated common infrastructure in place unlocks the delivery of new services faster and with a higher degree of flexibly than ever before. A deep dive into new use cases, and the technology behind them are part of the discussion.

Sunday, 1:30-2:00 p.m.

     Mark Patrick, BBC

The BBC is building a new broadcast centre in Cardiff, Wales, which will be its first to adopt SMPTE ST 2110 for core routing. With a little over a year to go before the building goes live, this is an update on the implementation of this system, including many lessons learnt so far and new design approaches that are being taken.

Sunday, 1:00-1:30 p.m.

This session brings together a range of experts on a critical, but often overlooked aspect of the transition to IP media production: system testing and quality assurance. Willem Vermost of the EBU will introduce this session by describing the key aspects that should be tested for every IP media production system. Following that, representatives from companies including Bridge Technologies, Leader Instruments, PacketStorm, Phabrix, Tektronix and Video Clarity will each make a presentation on one critical type of testing, describing how these tests should be performed and how to assess the results. The final portion of this session will give audience members a chance to probe more deeply and ask questions of the assembled panel of experts. Truly, a session not to be missed for anyone interested in system test and measurement.

Sunday, 11:30-1:00 p.m.

   Ammar Latif, Cisco

Best practices for building network fabric for next gen media DC to accommodate live and file-based workflows.

Sunday, 11:00-11:30 a.m.

Willem Vermost, EBU

The why, what and how towards achieving a secure live IP media facility.

Saturday,4:30-5:00 p.m.

Brad Gilmer, Joint Taskforce on Networked Media (JT-NM)

The Joint Taskforce on Networked Media (JT-NM) has identified security as a key area for the industry. Because of this, we have taken advantage of an opportunity to conduct vulnerability scanning on a large number of devices during the recent IP Showcase pre-qualification event. Attendees to this session will learn about the vulnerability scanning tool that was used. Strengths and weaknesses of scanning will be discussed. Summary results of these vulnerability scans will be presented with the objective of setting a baseline for future scans.

Saturday, 4:00-4:30 p.m.

Arne Bönninghoff, Riedel Communications GmbH & Co. KG

A demonstration of how IS-04 and IS-05 can be secured against rogue access, so that a production environment can only be altered by authorized controllers.

Saturday, 3:30-4:00 p.m.

Simon Rankine, BBC Research and Development

An update from AMWA’s NMOS API Interoperable Security Group, who are applying tried and tested web security approaches to the NMOS APIs, to ensure that we can leverage industry best practice security measures without compromising cross-vendor interoperability.

Saturday, 3:00-3:30 p.m.

Arne Bönninghoff, Riedel Communications GmbH & Co. KG

Advances in NMOS, IS-04 and IS-05 can lead to truly converged IP media facilities and plug-and-play-like installations. We will show how to leverage the IP devices and signals along with standardised automatic address assignment and intelligent signal grouping, to overcome incompatibilities between AES67, Ravenna, and Dante.

Saturday, 2:30-3:00 p.m.

John Mailhot, Imagine Communications

The SMPTE standards and AMWA specifications provide important building blocks, but how does a customer specify equipment in order to meet the potential of these standards? Which additional constraints or features are really required to build a working system? This talk covers the systemization of IP technologies based on ST 2110 and IS-04/05.

Saturday, 2:00-2:30 p.m.

            To Be Announced

Saturday, 1:30-2:00 p.m.

Ulrich Voigt, Qvest Media GmbH
Andreas Lattmann, technology and production center Switzerland ag

tpc switzerland ag is building a new sports, news and technology center in Zurich completely on an ST  2110 infrastructure. tpc and its master consultant Qvest Media will jointly describe the state of the project and the journey taken during the last year and a half of PoCs, tests, specification and planning work.

Saturday 1:00-1:30

Moderated by Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director at Sports Video Group

The role of IP within sports production facilities continues to evolve and the move to 2110 is only accelerating the pace of change. Experts discuss some of the most recent facilities and events that have turned to IP transport, how that change impacted the production of the event, and how IP will ultimately transform the sports fan experience.

Panelists include:
Tom Giles – ALTEC
Ronald Meyvisch – Euro Media Group

Saturday 12:00-1:00

Bill McLaughlin, EEG

Along with video and audio, subtitling is the third synchronized content type that is generated in real time by all large scale broadcasters. The presentation covers the basics of the ST 2110-40 standard, how it relates to live generated subtitle workflows specifically, and explores key differences between SDI VANC and ST 2110-40 data processing chains.

Saturday 11:30-12:00

Leigh Whitcomb, Imagine Communications

This presentation is a deep dive into the ST 2110-40 Ancillary Data standard. The ANC standard for ST 2110 is made up of two parts:  one from IETF and one from SMPTE. This presentation covers how ANC services are transported by ST 2110. New flexibility enabled by the standard will also be covered.

Saturday 11:00-11:30

Costas Columbus, BCE

BCE designed and built a full IP routing infrastructure during the relocation of company premises to RTL City. Well before the finalization of the new SMPTE ST 2110 standards, BCE installed and currently operates this massive all-IP video and audio routing system based solely on the technologies available at that time. This presentation provides a look at this groundbreaking project from start to finish.

Saturday 10:30-11:00

Bart Meeus, sonoVTS

Taking the step from traditional SDI broadcast workflows to IP-based broadcast workflows impacts the way we display video signals. Are native IP broadcast displays the next step?

Saturday 10:00-10:30

Leigh Whitcomb, Imagine Communications

This presentation examines the challenges of designing and configuring a robust SMPTE ST 2059/PTP system over an ST 2022-7 network. Practical solutions to address these challenges are presented, as well as techniques for troubleshooting and monitoring the SMPTE ST 2059/PTP network.

Friday 4:30-5:00

Thomas Kernen, Mellanox Technologies

As a whole, the media industry is still new to IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol. SMPTE ST 2110 relies on it via the ST 2059 PTP profile to synchronise all sources and receivers within the network. Troubleshooting PTP can seem complicated at first, which is why a good understanding of what to look out for is required.

Friday 4:00-4:30

            Andy Rayner, Nevion

Timing is everything in the world of SMPTE ST 2110: Timing of PTP node synchronisation, timing of IP packet delivery and last, but certainly not least, timing related to tracking the source time of each media essence through the production chain. This presentation will provide an update on these areas, looking at what is now achievable and what it still to come in realising these capabilities, focusing specifically on the end-to-end production timing.

Friday 3:30-4:00

Sarkis Abrahamian, Embrionix

The advent of all-IP broadcast infrastructures creates many challenges. This presentation will cover the key challenges of PTP in the broadcast IP environment, and share not only a high-level understanding of PTP, but also key takeaways experienced by the Embrionix team from various IP deployments around the globe.

Friday 3:00-3:30

Moderated by Matthew Goldman
SVP Technology, MediaKind (Formerly Ericsson Media Solutions)

Now that the standards have been published, all-IP deployments based on SMPTE ST 2110 are beginning in earnest.  Experts from a variety of backgrounds have been assembled to share their insights on this crucial next stage in the evolution of media production.

Panelists include:
Thomas Edwards – Fox
Robert Erickson – Grass Valley

Friday 2:00-3:00 p.m.

Tony Orme, Broadcast Bridge

A look at the benefits of IP from the point of view of production teams. Explaining the fundamental differences between SDI and IP, this talk will focus on operational context by example, to appeal to a wider audience of program makers and production teams.

Monday, 10:00-10:30 a.m.

Fernando Solanes, Evertz

With the advent of SMPTE ST 2110, Telemundo has taken a bold move and created the industry’s first and largest ST 2110 broadcast facility. This presentation will discuss Telemundo’s challenges in the deployment of this revolutionary facility.

Friday 1:30-2:00 p.m.

Daf Rees, Arena TV

The options available to IP system designers have evolved since Arena TV’s first IP system design – pre AIMS and pre SMPTE ST2110. This presentation will demonstrate how, in a short period, IP system design horizons have widened to enable highly flexible, user friendly, commercially attractive systems.

Friday 1:00-1:30 p.m.

Mike Cronk, Grass Valley
James Stellpflug, EVS

This presentation outlines how a new work-in-progress SMPTE Recommended Practice, SMPTE RP 2110-23 will greatly streamline and simplify super-slo mo workflows as compared to SDI-based approaches, enabling greater flexibility and quicker setup times for OB providers.

Friday 12:30-1:00 p.m.

Ammar Latif, Cisco

This session will focus on best practices for building network fabric for a next generation media datacenter to accommodate live and file-based workflows.

Friday 12:00-12:30
Sunday 11:00-11:30
Tuesday 11:00-11:30

Andreas Hildebrand, ALC NetworX

This session explains the fundamentals and possible variations of audio transport within ST 2110 and its compatibility with AES67.

Friday 11:30-12:00
Sunday 10:30-11:00
Tuesday 10:30-11:00

Ed Calverley, Q3 Media

This session will demystify the ever growing list of buzzwords, standards and protocols around IP, while also recapping the basics of networking that everyone in broadcast needs to know but which regularly get overlooked or are misunderstood.

Friday 11:00-11:30
Sunday 10:00-10:30
Tuesday 10:00-10:30

Monday, 1:00-1:30 p.m.

Successful OB Truck ST 2110 Deployment

Robert Erickson, Grass Valley

A case study on a recent COTS based 2110 deployment in a EMEA based OB truck. Discusses lessons learned throughout the deployment, new technologies that were leveraged, and what can be done to further refine the design.