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IP Transition

More and more broadcasters are moving to IP-based infrastructure over traditional SDI. The promise is that the equipment required (IP switches, router etc) are more cost-effective than their SDI equivalent as well as opening up broadcast to a huge amount of industry-standard tools that are used in the IT industry. The problem is that doing reliable real-time media over IP is hard. There is a significant learning curve and a very different methodology used than with SDI.

TSL can help ease the transition to IP by offering a path towards migrating to IP infrastructure while making it compatible with existing control infrastructure. Utilising NMOS, TSL’s multi-award-winning X-Connect takes care of the end-point discovery and media flow subscriptions while presenting it to the new or existing SDI router control system so that the operators can gain familiarity with controlling IP media flows.

X-Connect allows broadcasters to incorporate IP with a lower cost of entry with their existing router control system while retaining the familiarity of an SDI routing system.

Use Case: Berklee College of Music

To remove the requirement of hired OB truck facilities, Berklee College of Music built an IP-based infrastructure into their facility based on Riedel technologies endpoints and gateways.

TSL’s X-Connect is responsible for the media flow management and real-time routing control across the multi-switch system. This allows any of BerkleeNYC’s four recording studios to operate separately or share audio and video resources on larger projects.

Discover X-Connect

The multi-award-winning X-Connect is a control layer that ensures all the individual pieces of a broadcaster’s audio and video kit can easily be found and managed across a network that is utilising IP media routing. The simple-to-use software can be added to any existing infrastructure as it utilises NMOS and is vendor-agnostic, making it compatible with virtually all media devices.

X-Connect marries TSL’s virtual control processor, the GTP-V1, which creates a virtual router and enables it to be connected to a control layer, such as TSL’s TallyMan. It can then be managed by the user through TSL’s renowned Virtual Panels or a range of hardware control panels, for a simplified, easy-to-use solution for IP media routing.

From an operator and engineering point of view, X-Connect resembles the workflow of the more common baseband router, but instead, it utilises IP endpoints and technology. This provides a great benefit to those who have not yet been fully trained using IP routing or are in the early stages of deploying a fully IP workflow.

Facilities can reuse legacy broadcast controllers and operator control surfaces while allowing engineers to add modern 2110 endpoints to their facility, which will:

  • Save money
  • Reuse existing skills
  • Maintain productivity
  • Increase sustainability

For greenfield or standalone 2110 systems, X-Connect can provide a complete 2110 broadcast control solution, with tally, at a much more affordable price than other 2110 control solutions.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Routing Options

Traditional Baseband Routing

Modern IP Fabric Routing

❌ Expensive to control

❌ Introduces a new operator workflow

❌ Has a complex deployment

X-Connect IP Gateway

X-Connect Routing

 ✔️ Extend the life of the baseband router

✔️ Expand capacity and capabilities

✔️ Add islands for UHD or HDR Processing

✔️ Common operations workflows smooth transition

✔️ Less expensive intro to IP

✔️ Increase Sustainability

 ✔️ Greenfield low-cost solution with TallyMan and TMVP

✔️ Adds facilities control

✔️ Includes integrated tally

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“The newly designed TSL MPA1-MIX MADI-V units feature an extremely intuitive layout. The left to right ascending order of the knobs is very user-friendly as the operator can easily find the channel they need, without having to look directly at the panel. The ‘V’ pattern also has a nice aesthetic look to it.”

Michael Naugle

Design Engineer, NEP’s U.S. Broadcast Services team.

“Turner has always encouraged workplace innovation, and partnering with TSL allowed us to develop a solution that genuinely improved operational workflow. We're now exploring ways to roll this setup out across the whole organization.”

Terry York

CNN Field Engineer

“PAM2 is an easy-to-use package that gives NEP Visions the confidence that the audio streams from our OB vehicles will arrive at their destinations on the right channels, with the correct coding and the correct loudness. With the PAM2s in use almost every day in our 3G vehicles for Sky Premiership football matches, and with coverage of crucial events such as Wimbledon, the Queen’s Jubilee Celebrations and the London 2012 Olympics, we’ve made the right choice in terms of audio monitoring for now and for the
future.”

Paul Fournier

Head of Sound at NEP Visions

“We used to monitor everything manually. This was stressful because inevitably mistakes could sometimes be made by this method; it was also very inefficient. Now we have an automated system that we can rely on. InSite works, giving us the information we need when we need it and displayed in a way we like.”

Danny Sisupalan

M&E Operations Manager, Sky Network Services (SNS)

"TSL’s commitment to supporting emerging IP standards such as AES-67, SMPTE 2022-6 and SMPTE 2110 gave us the confidence we needed in the PAM2-IP to provide the audio monitoring we required at RTL City. Additionally, knowing that we could deploy the PAM2-IP in our new all-IP infrastructure without being forced to change our operational workflows was fundamental to our purchase decision."

Costas Colombus

Director of Technology projects and Support at BCE

"We’ve been thrilled to have TSL as part of our growing AMPP alliance. As Product Manager for Orchestration Tools and Infrastructure at Grass Valley, I’m excited to partner with them as they deliver the processing engine behind the new GVO-Tally option for GV Orbit.

TSL is well known for its expertise in tally management, making them the ideal collaborator to support our Production Switchers, camera tally lamps, and UMD/multiviewer labels. We also worked together to support third-party tally and control protocols.

By integrating TSL’s software directly into GV Orbit, our customers avoid the need for extra power, rack space, or cabling. It’s a strong partnership that offers a complete tally solution and a great working relationship."

Steve Billow

Senior Product Manager, Grass Valley

"Providing this simplicity and power, TSL’s solution offers users complete control via a unified infrastructure, allowing for immediate access to all devices across multiple networks, avoiding the need for individual sets of control interfaces. Plus, with Virtual Panels, access and routing between the different networked systems is fast and intuitive.”

Christopher Hawkes

Principal at Kromers

“Our volunteers love the simplicity and new capabilities of our system, and they don’t have to understand the underlying technology that makes it possible. We no longer have to re-label every input and output on a route change, which equates to faster and more dependable configuration changes. The ability to interface with numerous data protocols, as well as analogue interfaces, has added additional capabilities to out system that can help to further streamline the facility’s workflow.” 

J Ballard

First Baptist Church of Jacksonville

"What attracts us most about TSL is its price to performance ratio.”

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Head of Broadcasting Technology Planning TJ Sports

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