Brad Gilmer

How to check of the physical layer of a computer network

When discussing IT networks for broadcast and post production, there are two main issues to consider.

Understand these five issues related to moving video over packetized networks

Understanding how IP addresses are assigned can help maintain critical broadcast networks

New standards allow broadcasters to use video over IP for video transport.

Broadcasters are becoming more dependent on their IT-based infrastructures every day. It is increasingly important to have a solid network to support

Five years ago, file-based content delivery was making inroads with broadcasters, but it was still a somewhat unusual way to deliver video. Now, file-based

Media asset management (MAM) systems rapidly sift through vast collections of material to locate the material the user requests.

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

When dealing with on-air operations, you want to have the security as tight as it can get while still permitting necessary functionality. In the beginning,

One of the keys to moving large files on a network is to move the data in large blocks without a lot of header information in between. As the computer

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

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

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

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

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

This the second installment of a two-part tutorial that describes how to build a network for your office and supply Internet connectivity to your users.

This article is a primer on how computer networks work and how device addresses work.

Learn the tips and tricks to installing a fiber-optic network for broadcast.

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.