NEWS & VIEWS
May-June 2016
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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.