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SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal ( Volume: 129, Issue: 4, May 2020)
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Engineering Design Challenges in Realization of a Very Large IP-Based Television Facility

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Publisher
SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type
Journal Article
Content Type
Original Research
Abbreviated Title
SMPTE Mot. Imag. J
Volume
129, No. 4, pp. 1–9
Abstract
In 2016, NBCUniversal (NBCU) broke ground on Telemundo Center, the new Miami-based global headquarters for Telemundo Enterprises. The facility, which features 13 production studios and 7 control rooms supporting scripted episodic content, daily live news, and sports programming, went live in Spring 2018 with the coverage of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup. At the time of launch, Telemundo Center was home to the largest SMPTE ST 2110 environment in the world, consisting of over 12,000 unique high-definition (HD) sources and 150,000 multicast streams across audio and video. The technical decision to use a software-defined video network infrastructure was essential to supporting the scale and flexibility of a facility of this magnitude. This article explores the major considerations and challenges in building such a large-scale, all-Internet Protocol (IP) broadcast production facility, including design factors around switching video flows, redundancy, control and orchestration, Precision Time Protocol (PTP) master clock systems, and handoffs to multimanufacturer SMPTE ST 2110 devices as well as non-IP-enabled devices. We also review our experiences and lessons learned with utilizing software-defined network (SDN) control plane and routing commands that abstract the underlying physical and link-level connectivity.
Publication Date
2020-05-01
DOI
10.5594/JMI.2020.2984045
ISSN
Print: 1545-0279 | Electronic: 2160-2492
Link
https://doi.org/10.5594/JMI.2020.2984045
Author(s)
Steve Sneddon
bio
Steve Sneddon is senior vice president of production engineering at NBCUniversal (NBCU), where he oversees the design, build, and support of the technical facilities and infrastructure across NBCU’s live production locations in New York for MSNBC and the NBC Network, Telemundo Center in Miami, FL, and Universal City Studios in Los Angeles, CA. He has nearly 20 years of experience in large-scale broadcasting technology and has spent the past 15 years at NBCU.
Chris Swisher
bio
Chris Swisher is director of production systems engineering at NBCUniversal (NBCU), where he focuses on the design and build of new television production facilities based around SMPTE ST 2110 and related technologies. He also serves as a liaison to manufacturing partners to inform the development of SMPTE ST 2110-based technologies and control systems for use in large-scale production environments.
Jeff Mayzurk
bio
Jeff Mayzurk is senior vice president of operations and technology at NBCUniversal (NBCU), where he oversees production and technical operations supporting Telemundo and the company’s Spanish-language content businesses. He led the design and construction of Telemundo Center in Miami, FL, which opened in 2018. Prior to Telemundo, Mayzurk held senior positions in studio and broadcast operations for NBCU and Comcast in Los Angeles, CA.
Keyword(s)
Control Room, IP, Networks, Production, Studio, Uncompressed, Video Over IP
Copyright
© 2020 SMPTE

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Steve Sneddon, Chris Swisher, and Jeff Mayzurk; Engineering Design Challenges in Realization of a Very Large IP-Based Television Facility, SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal ( Volume: 129, Issue: 4, May 2020); SMPTE, 2020. Available at https://doi.org/10.5594/JMI.2020.2984045
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