Video Processing in an FPGA-Enabled Ethernet Switch

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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: 123, No. 2, pp. 48–52
Abstract: Carriage of uncompressed high-definition video using Internet protocol (IP) holds great potential for enhancing the flexibility of broadcast plants while reducing the number of cables required through aggregation of signals using statistical multiplexing. The broadcast industry is just beginning to determine the appropriate architectures to best use professional video-over-IP capabilities. The Arista 7124FX application switch is a 10 Gbit Ethernet data center-class Ethernet switch that also supports application acceleration through the use of an onboard field programmable gate array (FPGA) without adding network jitter. A proof of concept has been developed to show how an FPGA-enabled switch can perform frame-accurate video stream switching of SMPTE ST 2022-6:2012 realtime protocol flows.
Publication Date: 2014-03-01
DOI: 10.5594/j18384
ISSN: Print: 1545-0279
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/j18384
Author(s): Thomas Edwards
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Thomas Edwards is vice president engineering and development for Fox Network Engineering and Operations. He is responsible for new technology strategy, testing, and evaluation. He has contributed to the SMPTE Task Force on 3D to the Home, and has been involved in Fox's deployment of DVB-S2 satellite radio DTV distribution system. Previously, Edwards was senior manager, interconnection engineering for the PBS Interconnection Replacement Office where he was responsible for the engineering management of the Next Generation Interconnection System (NGIS). Before entering the television industry, he was the streaming media product manager at Cidera, where he developed a broadband desktop video channel for technical employees delivered using IP-over-satellite. Edwards holds a Master's Degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, is a member of IEEE and SMPTE.
Warren Belkin
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Warren Belkin is the director of the southwest area for Arista Networks with a primary focus in the media and entertainment industry. He is a key contributor to Arista's product and marketing strategy in this arena. Previously, Belkin has held a number of positions in the technology industry over a period of more than 20, years, including sales leadership, product management, and software development with such companies as Bell NorthernResearch, Nabu Manufacturing, Newbridge Networks and Cisco Systems. — Belkin grew up in Ottawa, Canada, and attended the University of Waterloo for electrical engineering.
Andy Bechtolsheim
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Andy Bechtolsheim is chief development officer at Arista Networks, where he responsible for the overall product development and technical direction. Previously he was a founder and chief system architect at Sun Microsystems, where most recently he was responsible for industry standard server architecture. Bechtolsheim was also a founder and president of Granite Systems, a Gigabit Ethernet startup acquired by Cisco Systems in 1996. From 1996 until 2003 he served as Vice President/General Manager of the Gigabit Systems Business Unit at Cisco, which developed the very successful Catalyst 4500 family of switches. Bechtolsheim was also a founder and president of Kealia, a next-generation server company acquired by Sun in 2004. He received an M.S. in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1976 and was a Ph.D. student at Stanford University from 1977 until 1982.
Copyright: © 2014 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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