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SMPTE Bootcamp: Precision Timing for ST 2110
Wednesday, Oct. 21
The broadcast industry is living through its biggest infrastructure change in a generation: the move from SDI to all-IP production. And the entire transition rests on one thing most teams are still mastering: precise, reliable timing.
The SMPTE Bootcamp: Precision Timing for ST 2110 is a full day of expert-led training at NAB Show New York, focused on the technology at the core of modern IP media: Precision Time Protocol. As broadcast and professional AV move decisively from SDI to all-IP infrastructure, precise, reliable timing has become the single most critical — and most misunderstood — foundation of a working ST 2110 facility.
Presented by SMPTE, the Academy Award® and Emmy Award®-winning society that wrote the ST 2110 and ST 2059 standards, attendees will learn directly from the experts who defined the standards, alongside leading manufacturers who build and monitor PTP every day.
SMPTE Bootcamp includes full-day training and show-floor access Oct. 21–22. Attendees may also opt to purchase the morning or afternoon half-day trainings.
Produced in partnership with:
Build
Build the timing and IP-networking fluency the SDI-to-IP transition demands — skills the broadcast world didn’t need a decade ago.
Demystify
Demystify PTP end to end, from grandmaster to endpoint, so you can design and troubleshoot with real confidence.
Prevent
Prevent the failures that reach air — drift, holdover, sync shock, and redundancy gaps — and keep every production running clean.
Get Ahead
Get ahead of your next project, whether you’re planning a migration, building a new IP facility or hardening an existing one.
Ask the Experts
Ask the people who build the gear — direct access to engineers from leading manufacturers, plus a hands-on technology showcase.
Learn
Learn from real deployments and field war stories, not just theory.
More About This Bootcamp
The bootcamp features:
PTP 101: A ground-up foundation in PTP fundamentals, profiles, the grandmaster/leader/follower hierarchy and the message exchange.
Boundary Clocks & Best Practices: Practical PTP architecture, switch design decisions, BMCA failover and monitoring.
Sync / PTP Field Stories: A panel of engineers sharing what really goes wrong in the field — and how to catch and fix it.
Professional Audio-over-IP Networks: Real-time visibility, converged network design and lessons from the world’s largest live events.
Precision Time Requirements in Media over IP: Why PTP is central to professional media, plus ST 2022-7 redundancy and long-haul timing.
PTP & Networking Technology Showcase: Live timing and networking gear from leading manufacturers.
Learn from industry leaders:
- PTP fundamentals, messages, and the SMPTE ST 2059 and AES67 profiles
- PTP transport and timestamping — UDP delivery, one-step vs. two-step and hardware timestamping
- Grandmaster behavior, failover and the Best Master Clock Algorithm (BMCA)
- Ordinary, boundary and transparent clocks and PTP-aware network design
- IP multicast and bandwidth planning for ST 2110 video, audio and data flows
- Diagnosing and troubleshooting timing drift, holdover and sync shock
- SMPTE ST 2022-7 seamless protection and designing for redundancy
- Extending PTP across wide-area and long-haul links
- Interoperable clocking across AES67 and ST 2110 environments
Who should attend:
- Broadcast, media and IP network engineers
- Systems integrators and technical consultants
- Live and remote production teams
- Facility architects and technical operations leaders
- Media IT and cloud video specialists
- Audio and video professionals moving to AES67 and ST 2110
- Early-career professionals and students building a foundation
Newcomers building IP fluency and seasoned engineers sharpening their timing skills will each find their level.
Walk Away With Practical Insights to …
✔ Explain how PTP synchronizes an IP media facility, from grandmaster to endpoint.
✔ Configure and troubleshoot grandmasters, boundary clocks and PTP profiles with confidence.
✔ Configure media switches for PTP — clock mode, the ST 2059-2 profile, QoS and VLANs.
✔ Design resilient timing with redundancy, failover and ST 2022-7 protection.
✔ Spot and resolve real-world timing issues early, keeping them well clear of air.
✔ Verify synchronization and read PTP traffic to confirm a healthy timing network.
✔ Extend accurate timing across professional AV systems and long-haul links.
✔ Evaluate the tools and gear for building, distributing and monitoring PTP.