Presentation at conference Abstract. The purpose of this presentation is to examine the impact of modern IT and software methods and technologies on the adoption IP media in broadcast. Realizing the advantages of media over IP go far beyond the adoption of a SDI packetization standard. Modern trends in networking, cloud and edge technologies, as well as software design, deployment and management tools all need to converge into an interconnected, collaborative technological foundation. The implications of these technologies, the interrelationships, the changing competitive landscape and the need for cross-sector collaboration will be investigated.

1. The Broadcast Transition to IP
Virtualization, The Cloud, The Edge and
Application Programming Interfaces
(APIs)
Todd Roth
Director of Engineering
Aperi Corporation

2. Contents
• Future of IP Media
– NMOS Roadmap
– Really Just Getting Started
• Cloud and the Edge
– Striking a balance
– Tools and Deployment
• Here Comes the Bandwidth
– The New Players
• APIs and NMOS
• Working Together

3. Future of IP Media

4. Just Getting Started
• 1st Step:
– Moving video to IP (SMPTE 2022 and 2110) - Replaces coax with cat6
– More than just replacing an old headache with a new one
• The Real Advantages:
– Managing IP flows and devices
– Building services and workflows
– Leveraging cloud based scalability
– Creating APPs and APIs

5. Striking a Balance
• Cloud
– Infinitely scalable at infinite cost
– And the latency
• Edge
– More Infrastructure
– IP conversion, compression, access control
• Both
– Deployability and management
– Containers and orchestration
– And APIs

6. $$$$ $

7. Modern Tooling
Tool Function Purpose
Application
Container
Tool to bundle and secure Apps and associated resources for
deployment.
Container
Orchestration
Open source system for deployment, management, scaling and
interconnection of containers
Analytics and
Monitoring
Open source software to time series analytics and dashboards
AIOps AI for alert management and troubleshooting
Logging Centralized logging and event based analytics

8. The New Players
• Carriers (ATT, Verizon, et al):
– IP backbones grow from gig- to tera- bit
– Now offering media services and content
• Cloud Providers (AWS, Google, Azure, Facebook):
– Used to offer cloud infrastructure
– (processing, storage, networking)
– Now offering media services and content
• Converge

9. Here Comes the Bandwidth

10. Evolving business realities of live media
• Enter Silicon Valley
• Amazon has streaming rights to
─ British rights for US Open Tennis (2019-2023)
─ English Premier League
─ NFL Thursday Night
• AT&T - NFL Sunday Ticket
• Facebook
─ 25 MLB games
─ bid $600M for IPL but lost to Star India ($2.6B)

11. Enter ATT

12. Remote Production Application at Euro Cup
Stadium Site
Implementation
Equipment Rack - Stadium
CAM1 (4K)
CAM2 (4K)
CAM3 (4K)
CAM4 (4K)
CAM1 (HD)
CAM2 (HD)
CAM3 (HD)
CAM4 (HD)
Multiview
VC2-Enc
VC2-Enc
VC2-Enc
VC2-Enc
2022-6
Encap
Eth
Switch
3Gbps
3Gbps
1.5Gbps
Fiber
Network
TimedSwitch(x2)
Control & Mgmt
Total media = 7.5Gbps
10GigE Fiber
10GigE Fiber
IBC
Implementation
VC-2 DEC1
VC-2 DEC2
ST22-6
DeCap
Eth
Switch
Fiber
Network
10GigE Fiber
10GigE Fiber
4K Monitor
‘A’
4K Monitor
‘B’
HD Monitor
‘Multiview’
Network Mgr.
Laptop
Touch
Panel
HD-SDI
4K
4K
WiFi
IBC
Stadium
4K Monitor
Remote
Production
System
Fiber
Network
Redundant
10GigE
4K Monitor
Multiview
Remote
Production
System
4K
+Audio
4K
+Audio
4K
+Audio
4K
+Audio
Control Device
-Native IP
-Identical appliances
-MFV
-Orchestrate Apps
-Deploy and run
-Data center model
-Media workflow

13. International
Distribution
2018 HBS International Broadcast Center

14. Somewhere on the outskirts of Moscow..
Cyrillic for “Master
Control Room”

15. The RESTful API
• REST API - talking to a server - methods)
– Stateless
– POST - Create a resource (C)
– GET - Retrieve information (R)
– PUT - Update a resource (U)
– DELETE - Delete a resource (D)
• JSON: The Fat-Free Alternative to XML
– human readable open machine data structure
• Swagger
– Self documenting endpoint and test tool
– AKA - A 3rd Party developers dream
– example

16. NMOS Model
Open Source shared on GitHub

17. NMOS meets OSI Layers

18. Working Together

19. Questions?
troth@apericorp.com