Juniper
Networks, an industry
leader in automated, scalable and secure networks, has collaborated with Sony Professional Solutions Europe to deliver its switching technology to support Sony’s IP Live production solution. This enables broadcasters to capture
and distribute live coverage of major sporting, cultural and political events
globally. By leveraging Internet Protocol (IP) networks, IP Live is designed to
solve the challenge of transporting massive volumes of rich-content data in
real-time between outside broadcast locations and production studios in a
cost-effective and reliable manner. Juniper’s open, interoperable technology
aligns with Sony’s requirement to tailor open solutions to the exact needs of
each customer.
Traditionally, to achieve the required reliability and low
latency necessary for production-quality broadcasts, broadcasters have relied
on serial digital interface (SDI) and coaxial cabling technology to transport
live content from outside broadcasts to production studios. However, faster
frame rates, dynamic ranges and higher resolutions of today’s rich content
often make the cost of conventional cabling and hardware prohibitively
expensive and cumbersome for many broadcasters. Sony is delivering a simple,
smart and open architecture for building an automated and high-availability
network compatible with Juniper’s technology. IP Live supports the transportation
of quality high-definition (HD) and 4K (ultra HD) video, audio, synchronization
signals and control-data across an IP network through a single network cable.
Co-Branded Training Courses Help Drive IP Education into
Broadcasting Industry
Sony and Juniper also have a unique partnership to provide IP
Live production and training courses for the broadcast industry. The collaborative courses show participants how
to build a viable IP network, control and manage settings for optimum
performance throughout the network, and mitigate errors.
News Highlights:
The training is composed of eight hours of online
courses and four days of face-to-face, in-depth training with hands-on
sessions.
- Sony collaborates with its partners to apply open
standards efficiently for live production over IP and offers new and
affordable ways of capturing and routing content. Sony has selected
Juniper as an IP networking partner, using Juniper Networks QFX5100 switches,
a highly flexible switching platform with open architectures that serve as
a universal building block for automated, programmable fabric architectures.
- Juniper’s Ethernet switches provide a high-performance
network solution built on an open framework to give the maximum level of
network programmability and automation. This framework allows Sony to
provide consistency and simplicity to its operations, and to scale and
adopt new applications and technologies to keep pace with innovation in
the broadcast space.
- Sony needed to build an agile and automated network to
minimize the downtime between live programs and pre-produced content. With
Juniper’s network solution, Sony’s IP Live production system can easily
adapt to changing program requirements by reconfiguring the line-up of
production devices automatically.
- A network of production devices that is managed by the
“Live System Manager” solution, which creates a software-defined network,
forms the IP Live production system. This solution delivers great
modularity and stability where resources can either be combined or split,
depending on the requirements.
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