Open Broadcast Systems announces support for 100 Gigabit Ethernet

Open Broadcast Systems has announced support for 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100G) networking in its low-latency encoders and decoders. This allows for dozens of ST2022-6 or ST2110 streams to be encoded and decoded in a single server, increasing density and improving energy efficiency on a per channel basis.

Developed in-house by Open Broadcast Systems, this is the first known encode/decode solution in the marketplace to feature 100G support and is part of the company’s high performance video processing networking stack. As the product is based on commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware, there is no vendor-specific hardware dependency and subsequent obsolescence.

It has been developed in response to the need for customers to bulk encode from ST2110 to MPEG-TS/SRT, as well as bulk decode from MPEG-TS/SRT to ST2110 as part of a transition to IP and the cloud.

Kieran Kunhya, founder and CEO of Open Broadcast Systems, said: “As consumers demand more and more live content, ultra high-density encode and decode is key to making this happen in modern IP-based facilities. It has been a massive technical endeavour implementing 100G support, but we know this will be a game-changer for many of our customers.”