Brad Gilmer

An overview of networking fundamentals for people who are looking to increase their knowledge of computer basics.

The author focuses on the Internet core protocols

In many cases, the production professional requires the bandwidth, speed, reliability and fault tolerance of enterprise technology

When a new project comes up, it is very tempting to dig into the drawer to see if you have the hardware you need

Conecting a traffic and automation system

It goes without saying that allowing everyone physical access to on-air or technical core areas is a physical threat

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

Remote monitoring and control of broadcast facilities is nothing new. Does anyone remember transmitter remote control systems based on telephone stepper

Find out how workstation users with different operating systems can share files on a common server.

Find out how SAN works and whether it is best for you.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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