NEWS & VIEWS
May-June 2016
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Axon’s Jan Eveleens:
“Axon advocates a
hybrid path to IP and
broadcasters will do
well to adopt a step-
by-step approach.
Mindsets and skills
will also need to be
addressed.”
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Lawo’s Andreas Hilmer: “If we want to move
ahead with the transition to IP, customers need
reassurances for their investments.”
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Andreas Hilmer, director of marketing
and communications, Lawo, said: “If we
want to move ahead with the transition to
IP, customers need reassurances for their in-
vestments … Lawo will continue to promote
open standards.”
Interoperability remains a key issue for
broadcast IP, concurred Jan Eveleens, CEO
of Axon. Calling IP “still a small island”, he
advised: “Axon advocates a hybrid path to
IP and broadcasters will do well to adopt a
step-by-step approach. Mindsets and skills
will also need to be addressed.”
Eveleens also spoke of a burgeoning
working relationship with Utah Scientific,
which is set for a deeper integration of the
companies’ technologies in the next six
months, he revealed. For instance, Utah’s
S2022 IP router is currently integrated with
Axon’s Cerebrum control and monitoring
system, which now includes automatic tie-
in management across multiple routers for
format conversion and multi-site opera-
tions and various new third-party interface
options.
Live and near-live streaming of broad-
cast-quality video content over IP networks
has traditionally used linear transport over
satellite and dedicated fibre networks, which
provide “high quality” but may be limited for
today’s use cases, suggested Aspera, who un-
veiled the Aspera FASPStream, a new turnkey
application software line designed to enable
live streaming of broadcast-quality video
globally over commodity Internet networks
with glitch-free playout and “negligible”
start-up time.
Cloud has an increasingly important role
to play in broadcast delivery, said Richard
Heitmann, VP marketing, Aspera, who added:
“Cloud keeps cycles short, and allows data to
be moved quickly. In Asia, we see cloud in-
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