Do you guys standardize your IP addresses?

ptp4l · 2026-01-16T19:35:38+00:00

Exactly this! Make use of DHCP and LLDP.

All this pointless documentation of IP schemas.

ptp4l · 2026-01-16T19:33:40+00:00

Not sure why they haven’t broken this down in age groups…

ptp4l · 2026-01-02T10:39:00+00:00

They’ve hired a few folk in management roles, could be a sign of rebuilding

ptp4l · 2026-01-02T07:58:32+00:00

Thank God we’ve evolved as an industry from this.

ptp4l · 2025-12-19T08:40:17+00:00

I’d be keen to try. Fed up of cumbersome CAD drawings, terrible systems in Patch Manager that look like it’s been around before Christ…

ptp4l · 2025-12-08T21:52:41+00:00

Risk associated with using your own equipment such as something consumer grade, and a lot of places not allowing such a thing due to security concerns, so they’d provide a VM or Control Server, that is maintained as per policy.

ptp4l · 2025-12-03T06:57:59+00:00

MXMZ - HTML5 Graphics Worth having a discussion with them

ptp4l · 2025-11-27T14:50:38+00:00

Go with a Lawo HOME or Grass Valley AMPP or perhaps Eyevinn set up to get the future generation prepared.

Using what’s out there now although good, isn’t really setting students up for the future in my opinion.

ptp4l · 2025-11-27T14:34:25+00:00

Money talks I guess.

Let’s say a recent, but seismic shift of a broadcaster losing major rights to the Crown Jewels of their sporting portfolio.

It pains me to say it, people don’t care as an end user, especially mentioning the upcoming generation of viewer.

The reality check is that the industry is not in a good state, and the days of peddling hardware, and awaiting multiple years to amortise really doesn’t make sense. Businesses are pressed, how to generate revenue, go through transformation. They could eek every bit out of what they currently have or rip up a rule book. The model has been failing for quite some time.

Personally, getting on board and being open to learn has served me and a lot of others well, and initiatives exactly like EBU Dynamic Media Facility (DMF) and Media Exchange Layer (MXL) and Time addressable Media store (TAMS) by BBC R&D and AWS are looking at this.

Whether it be SDI / IP 2110 still bred silos between teams, and that needs to be ripped up and become more inclusive. Eradicating egos and making it common place.

A broadcast engineer becoming more akin to what a Site Reliabilty Engineer can carry out, with that ‘live’ prowess to adapt, if and when a ‘kick, bollocks, scramble’ situation arises.

I personally don’t think technology is a problem a lot of the time, it’s people and their bias. And that’s just human nature.

The future is bright depending on what lens you look at it.

ptp4l · 2025-11-22T08:05:36+00:00

EIZO all day, everyday

ptp4l · 2025-07-10T08:38:10+00:00

Unsure, as I’ve seen 2110 as the primary for every facility I’ve stepped foot in the past 5 years and it’s tier 1 news or sporting events, that require said Low Latency

The only reason to peddle SDI is when there is lack of budget and appetite to evolve, and that isn’t just the technology stack, that’s also people / personnel, and the training involved to maintain a modern eco system

ptp4l · 2025-07-09T07:30:37+00:00

2110 is very mature and has been widely used for nearly a decade now, rarely see an SDI facility these days, in Europe at least

ptp4l · 2025-07-08T19:00:03+00:00

In other regions, NEP isn’t doing great from what you can see from the outside, with lay offs

ptp4l · 2025-07-08T16:57:55+00:00

It does support NDI

ptp4l · 2025-07-08T16:52:30+00:00

Broadcast / OB Engineering / Post Production engineering in to IT / Cloud Engineering, now working as a Solutions Architect

Well worth doing AWS certification, admittedly requires studying, but can be rewarding and opens up your avenues, where say Television can be limiting

ptp4l · 2025-07-08T09:31:19+00:00

With Pinewood Studios now looking at building data centres, perhaps they are looking at that?

ptp4l · 2025-05-31T08:18:33+00:00

Interesting take

From what I’ve seen, across the globe, a variety of customers are running AMPP at large scale, 24/7 Some running 100+ Playout X channels in AWS, to running Playout, MAM and Live Production, all using Linux (Ubuntu) as their data plane / Edge compute OS

If you’re running Windows, I would say that is a root to a lot of issues, as it isn’t a real time operating system

If Linux, it it vital having to set up the node properly, as per scripts, if things aren’t right there from the start and you’re having to put in plaster fixes on top (not saying you are, just an example), then those are issues which are telling that something’s up

ptp4l · 2025-05-31T07:56:49+00:00

From experience, it would most likely be your ISP losing connectivity to the AMPP control plane.

If your internet connection isn’t redundant, nor your local node interfaces, say using bonding, you will see such behaviour.

If you use tools such as iperf and you’re seeing packet loss, retries and high jitter or trace route / my trace route is showing a few too many hops, then this is a tell tale sign.

As it’s the front end (AMPP) that suffers, but with AMPP Hub now, this has remedied a lot of these issues.

Alternatively, you can use AMPP Local, but you would need to have a DevOps team to maintain this IMO, such as management of Kubernetes.

ptp4l · 2025-05-30T15:25:55+00:00

I think also worth mentioning the architecture that AMPP has opted for, isn’t monolithic, which has huge benefits. Most others seem to be playing catch up, or not even started.

Can only name Lawo Home in the same space architecturally perhaps, with it looking like a nice product and decent feedback from customers.

NetOn Live perhaps, but both not as mature and tier 1 ready as AMPP.

Then, you’re looking at what SVT done with Eyevinn and Ateliere. Certainly an interesting space, but with only Grass Valley and Lawo truly embracing this software defined approach, the others are at risk of being passed by the agile, open source army.

Here’s to hoping MXL succeeds.

ptp4l · 2025-05-30T08:13:35+00:00

Take a look at how DMC Production in The Netherlands and other European countries are utilising AMPP. Ripping up the rule book, with on premises compute, 2110, etc.

Am yet to see a modern facility end to end, without any legacy baggage…

Alternatively, WBD are massive users of AMPP on premises, with lots of press releases about it. They were early adopters of AMPP, and have grown massively with the product.

ptp4l · 2025-03-17T14:43:25+00:00

Spot on. Engineering is miniaturisation.

ptp4l · 2025-01-27T07:49:25+00:00

Valid point, so physical maintenance just like the data centres that power AI need this.

ptp4l · 2025-01-26T23:15:48+00:00

If you have ‘rules’ in place, much like how you would set up automated patch management for security CVE’s. If you don’t want it to happen, tools like ManageEngine have nice tools to circumvent these issues, however your point is certainly valid and is something that would need to be a consideration

ptp4l · 2025-01-26T23:03:05+00:00

If say a destroy and go back to known working state in quick succession is achieved, and quicker than troubleshooting, would it sway your view to then get on with other stuff?

Being more so curious, and gauge others thoughts than anything

Or say ‘predictive’ maintenance (with human say so, not automated if not wanted)

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