
Karl Paulsen
Karl Paulsen recently retired as a CTO and has regularly contributed to TV Tech on topics related to media, networking, workflow, cloud and systemization for the media and entertainment industry. He is a SMPTE Fellow with more than 50 years of engineering and managerial experience in commercial TV and radio broadcasting. For over 25 years he has written on featured topics in TV Tech magazine—penning the magazine’s “Storage and Media Technologies” and “Cloudspotter’s Journal” columns.
Latest articles by Karl Paulsen
The High Performance Serial Bus Architecture
By Karl Paulsen published
The emphasis on high-definition production, distribution and play-out is presenting another set of evolutionary challenges to the video server marketplace.
Content Life Cycle III: The Hidden Agenda
By Karl Paulsen published
Video servers steadily add feature sets that help improve the workflow of a broadcast facility.
Content Life Cycle III: The Hidden Agenda
By Karl Paulsen published
Video servers steadily add feature sets that help improve the workflow of a broadcast facility.
Deciphering the Latest Storage Buzzwords
By Karl Paulsen published
The computer hardware industry is capitalizing on new bus and drive technologies aimed at faster data transfer, improved storage, and increased reliability and efficiency.
Fitting Metadata Into The Content Life Cycle
By Karl Paulsen published
The importance of these media elements is often catalogued by varying, application-specific sets of information attached to those elements in a variety of means.
Networking, Storage and Media Servers From CES 2008
By Karl Paulsen published
Networked storage, certainly nothing new to the professional or to the office, is taking on new dimensions for the consumer—at home, in the office and on the road.
Workflow in a Hybrid SD/HD News Production Environment
By Karl Paulsen published
One of the approaches that broadcasters and news organizations are considering is a hybrid mix of widescreen standard-definition field material coupled with live studio high-definition production.
Storage: Sending Out an SAS
By Karl Paulsen published
High speed, high bandwidth and high availability--all are on the "must-have" list for advanced media storage technologies.

Appliances for an IT-Based World
By Karl Paulsen published
Video server technologies have come a long way since this column first surfaced some 12-plus years ago.
How Networking Changes Storage Structures
By Karl Paulsen published
The end of the analog broadcast era signals opportunities for broadcasters to add services that will force infrastructure changes beyond those just recently made to support digital television.

Performance Tuning
By Karl Paulsen published
Digital video/audio needs to be handled in the environment that it is most happy to work within.
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