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Exhibit Hall Open

Grand Ballroom Salons 3-6

Tuesday 1:00 pm- 7:00 pm
Wednesday 10:00 am- 5:00 pm
Thursday 10:00 am- 2:00 pm

Building and Managing a File-Based Wireless ENG Infrastructure

George Maier (Microwave Radio Communications, USA)

The development of microwave and wireless video file transfer technology, as it applies to ENG, is an on going endeavor. For the last few years, we have focused on tools that will enable the transport of files from the field to the studio. Now that these tools are becoming available, the time has come to focus on what is needed at the studio to provide a scalable hybrid workflow that can support live news as well as file based news. As more of the broadcast infrastructure moves toward IT techniques for managing file based media, more emphasis is placed on building a service oriented architecture (SOA) that will support a broadcast operation from end to end. The integration of news into the SOA requires support for multiple secure simultaneous IP connections to widely diverse field resources that will transport the news essence over multiple disparate networks. More than ever, Electronic News Gathering requires greater levels of efficiency, operational transparency and an easily measureable ROI. This paper will review progress in the field, and explore the use of purpose built studio gateways and servers that effectively integrate a field news fleet into the SOA as a transparent extension of studio operations. We will examine a solution that offers newsroom and field workflow management, field asset management, and looks at new ways to leverage metadata support.

 Wednesday, Oct 28
2:00 PM- 3:30 PM

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