facility network design to handle all that incoming digital material
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FACILITY NETWORK DESIGN TO HANDLE ALL THAT INCOMING DIGITAL MATERIAL. Rick Stora Director of Broadcast Operations Sundance Digital. TWO DISTINCT NETWORKS:. A Video Network And An Operations Network. THE VIDEO NETWORK:. Digital Satellite Receivers Broadband IP Transcode devices - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
FACILITY NETWORK DESIGN FACILITY NETWORK DESIGN TO HANDLE ALL THAT TO HANDLE ALL THAT
INCOMING DIGITAL MATERIALINCOMING DIGITAL MATERIAL
Rick StoraDirector of Broadcast Operations
Sundance Digital
A Video NetworkAnd
An Operations Network
TWO DISTINCT NETWORKS:TWO DISTINCT NETWORKS:
•Digital Satellite Receivers•Broadband IP•Transcode devices•Server Interconnections
THE VIDEO NETWORK:THE VIDEO NETWORK:
Goal: Move large quantities of data around at Real Time or F.T.R.T speeds
Physical connections: Fiber, Fibre, GigE
•Traffic•Automation (On Air, Prep, Recording & Digital Ingest)•Streaming•Machine Control
THE OPERATIONS NETWORK:THE OPERATIONS NETWORK:
Goal: Support database communication for metadata sharing and consolidation
Support deterministic control of broadcast devices
•Essence Connections•Metadata Connections•Control Connections
INTERNETWORK INTERNETWORK COMMUNICATIONS:COMMUNICATIONS:
““I.T. DOES TV”I.T. DOES TV”
EssenceA recently coined phrase to
depict actual media:FilmTape
Digital File
““I.T. DOES TV”I.T. DOES TV”
MetadataAnother recently coined phrase to
depict the data that describes actual media:Title
DurationSOM/EOM
Media Type or File Format
Traffic Automation TranscodeCachingServers
BroadcastServer
Archive StreamerPrep Record DigitalIngest
BroadcastPeripherals
THE NETWORKSTHE NETWORKS Video Network
OperationsNetwork
Serial Communications
HouseBusinessNetwork
Router
New Content Arrives on a Caching Server
Traffic Automation TranscodeCachingServers
BroadcastServer
Archive StreamerPrep Record DigitalIngest
BroadcastPeripherals
EVENT: New Digital ContentEVENT: New Digital Content
Cache delivers metadata to Traffic and Automation
Databases
Traffic Schedules Program, assigns a House Number
Traffic Automation TranscodeCachingServers
BroadcastServer
Archive StreamerPrep Record DigitalIngest
BroadcastPeripherals
EVENT: New Digital ContentEVENT: New Digital Content
and Orders Automation to Ingest
Traffic Automation TranscodeCachingServers
BroadcastServer
Archive StreamerPrep Record DigitalIngest
BroadcastPeripherals
EVENT: New Digital ContentEVENT: New Digital Content
Automation orders Digital Ingest Unit to initiate transfer
Digital Ingest Unit orders transfer and monitors
Broadcast Server
Caching Server moves Video File to Broadcast Server
(with Transcoding if necessary)
Traffic Automation TranscodeCachingServers
BroadcastServer
Archive StreamerPrep Record DigitalIngest
BroadcastPeripherals
EVENT: New Digital ContentEVENT: New Digital Content
Broadcast Server Signals Automation of successful
transfer
An Operator can screen and/or trim the video in
Automation Prep
Traffic Automation TranscodeCachingServers
BroadcastServer
Archive StreamerPrep Record DigitalIngest
BroadcastPeripherals
EVENT: New Digital ContentEVENT: New Digital Content
Meanwhile, the Transcoder makes a low resolution file for
the streamer
Automation confirms or updates the metadata with
the Traffic system
Traffic Automation TranscodeCachingServers
BroadcastServer
Archive StreamerPrep Record DigitalIngest
BroadcastPeripherals
EVENT: Schedule ChangeEVENT: Schedule Change
Automation driving the system normally from a running Play List
EVENT: Schedule ChangeEVENT: Schedule Change
The Traffic Office determines that a
schedule change to the running list is
required.
Traffic Automation
1) Traffic system requests a current copy of the playlist
3) Traffic Operator makes the adjustment
4) Just before submission, Traffic makes a second request for the list and checks to see if the changes are still valid
5) If so, the changes are passed to Automation
6) Automation inserts the changes to the list and confirms back to Traffic
2) Automation returns the list in XML format
SMPTE S-22Working Group - Data
Exchange•Data Dictionary•Messaging•Schema•XML
•July Submission
Traffic Automation TranscodeCachingServers
BroadcastServer
Archive StreamerPrep Record DigitalIngest
BroadcastPeripherals
ASSET MANAGEMENTASSET MANAGEMENT Video Network
OperationsNetwork
HouseBusinessNetwork
Router
A truly useful Digital Asset Management System should have
connections to all the metadata available on the Broadcast
Operations net as well as the House Network
Asset Management Server
Asset Management Server
BroadcastServer
Traffic System
Automation System
Archive System
Newsroom System
Transcode EditSystems
Art Room Systems
Character Generator
Still Store
Program Management
House Systems(Office Docs, Contact)
ASSET MANAGEMENTASSET MANAGEMENT
Ops Net
REAL SYSTEM DESIGNREAL SYSTEM DESIGN Vid Net
ArtEdit
News Room
House Net
Router
Stateful Packet Inspection Firewall Spam Filter Virus Protection Spyware Protection
The Internet
Vendor VPN
AssetMgmt
REAL SYSTEM DESIGNREAL SYSTEM DESIGN
You wouldn’t ask an Electrician to design your video networks.
I advise that you all consider utilizing the services of a professional I.T. design engineer as you embark on your I.T. build outs.
There is plenty for you to contribute to the process as most I.T. designers have never had to wrestle with the performance loads and requirements that we are asking our systems to do.
Thank You