MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
The broadcast industry is undergoing a significant transition, from the
more traditional SDI (serial digital interface) workflow environment to
one that leverages the power of IP (Internet Protocol) to increase
speed, agility and flexibility. A number of other industries have
already undergone the transition to IP, and Belden has played a key role
in many of those transitions. Now, through solutions available today
from Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, broadcasters are leveraging that
expertise along with a commitment to open standards, to capture the many
advantages of IP technology.
Grass Valley’s “Glass-to-Glass” IP strategy delivers IP connectivity
across its entire product portfolio, making it easier for customers to
transition at their own pace and minimize costly and unnecessary
SDI-to-IP conversion gear. The strategy is referred to as
“Glass-to-Glass” because it encompasses all equipment from the camera
that captures the images to the monitors that manage the content so it
can be sent to viewers’ homes. IP makes the movement of content much
more efficient, provides broadcasters with the agility they need to
adapt quickly as technologies improve and the flexibility to add new
services to help them win and retain viewers.
IP technology is well established and delivering benefits in a number of
similar applications, including IT data centers. The broadcast industry
can benefit from a model like this, one that relies on the same
scalability, load balancing, use of commodity hardware and redundancy
that make IT data centers so ubiquitous, but adds vertically accurate
switching, low latency and the familiar workflows of broadcast. Grass
Valley’s Broadcast Data Center, now available for purchase, is the
solution to this requirement, and it’s a critical component of the
Glass-to-Glass IP Solution.
At the center of Grass Valley’s Broadcast Data Center are two key
products:
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The GV Convergent IP router control and configuration system
transparently manages facility routing as the industry migrates from
SDI to IP infrastructures, maintaining familiar control interfaces as
well as introducing intuitive new GUIs for configuration, management
and control through software defined networking (SDN). GV Convergent
is both infrastructure and signal format agnostic for easy system
scalability and provides easy integration and control of IP edge
devices and third-party IP devices.
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GV Node allows broadcasters to combine many of the advantages
of a data center model with the specific requirements of a live
broadcast production environment. It is a true real-time IP processing
and routing platform, offering multipurpose IP processing, IP
aggregation and vertically accurate switching capability for live
applications. When GV Node is combined with common off-the-shelf
(COTS) IP switches, extremely large capacity routing systems can be
created with thousands of input and output channels. GV Node is
designed to handle deterministic vertically accurate switching within
IP, supporting open industry standards.
“We intentionally designed our ‘Glass-to-Glass’ IP solutions to enable
broadcasters to start the transition with a solution that makes sense,
and grow quickly and linearly as their needs change,” said Roel
Vestjens, president of Belden’s Broadcast Solutions platform. “This is
not a change that will happen overnight, but rather over time as
facilities upgrade and add new equipment. We offer a unique value and
insight to this transition because of our extensive experience helping
Belden customers deploy IP within various critical applications.”
Mobilimage, a Canadian provider of on-location services for telecasting
and recording of entertainment, sporting and cultural events, recently
purchased GV Convergent and GV Node to bring IP capability to one of its
HD mobile production trucks. The company is using the technology to
enhance the efficiency and connectivity for its operation and cited the
scalability of the solutions as a major factor in purchasing from Grass
Valley.
To ensure that broadcasters have the flexibility to build an
infrastructure solution that is best suited for their individual needs,
Grass Valley is leading the charge toward interoperability and open
standards in the industry’s IP transition. An open standards approach,
with products and solutions developed to support these standards and
tested in real-world environments, is critical in protecting current
investments and ensuring long-term interoperability. For this reason,
Grass Valley joined other manufacturers in the industry to form the
Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS), a non-profit trade organization
dedicated to fostering the adoption of industry standards for the
broadcast and media industry as it transitions from SDI to IP.
“There’s a reason why our industry has always relied on the standards
bodies to develop, test, and implement open standards—the process is
collaborative and ensures that no one is locked into a proprietary
solution. Flexibility is what our customers have asked for, and our
Glass-to-Glass IP solution provides that,” added Vestjens.
For information about Grass Valley solutions and services, please visit grassvalley.com.
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About Grass Valley
Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, keeps
broadcasters, content owners and service providers Future-Ready as they
navigate the changing landscape of television. With the most
comprehensive collection of workflow solutions in the industry, Grass
Valley delivers end-to-end television production and content
distribution workflows, combined with expert consultation and insight
that lead to sustainable success. Grass Valley, headquartered in
Montreal, is part of St. Louis-based Belden Inc. Belden delivers a
comprehensive product portfolio designed to meet the mission-critical
network infrastructure needs of industrial, enterprise and broadcast
markets. With innovative solutions targeted at reliable and secure
transmission of rapidly growing amounts of data, audio and video needed
for today’s applications, Belden is at the center of the global
transformation to a connected world.
About Belden
Belden Inc. (NYSE: BDC), a global leader in
high-quality, end-to-end signal transmission solutions, delivers a
comprehensive product portfolio designed to meet the mission-critical
network infrastructure needs of industrial, enterprise and broadcast
markets. With innovative solutions targeted at reliable and secure
transmission of rapidly growing amounts of data, audio and video needed
for today’s applications, Belden is at the center of the global
transformation to a connected world. Founded in 1902, the company is
headquartered in St. Louis and has manufacturing capabilities in North
and South America, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit us at www.belden.com;
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