NEWS & VIEWS
December 2017
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The Hong Kong seminar was held in conjunction with SMPTE-HK Section, and concluded with an anniversary dinner celebrating 23 years of the establishment of SMPTE-HK Section.
PTP (precision time protocol) GrandMaster
Clock to address the requirements of SMPTE
ST 2110 while ensuring that the infrastructure
is able to fulfil the current SMPTE 2022-7
standard, which includes the need to have a
redundant path to support seamless protec-
tion on the IP traffic paths.”
To support live sports events delivery in
4K/UHD and SMPTE ST 2110, NEP Australia
has also chosen to employ Arista Networks’
7500R platform. Designed for large virtual-
ised and cloud networks, the Arista 7500R
series modular switches combine 100GbE
density with Internet scale table sizes, along-
side the advanced EOS (extensible operating
system) software that features networking
monitoring, precision timing, VXLAN (virtual
extensible LAN) network virtualisation and
EVPN (Ethernet VPN).
Declaring the NEP Australia project as
one of the largest IP broadcast roll-outs to
date, Lai explained that the main reason
for NEP Australia to migrate from SDI to
IP was to implement NEP Cloud Produc-
tion, a concept that houses all creative and
technical resources from NEP’s cloud-based
IP infrastructure. He said: “Traditionally,
broadcast equipment, such as image mixers
and camera base stations, have to be placed
at every location.
“NEP Cloud Production enables real-time
sharing of central resources pooling. Through
pooling of resources, NEP Australia will be
able to invest in higher-tier equipment, yet
housing them all in the hub. In this instance,
the company will also be able to provide
move services using a lower protocol of
ownership.”
NEP Australia’s technical and production
staff will also be able to work from anywhere,
despite being at different locations, on the
new network, added Lai, as NEP Cloud Pro-
duction provides scalability and flexibility via
cloud- and service-based operation models.
Mark Moore, vice-president, interna-
tional sales, Dejero, presented the case study
of The Runner, a reality series produced by
Pilgrim Media Group, a Lionsgate company.
In The Runner, “chase teams” and viewers
compete to find a runner who has 30 days
to make it across the US. Using social media,
viewers were able to interact and attempt
to solve clues that help their favourite “case
teams” — who are constantly in the pursuit
— go after more than a million dollars in
prize money.
Because The Runner’s game play and
audience engagement depended on cover-
The seminar in Singapore was joined by Mediacorp, where Wang shared an overview of IP
implementation in the new Mediacorp Campus
age of the action in real time, no one could
really know in advance where the action or
story would go, said Moore. “The Runner
took place over 30 days with three episodes
aired live per day. The key challenge was to
being able to move quickly in getting the
content back to the studio for editing, and
provide live feeds from constantly changing
locations.
“It’s very similar to broadcasters’ require-
ments for newsgathering or breaking news
where journalists are always following the
stories on the go. Thus, news crews and
operators have to be very mobile and agile
when managing the connectivity to the
networks available in the field.”
To quickly move content from different
locations back to Pilgrim Media Group’s Los
Angeles studios for editing, the production
team used a total of nine Dejero EnGo mo-
bile transmitters to encode and transmit all
live and recorded videos to the studio. All
footages captured in the field were passed to
the media management team that processed
all footages via the EnGo to the Dejero
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