ST 2110

Meeting: Cybersecurity in Broadcasting

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Date: 18:30-21:30 Wed 25th October 2017
Location, Pincents Manor, There, RG31 4UQ | Map

RTS Thames Valley proudly presents an illuminating evening discussing the highly topical and relevant subject of Cybersecurity with the broadcast and media community. With General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) just around the corner, broadcasters increasingly embracing file delivery (DPP, IMF, etc.) and going headlong into Live IP solutions (ST 2110, IS-04/5/6) are we leaving ourselves wide-open for hacking?
We have two very well connected speakers, one from a Corporate IT outsource company (Ramsac) and the other from one of the UK’s major broadcasters (Arqiva).
Robert May will discuss the subject from the Corporate Network aspect, covering all essential good practice and encouraging us to prepare for GDPR, which will be law on May 25, 2018.
Denis Onuoha will cover the broadcasters more specific concerns – from Cloud-based delivery through to staff using USB sticks on the playout system! With the world’s media becoming an ever-increasing target to hackers, are we just making ourselves even more vulnerable moving to IP?

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Webinar: IP Monitoring and Measurement

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Thursday, 9 November 2017
1:00 PM EST / 10:00 AM PST / 18:00 UTC/GMT
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The broadcast industry is in the process of transitioning to IP based transport for video, audio, and data. This has led to the development of standards including SMPTE ST 2022-6 that provide encapsulation of uncompressed SDI within IP packets and the SMPTE ST 2110 suite of standards for Professional Media Over Managed IP Networks.

These standards provide the interconnection framework for an all-IP infrastructure within a facility. The way in which these data packets flow across the network requires a variety of protocols to send this information bi-directionally from the source to the destination. Requiring broadcast engineers to gain an understanding of the technology and the new techniques needed to monitor these signals.

In this webcast, we will examine the basic structure of the packets for ST 2022-6 and the ST 2110 suite and how variable delay across the network introduces jitter at the receiver and how measurements can be made on the stream. Latency in the network can produce out of order packets or corruption of the data causing packets to be dropped. Therefore, it is critical to monitor the stream to ensure an eerror-free network to ensure transmission of the high bit rate media and how these errors affect the actual video and audio signal. For redundancy in the media network SMPTE ST 2022-7 can be used to provide a Path One and a Path Two stream that the downstream device can determine which path is the most appropriate to use. Measurement of the integrity of both paths is important and we will look at ways of monitoring the signal paths.

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Meeting: The SMPTE ST 2110 Suite of Standards – Technology Evolution in Broadcasting

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SMPTE UK Section
Date: 19th October 2017
Time: 1800 ample refreshments for 1900 lecture
Location: East London, Ravensbourne, 6 Penrose Way, London, SE10 0EW

Following the announcement at IBC 2017 that ST 2110 Standards have been approved SMPTE UK is providing members with the first informative evening looking at and discussing the standards
and their parts and surrounding Standards and specifications.
Andy Rayner Chief Technologist at Nevion will guide us through the multipart standards suite. ST 2110 “Professional Media over Managed IP Networks”
This Standard and the supporting Standards and specifications are a major contributing factor in the movement towards one common Internet Protocol (IP) based mechanism for professional media industries.

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