The IABM Technology and Trends Roadmap isn’t just for industry technologists to use as a reference. IABM has discovered industry execs using it as a starting point for their keynote speeches: product line managers are using it to plot their own products; and corporate board members get a better understanding of where the company’s products sit on the adoption curve, hence a better grasp or risks vs gross margins. This also assists marketing activities by giving an indication of how best to promote products within M&E and adjacent/vertical market areas.
Net Insight – Protecting Live Production in the IP Era: Why Media-Specific Security Is Non-Negotiable
Live media production has always been a high-wire act. With tight timings, unforgiving audiences, and high-value rights on the line, live production is a world where stability is everything and any disruption quickly becomes a headline. Live production today is no longer contained within the walls of a single facility. It spans venues, OB trucks, cloud services, third-party studios, and remote teams. In this environment, the concept of a traditional network perimeter no longer applies. What replaces it must be smarter, more adaptive, and tailored to the specific needs of IP media workflows.
Catena – Getting back in Control
How do you build a multi-vendor facility and implement a seamless control system? One capable of spanning local hardware, on-prem, off-prem and multi-cloud systems? This article looks at how IABM’s Control Plane working group has been assisting with the Rapid Industry Solutions (RIS) effort within SMPTE called Catena. The working group’s emphasis has had a clear focus to avoid the pitfalls that have aborted several control system standardization efforts over the last couple of decades.
Appear – Firewalling in the Age of IP: Rethinking Security for Live Media Workflows
As live production workflows shift towards IP and cloud-based models, the security considerations facing broadcasters and media companies are also evolving. Where operations were once confined to private, closed networks, today’s environments often depend on public infrastructure and remote collaboration. This move brings clear advantages in terms of flexibility and scalability – but also introduces new risks.
FOR-A Europe – Connectivity for productivity
The rapid adoption of IP connectivity for media is transforming our industry. It opens exciting new creative opportunities in remote production and collaborative workflows, thanks to reliable real-time transfers over the public internet. Remote working means fewer journeys for personnel and equipment, significantly reducing the carbon footprint of a production.
Kiloview – A technical dialogue with an AVoIP Expert, sharing their insights on NDI 6.0
The recent announcement of NDI 6 has been highly anticipated in the AV over IP industry. NDI technology maintains a significant leadership position with its software-driven video transmission concept, tailored for IP networks and internet applications. These advancements provide unique advantages over other IP technologies. With the latest developments, we see notable progress in supporting HDR video encoding and decoding capabilities, as well as cross-internet applications. Tools like NDI Bridge introduced in NDI 5 had limitations that NDI 6 has now addressed, making it an exciting development for the entire industry.
Argosy – End-to-end integrity: is best of breed best?
In 2022, the IABM identified that the larger players in the vendor community were encouraging media tech customers to move to single-brand end-to-end or ‘glass-to-glass’ solutions.
On the surface the benefits seem obvious; communication is streamlined as you only need to deal with one supplier overall, interoperability shouldn’t be an issue as the equipment and platforms are the same brand, liability is solely with them, and there are potential cost savings on project management and resources.
However, the same Media Tech Spotlight report indicated that actual end users preferred best-of-breed solutions.
Zixi – Factors contributing to the TCO of streaming at scale
In the dynamic world of video streaming, media organizations are constantly seeking efficient and cost-effective solutions to manage their large-scale implementations. One of the key metrics that has to be met to validate any purchase decisions is Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). And, like Maslov’s famous Hierarchy of Needs, TCO analysis must start with foundational requirements.
NEP Group 5G MT-UHD MiniTx – BaM Award winner, Connect
In the world of live broadcast, the ability to reliably stream high-definition video with low-latency over public and private cellular networks is critical – especially with the increasing adoption of 4K video and demand for remote and wireless production workflows. While traditional wireless video transmission solutions rely on Wi-Fi or bonded cellular data connectivity, which can be slow and prone to interference, NEP’s 5G MT-UHD (MiniTx) takes advantage of 5G new radio (NR) access technology to provide fast and reliable connectivity, even in areas with high network congestion.
Norsk – Build vs. buy: the best of both worlds
Build vs. buy might not be the oldest dilemma in the streaming technology book, but it’s close. And when it comes to complex live streaming, the horns of that dilemma are particularly pointed.
The streaming technology market is typified by off-the-shelf, line-of-business applications that do a few things very well, but are extremely difficult or impossible to extend if they don’t do exactly what you want. That lack of customization can be a dealbreaker.
On the other hand, for a broadcaster (or large enterprise, or betting company, or …) to build its own streaming platform from scratch requires a daunting investment of time and resources—resources that would be much better spent on their core business proposition.
So let’s dig a little deeper into both buying and building, as well as look at a middle path that offers media companies the best of both worlds.