Brad Gilmer

If you are wondering how the relates to professional media applications, you are not alone because one of the hottest topics in the IT world these days

It goes without saying that allowing everyone physical access to on-air or technical core areas is a physical threat

Remote monitoring and control of broadcast facilities is nothing new. Does anyone remember transmitter remote control systems based on telephone stepper

In 1965, just four years after the first planar integrated circuit was invented, Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors per integrated

Compression is one of the enabling technologies that allow computers to process video.

Find out how workstation users with different operating systems can share files on a common server.

By now, most television engineers have seen examples of interactive TV — applications that mix conventional television with specially designed Web pages.

Last year I discussed some of the issues surrounding bandwidth management inside television facilities. This month we will look at the issue of bandwidth

Storage area networks (SANs) allow multiple processors to share a pool of common storage. It is a powerful solution for sharing content across a homogeneous

Regardless of the portion of the band in which Wi-Fi operates, sharing with Bluetooth is inevitable. Perhaps these two technologies are not competing

Nothing will get a piece of equipment expelled from the post environment like unstable software. A mismatch between the job you need to do and the equipment

The implementation of fiber optics is a dark art. At least, that’s the way it seemed a few years ago.

MXF, when combined with Descriptive Metadata Scheme 1 (DMS-1) is a powerful enabling technology

This month, we take a closer look at SONET and some of the telephone-industry nomenclature behind the technology.

Find out how SAN works and whether it is best for you.

Asynchronous-transfer mode (ATM) is the workhorse of modern telecommunications. Disocver how this workhorse evolved and how it performs the considerable feat of carrying digital broadcast signals.

Building a network for broadcast involves some special considerations. This article spells them out for you.

An overview of networking fundamentals for people who are looking to increase their knowledge of computer basics.

As a post-production facility grows, the network that serves it must undergo radical changes to keep up.

Most post-production facilities have been moving pictures over networks for years. Why did post get an early start?

SANs had a troubled start, largely because they were based upon technology and standards that needed some wrinkles ironed out. If the SAN is grown in

A file format is a wrapper into which a system places video, audio and metadata. Stream transfers (using PAL, NTSC, SDI or even SDTI) will co-exist with