Brad Gilmer

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

The implementation of fiber optics is a dark art. At least, that’s the way it seemed a few years ago.

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

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

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

Regardless of the portion of the band in which Wi-Fi operates, sharing with Bluetooth is inevitable. Perhaps these two technologies are not competing

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

Asynchronous-transfer mode (ATM) is the workhorse of modern telecommunications. Disocver how this workhorse evolved and how it performs the considerable feat of carrying digital broadcast signals.

Most post-production facilities have been moving pictures over networks for years. Why did post get an early start?

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

Compression is one of the enabling technologies that allow computers to process video.

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

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

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

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

Broadcasters are finding themselves in an ever-changing environment. Being able to meet the challenges these changes present is key to remaining relevant