Where media and IT met

The EBU Network Technology Seminar 2012 has come to a close in Geneva, after two days of use cases, technology updates and presentations.

Tweeting NTS 2012 Follow the event on Twitter @ebunts2012. Heres a selection of tweets from day 2:

Media and IT tutorial: Technical problems are overcome. Initiatives fail for other reasons. #ebunts2012 - @avanetworks

The best place to protect info is near the data; in the app; or the container. Protection using network devices is difficult. #ebunts2012 - @Almost_Finished

BBC Media Storage Meter - get it for free at http://sourceforge.net/projects/msmeter/files/ and start doing your own storage benchmarking #ebunts2012 - @felixpou_EBU



A session on emerging technologies in broadcast media networks brought this years EBU Network Technology Seminar to a close in Geneva today. The EBUs F lix Poulin thanked everyone that had been involved in developing and in running the event.

In a wrap-up session, SMPTEs Peter Symes was asked to share his impressions. He said he was convinced that the importance of this event "is increasing rather than decreasing, on one hand, for the broadcasters, understanding a great deal more about the capabilities, limitations and techniques. On the other hand the IT industry now recognises a lot more about the problems of dealing with high bandwidth signals."

EBU Head of Media Fundamentals and Production Hans Hoffmann said that for him it had been a surprising event: "What weve heard over the last two days is an order of magnitude more advanced that what we heard even last year. This was an incredibly important event and will continue to be so. The different parts of the puzzle are coming together to allow us to fully move to file-based IP-based systems."

He continued, "We will be able to deliver to a multiplicity of devices in the home, be it to the big screen for UHDTV, or for mobiles. This is something that the rendezvous between media and IT will deliver. A systems approach is needed. In this context this was a highly valuable two days."

Pictured above (left to right): Markus Berg (IRT), John Fletcher (BBC), Matthias Laabs (IRT), Frank Brockners (Cisco), during Session 6 at NTS 2012

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