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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 6 - Issue 10 | October 2016

InStudio

Brainstorm Boosts IP Workflows
With NewTek

B

rainstorm Multimedia recently
announced support for softwaredriven IP workflows using NewTek's
Network Device Interface (NDI).
Joining the industry's largest IP
ecosystem of products and the rapidly
expanding number of companies
enabling IP-based customer workflows,
Brainstorm will integrate NDI into
its renowned Infinity Set family
of products to be recognisable as
a source by other NDI-enabled
applications and devices connected
to a standard Ethernet local area
network.
At IBC, NewTek and Brainstorm
demonstrated
IP
interoperability
between NDI-enabled applications and
devices located at NewTek's booth and
Brainstorm's booth using the RAI's
standard Ethernet infrastructure.
NewTek's royalty free NDI technology
allows video and audio sources to
be shared bi-directionally across a
network, eliminating the need for
costly direct connections, expensive

cable runs, and infrastructure
upgrades while turning every
source into a destination
instantly available anywhere on
the network.
Infinity
Set
installations
typically involve a number of
input signals, each with their
individual SDI cables delivered
to the render engine. So
receiving all camera feeds from
a single cable plugged into the
hardware, greatly simplifies
the setup. With NewTek's NDI
all that is required is just a
network switcher and a single
cable, so the process is far more
efficient and less costly.
According
to
Héctor
Viguer,
Brainstorm's COO and Engineering
Director: "With the introduction of
NDI, Newtek provides a simple, robust
and flexible interface that clearly
simplifies the delivery of video signals.
NDI-enabled Infinity Set operators will
take advantage of its ability to decide

enabled devices like Infinity
Set exponentially increase
the video sources available
for live production creating
efficiencies and opportunities
for customers that did not
previously exist. NDI is the
most widely adopted IP
technology on the market,
epitomised by the millions of
customers with access to it
today."
Brainstorm will also support
additional features in NDI when
the updated SDK becomes
available in Q4, 2016.
The NDI SDK is royalty free
NewTek version
for
any company looking to
NDI 2 boosts performance
establish IP workflows within
the quantity of the feeds and select their organisation, or in commercial
those required, further optimising products and applications they deliver.
their IP-based broadcast workflows
NewTek's
NDI
2.0
adds
especially in real-time virtual studio higher
performance,
resolution
environments."
independence, 16-bit per channel
"Software-driven IP workflows are support for the high precision colour,
quickly becoming ubiquitous in video 16 channels of floating point audio,
production," said Michael Kornet, improved cross subnet support,
Executive Vice President of Business integrated fail-safe support, and
Development for NewTek. "NDI- network-based re-routing support.

WISI Extends Inca 5420
and 4400

A

t IBC, WISI Communications
presented various extended
systems and efficient solutions for the
implementation and extension of next
generation networks.
With its Inca 5420 and Inca 4400,
WISI showed a comprehensive
solution for OTT and multiscreen
applications for providers of IPTV and
Pay TV services, as well as cable and IP
network operators.
Inca 4400: The WISI platform
Inca 4400 for linear & multibitrate
transcoding allows network operators
to optimise transport streams, manage
bandwidth efficiently and monitor
their TV and video offers.
It supports all operators that
wish to extend their offers towards
multiscreen applications. They can
optimise the formats, resolution
and bitrate of large numbers of
live satellite, IP and off-air digital
sources for delivery to set-top-boxes
or multiscreen end devices. Options

include
modular
platforms with up
to three bays that
can transcode, transrate
or downscale up to 36 HD or 90
SD programs to MPEG-4, in just one
rack unit of space, with integrated
grooming and monitoring of all
streams.
New at IBC were features such as
service fail over and high-density (up
to 128 audio PIDS) multilingual audio
transcode for both ABR and linear
applications.
WISI now has built VidiOS into
every INCA product. This supports
the intelligent monitoring and
visualisation of transport streams at
each step of the flow. It also monitors
streams that are generated by
other equipment. In addition VidiOS
supports extensive statistical analysis
and provides the operator with an
instant overview if a transport stream
is available in his network.

Inca 5420 - the
networks' 'All Seeing Eye'

Inca 5420: The WISI Inca
Multiscreen Package & Origin 5420 is a
carrier-grade live streaming packager
and origin server for high value
Internet video services. It segments
and packages multiple streams into
the most popular adaptive bitrate
protocols. The platform supports
HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS),
HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and
Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over
HTTP (DASH) and comes with an ABR
Packager and Origin Server. New at
IBC, the WISI Inca 5420 is the first
product to be enhanced by software
from WISI's Katamaran multiscreen &
OTT solution, more than tripling the
5420's performance from previous
benchmarks.

WISI's key monitoring solution "All
Seeing Eye" addresses cable network
operators, City Carriers and Telcos. A
major new feature is the Email alert
feature, providing real-time email
alerts about video impairment to
operations staff.
The
platform
facilitates
the
management and monitoring of all
TV channels with video and audio
content offered in one network. The
SD, HD, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 Audio/
Video streams will be displayed
with video thumbnail mosaics on
readily-available flat-panel TVs or
wall mounted displays. The platform
provides detailed stream statistics,
including PID and payload details,
warnings and errors.
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