Implementation of a TV studio based on Ethernet and the IP protocol stack

The next generation of TV studios will certainly rely on a communications infrastructure based on Ethernet and the IP protocol, but the evolution from the present heterogeneous format centric TV studio towards the homogeneous full IP TV studio demands the development of a series of new IP/TV protocols, and new software and hardware modules. This is so, because the original Ethernet and IP technologies are best-effort communications structures, and hence, not suited to the stringent: real-time, high quality, and security requirements, of a TV production facility. This paper presents the implementation of a prototype of a full Ethernet/IP TV studio and describes the different technologies, i.e., IP/television protocols and hardware and software modules, that have been developed, or that are in the process of development, in order to achieve it.