IP transforms media transport by converting signals into packets of data and routing them over the network. It replaces the point-to-point unidirectional link of SDI with the ability to send media as streams of video, audio, and metadata to anywhere with sufficient bandwidth and an IP endpoint.
Any format and any combination of audio, video, and metadata can flow bidirectionally across a facility or between facilities and over long distances using the same protocols, the same switchers, the same common IT architectures.
Media transport over IP liberates the broadcast industry from reliance on expensive, inflexible, outmoded, and proprietary hardware solutions at every part of the chain. IP software and solutions allows for more dynamic production video workflows as well as lower total cost of ownership.
Rather than pushing work linearly from source to consumption, broadcasters can build systems to perform one function one day and a different or multiple functions the next. Systems can be scaled up, or down; best-of-breed tools and services can be interchanged; production can be distributed with talent operating from anywhere.
For all the benefits of IP for production and distribution, the industry faces technical and cultural challenges in migrating legacy systems and existing practices. Transporting media over the open network is prone to congestion, packet loss, and piracy. Each media transport solution used to reroute or transform media adds latency. The internet adds uncertainty to the timing and synchronization of signals where previously there was none.
Net Insight pioneered broadcast-grade media transport over IP and robust media architectures at scale. We provide the speed, agility, openness, and security needed to address dynamic media consumption over IP with the extremely low latency and extreme quality needed for live production.
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As cloud production becomes an integral part of broadcasters’ live workflows, the corresponding cloud infrastructure becomes an integral part of the media transport network.
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Media broadcast is the one way and one to many transmission of content using satellite, cable or internet infrastructure
IP converts signals into packets of data routed over a network permitting more dynamic, flexible and efficient video production workflows.
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