he MNMT production center is a SMPTE 2110 facility that features two top quality studios which can combine on non-conflict nights to create one single national telecast worthy experience. The main studios feature 24 cameras, 1,200 square feet of 4K quality LED monitors, and innovative robotics to help create the best possible pre- and post-game show viewing experiences for sports fans in the national capital region.

The broadcast industry’s migration to IP-based workflows is accelerating as organizations seek to reduce operational costs and improve production efficiency, with SMPTE ST 2110 adoption emerging as a key driver of this transformation.

IP has since proved to be the main enabler for flexibility across the entire broadcast industry, and the uptake of IP technology has enabled broadcasters to stay ahead of the game. Cost-effective to install and providing the ability to move many hundreds of signals down a single cable at low latency, the widespread adoption of SMPTE ST 2110 and NMOS has guaranteed interoperability between multiple manufacturers, as well as the potential to create scalable workflows, enable remote working and deliver continuous development.

“The adoption of IP-based infrastructure and production technology is pretty much de facto at this point. The industry has kind of coalesced around SMPTE 2110,” says Steve Reynolds, CEO of Imagine Communications

“The most important development in AVoIP is IPMX, developed by the Joint Task Force for Networked Media and marketed by AIMS, an open transport standard that combines SMPTE 2110 essence streams, with discovery, registration, and monitoring of devices using NMOS and with AES67,” said Mozota.

In this panel session, technology experts in sports production – Carlo Lisa at Deltatre and Mirko Mastropietro of Italy’s Lega Serie A – share insights from a successful recent deployment of a pioneering, end-to-end ST 2110 IP ecosystem for live graphic production. From the decision behind implementing a standards-based solution to the flexibility of a fully interoperable workflow, hear how leveraging an IP system delivers the reliability and scalability to meet the exacting demands of high-value sports productions.

Developed to enable easier configuration and operation of networked media environments, the NMOS specifications provide – to quote the IPMX website – “the ‘plug and play’ capabilities needed to easily add and integrate devices in an IP media workflow”. As a result, some aspects of transporting the media can be automated, albeit on a permissions basis to ensure cybersecurity protection, whilst IPMX’s flexibility to be implemented in hardware and software is beneficial for the increasingly commonplace hybrid deployments encountered in corporate applications such as conferencing.

“An ST 2110 system is scalable in ways that an SDI system would not be. As the productions change and grow, WETA technicians have the flexibility to take audio and video from any source and send it anywhere very easily. This beautiful and robust technical facility will serve the popular ‘PBS News Hour’ show well for many years to come,”

The MNMT production center is a SMPTE 2110 facility that features two top quality studios which can combine on non-conflict nights to create one single national telecast worthy experience. The main studios feature 24 cameras, 1,200 square feet of 4K quality LED monitors, and innovative robotics to help create the best possible pre- and post-game show viewing experiences for sports fans in the national capital region. The facility also includes two insert studios and five control rooms to produce multiple events simultaneously.

With the BBC’s Belfast facilities aiming to switch from SDI to IP, it has interoperability between the two options, and has processing capabilities for both the truck and the facilities to be used and controlled by staff located either in the truck or the facilities.