LANG AG has announced its continued investment in market-leading SMPTE ST 2110-compatible products from Panasonic Connect Europe.
The investment increases the deployment of the open and flexible IP-based video transmission standard.
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) created SMPTE ST 2110 – a family of open standards for the transmission of video and audio signals over IP – in a revolution for broadcast and media technology as well as the events industry.
The standards define how digital media can be transmitted over an IP network, including video, audio and metadata.
Panasonic recognised the huge potential for the broadcast market and has already developed numerous SMPTE ST 2110-compatible products as part of its portfolio.
Customers of LANG can rent or buy this technology for their events and productions, and benefit from new application possibilities based on standardised IP protocols and infrastructures.
Pascal Ertl, Product Manager Image Processing & Event IT at LANG, said: “Thanks to the open and manufacturer-independent protocol family around SMPTE ST 2110 and the IPMX based on it, there are completely new possibilities for IT-based video distribution.
“Panasonic’s broad product portfolio helps us and our customers to experience the benefits of this new technology in a wide range of applications.”
SMPTE ST 2110, and with it the migration from SDI to IP, creates a scalable system where all signals required for production and transmission facilities can for the first time be distributed bi-directionally over a local network.
The standard defines the entire transmission system, the maximum supported resolutions, and synchronisation between streams via precision timing protocol.
The flows of audio, video, and metadata such as subtitles, teletext and timecodes are synchronised with each other, and can be sent separately and brought back together again at the end point.
While SMPTE ST 2110 is gradually replacing the SDI interface in the broadcast sector, the standard is at the same time the basis for the transmission format IPMX (Internet Protocol Media Experience), which was created by the industry consortium AIMS.
IPMX can work with a light compression, where JPEG-XS is used as codec. This allows images to be transmitted visually without loss and with microsecond delay. IPMX also supports HDCP-protected content, which is often used in HDMI connections.
“We believe the SMPTE ST 2110 standard will continue to play an increasing role as a core technology in the industry and will be a key element in the development of new cameras and vision mixers,” said Justus Künanz, Sales Engineer at Panasonic Connect.
“Panasonic supports SMPTE ST 2110 and its full breadth of applications, from broadcast applications to compressed JPEG-XS.
“Panasonic not only scales the devices in the network, but also by supporting a wide range of AVoIP formats across the different application areas.”