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IP Connectivity and Operation
Overview
Many broadcasters and media organizations have taken the step forward and embraced new
IP infrastructures into their production work flows. More are looking to work with real-time
audio and video transport over a 50GbE IP network. Several real-time protocols such as
uncompressed SMPTE ST 2022-6, SMPTE ST 2022-7 and VSF TR03/SMPTE ST 2110 now exists to
stream and enable intra operability between equipment supporting the master control and
playout operations.
Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, has a rich history in helping media organizations deliver content
on time, on budget and to the right audience across whatever distribution mechanisms are
appropriate. Building on our world firsts in deploying IP solutions technologies we are
introducing Masterpiece IP, which is a new market-defining master control switcher for the IP
environment.
Whatever your channel genre, whether it’s sports, news or live entertainment and whatever
your distribution — a single over-the-air (OTA) channel, multichannel content distribution or
real-time streaming.
IP Connectivity
Duplex, signals supported over RTP streams via 2x QSFP 28 (Transceivers QSPF28)
SMPTE ST 2022-6, SMPTE ST 2022-7, VSFTR-03, VSFTR-04, SMPTE 2110
Up to 10 inputs – 1.485 Gb/s format sources
Up to 10 inputs – 2.970 Gb/s format sources
Up to 12 outputs –1.485 Gb/s format sources
Up to 12 outputs – 2.970 Gb/s format sources
IP Connector A1 (primary)
Inputs - 1 to 18
Outputs - 1 to 6
IP Connector B1 (primary)
Inputs - 19 to 36
Outputs - 7 to 12
IP Connector A2 (secondary)
Inputs - 1 to 18
Outputs - 1 to 6
IP Connector B2 (secondary)
Inputs - 19 to 36
Outputs - 7 to 12