NewTek has Gateway to SMPTE ST 2110
By Jim Bask
NewTek helped us get to compressed IP with NDI. Now they are providing a bridge to uncompressed IP with NC1 Studio I/O IP.
With all the committee and standardization work churning the broadcast production firmament, the transition to uncompressed IP-based production is still a moving target.
But at IBC 2015, NewTek gave us our first step to switching from a SDI (Serial Digital Interface) infrastructure to packetized IP using compressed signals by introducing their Network Device Interface (NDI). Their approach employed a bi-directional SDI/IP protocol that they gave away in a royalty-free SDK (Software Development Kit).
By transporting a compressed signal, NDI was an easy fit for the Gigabit Ethernet wiring that already existed in many facilities. Since then there have been 2400 independent downloads of the NDI SDK resulting in over 400 NDI-equipped professional products and up to 5 million consumer and pro-sumer pieces of equipment that are NDI-enabled.
Now, however, the SMPTE ST 2110 specification for uncompressed IP transport is about to be released sometime this summer and production facilities are going to need a gateway to get from their compressed IP signals to uncompressed studio IP infrastructure.