PacketLight in “360 Seconds. Broadcast News and Commentary”.
Hosts: Philip Grossman, host and co-producer at Visionaries, and Maria Kholodova.
PacketLight Unleashes Ultra-HD with Advanced 4K Support
Maria: PacketLight Networks advances 4K video with 200G DWDM equipment, now supporting 12G-SDI. The PL-2000 series enables robust, cost-effective 4K video networking for media industries, ensuring full quality, low latency, and high security with AES-256 encryption, across metro to long-haul infrastructures.
Philip, tell me about this.
Philip: Yeah, so, you know, one of the things that had always held back, I think SMPTE had called it, dematerialized data centers was that I can’t run an SDI cable 100 miles, can’t even run 300 meters. But now that we’ve gone all fiber, and we’re [using] SMPTE 2110 and 2022-7, we’re now starting to see companies take advantage or build technologies to allow them to take advantage of distance-based production. So, your control room no longer has to be right next to the production facility. You don’t have to roll trucks out, so REMI, or remote production, is really becoming a bit more mainstream, and technologies like this make it easier for organizations. 200G is great; that’s about roughly 64 1080p signals bidirectional over 200 gig links, and we’re starting to see links into stadiums at that 100G, 200G. I know there’s 400G is out and about as well. So, it’s really enabling organizations to take advantage of the value of what uncompressed IP-based video is bringing to the table.
So, you mentioned stadiums; I’m assuming this can be used for sports. Is there any other area in which this could be used? Basically, any type of live production that’s arena-based, so concerts, speeches, and mixed martial arts — any of that kind of stuff where your venue… There’s a huge cost to drive the truck and all that infrastructure on trucks up to the venue. If I can replace that with a 200 gig cable that runs across the country back to my control center, I don’t have to take the entire crew. I don’t have to pay for hotels, so it just enables greater production, or greater capabilities in the production arena.
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