Brad Gilmer

Domain Name Systems are a core component of all broadcast networks.

These days, as movie studios, broadcasters and post houses move from tape to digital facilities, the nature of their archives is changing.

Video over Internet Protocol (IP) affects just about all video-related industries — broadcast, post, news and live sports.

FEC can reconstruct the missing packets at the receiving end.

As broadcasters deploy networking throughout their facilities, security is a constant concern. Many facilities have developed comprehensive security policies

Internet-based efforts such as YouTube and Google Video are increasing the demand for video to the desktop. Newscasts with video have been available for

Compression is a core enabling technology for the digital television revolution. Without it, digital television simply would not be possible. It allows

The interesting thing about this phenomenon is that there are people reading this column right now who are system administrators in their organizations but don’t realize it

Learn to locate “invisible” servers, and how to setup firewalls for specialized applications in this tutorial on troubleshooting networks for broadcast operations.

Just what constitutes a high-speed network depends upon your point of view. If you are running a 10Base-T network using a simple hub, then a 100Base-T

Building disaster-resistant computer networks with fault tolerance and high availability.

It is interesting how one becomes a system administrator. In my case, it sort of snuck up on me. A new piece of equipment arrived, and it required a user

A short primer on Internet network protocols for production professionals covers a few of the major protocols in use today

Here’s a look at the technology and techniques you can use to back up your facility’s precious data.

Having an industrial-strength network is one way to enable collaborative workflow

SAN or NAS? The two systems use fundamentally different approaches to providing users with access to shared storage, each with its own unique benefits. The choice is yours

To get the most out of your network infrastructure, pay attention to details such as cabling. There are always areas in which a good engineer can economize,

Need Ethernet cables? Make sure you buy the right kind. Need to wire them yourself? Here’s how

Find out why it’s so hard to use the Internet as a broadcast medium.

Discover how these content-location systems work and find out how to best implement one at your facility.

The term VLAN stands for virtual local area network. To understand VLANs, let's start with a network design that does not employ VLANs. Figure 1 shows

Abroadcast engineer's number one job is to keep the facility on the air. When it comes to security, our focus has been on how to acquire the advantages

Various claims can be found on the Internet regarding the earliest network implementation, but one thing is for sure: It was not long after computers