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

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Video server technologies have come a long way since this column first surfaced some 12-plus years ago.
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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.

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Digital video/audio needs to be handled in the environment that it is most happy to work within.

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Less emphasis on ingest and play-out, more attention paid to content management

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A growing emphasis is being placed on managing storage.

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Content production and distribution processes must now leverage high-bandwidth distribution at a level of quality equal to or better than high definition.
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News crews and production departments no longer need to depend strictly on videotape as their sole source for recording media.
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Under a hard disk drive’s hermetically sealed housing that protects the platters, heads and electronics are some pretty sophisticated components that we’ve all been so accustomed to relying upon.
By Karl Paulsen Published
Under a hard disk drive’s hermetically sealed housing that protects the platters, heads and electronics are some pretty sophisticated components that we’ve all been so accustomed to relying upon.

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Establishing and maintaining good image performance requires a thorough amount of planning at the system level.

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Broadcast central equipment rooms now include from a couple dozen to well over a hundred computers and servers similar to those used in corporate or enterprise datacenters.

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Cloud service-provider offerings continue to grow rapidly, among which are those for disaster recovery (DR) services.

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The Internet of Things has propelled storage demands and solutions (including the object store) into the next universe

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Software-defined networking replaces ‘static architectures’ found in traditional networks.
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