Whitepaper: Nevion explores IP architecture options for live production

Nevion, a Sony Group Company, has published a new whitepaper which details the different IP architecture options for live production and offers a best-practice solution for organisations looking to optimise their resources.

In this whitepaper, Nevion puts forward the case for deploying shared spine-leaf (‘purple’) network architectures in all but the very smallest networks, as they best support requirements such as scalability, capacity, better use of resources, and resilience.

While historically, broadcasters have adopted a central IP router to manage live production, such topologies have problems with resilience and scalability. Segmented spine-leaf (‘red-blue’) networks offer some of the advantages of shared spine-leaf networks, but also have some important short-comings, including resilience and poorer load balancing.

Olivier Suard, VP of marketing, Nevion, said: “IP technology has represented a major step-change in the broadcast industry. It offers agility and flexibility to operations, while maintaining reliability and maximum uptime. But a successful IP deployment depends on carefully designed infrastructure, and our hope is that this whitepaper will be valuable in helping organisations navigate that challenge.”

To download the full whitepaper, click here.