Net Insight has launched Facility Connect, a new solution designed to streamline and enhance multi-facility broadcast workflows. Facility Connect provides a robust, scalable, and efficient way to connect broadcast facilities, unlocking the full potential of IP-based production and ensuring interoperability between locations.
Key players in the live media ecosystem rely on multiple facilities to ensure redundancy, scalability, and operational efficiency. By distributing production across various locations, it is possible to optimise resources, enhance resilience against outages, and enable regionalised content delivery. Facility Connect simplifies these operations by providing IP media connectivity across dispersed facilities, supporting large-scale productions, remote collaboration, and dynamic resource allocation.
The shift towards IP-based broadcasting, driven by industry standards such as TR-07, SMPTE ST 2110 and NMOS, has transformed traditional workflows by enabling dynamic resource allocation, remote collaboration, scalability and flexibility, cost efficiency and improved disaster recovery.
While multi-facility workflows offer numerous benefits, they also present challenges such as latency, synchronisation, data management complexity, and network reliability. Facility Connect is built for efficient IP media management integrating advanced media transport features to support modern workflows based on up to multiple 100G connectivity. By adhering to SMPTE RP 2129 and ST 2110 standards, it ensures interoperability and high-performance connectivity across broadcast centres.
Beyond standard IP media connectivity, Facility Connect adds robust transport capabilities to meet the high demands of premium content. With comprehensive monitoring of all streams at every processing point, broadcasters gain unparalleled visibility into their operations, simplifying fault investigation, especially in environments utilising third-party WAN interconnections.
“Facility Connect empowers broadcasters with a more efficient and reliable way to manage multi-facility operations. By addressing the complexities of IP-based production, it enables seamless connectivity, optimised workflows, and greater resilience across locations,” said Kristian Mets, global head of sales business development at Net Insight.
