MELBOURNE, Fla.—As the industry prepares for the next phase of the FCC’s C-Band transition, USSI Global ‘s new Media Transport Solutions Lab has officially opened on the company’s campus.

Announced in October 2025, the engineering center brings the broadcast and media community a platform-agnostic, controlled environment to test alternatives to C-Band media transport and distribution.

USSI Global’s Media Transport Solutions Lab is focused on the growing complexity at the edge of the network. With decades of experience working at the edge of the network, USSI Global has experienced an influx of fact-finding. These experiences inspired USSI Global to design and build a lab that will accelerate and validate customer-proposed solutions, it said.

“Our Media Transport Solutions Lab offers a secure and professional infrastructure to test theories and design approaches that identify resilient workflows without the time and expense of doing it in-house,” said Anthony Morelli, president and CEO of USSI Global. “Our customers can configure and re-configure the lab environment with their own technology and third-party hardware and execute their testing procedures both remotely and on-prem. Nothing else of this nature exists in our industry, and its arrival could not be timelier.”

Once the FCC makes its final decisions about clearing at least 100MHz of C-Band spectrum and C-Band users determine how to proceed, USSI Global is prepared to assist and accelerate the transition from the auctioned frequencies with its turnkey transitional or managed service offerings for broadcasters, MSOs, service providers and network operators, the company said.

The professional lab setting offers a low-risk path to build and test resilient workflows across satellite, IP and cloud platforms, including hybrid connectivity options. Results could range from a repack of satellite bands, such as C- and Ku-Band, to IP-based distribution that would include fiber, cable, microwave, LEO constellation and 4G/5G mobile or a hybrid combination of all the them.

Companies booking lab time begin by selecting connectivity strategies, redundancy models and real-world scenarios to evaluate. Post-testing, they have access to a wealth of information for review, determine the success of connectivity strategies and analyze whether additional options should be explored.

More information is available on the company’s website.

GENEVA—At the 2026 NAB Show, GlobalM SA will be presenting some notable improvements to its GMX Distributed Video Gateway, a software-defined IP media transport platform designed to replace fixed, hardware-bound contribution and distribution systems.

New at the show this year is GMDC (GlobalM Device Control), which extends orchestration beyond transport into encoder and decoder management through direct API integration. This brings codec configuration and network routing into a single operational framework.

In addition to GMDC, GlobalM is expanding its edge processing capabilities with new high-end signal processing services that can be activated on demand. Frame rate conversion and HDR to SDR conversion are now available as software-based functions at the edge, allowing operators to apply advanced signal processing without deploying dedicated hardware. These capabilities are delivered on a pay as you go basis, enabling broadcasters to activate processing only when required for specific events or distribution workflows.

The platform also introduces expanded cloud connectivity and operational monitoring capabilities. New cloud network access points and the introduction of GM Tunnel provide transparent connectivity between cloud environments and on-premise infrastructure, enabling distributed workflows across multiple cloud providers. A new cloud-based multiviewer service further extends the platform, giving production teams and operators a virtual NOC environment for monitoring live feeds remotely. GlobalM has also optimized its cloud builds for ARM based AWS Graviton infrastructure, improving performance per watt and supporting the growing emphasis on energy efficiency in broadcast infrastructure.

In announcing the new features GlobalM noted the broader industry shift from fixed transmission capacity toward event driven, software-controlled infrastructure continues to reshape how live IP media networks are designed. Platforms such as GlobalM illustrate the move toward centrally governed, elastic architectures that operate seamlessly across internet, fibre, 5G, and LEO satellite networks.

As live production becomes increasingly decentralized and rights distribution more global, broadcasters and network operators are under pressure to scale transmission capacity quickly, often for limited event windows or for permanent services. Traditional gateway infrastructure, built around fixed circuits and appliance-based processing, can struggle to adapt economically to that shift.

GlobalM said it approaches this problem by separating orchestration from physical infrastructure. Instead of binding streams to specific hardware gateways, routing and processing policies are defined centrally and executed across available infrastructure nodes. Capacity can be expanded or contracted by adding or removing nodes across different cloud, on-premise or hybrid environments. This makes GlobalM a truly scalable, point to multipoint architecture, free of constraints imposed by fixed gateway appliances or static transmission circuits.

The platform supports SRT, RIST, RTP, RTMP, HLS and MPEG-DASH within a unified orchestration layer. Nodes register securely with a central control plane, forming what the company describes as a distributed transport fabric for live IP workflows.

A core element of the architecture is GlobalM’s patented “Pod” model. Each pod can operate as ingress, egress or processing node, allowing gateway functionality to be distributed across multiple sites rather than tied to a single appliance. The result is a virtualised gateway network that can scale elastically while maintaining defined routing logic.

Continuous health monitoring is embedded within the transport layer. Latency, packet integrity and node responsiveness are evaluated in real time, with predefined resilience policies enabling automated path switching when thresholds are exceeded.

Unlike container cluster-based approaches, GlobalM runs natively under OS level orchestration. This reduces computational overhead and improves recovery times in live broadcast environments where predictability is critical.

GlobalM will be exhibiting at 2026 NAB Show between April 19 and 22 in West Hall 3, Stand W3736.

How’s this for irony? If there is one thing that’s constant in television technology, it’s that nothing remains static.

So, today’s mixed signal transport environment should be nothing new for seasoned video professionals. Whether it’s transport or any other aspect of television technology, things constantly change. That could be film to video, analog to digital, SD to HD, standard dynamic range to high dynamic range—the list goes on and on.

Those responsible for technology and those who control the purse strings in the Media & Entertainment Industry have learned to live with and thrive in this environment of change.

When it comes to signal transport—inside a facility, from the field to a facility, between facilities on a campus or even across facilities separated by many miles—the latest changes have spawned an abundance of options.

While established solutions for these applications, ranging from Serial Digital Interface (SDI) to point-to-point microwave and satellite transmission, are still relevant, the emergence of Internet Protocol (IP) transport is leaving its mark.

Today, protocols like SMPTE ST 2110, Network Device Interface (NDI) and Internet Protocol Media Experience (IPMX) offer additional ways to move signals around facilities and enhance workflows. Frequently those responsible for SDI-based facilities are looking at ways to add these transport options to enhance workflows and derive other benefits.

From the field, contribution leveraging IP protocols like Reliable Internet Stream Transport (RIST), Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) and others makes it possible to move IP packets to facilities over wireless and wireline networks. These same protocols also offer an efficient way to transport content between buildings on a campus, to remote studios and even to the cloud.

Add to these IP protocols continued development of SDI to address, for instance, the greater bandwidth demands of higher resolution video formats (i.e. 4K and 8K Ultra HD) as well as HDR and the sheer number of protocols and formats engineers and managers must consider can seem overwhelming.

To assist media professionals, Ross Video has published a new white paper, “The Ins & Outs of Today’s Signal Transport.” 

It presents in an understandable way the strengths and limitations of many of the most popular signal transport options available today. Readers will find an informative discussion of the fundamentals of these options, different use cases, the pros and cons of each and a look into where signal transport is headed. 

Written with a full understanding that many M&E businesses will be working in a hybrid signal transport environment for the foreseeable future, the white paper brings an objective perspective to an examination of how different signal transport options can be added to existing infrastructure to enhance today’s media workflows while positioning organizations for the future.

The white paper also includes handy charts that give readers an at-a-glance understanding of the key characteristics of different transport options.

Click here now to download the white paper.

Reading,UK, 16 October 2019: Starfish Technologies, a pioneer in transport stream processing and advertising insertion, has supplied a multi-channel compliance recording system to Kungliga biblioteket, The National Library of Sweden in Stockholm, Sweden, in cooperation with Starfish’s Swedish partner Lanlink Digital Broadcast.

The system utilises Starfish’s ‘Verify’ compliance recording technology which can record multiple channels of live TV broadcast and features a fully managed system with auto failover. Built using generic IT hardware from HP, it includes the Starfish web-based monitoring application to view and manage the operation of the N+N configuration. Input signals are presented as encoded transport streams from both the satellite and terrestrial feeds for each channel automatically switching between the two feeds when detecting a missing input.

Starfish Marketing Director Peter Blatchford said, “We have been building systems in Sweden for many years with companies such as TV4 and Red Bee Media and are delighted to have been chosen to now supply The National Library of Sweden. The Starfish Verify Compliance Recording System is highly configurable and utilises our expertise with transport stream processing and web based system monitoring’.

Susanne Sellei from National Library of Sweden added “We wanted a compliance recording system that is capable of supporting multiple channel recordings as an effective way to handle collected broadcast television programmes. We see Starfish as a trusted supplier and knew we could rely on their proven expertise”

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About Starfish Technologies
Starfish Technologies has an excellent reputation for meeting international broadcasters’ expectations with innovative products and systems. Starfish solutions are proven in service and have been implemented by an impressive list of international customers.

Starfish has developed a wide range of in-house expertise in technologies including: Transport Stream splicing, Transport Stream processing, Multi-platform delivery, Opt-out encoding/decoding, Video Encoding and Transcoding, Video Description and Compliance recording. With this broad software expertise and systems design experience, Starfish is ideally suited to build automated systems for media suppliers across a wide range of applications.

Headquartered in Reading, UK, Starfish Technologies is an ISO 9001 registered company.

Further product and press information can be obtained at www.starfish.tv

Company contact:
Peter Blatchford
Email: pete@starfish.tv

Press contact:
Jennie Marwick-Evans
Manor Marketing
Email: jennie@manormarketing.tv

About The National Library
The National Library of Sweden collects, preserves and makes available almost everything that is published in Sweden - from manuscripts, books and newspapers to music, TV programs and pictures. Being a research library, it also has major collections of literature published in other countries. The collections of the National Library consist of more than 18 million objects, including books, posters, pictures, manuscripts, and newspapers. The audio-visual collection consists of more than 10 million hours of recorded material.

Learn more at www.kb.se