SMPTE ST 2110 enables television production and delivery facilities to scale up and out in a multi-vendor interoperable manner that is working around the world today. But as high-performance computing infrastructure continues to deliver more capability per dollar every year, most media processing functionality has moved into pure software workflows. While ST2110 can (and is) used to connect these software appliances every day, a new initiative – the DMF – re-imagines the facility as a pure software endeavor, planning and deploying applications into a scalable computing cluster (on-prem or in cloud) and facilitating communication and control in a multi-vendor interoperable manner. This session explains the DMF concepts and layers, including the underlying Media Exchange Layer (MXL) which connects together the applications within the cluster.

Speakers:

· John Mailhot, Imagine Communications

· Steve Reynolds, Imagine Communications