Brad Gilmer

This month's article will introduce network router programming. If you have not worked with IT infrastructure, you may be surprised at the number of options

System security is like the weather; lots of people worry, but no one actually does anything about it. The January Computers & Networks column Media network

New and emerging standards provide interoperable professional video over IP transport.

Now more than ever, computer networks are a critical component of our facilities, and the security of these networks is paramount. For the next two months,

Every engineer working with media these days should understand the basics of network addressing, and most of them do. But, network addressing is one of

Some of the things here are contradictory but, in a perfect world, we could have anything we want, even if some of our wants conflicted.

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.

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.

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

Understanding the core protocols running on your media networks helps you manage your facility.

Many broadcasters find that they are expected to maintain specialized broadcast equipment and be well-qualified in a wide variety of IT technologies,

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

When I started working at a CBS facility many years ago, part of my job for four hours each day was network monitoring. It was not very exciting, but

Error correction and error concealment seem straightforward; error correction corrects errors, and error concealment conceals errors. But the topic is

Distributing Internet content is fundamentally different from traditional linear broadcasting in several ways.

This month we are going to look at how Fibre Channel and Ethernet can be used together in the broadcast facility. Sometimes this discussion is cast as

By now, most broadcasters have heard the term RAID. RAID stands for redundant array of inexpensive disks. Typically, RAID systems work by storing a little