Brad Gilmer

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

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

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

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

Over the last three years, network speeds have increased by a factor of ten, with another tenfold increase in 18 months or so. There has been a definite

Users who are building large-scale facilities are now spending more on software integration than they are on hardware. As the chairman of a SMPTE committee

If you are going to exchange video and audio using computers, you have two choices. The first is streaming; the second is file transfer. Broadcasters

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

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

Quick, answer this question: After your signal leaves the antenna, what device receives it at the other end? If you answered "a television," you are both

Bandwidth management is a rela-tively new topic for many of us. Routing a VTR to a monitor does not involve a calculation to determine if the router has

Every engineer working with media these days should understand the basics of network addressing, and most of them do. But, network addressing is one of

System security is like the weather; lots of people worry, but no one actually does anything about it. The January Computers & Networks column Media network

By now, most engineers have heard that metadata refers to data about data. As facilities move from tape to files, and from tight integration to service

New and emerging standards provide interoperable professional video over IP transport.

Understanding the core protocols running on your media networks helps you manage your facility.

Service level agreements are an important part of creating a reliable wide area network.

Services provide the key to faster, more flexible production methods

One of the challenges facing system administrators in the post and broadcast space is that they almost always start out doing other things. In my case,