Orchestration And SDN Control For Multi-vendorST 2110 Workflows - WABE

Orchestration and SDN control formulti-vendor ST 2110 workflowsARCHITECTS OF VIRTUALIZED MEDIA PRODUCTION1Nevion Confidential

Standards evolution for IP productionTS over IP SMPTE 2022-1/2 H.264/AVC JPEG 200020002SDI over IP SMPTE 2022-5/62010Nevion ConfidentialSIPS/LDO/EPP SMPTE 2022-72015Audio over IP AES-67 PTP /IEEE 1588VSF TR-04 AES-67 audio SMPTE 2022-6 PTP/IEEE 15882016VSF TR-03 AES-67 audio RFC 4175 video RTP ANC data PTP/IEEE 15882017SMPTE 2110 Based on TR-03/04 PTP/SMPTE 2059 Some parts are nowpublished (10/20/30)2018

Open tingstandardsPromotingstandards

Enables certificationhttp://jt-nm.org/jt-nm tested/4

SMPTE ST 2110 suiteSYSTEM -10TIMING -21COMPRESSEDVIDEO -22MULTI-PARTVIDEO -235ANCILLARYDATA -40AUDIO -30VIDEO -20AES3-32 bitAUDIO -31SDVIDEO -242022-8COMPOSITEFASTMETADATA 41FMX -42

Guidance6Nevion Confidential

Orchestration7Nevion Confidential

Broadcast media transportHighvolumes ofdata Ultra-lowlatency Very fast &frequentswitching No tolerancefor failure Specializedequipmentas part ofthe networkThe benchmark for performance: specialized & dedicated baseband (SDI) networks8Nevion Confidential Verydemandingnetworkrequirements!

Meeting the live broadcast challengeIngestProductionPlayoutSDI infrastructure isoptimized forBroadcast controlbroadcastMedia-centric, highperformance, deterministicSDI infrastructureMedia flows9Nevion Confidentialrouting, low latency, fastswitching, etc

Orchestration is the key for SDI to IP layoutBroadcast controlBroadcast controlVideoIPath OrchestrationResource reservation and connectivityMedia flows10Nevion ConfidentialIP networkData flowsNetworkmanagementSDI infrastructure

Why Orchestration? 11Share resources between productionsAutomate production workflowsSchedule service provisioningAdapt to changing needsFlexibly utilize resource poolsVirtualize resources on-demandNevion Confidential

tpc MetechnoReal-world deployment12Nevion Confidential

About tpc Leading broadcast serviceprovider in Switzerland Responsible for theproduction and technology oftelevision, radio andmultimedia for nationalbroadcaster Schweizer Radiound Fernsehen (SRF)13Nevion Confidential

Move to new News, Sports & Technology CenterNovember 2019Renew technical infrastructure, based on IPRethink and optimize workflows14Nevion Confidential

Scope of the projectINGESTPRODUCTIONLinear or non-linearacquisition andprocessingNews and sportspost-productionMaster control roomService monitoringStudio productionand control roomsSHARED INFRASTRUCTUREPLAYOUTChannelaggregation andplayoutIncludes orchestration layer, broadcast IP devices and real-time network.Provides connectivity and technology for the facility.15Nevion ConfidentialOUT

Key concept: event-based workflowsINGESTPRODUCTIONDe-embeddingVirtualpublic MixerPLAYOUTVirtualpublic device(consume)AudioMixerMultiplexingVirtualpublic device(produce)16Nevion ConfidentialVirtualpublic device(consume)OUT

Some statistics 20200events perday20,000 flowsANC500 TX1000 RX17Nevion ConfidentialVideo750 TX2300 RXAudio13000 TX24000 RX1,000 differentvendorsdevicesANC500 MbpsAudio104 GbpsVideo15 Tbps

The technology HD andUHDvideo18Nevion ConfidentialNMOSIS-04/05SMPTE211010/20/30/31/40

Chosen network architectureAdvantages: Distributed with aggregation atthe edge Less cable management Network redundancy Scalable for future growthSpine/leafData CenterChallenges:- Blocking or non-blockingdepends on number of uplinks- More complex routing- Needs bandwidth managementStudiosControl roomsStudiosOvercome by usingNevion’s VideoIPath19Nevion Confidential

A/B vs Fully Spine-Leaf with SDN20Nevion Confidential

A/B vs Fully Spine-Leaf with SDNFailureFailureLoss21Nevion Confidential

Control architecture – Intent vs Deployment Intent NMOS (Config and control) ST2110 (adaptation) Deployment is a mixed bag 22Device specific API (Ember 5systems)NMOS (6 systems) (but with parallel API)SDN Orchestrator specific (VideoIPath 8 systems)Web-GUI SNMP19 devices with ST2110Nevion Confidential

Control ast controlBroadcast controlBroadcast controlNevionVideoIPathNMOS IS-04/05 &dedicated driversArista SwitchesMulti-VendorEquipmentA/VSDN controlvia OpenConfigA/VNMOS IS-04/05 &dedicated driversMulti-VendorEquipment23Nevion Confidential

Software defined network (SDN)IngestProductionPlayoutBFEBFEBFEBroadcast controlBroadcast controlBroadcast controlNevionVideoIPath4th floorWest323rd floorWest22728DCS-7020TR-48-F48x100M/1G 6x10G2DCS-7508R 8-slot modular spinewith 3pcs 36x100G modules in each23rd floorEast22nd floorWest221st floorCentral42Nevion 0GigEDCS-7050SX3-48YC12-F48x10G/25G 12x100G24Ground floorCentral10GigE11BasementMDC

Best of Breed st controlBroadcast controlBroadcast controlNevionVideoIPathImagineCommunicationsRohde & SchwarzTektronixStage TecIP gatewaysMulti-viewersMeasurementequipmentAudio systemsRiedelCommunicationsPebble BeachSystemsVizrtEmbrionixIntercom systemsPlayout systemsGraphics systemsIP converters25Nevion Confidential

Outside the FacilityPan-European Broadcast26Nevion Confidential

Overview of customer requirements 27Large sports broadcasterPan-European operationIntra-facility (campus) and inter-facility (Wide area)connectivityLowest latency possibleOptimized use of finite WAN resourcesST2110 basedST2022-7 protection in WAN and LAN

Mezzanine compression options JPEG 2000 – TR-01 2013100ms buffering transit JPEG 2000 ULL – TR-01 2018JPEG XS15ms buffering transit 1ms* buffering transitTypical mid-west-European transit delay of 10ms (2000kmfibre)28Nevion Confidential

JPEG XS (ISO/IEC 21122) Wavelet based Intra-frameFixed latencyAdjustable compression ratio – typically up to 10:1 CBR (constant bit rate)Supports 4:4:4, 4:2:2 & 4:2:0Supports any colour space (RGB, YCbCr, YUV, XYZ) Supports bit depth: 8, 10, 12 Supports Interlaced & Progressive frameSupports SD, HD, 2K, 4K spatial resolutions Supports all main frame rates29

JPEG-XS implementationHBR (25/10GE)HBR (25/10GE)XS HD decoderSDIXS HD decoderSDIXS HD encoderXS HD decoderSDIRTP TS syncA/V syncXS HD encoderSMPTE2110-20IP videoXS HD encoder2022-7SMPTE2110-22JPEG XSIP video2022-7SMPTE2110-30IP audio2022-730

Deployment Phase 1 – July 2019Leaf/SpineCountry 3HUB BCountry 2BoarderLeafBoarderLeafSDIwith emb. audio2110-20MPLS A2110-30/31VideoIPathActiveMPLS BCountry 4VideoIPathStandbyBoarderLeaf31SDIwith emb. audio

High level architectureCountry 3HUB B Country 2VideoIPathNode 1Country 4VideoIPathNode 2Country 5VideoIPathNode 3MPLSACountry 6Country 7HUB A. Country 1VideoIPathNode 2VideoIPathNode 1MPLSBCountry 8Country 9Country 10VideoIPathNode 332Country 11

VideoIPathVideo signal flowsJPEG XSJPEG XSJPEG XSJPEG XS33

VideoIPathAudio signal flows34

ST 2110-WAN35Nevion Confidential

VSF Activity Group on ST2110 over WANMedia essencesdata flowsRegistration, discoveryand control36

Differing sizes of systemDiffering levels of federationMedia essencesdata flowsRegistration, discoveryand control37

Areas of interest Flow protection Flow trunking Essence alignment Low latency handling Format conversionCompression 38 Protection of other data flows Security PTP trunkingWan timing Associated control (NMOS)filtering and border proxying

Going off-campus – the IP facility media edge39PTP TIMINGALTERNATIVE TIMINGDOMAINSNMOS IS-04/5/8DEVICEDISCOVERY & CTLRESTRICTED/PROXIEDDISCOVERY & CTLMEDIA FLOW IPADDRESSINGDIFFERENT IPADDRESSING (NAT)ESSENCEFLOWSESSENCE ORCOMPOSITE FLOWSPROTECTIONTERMINATIONPROTECTIONTERMINATION

What we are talking about:40

Flow protection #1- SMPTE2022-7 basedROUTE ASOURCEDESTINATIONROUTE B41

Flow protection #2FEC – ST2022-5 basedconstrained to LxD product of 100maximum(1,1)(2,1)(1,2)(2,2)(1,D)1(L,1)(L,D)2Lnn 1n 2n 3n 4n 5n 6n 7n 8n 9n 10n 11n 12n 13n 14n 15n 16n 17n 18n 19n 20n 21n 22n 23n 24n 25n 26n 27n 28n 29n 30n 31n 32n 33n 34n 35n 36n 37n 38n 39n 40n 41n 42n 43Challenging – Major differences in size resulting in variable delay and buffering needs42

Trunking essences2110-202110-302110-302110-40OTHER STUFF43TRUNK

Trunking encapsulationTRUNKHEADERSOriginal packetMACIPUDPRTPpayloadThe original IP packet with GRE over UDP headerMACIPUDPGREIPUDPRTPpayloadThe original IP packet with GRE over RTP headerMACIPUDPRTPGREIPUDPRTPpayloadThe original Ethernet packet with GRE over RTP headerMAC44IPUDPRTPGREMACIPUDPRTPpayload

2022-7 protectionat essence or 302110-40OTHERSTUFF

Protection of other dataWANprotectedLANdataWANprotected46

Sony Nevion47Nevion Confidential

Overview Sony and Nevion announced a strategic partnership inJune 2019. At IBC, Sony and Nevion demonstrated an IP Intra Facilityand remote production set-up Nevion@1.B79 over 25G fiber to Sony@13.A10 Sony@13.A10 over CenturyLink circuit to UnitedEMG@Hilversum48Nevion Confidential

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Key Highlights Full Management Stack Facility Management (LEO) Broadcast Control (LSM) SDN Orchestration (VideoIPath) 50Multi-vendor Switches – Arista & CiscoHybrid Networks – SDN & Self-routing (IGMP)End-to-end ST2110 LAN and WAN routingWorld’s first JPEG-XS (REMI) 1ms back-to-backVirtualization of resources (Remote multi-viewer access)Nevion Confidential

ARCHITECTS OF VIRTUALIZED MEDIA PRODUCTION51Nevion Confidential

Video Processing Audio Virtual public device (produce) Virtual public device (consume) Video Mixer . Multi-vendor Switches -Arista & Cisco Hybrid Networks -SDN & Self-routing (IGMP) . Virtualization of resources (Remote multi-viewer access) 50 Nevion Confidential. ARCHITECTS OF VIRTUALIZED MEDIA PRODUCTION 51 Nevion .