Making sure there is a clearly defined set of user needs is fundamental to the start of every new phase in the ongoing AMWA NMOS project, writes David Davies.
It has – to put it mildly – been an extremely eventful decade for IP-based media. The migration from SDI and other legacy formats was, at least initially, slow and rather fragmented. But with the publication of the first standards in the SMPTE ST 2110 suite in 2017, the trend really started to achieve traction – first in broadcast, then in related markets such as pro- and enterprise AV.
But although ST 2110 provided many pieces of the IP networking puzzle, it soon became clear that there were ongoing challenges around network discovery, registration and connection management. Simply put, every component put onto a network needed to be immediately recognised and its streams easily connected to other devices. Without a clear roadmap to address these apparent ‘gaps’, there was a real danger that IP media would fail to realise its potential...
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