Asia-Pacific Broadcasting (APB) May/June 2016 Volume 33, Issue 4 | Page 17

NEWS & VIEWS May-June 2016 17 TSL Products moving along with IP transition Avid Nexis enables fully virtualised storage so media organisations can adjust storage capacity without disrupting workflows. Avid offering software-defined storage platform Avid is showcasing the Avid Nexis, a software-defined storage platform designed for storing and managing media. Avid Nexis is designed to en- able fully virtualised storage so media organisations can adjust storage capacity without disrupting workflows. Powered by the Avid MediaCentral Platform, Avid Nexis delivers “unrivalled” media storage flexibility, scalability and control for both Avid-based and third-party workflows. With Avid Nexis, users can select components to meet their needs, and expand storage capacity and bandwidth as their business grows. It also enables users to dynami- cally tune the system to ensure that high-priority workflows always have the capacity, performance and data protection levels they require. Avid Nexis works with all top media creation applications through the flexibility of the Avid Everywhere vision, which provides a more collaborative way of work- ing. Production teams can access a shared pool of storage resources, thereby increasing efficiencies. Production teams can mix and match the Avid Nexis storage en- gines, with capacity from as little as 20TB to over 1.4PB in a single system. All Avid Nexis systems are powered by the Avid Nexis FS file system. Find out more at Hospital- ity Suite Lotus 4D/E. TSL Products is show- casing the “world’s first” uncompressed video- over-IP audio monitors for the first time in Asia. The new S2022- 6 PAM-IP range offers more format flexibility so that users can moni- tor uncompressed video The Tallyman Virtual Panel is one of TSL Products’ and audio-over-IP (AoIP) BroadcastAsia2016 highlights. without unnecessar y hardware conversion. Monitor- be monitored with an IP-based ing video, audio and its asso- infrastructure. ciated metadata from either a There is also a debut of the traditional 3G-SDI connection or MPA family at booth 5E4-05. a S2022-6 IP stream, the PAM-IP Supporting established I/O range is designed to work in en- such as MADI, SDI, AES-3 and vironments where SDI, AES and analogue, the MPA family also analogue-based infrastructure can supports AoIP workflows with support for Dante and Ravenna, and is available in two models. Solo of- fers the ability to listen to any channels, while Mix enables the user to create monitoring mixes. TSL Products is also demonstrating at its booth the latest version of the Tallyman Control Systems, including the Tallyman Virtual Panel. Tallyman is designed to sit at the heart of broadcast operations, coordinat- ing critical broadcast infrastructure components, and providing ope­ rators with a platform to control multiple pieces of equipment from different vendors. DVB sharing UHD insights with trade visitors The DVB Project is demonstrating the transmission of 4K/Ultra HD (UHD) content over a DVB-S2 signal that includes DVB-CID (Carrier ID) information, which identifies the source of the transmission. DVB-CID is a digital satellite transmission system that describes the modulation, channel coding and signalling protocol intended for the identification of the host carrier. The system has been optimised for satellite appli­cations including DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-S2X and DVB-DSNG, but can be applied to any continuous transmission by satellite. The 4K/UHD demo at booth 5L5-03 utilises the DVB-UHDTV Phase 1 specification that allows images with four times the static resolution of the 1080p HDTV format, at frame rates of up to 60 images per second.  A laptop will stream Eutelsat 4K/UHD video content (HEVC/H.265, 50fps, 10-bit colour depth, at 30Mbps) to a Work Microwave DVB-S2 modulator, which inserts the DVB-CID information and broadcasts the DVB-S2 signal over a small wireless satellite simulator. A TeamCast DVB-CID receiver then extracts the DVB-CID information and displays the Carrier ID de- tails on a laptop. The DVB-S2 signal is also received by a Rover Instruments DVB-T2/C2/S2 analyser and displayed on a 4K/UHD TV with an integrated DVB- S2 tuner. The DVB Project is at the show to share its insights on 4K/Ultra HD.