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John Mailhot, CTO – Networking
Beyond the Hype: IP in the Real World
Who’s doing it, how they’re using it, and why they made the move!
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Agenda
03. Ethernet Interfaces
04. Architecture Network Design Tips
06. Summary Best Practices!
01. Introduction The State of the Industry & the Golden Age of SDI
05. Case Studies
Real World Implementations
07. Learning More
02. Standards & Roadmaps
SMPTE ST 2110 & An Introduction to AMWA
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TV As We Know It, Is Changing…
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CONTENT When you want it, where you want it, and however you want to watch it!
SOURCE Competition is fast, huge and non-traditional: Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, Facebook,
YouTube, PlayStation Network…. it goes on!
FORMAT Diverse formats, chasing a diverse audience! “The wild, wild west!”
IP infrastructure provides operational flexibility to attack these threats
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IP Enables Workflow Mobility and Scale
Television Workflows are shifting from PREMISES-
CENTRIC to CLOUD-CENTRIC
Premises-centric: Static, Expensive, Non-scalable, Facility-bound
Cloud-centric: Flexible, Cost-Effective,
Hyper-scale, Repeatable, Open / Interoperable,
Virtualizable Playout Advertising Monitoring Production Delivery Orchestration Workflow
Playout Advertising Monitoring Production Delivery Orchestration Workflow
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The Transition Path is Paved with IP
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SDI
IP
Software & Virtual
IP enables Operating at Scale IP enables Software/Virtual
Physical “Big Iron”
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Today is the “Golden Age” of SDI Routing
SDI ROUTERS HAVE NEVER BEEN BETTER Except for UHD, Scalability, etc. SDI is not the future – but it IS the present!
YOUR IP INFRASTRUCTURE SOLUTIONS Should enable the transition to flexible, software-defined workflows, and scale to UHD & more!
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The Ideal IP Solution
Actually Open – True COTS Hardware from Standard IT Vendors
Solutions for Production, Playout & Distribution
Getting There from Here – Gradually – IP at Your Pace
Grow as You Need – Scalable Now or Later
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Standards and Roadmaps
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Standards Matter
SMPTE ST 2022-2 Transport Stream over IP
SMPTE ST 2022-6 SDI over IP
SMPTE ST 2059 PTP Timing for Television
SMPTE ST 2110 Video, Audio, and Metadata over IP
AMWA IS-04 Networked Media Open Specification
Open Standards
The Development and Deployment of open standards is essential to IP-based television production and distribution
Interoperable Products
Seamless Workflows
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IP Transport Standards in SMPTE
SMPTE ST 2022-1/2/3/4 MPEG-2 Transport Stream over IP
ST 2022-5/6 SDI over IP
Both of these are “multiplex” standards, where the video, audio, and ancillary data signals (plus blanking and padding) are wrapped up into a single IP stream
A Recipient who wants just one element still has to take the whole stream from the network, in order to extract the part they want
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IP Transport Standards in SMPTE
IP IS (ITSELF) A MULTIPLEX STANDARD
Every packet can be part of a different stream
Why are we carrying multiplexes inside of multiplexes?
ST 2110 PUTS EACH PART OF THE SIGNAL INTO A DIFFERENT STREAM
• Video, Audio(s), and ANC(s) all separately routable
Recipients can ask for exactly what they want, and get only that!
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All Streams are Separately Routable in IP – complete flexibility to combine any audio & video – complete flexibility to combine any ANC & video – perfect for audio/video production or distribution
ST 2110-10 System Overview & Timing Model
ST 2110-20 Uncompressed Active Video
ST 2110-30 PCM Audio (compatible with AES67)
ST 2110-31 AES3 Emulation (non-PCM audio)
ST 2110-40 Ancillary Data
ST 2110-50 Timing Interoperation with ST 2022-6
Upgrade SDI to Something Better
SMPTE ST 2110
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But What About Control?
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Finding all the Parts of the System
HOW DID YOU DO IT IN AN SDI SYSTEM??
very TEDIOUS to set up …requires drivers for EVERY device!
even MORE difficult??
• Automated discovery maybe within the same vendor
• Manual entries when integrating equipment from others
HOW WILL IT WORK IN AN IP ENVIRONMENT?
• Automated Discovery by a Standard Protocol
• Stream Switching requests, too
• Let’s talk about AMWA-NMOS
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AMWA Network Media Open Spec IS-04
ADVANCED MEDIA WORKFLOW ASSOCIATION
Devices: things that make or eat signals • Look in DNS (or mDNS) to find the “registrar”
• Tell the “registrar” who they are and what they have
• Keep the “registrar” informed if things change
Anybody, who cares to, can ask the “registrar”… • about the devices and their streams
• to update them if things change
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AMWA NMOS Connection Management IS-05
Controllers: things that make routing happen • Know about the streams from the registration service
• Maintain the names and meanings of those streams
• Tell the Receivers what stream to take
• Act like a “routing system” to everything in the plant
Devices: things that make or eat streams • Register streams and keep
the registration service informed of changes
• Respond to the IS-05 Connection Management API
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How “Open” is AMWA?
THE SPEC free - un l ike SMPTE
OPEN SOURCE IMPLEMENTATION
https://github.com/AMWA-TV/nmos https://github.com/Streampunk/ledger there are others reported to be WIP
Technologies that are already fully implemented in all major OS’s and Platforms
Dozens of companies have tested NMOS in lab environments and interop events with success!
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Does AMWA-NMOS Solve Everything?
IT SOLVES TWO KEY PROBLEMS WE CARE A LOT ABOUT
REGISTRATION & DISCOVERY (IS-04) • Finding the parts of the system in a vendor-neutral way
• Cataloguing the streams being generated
MINIMAL END-POINT CONTROL (IS-05) • Telling a Receiver to join a new stream
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What’s with all these different Ethernet Interfaces?
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What Does a 10GBE Connection Look Like?
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S I N G L E M O D E
SFP+ Optics are LC Duplex • Multimode Fiber OM4 400M • Singlemode Fiber choices SRS (2km), LR (10km), ER (40km)
SFP+ Direct-Attach Cables • Active Optical good to 20+M • Beware Passive “twinax” – bad • Highly Reliable – no optical joints • Made by many competitive vendors in many lengths
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What Does 40GBE Look Like?
40GBE (QSFP+) • Combines four lanes of 10G, but NOT A LAG • Some 40G ports can be configured as 4x10G
MPT/MPO Connector to 8 Fibers • Passive breakouts available in MM or SM
CWDM to Duplex LC Fiber in the QSFP • Two fibers, each with 4 wavelengths inside
True 40Gbit Laser/Receiver • Very expensive, but a single SM wavelength
Active Direct-Attach Cables • QSFP-to-QSFP (40G) • QSFP-to-four-SFP+ (4 10G ends)
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What About 25G, 50G, and 100G?
25G looks just like 10G • Except the bits move faster
50G combines two lanes at 25G • This is NOT a LAG, it’s a single interface • No special connector, just half of a QSFP28
100G looks like 40G • Combines four lanes at 25G (NOT a LAG)
Link Budgets on Fibers are a Little Shorter • OM3 – 70M max OM4 – 100M max
SFP+ SFP28
QSFP+ QSFP28
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Connector Lingo – How to Read the Spec
SFP+ == 10GBE Capable Often 1G/10G configurable
SFP28 == like SFP+ but does 25GBE
QSFP+ == 40GBE Capable
QSFP28 == 100GBE Capable Often (but check) can configure as 4x10G 1x40G 4x25G 2x50G
How do I Connect to the 50G interfaces inside the QSFP28?
Often (but check) can config as 4x10G
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Plumbing for the QSFP28 with 25G & 50G
Primary Switch
QSFP28
QSFP28
QSFP28
Server (25G) SFP28 SFP28
Device (50G) QSFP28
Secondary Switch
QSFP28
QSFP28
QSFP28
QSFP28
Server (25G) SFP28 SFP28
Server (25G) SFP28 SFP28
Server (25G) SFP28 SFP28
QSFP28
Device (50G) QSFP28
Device (100G) QSFP28
QSFP28
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Architecture Overview & Network Design Tips
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What are the Ask-Me-First Questions?
What SCALE does it need to grow to?
…how many input Signals (video & audio)? …how many destinations (video & audio)? …how many Multiviewer PIPs & how organized?
HD, 3G, or UHD? Or all three?
Which devices will “natively” speak IP? What interfaces (10G, 25G, etc.) do those IP devices have, and how many signals do they cram into each interface? Which devices will require SDI (or MADI, or…) IP gateways to/from?
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Architecture for Redundancy
What if a Switch Fails?
What if the Optics Fail?
What if a Cable Fails?
SMPTE ST 2022-7 Works Really Well • Send Two Copies
• On Two Interfaces
• To Two Switches
• Join and Receive from both
• Packet-by-packet merge
• Used for SMPTE ST 2022-6 video & AES67 audio
• Also used for all parts of SMPTE ST 2110
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Leaf: 48x10 4x100
Engineered Non-Blocking Dual Spine/Leaf
Use 50G/100G ports in the Spines Well-filled links go straight to spine
Aggregate underutilized links in leaf BUT: Keep the Leafs non-blocking
• All signals simultaneously uplinked • All signals simultaneously downlinked
GW: 16x16 HD
(A) SPINE N x 100G
Leaf: 48x10 4x100
HD gateways (HD, 3G)
10G multiviewers, etc. Devices with under-utilized 10G ports
Low-utilization 10G ports
(B) SPINE N x 100G
1+1 50G ports
GW: 16x16 3G
GW: 4x4 UHD
GW: 24x8 3G 1+1 100G ports
GW: 8x0 UHD
GW: 2x6 UHD Application (on ½ of blade) Each SW app is 2 HD in & 2 HD out
32 Applications
Application (on ½ of blade)
Blad
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Blad
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Handy Facts 16 3G ~ 50G 32 HD ~ 50G
Each way!
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Building Blocks of Systems − Typical Switches
1G LEAFS FOR AUDIO & DATA
• Arista 7010T (48x1G + 4x10G)
• Brocade ICX7150
• Cisco WS-C2960X-48TS-LL
BIGGER LEAF/AGGREGATORS FOR VIDEO/AUDIO/DATA
• Arista 7280SR-48C6 (48x10G + 6x100G)
or 7280QR-C36 (96x10G + 12x100G)
• Brocade SLX 9140 (48x10/25G + 6x100G)
• Cisco Nexus 93180YC-EX (48x10/25G + 6x100G)
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Building Blocks of Systems − Spine Switches
SMALL SPINES • Arista 7280CR-48 (48x100G + 8x40G)
• Brocade SLX 9240 (32x100G)
• Cisco Nexus 9236C (36x100G)
BIG SPINES • Arista 7504R (up to 144x100G), 7508R (288x100G), 7512R (432x100G)
• Cisco Nexus 9504 (up to 128x100G), 9508 (up to 256x100G), 9516
Handy Facts 48 x100G == 1500x1500 @ 3G 144 x100G == 4600x4600 @ 3G
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IP D
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SDI D
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Translate to/from IP
SDI Devices
A Switch
B Switch
IP Devices
• Baseband for Baseband, IP for IP
• Translators as tie-lines – automatically allocated and routed
• Most cost-effective in the “Middle zone” of the crossover
• Clear path to the all-IP endgame
HYBRID
Hybrid Core – Baseband plus IP
• More and more devices natively speak IP
• Works well with top-of-rack architecture for signal management
• Requires translation for baseband devices to IP
• Wire-level redundancy for maintenance & uptime
IP
IP Switches in the middle, everything
converged to IP
• Add IP only as devices natively speak it
• Requires translation where IP meets baseband
• Difficult endgame – you still have a baseband core
LOWEST RISK
SDI
SDI Router in the core, with a few IP things
translated back to SDI
COST EFFICIENT
BEST OF BOTH WORLDS
3 Ways to Build and IP-Based Plant
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UHD and Multiviewers – Bandwidth Challenge
UHD signals (uncompressed) require enormous bandwidth
Multiviewing UHD production signals can require bringing every UHD signal into the MV system, just to scale them all down by a lot
This can account for half or more of the bandwidth in a system
ALTERNATIVE
Use HD/3G versions of the UHD signals where available for the multiviewer
• Many UHD devices make an HD copy
• Most will continue to do so
UHD Uncompressed
Signals
UHD Proxy
Signals
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Example-Design: HD/UHD Production System
Arista 7280CR48 Spines
Arista 7010T Leafs Audio Consoles Audio Interfaces
Video Production Switcher (with IP Direct Interface)
Selenio Network Processor for SDI Interfacing, Processing, Synchronizing, and Conversions
Arista 7280SR-48C6 Leafs UHD CCU
UHD CCU
UHD CCU
EPIC-MV 36IPx4IP
NMS / Manager
Routing Control / SDNO
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Example-Design: Ingest/Playout System
Arista 7280CR48 Spines
Selenio Network Processor for SDI Interfacing, Processing, Synchronizing, and Conversions
Arista 7280SR-48C6 Leafs
EPIC-MV 36IPx4IP
NMS / Manager
Routing Control / SDNO
Versio (on ½ of blade) Each Versio is 2 HD in & 2 HD out
32 Versio
Versio (on ½ of blade)
Blad
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Blad
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Selenio Network Processor for SDI Interfacing to Downstream
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Real-World Implementations
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CASE STUDY − Vice Media
Cutting-edge digital content company, w. HQ in Brooklyn, NY
Launched TV news program ‘Vice News’ in Dec. 2016
Implement next-gen, IP-based news production infrastructure
Handle workflow mix of prepared & live video & audio signals from anywhere in the world
Need flexible, responsive processing, playout, monitoring & control
THE CHALLENGE
Provided Vice w. Selenio™ MCP+UCIP for on-/off-ramps to IP networks
UHD-/HDR-ready Nexio+®AMP™ media servers for ingest and playout
Highly scalable EPIC™ MV multiviewer for signal monitoring
Magellan™ SDNO SW control system for hybrid/all-IP environments, integrating 3rd-party devices, and ensuring operational transparency across the network.
HOW IMAGINE HELPED
Standards-based, AIMS-compliant IP solution, easily evolves and expands to meet future video consumption requirements
Single control solution managing entire workflow
Highly reliable, disruption-free transport of video, audio, timing signals w. full 1+1 redundancy at the core switching level
Bragging rights as one of the world’s first news organizations to adopt pure IP-based technology infrastructure
BENEFITS
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SOLUTION DIAGRAM − Vice Media
Brocade VDX 6940 (144x10G)
DEC2 MP2/MP4 Decoders
Brocade VDX 6940 (144x10G)
Selenio MCP UCIP 2022-6 + AES67 Gateways
DirectOut MADI GW
Lawo Audio Mixer
GV Video Switcher
PTP Generators
TS Sources
SDI Devices
News Production Facility
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CASE STUDY −
Owns/operates a global entertainment and news television properties, TV station groups, radio business; one of the world’s most valuable and recognizable brands
Set up hybrid infrastructure to leverage sizable SDI investment, and build fully-IP-based video distribution network for the future
THE CHALLENGE
IC proposed Selenio™ MCP3 w. Selenio UCIP gateway card, and Magellan™ SDN Orchestrator for the most efficient and cost-effective solution to leverage and manage existing infrastructure while transitioning to all-IP
Selenio UCIP card converts SDI baseband signals to IP streams and vice versa
Magellan SDNO software control system seamlessly manages hybrid networks
HOW IMAGINE HELPED
BENEFITS
Enables company to maintain workflow integrity and disruption-free broadcast operations today, with enough time for staff to adjust to new all IP-based workflows down the road
Delivers flexibility of using existing baseband routers while making phased transition to IP
Global Media & Entertainment Company
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CASE STUDY − Sky Italia
Sky Italia, one of Europe’s leading entertainment companies
Provides pay-TV services to around 5 million subscribers in Italy; service includes over 200 channels
Implement large-scale routing system in a hybrid SDI/IP environment
Make a managed transition to all-IP infrastructure
THE CHALLENGE
Future-proof Platinum™ IP3 router w. on-air expansion capability, ready for SDI/IP or all-IP future
Platinum™ and Selenio™ MCP uncompressed-over-IP gateways
Magellan™ SDNO software control system for IP/SDI hybrid networks
Proven solution based on scalable, 1+1 redundant IP3 router, enables fully virtualized audio/video routing ecosystem when
Magellan SDN Ochestrator with drivers to interoperate transparently with COTS IP network switches
HOW IMAGINE HELPED
Unified, open, standards-based approach to all-IP system
Efficient, centralized monitoring of multiple sites
Existing investments protected while making phased transition to all-IP
Seen as a technological leader within the Sky group
BENEFITS
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SOLUTION DIAGRAM − Sky Italia
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Hybrid SDI/IP Routing Ecosystem
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CASE STUDY − tpc
Leading broadcast service provider in Switzerland
Focused on studio production & live production of major events
Operates fleet of OB trucks
Equip new OB truck w. standards-based, AIMS-compliant, IP tech
Implement infrastructure solution to support HD/UHD productions
THE CHALLENGE
IC solution based on open SMPTE ST 2110 for uncompressed IP-UHD
Provided TPC w. new Selenio™ Network Processor (SNP) to support uncompressed HD and UHD
Magellan™ SDNO to manage all sources and destinations in the system
EPIC™ MV for signal monitoring with inputs and outputs in IP
HOW IMAGINE HELPED
Compact, next-gen tech offering extremely dense IP gateway & processing solution w. flexibility to support uncompressed HD/UHD
Single control system for simplified management of IC & 3rd party gear (including Sony cameras, EVS production switchers)
Highly scalable, SW-based, UHD-ready IP multiviewer
World’s first standards-based, uncompressed, IP-UHD OB truck!
BENEFITS
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SOLUTION DIAGRAM – tpc
ALL SIGNALS SMPTE ST 2110
Imagine
EPIC MV
Imagine Magellan SDNO Command & Control
IP-IP Processing Gateway
Sync NAT
Lawo VSM Operations Control
PTP
UHD CCU
UHD CCU
UHD CCU
Tailb
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IP-UHD Mobile Production
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Making a Successful Transition to IP – Good (Best?) Practices
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Understand & Use the Standards
IS04
SMPTE ST 2110
Video / Audio / ANC separately over IP
IS05
ST 2110 ST 2059 • Provides all the advantages
of IP-based routing • Works with standard
IP switches / routers
SMPTE ST 2059
PTP Timing for Television
• Replaces Black-Burst, LTC, Word Clock, DARS, TriLevel, 10MHz, and 1PPS
• Subject of multiple, successful industry interop events
AMWA IS 04
Network Media Open Spec
• Device Registration
AMWA IS 05
NMOS Connection Management
• Controllers: things that make routing happen
• Devices: things that make or eat streams
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Make the Jump to 100G in the Spine
COST 100GBE ports provide the lowest cost per gigabit and the optics will come down a lot over the next year
PORTS The newest, densest cores have 100G ports, but don’t waste spine ports on lightly-loaded interfaces − break the 100G into 2x50 or 4x25 where it makes sense
COROLLARY Keep the Spine Ports mostly full by using Leafs to Aggregate! The leaf switch can aggregate half-empty 10G interfaces into a single 100G
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Redundancy by Having Two of Them
Two Spines (A and B network)
Two Leafs where important (A and B)
Two Interfaces on devices (A and B)
Can cheat on signals that are less important (if there are any of those)
Plan for maintenance & SW upgrades
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Remember the Golden Age of SDI
Evaluate small islands of SDI where they make sense – if all the parts are SDI and no UHD
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Are You Listening?
Every piece of equipment in your facility today is trying to tell you something it’s not happy about
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Start Logging Today!
Almost all of the telemetry goes NO PLACE in modern facilities – everything is good, until it’s not, and you don’t know why
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Management Systems are NOT an Afterthought!
Budget for Customization
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Summary
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SDI Still Exists and is Still Effective
Hybrid IP/SDI Systems are a good approach to managing cost and legacy equipment
Your “IP Routing Control System” is probably also a very capable “SDI Routing Control System”
Most things don’t care how the signal got there
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Destination IP − Your Path. Your Pace.
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FORWARD THINKING
• Use Industry Standards and Require that your Vendors do so too!
• Plan for Redundancy Architecture & Monitor the Telemetry
• Remember that Prices of Switches, Computers, & Optics Change Every Month
– Don’t order them until you actually need them
– Don’t worry about what things used to cost – always take a current look
• Think about All the Layers of the Control System
– Routing Control, Monitoring, Logging
• IP-based Signals are the Pre-Requisite to Software-based Processing
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We ARE the IP Pioneers!
We are leading /driving the standards process through VSF and SMPTE
We are leading the marketplace drive for standards through our commitment to AIMS
First to show standards-based uncompressed IP acting like a router, with router controls and hybrid integration
Driving the marketplace towards uncompressed UHD
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Q&A
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How common is "AES3 Emulation" as an audio format? In which use cases is it used?
• The 2110-30 standard is compatible with AES67,
and handles normal PCM audio
• The 2110-31 standard (AES3 emulation) is there mainly to support non-PCM audio
– often Dolby-E or Dolby AC3
• in SMPTE 2110 there is no limit on how many audio signals can be there, so we expect that use to drop off over time as compatibility with SDI fades away
• 2110-31 also can be used for other payloads that are presently encapsulated inside AES3
– such as the metadata associated with object-based audio productions
AES3 Emulation as an Audio Format
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Are there reasons, other than cost efficiency, to use leaf/spine architectures? If cost was not an issue, would you just connect all devices to the spine?
• If the spine has enough of the right kinds of ports, you can just hook everything to it
• There is a wide variety of shapes and sizes of Ethernet switches to give facility designers a good set of choices in order to balance cost and complexity.
Leaf / Spine Cost Efficiency
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In the example design, why is the switcher connected to the spine, rather than the leaf? Is there a reason why the switcher needs to be on that part of the network?
• The switcher can connect directly to the spine, or through a leaf
• The choice is dependant on the infrastructure needs
• If the network connections are well utilized (60% full or more): – then it makes sense to hook straight to the spine
– the switcher generally consumes a large number of signals (and produces quite a few as well)
• It also depends on the specifics of the switcher’s IP interfaces, – the cost of the different ports
– port speeds
Do I Connect to the Switcher or the Leaf?
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What is the HD video latency through an IP based system and how are lipsync issues addressed?
• The delay for encapsulation of an HDSDI signal into ST2110 is quite low – microseconds
• Some receivers incorporate synchronizers in order to re-align to SDI timing, but the standard does not require this
• Each of the video and audio signals includes an RTP timestamp referenced to network (PTP) time
Video Latency and Lipsync Issues
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What control and monitoring solution did VICE use for their implementation?
Case Study – Vice Media
Cutting-edge digital content company, w. HQ in Brooklyn, NY
Launched TV news program ‘Vice News’ in Dec. 2016
Implement next-gen, IP-based news production infrastructure
Handle workflow mix of prepared & live video & audio signals from anywhere in the world
Need flexible, responsive processing, playout, monitoring & control
THE CHALLENGE
• Imagine SDNO as the routing control system, with Imagine “Magellan RCP” routing control panel
• The logging system built into the Imagine SDNO is the primary logger of event-based telemetry
• Status monitoring is through dashboards of the various products in the system
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If each device is discoverable over IP, how would an engineer manage video input sources into a video switcher console? Would there be a native router in the video switcher?
• The IS-04 discovery/registration protocol is used by:
– sources of streams (router sources) and
– stream receivers (router destinations)
• The engineer uses routing controls (panels) just like with SDI to route sources to switcher inputs
– routing control translates those high-level concepts into specific video and/or audio
– ANC streams to be connected to specific receivers
• The internal architectures of the switchers are independent
IS-04 Discovery/Registration Protocol
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In a SMPTE 2110 environment, do you have any recommendations for best practices for bundling disparate signals for distribution?
• As an un-compressed signal format, SMPTE 2110 requires a significantly large amount of bandwidth per signal
• When distributing signals to downstream sites, the routing control system manages the routing of the right bundle of signals to the distribution codec:
– typically compressed using J2K or H.264
• The compressed video/audio/ANC parts would be bundled using the codec-specific methods
– typically in an MPEG-2 TS wrapper for transport over WAN or satellite
Disparate Signals for Distribution
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For the tpc truck – how much bandwidth are they going to push around? Which parts of that solution are controlled by Imagine?
Case Study – tpc
ALL SIGNALS SMPTE ST 2110
Imagine
EPIC MV
Imagine Magellan SDNO Command & Control
IP-IP Processing Gateway
Sync NAT
Lawo VSM Operations Control
PTP
UHD CCU UHD CCU UHD CCU
Tailb
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Switch Suppliers
You mentioned Arista and Cisco specifically, but what are the other switches that can be managed by Imagine?
• We have done internal benchmark testing with HPE and Mellanox
• Switch management capabilities and available telemetries differ from switch to switch but can typically be built out with Imagine systems provided that
– the switch fabrics are non-blocking and
– the topology is well designed
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Thank You
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