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Testing, Testing

Euromedia Industry Survey Report: Test & Monitor and Network Analytics cover story

Extended lockdowns and working from home during the pandemic have significantly affected viewing patterns. With Test & Monitor and network analytics, essential to consumer QoE (quality of experience), have sector players faced additional challenges? Euromedia found out from a range of players how they responded, as well as continuing to enable their broadcaster and service provider clients to maintain market share and protect revenue…

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The road to true IP is paved with interoperability

Newscast Studio Column

Written by David Kicks, VP of Sales for The Americas

Ever since the migration toward IP workflows began, the buzzword “interoperability” has been the ultimate broadcast pursuit. Engineering teams are driven by the promise of replacing proprietary media networking with format-agnostic workflows.

To achieve true IP workflows, interoperability is the key to unlocking the benefits of using off-the-shelf IP networking technology to route signals from any source to any number of destinations on a network.

But before we move ahead with our next broadcast lesson, it’s important to take a refresher vocabulary lesson. We need to understand the definition of interoperability and, more importantly, what it is not, not just in terms of automation playout but for many systems a broadcaster may be evaluating. Then we can understand why interoperability is so important within the context of automation…

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Making the cloud work for broadcast

TV Technology Article

Written by Bob Kovacs with contribution from Miroslav Jeras, CTO

The meaning of virtualized playout has changed significantly in the last 12 months

“More and more media organizations are examining the merits and challenges of migrating their broadcast playout operations to IP and virtualized deployments,” said Pebble’s Jeras. “However, every broadcast playout workflow is unique, so properly supporting any broadcaster’s needs requires agile software development, a collaborative approach for the lifetime of the project and, crucially, an experienced engineering and deployment team.”

Click HERE to read the article in full (from pages 12 to 16) and also available online.